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My identity informs how I show up with parents and teachers. Knowing myself allows me to be aware of how my own stories might get in the way of understanding those I serve.

Focusing in on my passions is a way to keep my motivation and energy primed. Its helpful when I feel overwhelmed...I look for specific feedback related to my passions.

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I feel like part of my identity (newish mom of 3 ADDers) leads me to be more passionate about helping my IDEA families that deal with similar issues.

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We bring our identity/passions to the table, we’re able to compassionately care for others.

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Passion is motivation, if you are not passionate about something it is more difficult to get into it.

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I care about the work I do for others. My passion is to help & solve problems.  

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I care about the work I do for others. My passion is to help & solve problems.  

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Hollea

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People know when you’re not genuine. Bringing myself to the table let’s them know I care and am invested.

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Passion brings motivation and engagement in the people component of our job. It brings continuity to bridge tasks with humanity.

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Knowing my personal passions makes me more aware that those are what I want to share with families.  I am passionate about children and reading and love to share book ideas with families.

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I feel that you can truthfully be yourself, and know how to address certain situations in life. While also reminding us who we are as people.

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My passions for learning and reading have validated that I have finally found a career that I love and enjoy.

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Cindy. My passions are caring,  nurturing,  discovery/learning, and children. So,  I am very happy in my role.  Working with my families brings me joy. 

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Cindy. My passions are caring,  nurturing,  discovery/learning, and children. So,  I am very happy in my role.  Working with my families brings me joy. 

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I have a passion for helping others grow to their full potential. But to do that I need to understand who they are, and what they hope to be.

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Having been a homeschool parent for 12 years, I understand some of the frustrations and challenges parents face. I feel passionate about finding ways to assist families to be successful.

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Being certain of who I am and what I love keeps me grounded and that allows me to risk caring for/about others.

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Janine -  We draw upon both our identity and our passions to sympathize and emphasize with (coming alongside) our families and their situations.

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Janine -  We draw upon both our identity and our passions to sympathize and emphasize with (coming alongside) our families and their situations.

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I desire to lift up my parents and encourage them and equip them with what they need to feel ready and motivated to educate their kids.

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We use our identities and passions to give us purpose and that gives us a sense of well-being

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One of my passions is Education for Everyone…this drives me to work hard for my families to give them all the resources I can to be successful in their endeavor to educate their children. Being a mother myself and homeschooling my girls last year has given me even more tools to share and empathy for their path.

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My identity helps me relate to people or notice our differences in order to see them more fully. My passions assist me in serving others in creative ways.

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We took teachng and service roles because we care about students and families. Seeing them successful inspires us and keeps us coming back for more.

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Understanding who we are and where our passion lies can help us be more in-tune to those we serve. It allows us to make connections outside the realm of education.

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My unique experiences and perspectives as an individual influence the environment and people around me. I add to the collective pool of understanding and awareness at my workplace simply by being me.

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Passion inspires and energizes

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I see that my identity of ‘teacher’ has morphed to my passion for ‘helping’ in my role as special education teacher at IDEA.

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The cycle of Teaching and Learning in my life is why I've chosen to work at iGrad. It's that cycle that has lead me to become an administrator. I learn, I teach, I learn, and I teach some more.

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Identity & passion are part of who I am & how I operate- in ALL areas of my life. There’s not any separation between everyday life & my role at IDEA.

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LoriZ - my identity and passion is where I find my strengths/gifts to make a meaningful contribution to this world 

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LoriZ - my identity and passion is where I find my strengths/gifts to make a meaningful contribution to this world 

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I realized that I’ve lost sight of my identity and passions over the last couple of years, and completing this activity was challenging. It’s hard to show up fully in your work and provide compassionate care to others if you’re not sure of yourself and not recharging through your passions. I want to focus on rekindling my passions and getting back to a stronger sense of identity for myself going forward, both for myself and to be able to show up more fully for others.

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Scott

Identity is who we are, and our exspences

Passion is who we want to be

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Passions are important, to know how to be energized. Keeping aware of burnout or weariness in the work place. Wether for myself, or for my coworkers, helping stay engaged in our relationships and responsibilities.

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Recognizing my identity and struggles helps me get out of the way- not be codependent- I want to help but not - need to fix

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My identity leads me to be compassionate and kind to families and coworkers.

My passions ground me during the week and motivate me to strive for my goals.

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My experiences as an adoptive mom and also a mom of a daughter with severe disabilities informs how I listen to parents. I am strongly motivated by being able to help others so that is a great fit for the issues families bring to me as a CT.

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When we can bring our passion to the role we serve, everyone benefits.

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Knowing that where I come from can reflect how I react to other people, I must stay mindful that someone else is coming from the past that has shaped that person. I need to give people more grace for their actions and reactions. Smile and go on.

