Why Educators Need a Meetup?
Let’s face it. Education field is not as connected as we wish. Very often, we walk into the classroom, meet our students and close the door. Days after days, we start to forget how important building meaningful relationship with other adults is — except occasionally talking some superficial B.S.
No matter how demanding our duties are, we — educators — are still humans. We still need be heard. We still need to be understood. We still need to be recognised. We still need to be inspired. And, we still need to be connected.
Sometimes, when we want to make a difference for our children, our education and even our world, it’s never easy to sustain such passion alone. We feel like people only care about accountability, competition, stress, salary, job insecurity and the conforming reality. It feels tiring, alienating or discouraging.
Don’t you think it is a big pity? A passion for education dies because one cannot find the right energy from the right people in the right platform.
But when looking around, it is just so hard to find a single place for inservice and preservice educators coming together, with a common goal to construct a better education for our children and our future. So, we decided to build one for you, you and you.
You are not alone.
‘Teachers should become one another’s backup and support, to create a powerful community to make our education better.’
- Professor Benson Ping-Cheng Yeh, Author of ‘Teach for the Future’
re. edu believes there are many passionate, amazing, but disconnected, educators out there, fighting the war against the ever-distorted education system. We all have been waiting for a place where educators can come together to meet great people, listen to unheard insights, learn something new, reflect constructively, and build personally & professionally meaningful relationship. Now, the wait is over.
As early as in this late May, we will kick off our very first meetup. We come together with only one purpose: to collectively build a better education for our children, our future and our educators. We are here to act and solve problems, not to blame or complain. We are here to life people up, not to put them down. We are here to help, to share, to care, to learn, to collaborate, to dream, to change and to act.
Teachers who learn together grow together. Teachers who grow together teach students in more powerful ways.
Everyone loses if educators are disconnected, jealous and hatred against one another; without a collective sense of purpose, how can education save our children and our future?
That’s why it is high time we came together. One thing we are sure: the system or the challenges we educators face are never as strong as the collective power of passionate, determined and aspired educators, who want to give the best to our children, our education and our future.
If you are still reading this, I hope you are like us: still believing in our children, in our education, in our future, and most importantly, in what we — educators — do.
