🔥 How should teachers start every day?

🔥 What are the best ways to organize our workspaces?

🔥 When is the right time to leave the school building?

Join me in conversation with Liz Prather as we dig into these critical questions.

About This Guest

Today’s Teacher on Fire is Liz Prather. A 30-year high school classroom teacher, Liz is the Co-Director of Programming for the Kentucky Writing Project. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Texas-Austin and is the author of three books about teaching writing from Heinemann Press: Project Based Writing; Story Matters; and The Confidence to Write.

Connect with Liz Prather

• on LinkedIn and 
• on Substack at https://writingteacher.substack.com/

In This Conversation

• 0:00:00 – LIZ PRATHER is a a 30-year high school writing teacher
• 1:43 – Daily Ritual 1: Arrive to school early
• 4:59 – Daily Ritual 2: Take 5 minutes for yourself
• 7:50 – Daily Ritual 3: Organize your room for efficiency
• 11:16 – Daily Ritual 4: Look out for your future self
• 14:41 – Daily Ritual 5: Leave school within an hour of the last bell
• 17:25 – A BIG IDEA about writing instruction in 2025
• 20:22 – Encouraging teachers to write and publish their own work
• 23:27 – Three books on writing and instruction by Liz Prather
• 25:31 – Where to connect with Liz Prather online

Song Track Credit

• Tropic Fuse by French Fuse
• GO! by Neffex

*All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.