Focus on Teacher Wellness

Please take some time for self-care.

Keeping balance, best we can.

This newsletter is filled with articles, tips, and videos to help you feel reinvigorated, replenished, and valued for all that you do. In times like these, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and despairing. To stay positive for your students, your families, yourself, we hope you'll take some time every day for self-care. Thank you to our teachers and school leaders for all that you do.

10 Steps for Avoiding Teacher Burnout

We all face burnout, sometimes on a daily basis, and in my case, especially after fourth period. Most of the time, we can pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and go back to the drawing board to try another strategy to find success with student learning. I have to admit that it is getting more and more difficult to make that transition back to a willingness to try again. Rather than provide a list of things to avoid, I would like to take a more proactive stance by sharing things that will help diminish burnout feelings and help you answer, yep, it is worth it.

edutopia.org

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A walk in the woods.

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The surf tumbles in.

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Nature stuns.

How to make stress your friend

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

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The Best Meditation Apps for 2020

If you’d like to learn to meditate, a meditation app can help. After talking to experts, researching a dozen apps, and testing five, here’s what we recommend.

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Exercise Helps.

Maybe you're stuck indoors; maybe you have opportunities for outdoor recreation. Whichever it is, building in daily exercise is good for both overall health and mental health. Here's a list of top free workout apps.

Last words on banishing stress...

Listen while you're cooking dinner!