Michele Waterman
Michele Waterman
23. How Empowered Educators Foster Generational Change with Jen Rafferty
23. How Empowered Educators Foster Generational Change with Jen Rafferty
23. How Empowered Educators Foster Generational Change with Jen Rafferty
Friday 6th September 2024
Jen Rafferty discusses how empowering educators can lead to generational change in this episode of the Real Joy Recovery Podcast.
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Episode Overview
- Fostering social and emotional well-being in teachers can lead to generational change.
- Jen Rafferty's journey from a music teacher to an education leader.
- The pandemic's impact on educators' personal and professional lives.
- The importance of self-regulation and healing for educators.
- Creating supportive environments for students by focusing on teacher well-being.
Empowered Educator is too great, too pure, too powerful, too impactful, too transformative for me to get in its way because of how I'm feeling at any given moment
In this episode of the Real Joy Recovery Podcast, Michele Waterman chats with Jen Rafferty, an educator, author, and founder of Empowered Educator. This episode dives into how fostering social and emotional well-being among teachers can lead to generational change. Jen shares her journey from being a middle school music teacher to creating a transformative professional development programme that has reached educators worldwide.
She reflects on the personal and professional identity crisis she faced during the pandemic and how it led her to start her PhD in educational psychology. The conversation covers the challenges teachers face, especially during the pandemic, and how focusing on their well-being can significantly impact students' lives. Jen also discusses the importance of self-regulation, healing, and evolving as educators to create a supportive environment for students.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in education, mental health, and personal growth.