Passion - my fuel:
I value self-discovery at any age, but I find that childhood is an extremely important time in a child's life to build their mental "toolbox" to help them navigate through life. This is why I love working with children and seeing them grow in all aspects of education (academically, socially, emotionally, and mentally).
I value individuality, justice, diversity, integrity, inclusion, and equity. As an educator, I get to teach these values when problems arise in the classroom which is why it's exhausting at times because working with younger children these values aren't developed, or even known about yet, or are not valued in their family system. As an educator, I feel it is my responsibility to impact as many kids as possible and be a light in their life. Growing up I did not have a supportive or healthy childhood experience. My home environment was unsafe and unreliable, it wasn't until I went to school that I felt safe, and had a sense of belonging, and a love for learning. I have always loved school for so many reasons, but if it wasn't for my wonderful teachers along the way I wouldn't be where I am today. They have inspired me to be the amazing and passionate educator that I am today. This is why I believe in the importance of individuality and how self-exploration and reflection create growth in each individual. I believe that thinking about your thoughts at an early age will help create a better future because that is how I was able to survive my childhood. Hope you can see my growth through the last couple of years by being in the educator field.

Goodbye,  bye, bye,
Thanks for checking out my page. I hope that you have been inspired by seeing how motivated, dedicated, professional, and ethical an educator I am.

MUCH LOVE,

Jessica Crayne

The factors that are learning teachers feeling burnt out are the levels of disrespect for the profession from some. You hear it all the time on the internet. Teachers are "qualified babysitters,” so we teachers come back to say "pay me the babysitter rate for each child if that's the case." We are MUCH MORE than babysitters, we should be getting paid MUCH, MUCH MORE.

It's also overworking every day, week after week...many nights at work instead of a home to planning out the week, the events, gather material, clean/organize the learning environment, the progress cards and report cards for 30 kids, the emails, the unimportant and important tasks, the daily meetings over lunch and "preps" that fills me with resentment because we don't have enough time to do it ALL. We all in education need to understand that is the reality that it can not all get done every day. It is a marathon. I have worked in a district where teachers are being overstretched into many jobs, tasks, children, meetings, plans, curriculum, paperwork, and parents is so exhausting, and yet we still come to work every day with a smile and heart of gold to enrich these children's lives, while the job is eating away at our lives in many aspects. This is because the right administration does matter. If a teacher is not meshing well with the culture and administration of the school, it is probably time to move on to a school that will fit your values more. 

These issues are REAL and teachers MATTER. These issues are only the tip of the iceberg- being an educator in the flawed educational system in the United States, unfortunately.

Changes need to be made, not just within each school, not just in HR, not just in the curriculum, not just the teacher workload, not just the school systems, not just in legislation, but MUCH MORE in the minds of everyone who overlooks the job of an educator to really make necessary changes for. 
I believe these changes will help our teacher pandemic, so qualified teachers who love their job give quality education to the students because we all deserve it.