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I am passionate about life-long learning and that allows me to continue to gain knowledge and share what I know with others.

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My roles mostly revolve around being a caregiver. As a caregiver my passions are to help others find success and happiness.

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My passions guide my interactions.  I stive for unity which looks like, collaboration with my mentor, team, and families.

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My passions guide my interactions.  I stive for unity which looks like, collaboration with my mentor, team, and families.

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My identity as a life-long learner impacts my passion to share what I learn and I get excited! It reminds me to always keep an open mind, be willing to teach others, and also aware that not everyone has the same knowledge as me.

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I love to encourage people (whether notes or food or service) and so my job as receptionist is so fun to give those families calling or coming in with hope or direction. On the secretarial side, I also want to minister to my co-workers to make their lives easier.

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My identity as a follower of Christ and my passion  to show Christlike love to others directly influences my role as a teacher... it spills over into every role in my life

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My identity as a follower of Christ and my passion  to show Christlike love to others directly influences my role as a teacher... it spills over into every role in my life

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My passion to help others drives me to work hard and efficiently to make a parent's ability to educate their students less stressful.

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Passion not only gives me energy, but determines my attitudes. It also does so for those around me with whom I agree or disagree. I remind myself that we all think we’re right, until we don’t. There’s no sense clashing with another person who thinks they are as “right” as I think I am. Give them space to feel and live their passions.

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Knowing my identity allows me to better understand the compassions I have. This in turn helps me to relate to others I come in contact with.

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Knowing my story and those af fellow colleagues helps in understanding and making connections for families.  We can build community intentionally.

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Andrea
My identity frames how I approach people and situations, and being aware of it helps me to recognize biases I may have and opens the door to self reflection.
My passion is to help and support families, whether that’s in the business office or when I worked as a coach, and I love working for and with people with the same goal and passion for supporting families on a multitude of levels.

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I can see that my passions lead to the parts of my work that I enjoy the most and bring the most energy to.

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My identity makes me who I am. Being a homeschooling mother of 3 has given me the joy, wisdom, struggles, and passion to share with our families.

I love people! I enjoy being with people, serving and helping them. I am able to take this passion into our office and use it with our families. It is very fun and rewarding for me to be able to use my love for people in my workplace.

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My identity and passions go together and intertwine. I am a nurturer and deeply care for others, I like helping people.

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In the midst of the current season of fear, discouragement, and self-doubt for many of my families, my identity and passion for encouraging others and reminding them of their value and purpose has been both fulfilling for me and a time of refocusing for my families…. at least I hope so.

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I belive that my identity and passion are aligned to the roles I have daily. This makes it easier for me to enjoy the responsibilities I have whether it is work or home.

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Passion gives me purpose and allows me to use my strengths in my identity roles. I gain great energy and excitement from my passions. Sometimes I lose sight of my passions and get caught up in the roles and forget that my passions are what allows me to connect and invest in relationships. It’s easy to become mechanical if you aren’t experiencing feeling your passions.

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Team dynamics are healthy and fun when I am more confident in who I am. The more we are aware of ourselves, we can recognize the places of strength and weakness so that we can ask for help from co-workers. We can also be attentive to how better to serve families and staff.

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My passions for learning, communication, words, and education fuels the joy I have in doing my job. I also recognize how my identity evolved and changed as my role within my family changed. This enables me help parents and students to recognize and appreciate their changing roles.

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It is motivating and fulfilling for me when I am able to help someone accomplish something, even if it is a small accomplishment.

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I was adopted and I think that’s one of the more important identities that I have because I grew up in a diverse household. I have Indian siblings, Hispanic, Korean, white etc so I didn’t grow up seeing “color.” And I think that’s important for any job to be open minded and not judge people based on what they look like or what their background is.

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I was surprised that the reoccurring theme in my identity was “helper”. But also surprised to see that I’m searching for clarity in my role thru my passions. I need adventure, outdoors, nature, peace, solitude, and biodiversity to fuel my helper roles.

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My identity and story remind me to have compassion regarding my family’s own stories. As an individual who is passionate for students to be able to be given the education and tools that they most need in order to be a successful adult, this passion drives my motivation and care for my students. It empowers me to take on a role at times and to have conversations that are uncomfortable. My identity helps me to have these conversations with compassion while fostering connection.

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Sandy. We spend the most time on our priorities which gives us our identity- wife, mother, grandmother…which is also our passion and goals to want to spend more time with them

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Knowing who/what I am as well as who/what I am not helps me be authentic and have healthy boundaries with myself and others to encourage them on their journey on our map.

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My passion is to make people happy and smile so its easier to fulfill my role as a receptionist

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My passions help me energize and be present each day. My role here at IDEA is a perfect fit to who I am and what I Love.
It is helpful to remember we bring who we are to our roles each day so it is important for me to bring my best parts of me each day to work.

