In this episode, I share how becoming an administrator, and leading Teachers, was a clue to discovering my Super-Power.

Takeaways:

• Identify who you can help with your unique skills, whether it's teachers or students.
• Look for activities you enjoy mastering, as they may reveal your superpower.
• Recognize the results you achieve for others; these successes indicate your strengths.
• A calling to serve a larger audience may signal your potential superpower in action.
• Establish a supportive environment for sharing ideas and expertise among teachers.
• Your small, overlooked skills can significantly impact others' lives and businesses.

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Hey, teachers.

Welcome to Teacher Business Buzz, the only daily biz show just for teachers.

Are you missing clues to your superpower, AKA your specialized knowledge or skill set that you could teach others and turn into a profitable business idea?

This week, we are uncovering all different ways that you might be missing out on some clues about what your superpower might be.

And I'm sharing stories about how I uncovered my superpower.

So if we have not yet met, I'm Tiffany Webster, and I co founded teacherbusiness.com along with my husband, Dwayne.

I've been a K12 teacher and administrator for 25 years.

I was a K8 principal for four years.

And when I took over that job, that new role, the program was going through a major shift at the time.

And basically when I took on the role as the administrator, we had to rebuild the program.

And I am thrilled to tell you that it was a wild success and that within a year, we were able to build that program up to max capacity and have a full waiting list for every grade level.

We could have started a whole nother charter school based on how many students and families that we had on our waiting list.

It was really incredible.

And all of that happened because I really had an opportunity for the first time to focus on the teachers.

And we had this incredible staff of teachers, and they all wanted to make a bigger impact on their student.

And that was really key, was helping them to discover what it was that they could do to make that bigger impact on students.

And so I began to help them figure out how to utilize their expertise in the program so that they could really reach more students and also so that we could have this strong program with all of these diversified skill sets.

And then from there, we created opportunities for them to showcase their skillset.

You have some teachers that are really good at planning some of these, like, fun events for classrooms, whether it's like a literacy day or this Egyptian history showcase, right?

You have some teachers that are really great at that.

You have others that are really good at doing screen recordings and digital notes for their kids, and so they can develop that skill set and then share it out with the staff in other ways.

We had other teachers that were really great at doing small group instruction and centers, and so then they would help other teachers learn how to apply that skillset to their classroom.

So we really started creating these opportunities around the expertise that individual teachers had.

And then as the leader, I would do my best to try to get them whatever resources that they needed and the support that they needed so that they could really step in to this strength of theirs.

This really made a difference too, in the way that we conducted our trainings in our meetings, because we really created this safe place where teachers could ask questions and contribute to the conversation.

It was this free flowing exchange of ideas where people really felt that their ideas were respected and valued or their questions were heard.

And it was really important for us to establish that sort of environment because it allowed us to provide trainings on specific skills or when we wanted to solve a problem, we could really look specifically at what that problem was and ways that we could solve it.

And people could share their different ideas, their different perspectives, and we could really pull the best from our group of teachers in order to solve that problem, to make things better or different for our students.

And that was really important, that as a leader, I was really leading from the inside out and not from the top down.

And that was a huge learning lesson for me was how powerful it is to put that power into the hands of my teachers and then just support them.

So what does this mean for you in helping you discover your teacher superpower in doing this?

I really found that I enjoyed working with teachers.

And coming from the classroom, I have to tell you, I was a little nervous.

Day one.

These were my former colleagues, and now I was going to be in charge, and I didn't know exactly how that was going to go.

And they were very receptive and very kind, I have to say.

And I found that after working with students for so many years, I really did enjoy working with teachers.

And then I found that I had this knack for helping to maximize their strengths.

And as a result of that, I have been able to combine my classroom experience with my love of leadership and my passion for business and put all of those things together into the business that I have today.

And I tell you that because sometimes the things that you just have a knack for, you might overlook as being your teacher superpower.

You might be thinking that your teacher's superpower has to be something really grand, where really it doesn't.

It's these small little things that reveal themselves that you start to put together and then you're like, okay, now I see how I have these unique skill sets or this unique knowledge, and I can use that to help people.

