At 12:30 PM Eastern, Chris and Joey are going LIVE for CEC Rotation 3: Surviving Teaching When the Honeymoon Is Over This isn’t a webinar. It’s a conversation—and we want to hear from you. What keeps you going when the initial excitement fades? What have you had to unlearn? What makes teaching sustainable for the long haul? ☕ Grab your coffee. Bring your perspective. We’ll see you at 12:30 PM Eastern!

No Thursday night gathering this week! Instead, Chris and Joey are going live THIS SUNDAY at 12:30 pm Eastern (NOTE TIME ADJUSTMENT)! for: 🎙️ Surviving Teaching When the Honeymoon Is Over What happens when the excitement wears off and passion alone isn’t enough to carry you through the work? Bring your experiences, questions, and opinions—we want you in this conversation. 📅 Sunday | 12:30 PM ET 🚨 This week only! See you behind the mic!

What happens when the excitement wears off, the year gets real, and teaching starts feeling a whole lot different than it did at the beginning? This week, Chris and Joey are going behind the mic for: 🎙️ Surviving Teaching When the Honeymoon Is Over And this one is LIVE—which means you’re part of the conversation. Bring your experiences, questions, frustrations, and the things educators don’t always say out loud. We’ll talk about what happens after the honeymoon phase of teaching ends—and what helps us keep going without simply telling ourselves to “push through.” 🚨 SCHEDULE CHANGE FOR THIS WEEK ONLY: 📅 SUNDAY ⏰ 1:00 PM Eastern (instead of our usual Thursday at 8 PM) Come ready to talk. Come ready to listen. Come as you are. The recording ends. The conversation doesn’t. 🎙️ Planning to attend? Comment "GOING" below!

This Thursday, the Connected Educators Community is proud to welcome our co-founder, Dr. Joey Weisler, as our inaugural keynote speaker for: *Building Classrooms of Awareness Through the HEART and SOUL* Educators are being asked to do more than teach content. Build relationships. Maintain rigor. Respond to increasingly complex student needs. Keep students engaged. Create belonging. And somehow, do all of it without losing themselves in the process. HEART and SOUL is about finding another way. Through an interactive, practical experience, Dr. Weisler will explore how small, intentional shifts in the classroom can help educators create spaces where students feel seen, safe, and willing to engage—without asking teachers to become therapists, counselors, or anything else they were never trained to be. Educators will walk away with: ❤️ 3–5 strategies they can implement immediately ❤️ Tools for moving students from compliance toward meaningful engagement ❤️ A clearer distinction between supporting students and absorbing their emotional weight ❤️ Flexible structures that create predictability without rigidity ❤️ Greater confidence to hold the room without carrying the room home The transformation? From managing students → to inviting them in. From carrying everything → to caring with boundaries. From adding more to teachers’ plates → to designing what already happens differently. From “How do I get them to care?” → to creating the conditions that give them a reason to. Because sustainable classrooms should work for the human beings learning in them AND the human beings leading them. This Thursday, we begin. ❤️ Connected Educators Community Connect. Learn. Grow. Together. #ConnectedEducatorsCommunity #TeachingWithHEART #TeacherWellbeing #StudentEngagement #ProfessionalLearning #EducatorCommunity #Teaching #Education YOUR

Very excited, tomorrow is our first community event. Feel free to use this link to submit questions: https://forms.gle/BK3xZWjSoCR1TKRs7