by Melinda | May 2, 2022 | Reflective Teaching
It’s Teacher Appreciation week! Teaching is both rewarding and draining. Burnout is real. It helps to remember why you teach, and kind words and actions go a long way. I hope this week (and beyond) that you feel the love from parents and caretakers, students and... 
by Melinda | Feb 21, 2022 | Reflective Teaching
It’s a new year, and a great time to recommit to your own development and maybe set some reading goals. To that end, I have some suggestions for books to help you learn — and a great way to move beyond theory to practice. But let’s start with some of the best... 
by Melinda | Dec 27, 2021 | Reflective Teaching
How was 2021 for you as a teacher? How are you feeling about the next school year (or the rest of this year if you are mid-year)? It hasn’t been easy for most of us, and morale has been low. Teacher burnout is real, and so encouraging teachers to stay with it is... 
by Melinda | Dec 13, 2021 | Reflective Teaching
It’s been quite a year. I think most of us hoped we’d be back to normal by now in our lives and in our classrooms. Teachers are reporting high levels of burnout. This year wiped us out with too much Zoom, trying to teach in-person and online. Even if we are back in... 
by Melinda | Nov 30, 2020 | Reflective Teaching
How are you doing over there in front of your classroom? Or behind your computer screen for the nth hour of Zoom meetings? Or from your classroom via Zoom? Or trying to teach the students in your room and the ones at home trying to follow along as you try to teach... 
by Melinda | May 18, 2020 | Reflective Teaching
How are you doing? I find myself asking people that a lot these days—Are you getting along okay staying at home? Are you adjusting to online learning? Getting used to a whole new way of doing things? But there is another way to take that question: How are you doing as...