{"id":10831,"date":"2022-03-22T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:11:11","slug":"scott-burrows-motivational-education-school-convocation-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottburrows.319heads.com\/scott-burrows-motivational-education-school-convocation-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Burrows, Education & School Convocation Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"
As a motivational education speaker<\/a> who has many personal ties to education, faculties and universities, what is happening to the teaching profession breaks my heart.<\/p>\n According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from January 2021 to January 2022, about 70 million educators separated from the profession.<\/p>\n In my keynote educational speeches to educators and faculty, I often examine the reasons so many teachers are leaving the profession. Writing for Forbes magazine<\/a> (February 1, 2022) Daphne Gomez points to several reasons and then talks to the turnover itself:<\/p>\n \u201cBut for a large majority of teachers, this is an opportunity to reevaluate their career path. Teaching is one remaining profession where many see themselves in one role for their entire career. But the last few years have shown teachers that their skills are valued in a number of other roles<\/em>. Teachers are starting to realize that their path can be nonlinear and they are now able to pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n I realize that across the nation teachers are seeking numerous opportunities. They have convinced themselves to reevaluate, and go outside of the profession as the result of poor pay and benefits, overwork, lack of support and an undeserved deficiency of respect. However, all that accelerating attrition is accomplishing is that more students are being left behind and more teachers are growing disillusioned.<\/p>\n Yes, tens of thousands of teachers have departed teaching as part of the so-called \u201cGreat Resignation,\u201d but did you know that of the more than 33 million Americans who have left jobs more than 70 percent regret that move? What do they do now?<\/em><\/p>\n