HeyJaredHow to Leave Teaching
This is the What's Next Teacher podcast. Listen in as I interview former educators about how they made the jump out of education and what they do now.
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Leaving teaching feels like abandoning kids -- but it's not! (opens the original)
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GUILTY...I felt guilty as hell when I decided to leave teaching. Even though I knew I was losing myself and had to get out. In this episode of How to Leave Teaching, I reflect on Dolly Parton’s belief that love and nurturing can take many forms and what that might teach us about leaving the classroom.You can be an important person in your students’ lives without belonging to them forever. You can grieve your students, miss the teacher you once were, and still know that leaving was the right deci
If you're afraid to leave teaching, maybe you need to get angry (opens the original)
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If you desperately want to leave teaching—but feel guilty, selfish, or ashamed for even considering it—you may need to get angry. Teachers are given responsibility for problems they didn’t create, denied the resources needed to solve them, and then blamed when personal sacrifice isn’t enough. When they finally reach their breaking point, their desire to leave is treated as proof that they never cared enough. That isn’t a personal failure. It’s a trap. In this episode of the Teacher Recovery Seri
They Took Control of Your Identity to Use it Against You (opens the original)
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Teachers aren't just burned out — they're trained to give until there's nothing left, and called "good" for it. In this episode, I break down identity capture: the mechanism that turns your best traits — self-sacrifice, niceness, compliance, perfectionism — into free labor.I taught for 9 years — 4 in a Title I high school, 5 at a public university — and I left both feeling used, betrayed, and honestly, a little abused. This episode is about why that happens, not just that it happens.We get into:
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