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The Story You’re Telling Yourself About Teaching Matters
Why Pride in Service Will Carry You Further Than Praise Ever Will Teachers are tired. Not just physically tired. Soul tired. The kind of tired that comes from caring deeply about something while simultaneously feeling like what you do is being measured, evaluated, debated, criticized, ranked, and scrutinized from every possible angle. They’re discouraged. Somewhere…
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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 