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Smaller: What Tired Does to Good Teachers

When you're worn down, you get shorter with kids and slower to ask for help. A short pep talk for tired teachers on lighter weeks and cutting yourself slack.

Kids Ran the Show Today (And It Was Great)

My end-of-day 4H Reflection: a student-led Veterans Day assembly, six-word stories, a test talk, restorative practices and patience.

Most of What You're Worried About Is Temporary

Our minds are better at bouncing back than we give them credit for. We just don't see the bounce coming, so we plan our whole evening around a feeling that's already on its way out.

The Lost Let Go List

I lost last year’s Let-Go List and can’t remember what was on it. Why most teacher worries don’t last, and how to write this year’s list anyway.

October at Why Edify: Carrying a Little Less

Four newsletters, two podcast episodes and a 30-day challenge from October, all about how teachers can carry a little less during a hard stretch.

10 Lessons From 25 Years in the Classroom

Veteran teacher Erin Hall shares 10 lessons from 25 years in the classroom, from what kids remember to why every morning is a reset. Plus a STRONG tie-in.

The Deload Week: How Teachers Get Through a Hard Week Without Quitting

Take something out of the pack.

Dress for the Weather: What Teachers Can Actually Control

Dress for the Weather

Gemini Notebook for Teachers: Turn Assignment Directions into a Video and Infographic

Upload your assignment directions to Gemini Notebook and get an explainer video and infographic students can rewatch, so you say it once instead of five times.

A 30-Day Challenge for Teachers: Pick Your Own (Everyone's Welcome)

Join a 30-day challenge for teachers, Oct 20 to Nov 18. Pick your own small daily challenge. Everyone's welcome. Here's mine and how to join.

Teachers Beware - The Drive Home

The stoplight version of the day usually hurts more than the real one did.

Why October is So Hard for Teachers (and What Actually Helps)

The honeymoon is over, the grading is piling up, and it’s dark by dinner. A 28-year teacher on the October slump, where the idea comes from, and what actually helps.

Strong Teacher Year

STRONG Teacher Year Fall Pack: One Small Practice a Week (Free)

Teacher burnout doesn’t start in May. It starts in October. Seventeen small weekly practices to keep you steady through Thanksgiving, free.

Monthly Round-Up

Surviving the First Month of School: 7 Reads for Teachers

Teacher wellness reads for the first month of school: setting goals that stick, beating burnout, staying creative, and finding your people.

STRONG Teacher 4H Reflection

The STRONG Teacher 4H Reflection

Four questions. Five minutes. A simple end-of-day reflection, and the research behind why it works.

Why Edify Podcast

Do One Scary Thing: Why Teachers Need to Be Beginners Again

Teachers ask students to be bad at things every day. When did we last do it ourselves? A podcast episode on finding the right-sized scary thing.

STRONG Teacher 4H Reflection

4H STRONG Teacher Reflection: Civil War Day, Grumpy Starts, and Doing the Job When You're Not Feeling It

Here's this week's 4H STRONG Teacher Reflection: one Highlight, one Horizon, one Hiccup, one Harvest.

Teacher Gone Wild

Teacher Recovery Can Look Like Adventure (Not a Beach Chair)

Teacher self-care advice usually means a beach chair. This teacher's summer recovery looked more like a float plane, a leaky tent, and a 70-mile bike ride — six real adventures, no highlight reel.

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