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Episode 71: Why It’s So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves

…and then you’ve got two other suggestions for how people can prioritize self-care and make time for it. What are they? WATSON: Yes. So, you can pair a self-care habit with your regular routines, so that the self-care habit becomes automatic. This is a really powerful principle that is based heavily on neuroscience, this idea that you can pair a new habit with an existing habit to make it easier to lock that new habit into place. The idea is that you should look for something that you already do automatically, and integrate self-care into that. See if you can…

Why It’s So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves (and 4 Ways to Start)

…your own oxygen mask before you can assist others,” Angela says, “but actually, living that out is really, really challenging.” What do we mean by self-care? Self-care doesn’t necessarily mean a trip to the spa; it can and should mean different things to different people. Angela encourages people to choose a self-care habit that fits their personality and needs. It should be: Something you want to maintain permanently “We’re not looking for quick fixes here. (Going to the spa) once every six months is not going to fix the problem for most people. It has to be something you can…

Episode 190 Transcript

…done more for self-care. I think giving teachers time and money to take care of ourselves—we at one point sat through a six-hour lecture about how to do self-care with no self-care incorporated in it. I’m one of nine teachers I know who’ve left, completely left teaching, like burnt out, done. And these are amazing teachers. These are teachers who should be in the classroom and they’re done. They’re so burnt and I reached that point too. I would cry in my car before going in because I was so exhausted and knew that I had to paint this face…

Episode 95: Twelve Ways Teachers Can Build Their Own Resilience

…of a positive self perception. Resilient people have a really robust sense of their own worth, and they are really committed to taking care of themselves, and they more or less accept themselves the way they are and they know that they can still make growth and change. And so connecting those habits and really getting into the what’s underneath the struggle that so many of us have in taking care of ourselves. GONZALEZ: Boy, November really is an appropriate time for that too, because that’s when things really start to pile up and self care probably just goes out…

Let’s Talk About the Leader in Me

…you come across any empirical research! Clinton The seven habits require personal change, personal growth and reflection. This is difficult and challenging because we need to be willing to work on ourself. The habits require self-discipline and time to integrate into one self. Many of us are not prepared to do this. We would rather work hard opposed to working on ourselves. In the case of teachers, it is easier to focus on academics – there is a strong cultural bias towards this tendency. Moreover, teaching character is complex, some schools are good at telling their students what character is,…

When a Student Hates You

…That summer she moved, and I never heard from her again. I still think if I’d handled things differently, I might have gotten through to her. Mark accepted my apology with grace, and soon we were back on friendly terms, but I was careful to never again overestimate my students’ confidence. Even the most well-liked, accomplished kid may not have the self-assurance to withstand his mistakes being broadcast. A cheap joke isn’t worth losing someone’s trust. Now I try to err on the side of shutting my mouth. And what did I learn from Denise? When I consider her story…

Episode 222 Transcript

…about families? What, what, what terminology works best for you? QAROONI: I tend to say things like “your grown-up” or your, you know, “your caregivers, “the people who care for you.” I tend to say “caregiver conferences” or “collaborative conferences” instead of “parent-teacher conferences.” I think about all of the activities that are around Mother’s Day or around Father’s Day or around all these different events that might inadvertently alienate children. Just like we’re thinking about representation in our texts, we have to think, like, about the representation in our language. And so yeah, that, it bleeds into everything we…

8 Things I Know for Sure About (Most) Middle School Kids

…of the day. Pseudonym I am a middle school student myself (the reason I’m on this article is a bit of a long story that includes a self-assigned essay) and I agree with most of these points. I do admit that I frowned a bit at the ‘middle schoolers can’t be trusted’ bit, but after finishing the article, I realised that’s true. And the public praise thing seems pretty accurate as well, though it depends on person to person. And, yeah, I tend to exaggerate a bit, and perhaps care more than I should about my peers’ opinions, and, yes,…

Why So Many Teachers Are Leaving, and Why Others Stay

…where parents were more or less in charge, and the school leadership bent over backwards to please them for fear of having them go elsewhere. This atmosphere, along with the increased demands from Covid, meant more and more demands placed on teachers. Although self-care was given lip service, very little was done to make it possible. “There was no opportunity for self-care for teachers,” she says. “It was like the pandemic didn’t exist and we were expected (to act) like everything was normal.” Along with these issues, Denise found herself increasingly disappointed by her school’s weak efforts toward equity work….