In the HUFFINGTON POST: Teachers Need a Village

 

My article appeared in the Huffington Post Education section last week.

Teachers Need a Village” is about the support that Educators need to do an excellent job. When I started a new job which required teaching seven grade levels, I created my own science teacher network in Los Angeles.

As I said in the article,

“Since 1990, I’ve taught in public and private schools. I have learned that teachers might as well be Olympians: Our work, like a competitive sport, is a “live performance under pressure,” as the author Tony Wagner puts it. Even when the lesson is not quite right or the smart board no longer works, the students are sitting there and something must happen. We’ve all heard friends in other professions comment that on a day when they don’t feel well, they just close their office doors and play zone out — but there’s no such luxury when thirty students are walking into your room every hour.”

Read the full article on the Huffington Post.

 

Lisa and George Koh Samui Sunset

 

 

Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times. Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

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