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Why Is It So Hard to “Get It Together” During Summer Break?
A Teacher’s Guide to Couch Paralysis, 17 New Planners, and the Strange Terror of Free Time By the time summer arrives, most teachers are carrying a very specific fantasy. This is the summer. The summer we finally: And yet… Three days into break, many of us are sitting motionless on the couch eating handfuls of…
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You Don’t Have to Crawl to the Finish Line
A Gentle Reminder for Teachers in “Almost Summer” Season There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that shows up around this time of year. The kind where your body walks into school, but your spirit is somewhere face-down on a pontoon boat holding an iced coffee and ignoring emails. The copier jams and you briefly consider…
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Mindset Matters
If thoughts burned calories, most of us would look like marathon runners. We think all day long — about our families, our to-do lists, our students, what we should have said, chances we wish we would have taken, why we’re mad at so and so, and on and on and on . . . But…
The Teacher Restoration Room 