The Transplant Teacher with Angie Busch Alston Transformative Principal 442

<p><a href="@AlaskaTeacher">Angie Busch Alston</a>is a teacher in Brevig Mission, a small Inupiaq village on the Seward Peninsula. She came to Alaska in 2005 for a one year adventure and ended up staying. She prizes classroom and community connections and believes all teachers can open themselves to the richness and value around them. She is also the author of The Transplant Teacher, a book to help teachers thrive when they live and teach in new places. Find her online at theAlaskaTeacher.com.</p> <ul> <li>Transplant plant analogy.</li> <li>How to survive and thrive when you’re in a new environment.</li> <li>Roll with whatever is going on.</li> <li>Connect with the people around you and look inward.</li> <li>How to stay connected? Get involved, try things, and participate.</li> <li>Make connections a little bit at a time.</li> <li>Relationships are built a little bit at a time.</li> <li>If introverted, look for an ally.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Help foster connections.</li> </ul> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <h3 id="incontrolselformiddleschool">InControl SEL for Middle School</h3> <p>In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.</p> <p>The videos are 5–6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.</p> <p>They’ve thought of everything– because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.</p> <p>Take it from me, it’s time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that’s been keeping you up at night–and it’s time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way.</p> <p>If you go to <a href= "https://www.incontrolsel.com/jethro">www.InContr