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 […]
Continue reading8 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 […]
Continue readingHow 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 […]
Continue readingThe 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 […]
Continue readingBecoming “This One Teacher”: How to Know You Are in the Right Profession
Are you struggling to make it to the end of the school year or feel like your life as a teacher is pure craziness? Do you sometimes even wonder if you are in the right profession?Recently, I went to a friend’s baby shower. I sat with a group of ladies making small talk and, naturally, […]
Continue readingHow 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 […]
Continue readingHow to Know If You Should Quit Teaching
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Just ten more feet. Hold yourself together for ten more feet. You’re rushing to your car as fast as your wobbly knees can take you. It’s been a bad day. And not a typical this-wasn’t-the-best day but an honest truly B-A-D day that has you ready to burst […]
Continue readingWhen You Feel Alone as a Teacher (and Stuck)
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Do you ever feel like you’re alone as a teacher? Like you’re facing all these challenges and there’s just no one there to help you figure it all out? Or maybe you do have people around you, but for one reason or the other, you’re just not […]
Continue reading8 Reasons You’re Feeling Discouraged as a Teacher (and how to overcome them)
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. “Teacher, YOU Have Got This!”This was the subject line of an email that popped up while I was wracking my brain (unsuccessfully) to come up with an interesting way to start this article.Since I wasn’t getting anywhere anyhow, of course I stopped and read the email, which […]
Continue readingHow to Deal With a Difficult Administrator
You may have thought that your administrator has it in for you, but have you ever had an administrator who’s literally out to get you? As in, actually trying to kill you? Well, that’s what “Carl” was dealing with. He had been nothing but loyal, dedicated, and passionate. But his administrator became jealous and started plotting […]
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