Cultivate: Building Confidence as an Early Career Teacher

This lesson guides you through an honest pulse check of your current wellness and teaching experience so you can identify where you’re thriving and where you need more support.

This lesson invites you to reflect on and write your teacher-origin story, connecting key life events to the strengths and “I Am” statements you bring into the classroom.

This lesson explores where your “I Am” messages come from and helps you map the influences that have shaped how you see yourself.

This lesson invites you to name positive “I Am” truths, notice which are easier or harder to claim, and consider how they might impact your life and teaching.

This lesson helps you identify the people within your circle of influence and practice turning your inner “I Am” work outward through “You are” and “We are” statements.

This lesson encourages you to “say the thing” by choosing a few key “I Am” statements to lean into and intentionally affirming the strengths you see in others.

This lesson shares how your personal story can inform teaching style and introduces clarity as you begin to define who you want to be in the classroom.

This lesson guides you to identify role models you respect, what they actually do, and how their actions can translate into concrete goals for your own practice.

This lesson walks you through purpose-centered questions to help you craft a personal teaching purpose statement you can return to on hard days.

This lesson helps you pull together your strengths, “I Am” statements, role models, and purpose into a clear vision of the teacher you are becoming.

This lesson invites you to reflect on how you’ll intentionally bring your unique story, strengths, and vision into your everyday teaching decisions.

This lesson introduces the importance of consistency in relationships, communication, and expectations as a foundation for a calm, predictable classroom.

This lesson shows you how to use a simple strengths–interests–needs system to build intentional relationships with every student.

This lesson offers practical tips and scripts for building proactive, student-centered partnerships with families—even in challenging conversations.

This lesson highlights key classroom management principles: clear expectations, natural consequences, and avoiding power struggles in order to support a safe learning environment.

This lesson encourages a growth mindset toward curriculum by helping you honestly assess where you are with your content and where you’d like to grow.

This lesson introduces a simple checklist to help you evaluate lessons and resources for developmental appropriateness, accountability, and engagement.

In this lesson, you’ll reflect on the consistency systems you’re building - classroom expectations, family communication, and content quality - and choose one small next step to strengthen your instruction over the next six months.

This lesson explores how school culture impacts your work and introduces practical ways to begin cultivating a healthier sense of community around you.

This lesson helps you assess the culture of your workplace, both its strengths and areas for growth, so you can better understand the environment you’re operating in.

This lesson unpacks what strong collaboration looks like and offers guidance on using your strengths, voice, and questions wisely on your team.

This lesson guides you to examine who is in your current circle, how they influence you, and what voices you might want to intentionally invite in.

This lesson encourages you to consider what you can control in your work relationships and how to make choices that support a healthier, more life-giving community.

This lesson revisits the circle of control and introduces the idea that confidence grows when we align our energy with what we can actually influence.

This lesson helps you sort current stressors into what’s within and outside your control and choose one or two grounded actions you can take.

This lesson invites you to reflect across multiple domains - emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, and financial - and set gentle, realistic goals for healthier balance.

This lesson invites you to compare where you started with where you are now, noticing shifts in your confidence, clarity, and community.

This lesson encourages you to embrace imperfect progress, trust your growth over time, and keep experimenting as you move forward in your career.

This lesson helps you name your key takeaways, anchor commitments, and next steps beyond the course so you can continue cultivating confidence in your teaching journey.