S5.E8 - New Year, Elevated Impact - Using Love as a Lens

The Culture-Centered Classroom

In this heartfelt and inspiring episode, we explore the power of choosing a focus word to guide your year—and how LOVE can serve as a transformative lens for educators, principals, and students in 2025. Discover how centering LOVE can help you build cultural competency, create more inclusive spaces, and cultivate deeper connections in your school community.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• For Principals: Learn how leading with LOVE fosters a culture of care, trust, and equity in your school.
• For Teachers: Explore ways to embed LOVE into your classroom through intentional lessons, deep listening, and relationship-building.
• For Students: Discover strategies to help students see LOVE as a guiding principle for growth, empathy, and self-reflection.
• For Yourself: Understand the importance of extending LOVE inward to support your personal well-being and growth.

In this episode, I mention:

• "New Year, One Word Activities" for teachers and students – Available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
• Additional learning resources in my Virtual Learning Library.
• Spotify Playlist
• The value of reflection and intention-setting to build cultural competency and affirm the diverse identities in your school community.

Let LOVE be your compass in 2025. Start this year with intentionality, joy, and care as you continue to seek joy, affirm culture, center equity, and strive for liberation through learning.

🎧 Listen now and share your word for 2025! Tag me on social media or email me—I’d love to hear from you.

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