STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The Validation
Who are you teaching for?
Teaching
Testing Season Stress: How to Separate the Climate from the Content
Learn how teachers can navigate the challenges of testing season.
Ikigai for Teachers
Ikigai for Teachers
Why are so many excellent teachers exhausted, disconnected, quietly counting down to June?
Strong Teacher Pep Talk
Teaching Has Always Had Hard Days. This Is What Gets You Through Them.
The hard days aren't the problem. Losing track of why they're worth it is. Here's what Ikigai says about staying connected to your purpose when the job is grinding you down.
Why Edify Podcast
Compassion Is Not Soft — It's the Health Practice You've Been Ignoring
The science of compassion isn't soft — it's some of the most practical research available for burned-out teachers. Here's what the data actually says, and one thing to try today.
Community
Rebuilding Classroom Community When the Year Has Gotten Away From You
Make classroom community building a year-round practice.
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The Attention
What You Feed Grows
Artifical Intelligence
The Teacher's Guide to Building an AI Assistant: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini
Claude Projects, ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems — all three let you build a persistent AI teaching assistant. Here's how to pick the right one and actually set it up.
Artifical Intelligence
Stop Starting Over: How to Build a Permanent AI Teaching Assistant with Gemini
Learn how to use Google Gemini's Gems feature to build a persistent AI teaching assistant that already knows your classroom — no re-explaining yourself every time.
artifical intelligence projects
Stop Starting Over: How to Build a Permanent AI Teaching Assistant with ChatGPT
Learn how to use ChatGPT's Custom GPT feature to build a persistent AI teaching assistant that already knows your classroom — no re-explaining yourself every time.
artifical intelligence projects
Stop Starting Over: How to Build a Permanent AI Teaching Assistant with Claude
Learn how to use Claude's Projects feature to build a persistent AI teaching assistant that already knows your classroom — no re-explaining yourself every time.
planning
The March Energy Audit: Where Your Teaching Energy Actually Goes
Not every task deserves equal energy. Some deserve more. Some deserve less. Almost none of them deserve the amount you're currently giving them at 9 pm on a Sunday.