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Jaci-I feel it’s important to recognize the inextricable link between identity and passion-much like the link between language and identity. Often what we are passionate about stems from how we identify ourselves. If we build relationships with our families and get to know them personally, we can better care for their needs.

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My passion to help others learn and grow as individuals helps me as a mother and teacher to recognize the importance of the individual.

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I have the best job ever, because I've been able to create my own job around my passions: making things better for people, organizing information, teaching, providing helpful tools to meet needs, encouraging others.

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My family closeness and caregiver role makes it easy for me to truly care for our homeschooling families. My passion for being creative and ability to create from whatever I have to work with gives me the ability to help families get creative with homeschooling.

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Gail
Being a mom of adult children, and desiring to maintain a great relationship caused my husband and I to deliberately choose to NOT give advice unless asked for it. Yet I love to share great resources, ideas, new learning with our kids. I think there is a bit of a similar dynamic with our families. We respect  IDEA parents, their choices, etc. and offer resources and options when they are interested in us doing so. We ask to see what kind of help they might like from us; we try not to assume what they might need.

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Audril
I came to the US from the Philippines as an adult. I see how my different cultural background might get in the way of seeing the parents I serve eye to eye but I believe I can also offer a different perspective. We all learn from each other and respect, patience, compassion are universal.

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My identity has helped me be open to others stories, where they have come from, where they are going, and where they want to be. Being bicultural has been a blessing in disguise. As a child I was made fun of because of it but   it has made me stronger and open to my families and coworkers. That has brought me to be very compassionate to others. It is still a learning curve, just be open and listen with your heart.

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My identity has helped me be open to others stories, where they have come from, where they are going, and where they want to be. Being bicultural has been a blessing in disguise. As a child I was made fun of because of it but   it has made me stronger and open to my families and coworkers. That has brought me to be very compassionate to others. It is still a learning curve, just be open and listen with your heart.

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My identity and passion as a parent and love of teaching has helped me to be able to relate to my parents and the struggles they have with their children and helping them to find those resources they need. I love all my families and students and want to do all I can for them.

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My passion is serving others so whether it is as my identity as a wife, mother, sister, friend or contact teacher it’s what fills me up. Having a job that fits your passion is a true blessing.

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My passions help me to be fully engaged with my work. I have heard that apathy, not hate, is the opposite of love and that rings true to me. Passion is the bedrock of a fully engaged life. Without that, there can be no true community. Accompanying each other on the journey is the road to engagement and community. We hunger for a sense of belonging.
I don’t know who said this but education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.

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My identity as a homeschooling parent of 17 years impacts my role as a Contact Teacher. I believe it gives me insight into many of the struggles parents can face, but also the joys that come along with homeschooling. It makes me grateful for the many opportunities we have to care for our families and colleagues.

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A large part of my identity is being a mother, and also as a homeschool mom. I have passion for both of these things and I can understand at least to some degree what the struggles might be in each of these areas. If I had to do it all over I would still homeschool. And so I like to pass on that powerful experience to others, and that you learn as you go.

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Cindy & Jan- we discussed how our own passions for children effect the ways we work with families.  I tend to do more validatingand helping parents see their own personal strengths and see their  child’s individual strengths.  Jan focuses on identifying the little successes the lowest ability child is having in the homeschool environment.  

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Cindy & Jan- we discussed how our own passions for children effect the ways we work with families.  I tend to do more validatingand helping parents see their own personal strengths and see their  child’s individual strengths.  Jan focuses on identifying the little successes the lowest ability child is having in the homeschool environment.  

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Intentionally allowing  my passion to guide my interactions with others. Doing a better job of not focusing so much  on the volume of requests and documents that I’m trying get through.

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The pronoun ‘I’ comprises multiple aspects of one’s identity, including roles, values, priorities, and more. Anytime I summon an ‘I’ statement, I bring forth the relevant parts of me to a particular event, situation, or exchange. I am motivated by a caring ethic that values service and empowering others- and this is reflected in my contact teacher role.

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Laura
In my many roles I’m passionate about, mother, grandmother, teacher, sister, aunt, and daughter I always want to help fill in the missing puzzle pieces of whatever the families need, so passion of wanting to help is part of my identity.

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As a mom, I was passionate about celebrating every success that my boys enjoyed. I believe this passion transferred to my IDEA position because I am fully aware of how important it is for me to recognize and celebrate the success of my homeschool students.
When others celebrate my children, it touches my heart in a big way. I desire to bring that same joy to the parents I serve.

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My passion has always been education. I love to find learning opportunities in everyday moments. I did this with my children and continue to do so with my grandchildren. This passion serves me well in serving my homeschooling families.