Teachers on Fire 5 Powerful Daily Rituals for Every Teacher
🔥 How should teachers start every day?
🔥 What are the best ways to organize our workspaces?
🔥 When is the right time to leave the school building?
About This Guest
Today’s Teacher on Fire is Liz Prather. A 30-year high school classroom teacher, Liz is the Co-Director of Programming for the Kentucky Writing Project. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Texas-Austin and is the author of three books about teaching writing from Heinemann Press: Project Based Writing; Story Matters; and The Confidence to Write.
Connect with Liz Prather
on LinkedIn and
on Substack at https://writingteacher.substack.com/
In This Conversation
0:00:00 - LIZ PRATHER is a a 30-year high school writing teacher
1:43 - Daily Ritual 1: Arrive to school early
4:59 - Daily Ritual 2: Take 5 minutes for yourself
7:50 - Daily Ritual 3: Organize your room for efficiency
11:16 - Daily Ritual 4: Look out for your future self
14:41 - Daily Ritual 5: Leave school within an hour of the last bell
17:25 - A BIG IDEA about writing instruction in 2025
20:22 - Encouraging teachers to write and publish their own work
23:27 - Three books on writing and instruction by Liz Prather
25:31 - Where to connect with Liz Prather online
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