We GET to do this
Teaching is a privilege—shaping young minds, inspiring growth, and making a lasting impact. It’s about connection, learning, and helping students reach their full potential.
Mathew Green
My name is Mathew Green. I am a husband, a dad of two wonderfully strong-minded daughters, an educator, a writer and a researcher.
Thoughts on rest.
Genuine rest is an active and deliberate practice that nurtures the mind, body, and soul. It's a state of being that fosters renewal, enabling individuals to recharge, heal, and flourish. Rest involves intentional pauses, allowing oneself to step back, reflect, and refuel.
Impact.
Many of us have that one teacher we remember. The teacher who helped us learn and grow gave us the confidence to explore and master new talents and skills. The teacher who encouraged us to strive for more and helped us reach our potential.
Little, big things
We often don’t see the compounding results, either positive or negative, of small decisions until much later in our lives.
You are not immune.
Mediocrity is dangerous. It’s dangerous not only because a blasé approach to teaching directly impacts the students that you teach but also because it seem to creep in ever so slowly.
The words we use.
Busyness and tiredness in the twenty-first century is a far greater topic than we have time for in this short post, but it did get me thinking. I decided that for thirty days that I would try an experiment.