Lisa Dabbs

Teaching With Soul is about being in connection with who you are, what you do, and how you live your teaching life. It’s about supporting new and pre-service teachers to design a roadmap for their teaching lives. A place to provide mentorship to the community of new and pre-service teachers in solving issues that are specific to their needs as new practitioners.

Here, you’ll receive tips, resources, ideas and inspiration on how to get through those first years of teaching.  New and pre-service teachers are invited to connect here and share that sense of community that is so important in our education practice.

Lisa Dabbs is a wife and Mom. She started her career as an elementary school teacher in Southern California.  In this role as teacher, she assisted with a grant project and became the Project Director of a Language and  Literacy program. Soon after she was called to serve as an elementary school Principal, and did that for 14  years.

During that time she recruited, hired, trained and mentored over 200 new and veteran teachers at her school sites. She watched their failures as well as coached them to success. As an administrator the most significant aspect she observed in their journey was the power that mentorship brings to creating a successful teaching career.  As a result, she’s passionately committed to the mission that no teacher, should have to go through their teaching days alone.

In 2010 Lisa became an Educational Consultant at Lisa Dabbs Consulting. Here’s some of what she does in this work:

• Consulting and Speaking at school districts on New Teacher Support
• Adjunct Professor (part-time) at University of La Verne
• Founder of New Teacher Chat #ntchat on Twitter
• Consultant, Blogger, Presenter for ViewSonic Education
• Blogger for EdweekTeacher.org: The New Teacher Chat
• Corwin Press Author: Standing in the Gap: Connecting New Teachers to Connected Resources
• Conference presenter including ASCD, ISTE, CUE and Orange County Reading Association
• Webinar presenter for Edweb, Edweek, Follet, ASCD, Simple K12, Ericson Institute, and Laura Candler

Some of her past work includes:

• Director of Business Development for Edtech Teacher
• Blogger/Facilitator/Social Media Team at Edutopia.org
• Blogger for KidsDiscover.com, Remind.com, Voxer.com
• Blogger for SmartBlog and Huffington Post Education
• Social Media Marketing Team Representative for EduPad.com and iThinkWrite.com
• Coach/Consultant for Kaplan K-12 Educational Corporation
• Adjunct Professor in School Administration at Concordia

Lisa enjoys spreading the word on what passion can do to inspire educators to stay committed to their work, even in the midst of challenging times.  As a result of this passion, she founded a chat for New and Pre-Service Teachers on Twitter: #ntchat. You can read all about it here.

Lisa has blogged for over 9 years and consistently seeks to develop her skills as a writer.  After a few years spent developing a concept, her book for Corwin Press launched in 2015 as part of the Corwin Connected Educator series. The title of her book is Standing in the Gap: Empowering New Teachers through Connected Resources. You can order it here.

Interested in connecting? Please subscribe for regular updates through email and if you have questions, or want to get in touch, email Lisa anytime at lisa@lisadabbs.com with questions, ideas, or any feedback. She always loves to hear from her readers!