Lightning Connect

⚡Complete all requirements for stipend agreement by May 9th deadline.

⚡Reach out to your TxCEE Coach with any questions or concerns.

We invite each of you to share your answers with us!

We are amazed by the growth of your novice teachers and their students as well as your own dedication to your personal professional development.

1. What is something you enjoy about being a TxCEE Mentor?

2. What is a strategy you've used to support your novice teacher that you feel has been effective?

3.Describe how mentoring and coaching are impacting your novice teacher and/or their students?

4. How has being a TxCEE Mentor impacted you?

5. What else would you like to share?

Click the Mentor Spotlight Survey link below. *TxCEE may include all or parts of your response in a future Mentoring Spotlight, on the TxCEE website, or on social media.

Feeling grateful comes easy to many. However, SAYING what we're grateful is often times skipped. We get busy and forget, we don't think they'll care, it feels hokey, etc. etc.

When we keep our gratitude to ourselves, we are missing out big time. Neuroscientific benefits of sharing our gratitude are psychological, physical, and social.

In the image below, Madhuleena Roy Chowdhury shares in her article, "The Neuroscience of Gratitude and Effects on the Brain" (2019) the many reasons you should not keep your feelings of gratitude to yourself.

So thank you for making the TxCEE Mentoring Program what it is. We value you, your experience, your insights, and your time. Thank you for feeling uncomfortable and persevering as you learn and practice new leadership skills. Thank you for supporting the newest in our invaluable profession. You are making a contribution that will last decades and impact thousands! Thank you for being a teacher who is leading not only in your classrooms but outside of them as well.

I hope you feel the benefits of reading our gratitude as much as we do sharing them!

What makes a mentor effective? Do the TxCEE Mentor Success Indicators get it right?

Although the answers are many, TxCEE Mentoring uses the Mentor Success Indicators to focus on three critical elements, and monitor mentoring effectiveness. As mentors, you have chosen the indicators you wanted to focus on and then discussed your challenges and/or presented Mirror Sessions to your TxCEE Mentor Coach for review.

This month we will dissect the Mentor Success Indicators and decide based on our own mentoring experiences what to KEEP, ADD, or DELETE. Help us get it right or at least right-er.

Come share your thoughts on May 7th at 5:15.

Mark your calendars!

🟨Attend May VCLC:

Wednesday, May 7 @ 5:15

Zoom link here, below, and in the Google Calendar invite.

🟨Log coaching and training in TEEMS Mentor Log. (At least 12 hours must be logged for the Spring semester.)

🟨Sign up for your monthly TxCEE support Fireside chat. *Email invites will be sent from your TxCEE Mentor Coach. (Must meet with your TxCEE Mentor Coach at least 3 times in the Spring semester.)

🟨Complete all requirements for stipend agreement by May 9th.

If you are not a TxCEE Mentor and no longer want to receive The Lightning Connect, please send an email to dana.phillips@txcee.org.

The Texas Center for Educator Excellence (TxCEE), an Austin-based satellite office of the Region 18 Education Service Center, provides leadership and technical assistance across Texas to improve educator quality.

TxCEE staff consists of Texas educators with decades of experience as teachers, teacher leaders, campus and district administrators, state education officials, and higher education professionals. Our team is passionate about helping Texas school districts develop and implement systems that support teachers and principals.

For questions regarding this publication or other TxCEE materials, please contact us.

Email: info@txcee.org
Website: txcee.org
Location: 1705 S Capital of Texas Hwy, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78746
Phone: (512) 538-0611

Chowdhury, M, (2019, April 19). The Neuroscience of Gratitude and Effects on the Brain. https://positivepsychology.com/neuroscience-of-gratitude/