Educators spend considerable time preparing what they will take into the room—lesson plans, materials, strategies, expectations, and goals. But there is a deeper question we do not ask often enough:

Who is the educator carrying all of it?

In “The Oil You Return With,” Ronnette T. Branham, M.Ed., opens Phase 3 of the Educators With Oil season: Establish—Identity in Motion.

Through the four EWO pillars—Identity, Calling, Voice, and Wisdom—this episode challenges educators to allow what God has restored and developed within them to shape how they teach, speak, decide, serve, and lead.

This is not a call to prove yourself by doing more. It is an invitation to move differently: grounded in identity, clear about your calling, established in your voice, and guided by wisdom.

You do not prove the oil by doing more. You revea ...