We must ensure that every student has a healthy home at school, even if they did not have one at home.
Author: Melanie Lane
Educator of 18 years K-8, specializing in children with disabilities. Currently serving as an instructional coach with a goal of promoting teacher resilience and mental health in educators.
Friday Reflection: Superhero Complex
We all do it. We put the weight of the world on our shoulders. We have to develop the healthy balance of impacting lives while holding on to our own healthy mindsets.
Friday Reflections: Start with Their Story
Every day our students are in the process of memorializing another page to another chapter of their story. When we know who and what they think they are we can empower them to be who they have the potential to be.
Classroom Management: Triggered Teachers
Triggers come in all sizes, but unless identified they can be the thread that causes your sanity to unravel.
Classroom Management: The First Step is a Plan
The first step is the hardest, but trust that everything done well begins with a plan.
Friday Reflections: Your “Leave Behind”
It is a safe assumption that few of us will end up in history books, have statues erected in our names, or holidays declared in our honor. This should not be a discouraging sentiment as significance is found in each and every one of us. Though we may not leave this world legends, we will … Continue reading Friday Reflections: Your “Leave Behind”
Friday Reflections: Life Saving Laughter
Friday Reflections: Laughter, the Antidote to Burnout I’m going to make this week’s reflection a short one, but do not for one minute think that this topic is not important. In fact, it is so important it is life saving. Life is hard. Pair that with being a teacher, and it is a whole other … Continue reading Friday Reflections: Life Saving Laughter
Friday Reflections: Schedule your Priorities
Not only are teachers wrapping up this year, but they are also knee deep in planning schedules for the upcoming year. Scheduling may seem like a look at numbers with “blocks” and “periods” to manipulate, but really it is a practice of commitment to shared values. Time is a finite resource that we cannot make … Continue reading Friday Reflections: Schedule your Priorities
Friday Reflections: A Teacher Appreciates
It is not a teacher alone that makes a school great!
Friday Reflections: Sitting in Failure
Failure: What if we refused to run from it, but rather we sat in its discomfort? What if we allowed ourselves to feel the sting because we know we are strong enough to survive it? What if we allowed it to shape the image we have of ourselves because we have faith in our ability to overcome our struggles?
Awake & Accelerate 