And that's what happened here.

I realized that I had a knack for working with teachers, helping teachers maximize their strengths.

And I'm able now to combine that with my classroom experience and my business knowledge to startteacherbusiness.com and teacher business Buzz and help teachers like you uncover your superpowers as well.

So that's what my superpower is.

One of them is that I can help teachers identify their superpower and learn the skills to turn their superpower into a profitable online membership business.

So let me help you out with that.

Let me show you three ways that you can start to look for some clues in your own life to see what your superpower might be and get the wheels turning a little bit on what you might be able to share with the world and turn into a business.

All right, let's take a look at three different things.

Number one, I want you to look for who you could help.

In my case, I had always thought that I would just be in the classroom helping students.

And it wasn't until I moved into a different stage in my life where I was helping teachers that I really was like, okay, I like this.

This feels really fun and exciting to me, and I feel like I can really make a difference here.

Not everybody likes working with teachers.

Not everybody likes working with older kids.

Not everybody likes working with younger kids.

Right?

So figure out who it is that you can best serve with your knowledge and your skillset.

And that might be teachers that might be students, that might be school districts that might be homeschool parents that might be TPT or Etsy sellers, if you're in that world.

So start to think about who you can help, and that's a good clue as to the niche that your superpower might be in.

All right?

And then look for what makes you gravitate towards mastery.

What is it that you're starting to do for those people that you keep practicing like, you can't help it.

You just keep practicing, and you keep wanting to hone your craft, and you keep wanting to learn how to do something better and faster and develop new systems and new methods.

For me, I absolutely fell in love with leadership.

And so I was really trying to become a really great leader and really serve my teachers.

And so that was something I continued just to work on over and over again.

How can I help them?

How do I maximize their strengths?

And the reason why I love maximizing their strength so much is because I helped them to uncover things that I saw very obviously, but they didn't.

They didn't really see those things that they were doing as major strengths of theirs.

And so I was able to help point that point out for them, like, the results that they were getting.

Okay, you just planned this major event on Egyptian history, and look at the impact that you created or we did this one really cool project week where our kids were studying a different artist, and we all worked together to put together this art project, and everybody contributed different ideas.

And then we put together this amazing art project.

On the day of the art gallery, we did this art walk, and it was so cool to see all of the students dressed up as their artists, presenting artwork, presenting their reports.

You see all the parents coming through the school, and it was like, wow, that impact was huge.

Not only did we get amazing results as the teachers, but the students got major results with their work.

The parents were really pleased and happy.

It was just a really successful event.

And so when you're able to do those types of things, don't overlook that as a skill set.

And if you know how to do it, someone else might not, and they might really benefit from your expertise in having done something like that before.

And if you bring that specialized knowledge to another teacher or to another school district, that might really make a huge impact on their life.

So don't overlook those results that you get when you get amazing results for yourself or for someone else.

All right, and then here is the bonus when you start to feel that calling for a bigger purpose.

I had that feeling.

I had this, like, little tap on the shoulder that I was meant to work with teachers, and I was meant to work with teachers in a bigger way.

And so that started off as a K8 administrator, and now you can see where this is going.

I love working with teachers, and I love helping teachers maximize their superpower.

And I am so grateful to be in a position now where I can do that on a larger scale.

So when you find those bonuses of some feeling to go a little deeper, a bigger purpose, serving someone beyond just your immediate network, your immediate community, that's something to really pay attention to.

All right, so let's recap today.

Today, you might find some clues about your superpower in these ways.

Look at who you can help and identifying.

Is that going to be teachers, students, parents, school district, other entrepreneurs?

See who you can really help with your skillset and your specialized knowledge.

Number two, what are you gravitating towards mastering?

What is it that you're really trying to get great at?

That is a good clue.

That is going to be some of your specialized knowledge and skill set.

And what are you getting results for?

Getting results for yourself or for others?

Where are you finding that success in the classroom?

And then bonus, if you're starting to feel that calling to serve a bigger audience, make a bigger impact, step into a new purpose in your life.

That is a great clue that this superpower might just be the way to do it.

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