This episode features Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 national Teacher of the Year, offering compelling insights into the High Leverage Practice of “What Is”. Key to accelerating influence is honestly assessing both your internal and external environments, which is not easy to do. Sarah does not hold back in opening up the hard truths of really exploring “What Is” sharing “It means being vulnerable to ourselves”, “It gets into the fear of being fully influential”, and “Really good things or really bad things just highlight or illuminate the reality of what’s already there.” This podcast will inspire you to take a hard look at your own “What Is”, setting the stage to become even more influential.
Sarah is a 21-year veteran of the high school English classroom. While a member of the faculty at Johnston High School in Johnston, Iowa she has taught courses ranging from at-risk to Advanced Placement and has served the department and district in a variety of leadership roles. Sarah is a National Board Certified Teacher since 2005 and in 2010 was selected as the National Teacher of the Year. In that capacity she worked as an ambassador for education, giving over 250 talks and workshops in 39 different states as well as internationally.
As of mom of three, she currently maintains a hybrid teaching position which keeps her in the classroom and allows her to write, speak and work on teacher leadership initiatives around the country. Sarah is Laureate Emeritus for the non-profit Teaching Channel. She is an author of Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards and maintains a blog with the column “Ask Sarah” at sarahbrownwessling.com.
