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Building Your Passions: Next Steps for Educators

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Location: La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 13
Experience live: All-Access Package

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Nathan Wells  
Moving beyond the four walls of your classroom to the next steps of your career sounds scary at times. How are you as an educator looking to the future and building your strengths? We will hear others and look at what you can do today to prepare for next steps.

Audience: Professional developers, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Skill level: Beginner
Attendee devices: Devices not needed
Participant accounts, software and other materials: none
Topic: Leadership
ISTE Standards: For Education Leaders:
Empowering Leader
  • Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.
For Educators:
Learner
  • Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning networks.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Moving beyond the four walls of your classroom to the next steps of your career sounds scary at times. How are you as an educator looking to the future and building your strengths? Today's average length in one job is less than 4.5 years. How do you identify your passions and build on your strengths? Educators are widely very good at a range of skills as you have to be in the classroom! How do you stay in education but move your career forward? We will hear from those that are in ed tech and curriculum today to learn about how they made the move and what you can do today to prepare for your next steps.

Supporting research

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robynshulman/2019/12/26/why-teachers-need-a-personal-brand-and-how-to-create-one/?sh=711ce788177c
https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/249512/building-life-work-strengths.aspx

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Presenters

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Nathan Wells, insight2execution

Nathan has been delivering professional development in schools for over a decade. Most recently Nathan was the Ed Tech coordinator for a district in central Phoenix and now with insight2execution an educational consultancy serving districts around the country with ed tech integration training and planning. On Twitter @edtechwells

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