On cultural identity, teacher ego, and why changing how we teach is harder than it looks. There is a phrase you will hear in virtually every Ukrainian professional development works Thop. Someone stands up, looks around the room with the expression of a person about to say something transgressive, and announces: "We need to become more student-centred". And then everyone goes home and teaches the way they always have. I have nodded in that room. I have taken those note

A series of posts for English teachers at Ukrainian universities, the overworked, the over-qualified, and the quietly brilliant Let me ask you something. When was the last time you sat in a room with colleagues, real colleagues, not the ones you nod to in the corridor, and said out loud: "I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing anymore"? Not a complaint. Not a crisis. Just an honest, well-deserved exhale. If you're anything like me, that moment rarely comes. Because we are p