#Sendateacher

Support the #Sendateacher Initiative Back in 2017, I created an initiative inspired by my experiences as a teacher in a supportive school with forward-thinking administrators who encouraged my growth by sending me to professional development opportunities across the country. The more I traveled and presented, the more I connected with educators for whom professional development was a rare privilege. I met teachers who were attending a conference simply because it was "their turn" (someone else had gone last year), and others who had paid their own way—covering costs themselves, including substitute teachers—for what they described as a "once in a career" opportunity to attend a major event.

Support the #Sendateacher Initiative

Back in 2017, I created an initiative inspired by my experiences as a teacher in a supportive school with forward-thinking administrators who encouraged my growth by sending me to professional development opportunities across the country. The more I traveled…

Allow Me To (Re)Introduce Myself Mantra? Do the right thing (thank you Spike Lee). How long have you taught? Since 1994, with a two year break after seven. I think that means this is year 29. Guilty pleasure? Taking a leisurely br…

Allow me to (re)introduce myself.

From LHR to ORD. #HealthEd & #PhysEd, keynoter. #TEDx. Creator of #slowchathealth & #sendateacher.
National Health Teacher of the Year. #PelotonTeachers He/Him

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Back in the day, when I was young (I’m not a kid anymore)…I created the #sendateacher initiative to send deserving teachers to the @shapeamerica.bsky.social national convention.
Deadline for this years application is Monday!
convention.shapeamerica.org/Convention/C...