Promote Your Teaching: TCC Teacher Listings Importance

Teacher Listing Pages – Who Are We?

• Please visit the taichichih.org homepage and scroll down to find the link for featured teachers and teachers teaching on Zoom or FaceTime.
• The site currently profiles 85+ teachers, including Justin (the original teacher) and one association (see Northern Colorado).
• Starting with this August issue, when a teacher authors a Vital Force article and they have a teacher listing, that URL will be listed under their byline so readers can learn more about that teacher.

We understand that teacher listing pages are not top of mind during COVID-19. A safe vaccine, vital medical interventions for those sick, and properly enforced health regulations are. However, let me take a crack at why it matters now:

— Students want us to offer; these pages are promoted on Saturdays on Facebook, and about 300 students click through every weekend! Help them find you.
— Even if you aren’t teaching, let’s showcase the breadth, depth, and uniqueness of our teaching community. Why?
— Because when about 250 profiles (of the 750 teachers who indicated they wanted to be on the site) are complete, I will promote TCC to my journalist colleagues who write for major publications. We need to look “real” and worthy movement.
— These pages help us stay connected through COVID-19 isolation. They are akin to “TheFacebook,” when it launched way back in 2004.
— Consider supporting the website so others may learn about TCC. (I do not get compensated for helping here; the funds go to pay off the developer.)
— Students need current contact information. I must contact all teachers who have not created a page starting in the autumn. Please don’t make me spend 85 hours contacting 500 teachers, asking them to take responsibility or if they want to be removed. If you’ve done a profile, look for a friend who has not claimed their page, and please contact them. This site belongs to everyone.
— Sandy and Pam reminded me that we used to charge teachers $5 or $10/year to have contact information on the website. Hopefull,y $10 or $40 for your own promotional page seems like a great value.
— See also page 14.

Please join the chorus. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good; seize the moment.

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