Tag: well-being
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Let Me Teach Like A Normal @$$ Human
No one ever told me — ever knew — that being a teacher today might require me to kill an active shooter. To triage a suicidal student. To teach amidst a pandemic. Yet this is what we are asked to do.
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3 Mindsets to Let Go in 2020
New Years often make us feel like we need to do more. But, increasing well-being doesn’t just mean adding actions. It means letting go.
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23 Practices for a Thriving Life
This is part one in a series on nurturing thriving learners from AffectiveLiving and WeAreTeachers. “Why do people go to school?” This is one of my favorite questions to ask my students. “Because we have to,” is usually the first thing I hear. But they know my response to what I call “have-to-ism:” You don’t…