Hey, Teachers!

Whether you're a veteran teacher or a new teacher, you might be questioning how to support students in these crushing times facing public school. It was already challenging. We already have too much on our plate, and now, we're wondering how to advocate for youth while navigating a s...

Hey, Teachers!

Teachers are scared more than ever right now--about our jobs, our students, our children, and the state of the nation related to education and the K-12 public school system, especially in response to the mass gutting of federal agencies and funding impacting millions of Americans. We...

Hey, Teachers!

New teachers may be questioning whether teaching is the right profession and career for the long haul. Now more than ever, there are so many reasons to leave education. 💔 Teaching is a hard job no matter how many years you've been in the classroom.

How do you know if teaching is rig...

Hey, Teachers!

The best boundaries to set are the ones that preserve yourself and your integrity. Now that we're past the holidays and revving up to return to the classroom, we might be questioning how we're going to make it through the next six months.

How will you stay energized?

How will you p...

Hey, Teachers!

If you're an online teacher you know that building teacher-student relationships can include different challenges than in in-person settings...because almost all of our communication is written. If you teach synchronously and asynchronously in the online setting, you have opportuniti...

Hey, Teachers!

How do you gain respect from students, parents, colleagues, and administrators? 

Professionalism.

Professionalism is a strategy for success as a classroom teacher. It includes you think of yourself as a practitioner, the tone you set in your teaching space, and how you interact wit...

Hey, Teachers!

How do you reach a tough group of learners? The ones causing you to feel angry and possibly, defeated?  You want a thriving classroom. But you're unable to teach because of behaviors that are off-task, dismissive, apathetic, or even violent and threatening.

Parents may or may not be...

Hey, Teachers!

How do you make your classroom IRRESISTIBLE?  You want your classroom to be a place where students are thriving, where anyone visiting can clearly see engagement, enthusiasm, positivity, growth, and your top priority: learning.

How do you define learning?

Learning in this regard in...

Hey, Teachers!

We do our best with students, families, and colleagues, to bring about positive learning and performance outcomes while battling numerous limitations and interpersonal challenges in school settings. And right alongside our efforts, talents, credibility, experiences, genuine care and ...

Hey, Teachers!

The K-12 system has never been a breeze. Storms surround the most valiant and effective of teachers and threaten to wipe out teachers new to the field, especially when storms get too rough.  It's always been this way. I remember a teacher friend at the start of my career who left to ...

Hey, Teachers!

Of course, the baseline answers to "why teachers don't make much" center on history, societal values, and state funding.  When we hear "teacher" we think role model, steward of children, keeper of knowledge, friendly face, memorable and caring, uncompromising...for the most part. And...

Hey, Teachers!

The close of 2023-24 may not have been so easy if you lost a friend in teaching--or several. Some of us have lost friends in teaching because they have passed away, retired, quit, or moved location, and many of us have been left to stand alone at the edge of a school building painful...