"The stakes are so high, and it's very easy for educators to get overwhelmed and burnt out with things often outside the locus of their controls. You really need to build some sustainability in order to persist in the classroom, and that's where our organizations come in."

If educators support students, who is supporting the educators?_ _Hear about the resources available to local educators to ensure their cups are overflowing before they pour into scholars at their schools.

Taylor Cao of Teach901 and Erin Wendell of New Memphis, both former classroom educators, are focused on how to retain and refresh quality Mid-South educators to ensure the next generation of leaders is equipped, connected, and informed.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

• Celebrate What's Right: Big Ideas for Big Change
• Teach901
• New Memphis Stride program for early-career educators
• Teachers' Lounge
• Educators of Excellence Awards
• City Leadership
• Memphis Teacher Residency
• Teach901 events
• SOS
• Kinfolk
• Comeback Coffee
• National Civil Rights Museum
• MSCS increases educator pay
• local educator discounts
• Memphis Literacy Institute
• Chalkbeat
• Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER Funds)
• MSCS volunteer form

This episode is made possible in partnership with Independent Bank.