Linda Kardamis, Author at Teach 4 the Heart

All Posts by Linda Kardamis

Setting Up Your Classroom: 9 Practical Things You May Not Have Thought Of

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Getting your room ready for the school year can be extremely exciting. It’s also a whole lot of work. There are books to prepare, desks to arrange, decorations to create……The list seems never-ending. What we need to focus on most, though, is functionality. Yes, it’s great if […]

6 Traits of Teachers Who Are Reducing Their Workload with the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club

Are you over being overwhelmed? Sick of feeling guilty for abandoning your family to work on school and then feeling guilty for abandoning school to be with your family? Are you ready to finally find balance? This week I’m honored to interview Angela Watson, creator of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. Angela has been […]

8 Lies Teachers Tell Themselves About Work/Life Balance

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart podcast. Do you ever feel like teaching is taking over your life? Are you overwhelmed and stressed? Do you feel guilty for neglecting your family while at school then feel guilty for neglecting school while at home? What you desperately need is some balance in your life. Chances […]

10 Ways for Teachers to Grow Over the Summer

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. You breathe a huge sigh of relief as you walk away from your classroom. The last day is done. Your grades are turned in. Your classroom is clean – and you have a whole glorious summer ahead. But while summer is certainly a time to rest and refresh, […]

How to Teach Without Anxiety (even when everything is going wrong)

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. You’re driving down the road—the summer sun melting your anxieties away—but then you pass a “Back to School!” sign. Your worries and fears resurface.How am I ever going to finish my to-do list?Is this school year going to turn out the way I want?What is my admin […]

The Teacher Success Roadmap

Come on, pull it together. If you lose your lunch meager breakfast in front of your class …. Well, that will be a doozy of a first impressionIt’s 5 till 8 on my first official day as a teacher, and I’m trying desperately to calm my nerves. But despite the cacophony of butterflies in my […]

An Easy Way to Grade Writing Quickly

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Nothing spells guilt like a 4-week old stack of neglected, ungraded, sad-looking student essays sleeping on your kitchen table. Now I know that YOU would never let your grading pile up for one month, but let’s just say I have a “friend” who used to routinely dump […]

How to Finish the School Year Strong

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Dear Teacher, I know you’re tired. You’re stressed. You’re about to stab a pencil in your eye if you have to grade one more paper. Your to-do list is a mile long. And summer is so close you can taste it. But in the midst of all the […]

7 Review Games that Won’t Waste Your Time

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast Can we play a game!!?? If your students are anything like mine, you hear this question about a million gazillion times a week. In the whiniest voices possible. With the clear undertone that if you don’t we are going to make you regret it!!! And while I love […]

How to Flip Your Classroom: Your Biggest Questions Answered

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. We were only 30 seconds into class and I was already panicking.Where is their homework? Did none of them do it?Their empty desks taunted me, predicting the misery that was to follow.Nine.Out of 23 students, only 9 had their homework done.Not good.just slightly panickingI pushed down the […]

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