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
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.
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The Provocation
Your Mind Is Complicit
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The Spring Break Permission Slip
Go Rest. That’s the Whole Newsletter.
Strong Teacher Pep Talk
The System Isn't Broken. It Just Wasn't Built for You.
A lot of what exhausts teachers isn't a personal failure — it's structural. Here's what Stoicism says about protecting yourself inside a system you can't fix.
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
Why You Started
It's okay to recalibrate.
Why Edify Podcast
Persistence Isn't What You Think It Is
Teachers are told to push through everything. But persistence and endurance aren't the same — and confusing them is what's burning you out. Here's the Stoic take.
Why Edify Podcast
Push Through Is Not a Strategy
"Just push through" is the worst advice in education. Here's what Epictetus figured out 2,000 years ago — and why it matters on your hardest teaching days.
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The One-Thing Week
What If You Subtracted One Thing This Week?
Strong Teacher Pep Talk
You Don’t Earn Rest. You Schedule It.
Teachers are told rest is a reward for finished work. But the work is never finished. Here’s what sustainable teachers figured out instead.
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The Worst Advice You'll Hear This Month
February's loudest advice is "just push through." It's also the worst. Here's a 2,000-year-old Stoic framework for choosing where your limited energy actually belongs.