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About This Guest

This week’s Teacher on Fire is Rae Hughart. Rae is the CEO and Founder of Teachers Deserve It. She’s also a TEDx Speaker and author of two books: Teachers Deserve It and Teach Better. Growing up with IEP support after being diagnosed with Specific Learning Disabilities in Reading, Writing, and Math, Rae has made it her mission to collaborate with educators and districts nationwide to design mastery learning classrooms that reach all learners. Through Teachers Deserve It, she leads a movement dedicated to empowering educators with sustainable, standards-based grading practices that promote clarity, equity, and student success.

Connect with Rae

• on LinkedIn, 
• on Instagram @RaeHughart,  
• on TikTok @RaeHughartEDU,
• on Substack at raehughart.substack.com, and  
• at her website, teachersdeserveit.com.

In This Conversation

• 0:00:00 – Rae Hughart is the founder of Teachers Deserve It
• 2:39 – Boundary 1: Leaving the building after contract hours
• 4:07 – How Rae followed this boundary as a teacher
• 5:49 – Boundary 2: Taking a sick day when we’re sick
• 11:58 – Boundary 3: Declining voluntary committees that we don’t have capacity for
• 17:08 – Boundary 4: Taking quiet moments on your lunch break
• 19:54 – Boundary 5: Setting email hours
• 23:45 – Should we turn off mobile notifications for email?
• 27:11 – Resources for teachers available at TeachersDeserveIt.com
• 31:01 – How and where to connect with Rae Hughart on social media

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