Bedtime revenge isn’t as edgy as it sounds. It’s when you arrive at the end of a long day of responsibilities — the kids in bed, the dishes done, the laundry folded, whatever — and you see that it’s your bedtime, and you say, “You know what!? Forget you, bed. I’m done doing what life […]
Depressurizing Our Relationships: The Day Mr. Rogers Stopped Judging
(This post is a quick interlude in our series on depressurizing the teacher soul. Don’t skip it! Its ideas will help with subsequent posts.) Early on in his career, back when he was still a seminary student, Fred Rogers was stung by the judgment bug. As part of his studies, Rogers and his classmates visited […]
Groups Where We’re Known
Just joining us? Here’s the series anchor post and here’s the last article I wrote on exercise as depressurization vs. exercise as achievement pursuit. And if you’re not subscribed to the newsletter, do that! You’ll get all the posts in your inbox, and you’ll be the cool teacher who gets to forward these to your […]
“All or Nothing” Exercise Exhausts the Soul
For this series on depressurizing the teacher’s soul, I’m going to keep a few things consistent: All links for the series will be in the anchor post — the one I linked to above. I’ll have a few standard footnotes for folks who are like, “Wait, I have no TIME for these depressurization things!” [1]. […]
A Strategic, Smart Approach to Depressurizing the Teacher Soul
Hey there — here you’ll find links to the whole series on depressurizing the teacher soul: Intro, Part I: The Teacher’s Journey: A Deeper, Better Way of Thinking (and Doing Something) about Burnout and Demoralization Intro, Part II: Efficiency Hasn’t Saved Us Intro, Part III: The Mechanics of Teacher Burnout (AKA the Workload-Pressure Cycle) Intro, […]