{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Book Love Foundation Podcast","title":"How Teachers Can Be Leaders - Season 1, Episode 6","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1704,"description":"Welcome to Season 1, Episode 6 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.Subscribe in iTunesDonate to the Book Love FoundationEpisode 6 Show NotesWe're going to talk about leadership in teaching, but maybe not in the way you think. In the words of Sadie Nardini, Becoming a master takes stubbornness, dedication, and focus. And it starts right now. Transformation was, is, and always will be a DIY–a do-it-yourself process.  I was struck by how much that mirrors teacher professional development. We can't wait for someone else to develop us–we are in charge of how we grow. Teaching is always a draft–always an approximation–but just like with the young writers we teach, we want each draft to show evidence of revision and improvement.After 31 years of teaching, I'm always hoping next year I will be a better teacher–next week, even. As Lolly Daskal, President and CEO of Lead from Within says, Leading is about striving to become better than we are, and helping everything and everyone around us to become better too. And in this episode, we explore what that means for teachers.If you want to know more about the Book Love Foundation, please visit booklovefoundation.org. We are currently reading applications and struggling to decide which classrooms we will fund this year. We could sure use your help. Any contribution will help us. 100% of donations go to teachers we know will put books into kids hands. Thank you for believing how important that work is.PennyCONVERSATION SEGMENTThe InterviewsBeth Hughes teaches high school English at Massachusetts’ Wakefield Memorial High School. You can find her on Twitter @MsBethHughes, read about her musings on lifelong learning at msbethhughes.org and her passion to reintroduce her students to reading at fortheloveofreading.org, or email her at bhughesud@gmail.com.Rebekah Hess is a high school teacher at Rock Ridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia and is a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tIs0J9SYP9dhn1JlleKvXwE8KQZ8FeZJbyNYRnvZ8J0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMGQ0/ZTVlMDAxZDdmZjNl/NTQ4ODNlYTYxM2Mx/ZDY1Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}