Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Truth for Teachers is designed to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 354
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
S4EP14 How to use Genius Hour to transform student motivation & ignite creativity (with AJ Juliani)
Genius Hour is a movement to empower kids to uncover their passions, skills, and strengths through designing projects they care about. In this week's episode, I'm bringing you the best of Genius Hour…
S4EP13 Four ways to stop procrastinating and get things done
I’ve spent a lot of time observing what causes procrastination and what prevents it because this is such a deep and pervasive problem for me personally. It’s something I have always struggled with, a…
S4EP12 Nine ways to make your commute more productive and enjoyable
I LOVE my alone time in the car, and also the time I spend walking to my destinations. I have so many good options for things to listen to and do that the time just flies by. So, I wanted to share so…
S4EP11 Ten tips for avoiding technology overwhelm
There’s one complaint about technology that I hear from almost every single person I talk to: it’s just plain overwhelming. There’s too much to learn. There are too many options. It’s always changing…
S4EP10 Dan Tricarico’s Truth: How to create focus, simplicity, and tranquility in the classroom
Dan Tricarico is a high school English teacher in California, and the author of two books, the most recent being “The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom.” Liste…
S4EP9 How to fight disillusionment when the school year isn’t going as planned
The first roadblock of discouragement tends to hit a little sooner than most teachers are expecting. You might be surprised when it only takes a week or two of school before that great plan you had f…
S4EP8 Five classroom management questions in 15 minutes (Ask Angela Anything)
This season, I thought it might be fun to structure the Ask Angela Anything episodes a little differently, and answer a couple questions briefly in one episode. In fact, I’ve challenged myself to ans…
S4EP7 What to do when a student constantly refuses to work
Though it’s a common problem that happens in pretty much every classroom in America, there isn’t any clear cut solution. Obviously you want to make the work as meaningful, authentic, and relevant as …
S4EP6 Why teacher-authors don’t give everything away for free (and neither should you)
Every now and then I get a comment saying, “It's a shame that teachers charge money for everything now. I remember the days when teachers would give everything away for free.” Sometimes they even ad…
S4EP5 Zaretta Hammond’s Truth: Supporting and advocating for students in poverty
Zaretta is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, and has so much helpful info to share about supporting students in poverty. Listen in as we discuss the pedagogy of poverty, and…
S4EP04 How to deal with a principal who just doesn’t “get it”
Today’s episode is inspired by a lot of different emails I’ve gotten from teachers about a wide range of problems with administrators. Some of these teachers feel like their principals place too much…
S4EP03 Overcoming decision paralysis: how to make better choices more quickly
We have a paralyzing number of choices in our culture today. In teaching you may get hung up on decisions like: What planner or grade book should I buy? Should I use interactive notebooks with my cla…
S4EP02 Ten things you should throw out in your classroom NOW
As a new teacher, I was totally a hoarder. I didn’t believe I had the resources I needed to teach, and therefore had to hold onto everything that crossed my path in order to be able to make do. I lea…
S4EP01 Five back-to-school time traps and how to escape them
If you're feeling overwhelmed by all that needs to be done and exhausted by not only the long hours but also the physical labor of rearranging and setting up a classroom, please know that this is ver…
S3EP20 Season 3 Wrap Up: 6 simple steps to your best summer ever
As season 3 draws to a close, I'm challenging you to decide what you want your life to look like a few weeks from now when school begins again. Use the 6 steps shared in this episode to create that v…
S3EP19 The rest of my journey from teacher to teacherpreneur
In last week's episode, I shared how I got started as a teacher, educational consultant, instructional coach, and author. This week, I'll share the rest of my story: how I got into (and out of) profe…
S3EP18 The start of my journey from teacher to teacherpreneur
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If this episode were a movie on the Lifetime channel, it would be called Behind the Scenes: The Angela Watson Story. I'm going to …
S3EP17 Intentional connectivity: why my phone no longer controls me (& how you can take charge, too)
Almost every teacher I talk with feels like it’s impossible to turn off his or her brain at night and rest. Teachers feel like there’s always too much to do, too many things to remember, and not enou…
S3EP16 Eight keys to avoiding teacher burnout (Part 2)
This episode picks up where we left off last week in examining eight keys to help you regain your confidence and avoid burn-out. These are principles that helped me stay in the teaching profession at…
S3EP15 Eight keys to avoiding teacher burnout (Part 1)
My inbox is typically bursting with messages from overwhelmed teachers. Help! I can't do this! I feel so inadequate—it's just too much for one person and I don't think I can teach anymore. The situat…