With a long 5-day weekend coming up soon, you may need some inspirational videos to watch. Alternatively, you may want to eliminate micromanagement from your own life, or find out why some parents will confront teachers (and principals). Here is an eye-opening message that challenges common biases and assumptions, featuring a speaker known for frankness that comes across as humour. Watch this TEDtalk video on bring success to children:
Considering how to scaffold learning for our students who have missed so much school in the past two years is challenging. Just the same, other challenges could be more significant in the long run. For example, looking at other disruptions in our students’ lives, we see the tremendous impact of social disengagement. Watch the video and read the blog article here:
The perspective on what we’re going through as explored in this interview with an expert could be encouraging for many people. The article offers a possible explanation for our feelings and enumerates several easy tips to help us feel better about things in general. Best of all, many cited references offer the possibility of investigating further information to anyone wanting to dig deeper:
With extra pressure taking its toll on all of us who work in schools, it’s time to take a step back and consider what’s really important. Taking care of yourself is first on the list, so be honest when you have needs to express. Focus on the essentials, live your life as fully as you can. Breathe. More helpful advice for improving mental health can be found in this quick read:
The pianist featured in this article is 107 years old and has played piano for more than 100 years. I admit that I only looked her up to see if the titles were exaggerations, but they’re not. Watching this video inspired me, especially the quote, “Youth is eternal; you have it or you don’t.” Of course, the subtitles at the bottom didn’t actually render it the same way, opting for something more socially acceptable, “Staying young isn’t a question of age, either you’re young or you’re not.”
Long ago, this blog article originally caught my interest because having a rule for hats and hoodies to be removed inside the school building previously came up for discussion every year. I remember teachers saying they felt they were being aggressive when they were expected to enforce that rule. Same as many of the readers, I found some comments more interesting than the article itself. It’s clear to see how the article could inspire some worthwhile discussion, especially now that we are continually faced with microaggressions both in and out of school with the enforcement of Covid regulations. It would be an interesting exercise to rewrite the article from either perspective, whether in terms of people aggressively stopping us on the way through doors of stores in bigger cities, or in terms of individuals attacking us when we obediently enforce regulations set by outside organizations.
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