Category: human resources

• Teachers, you lead your students, but do you lead yourself, too?

  

  Brené Brown defines a leader as one who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes and has the courage to develop that potential (Dare to Lead, Random House, NY, 2018, p. 4). That is what you, as a teacher, do every day. In and out of the classroom, during school hours and…

  Claire Maria Ford

  September 2, 2019

  employee engagement, esl, failure, growth, growth mindset, human resources, leadership, Mindfulness, self-care, Uncategorized

  authenticity, dare, lead, Mindfulness, school year, self-care, september, teacher, teacher life, teaching, wholeness

• ESL Mixologist: What’s the deal?

  

  I am never just teaching an English class! I am on the lookout for new insights or epiphanies I may have while talking about vocab, grammar or functional language. ESL Mixologist is all about my journey as an ESL teacher who just can’t get over the serendipitous glimpses into the parallel universe of philosophy while…

  Claire Maria Ford

  July 10, 2019

  connecting, Culture, employee engagement, esl, growth mindset, human resources, Linguistics, motivation, personal development, responsibility, teaching, Uncategorized, vocabulary;, workplace wellbeing

  connections, esl teaching, human relations, learning, life learning, life lessons

• Have you connected today?

  

  People matter. With those two words, American psychologist, Chris Peterson, summarized his life research on how to enable people to go from surviving to thriving, discovering and pursuing what really what makes life worth living for them.  In the Huffington Post Canadian edition today, publishes a video with the astounding title: The most connected generation…

  Claire Maria Ford

  June 20, 2019

  connecting, Culture, employee engagement, English Language Culture, esl, family, human resources, identity, industrial relations, initiative, motivation, personal development, responsibility, teaching, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  community, connection, cure for loneliness, engagement, loneliness, party, relationships, screen mania, social ills, social skills, thrive, well-being