What if your most powerful teaching asset wasn’t what you do, but who you are?
Want to be more YOU in the classroom?
Check out my new book.
Link in the bio.
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Subscribe to my Substack! Get info on teacher wellness. Here is my latest post on the Zen concept of “Non-Doing.” Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/thezenpr...
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Are you doing nothing? Or are you doing NOTHING? Let me explain. . .My new Substack post is here. Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/thezenpr...
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It’s Teacher Appreciation Week. But when you learn to appreciate yourself, you get more than a week. #zenteacher #teacherwellness #edchat #edusky #selfcare #k12
Cover reveal: Teaching is Being: Embracing the Educator Within. Hope to have it available in about 60 days. But love this cover! #edusky #edchat #zenteacher #selfcare #teacherwellness #k12
Read up on The 5 S's (Stillness, Silence, Space, Subtraction, and Slowing Down) and subscribe to my Substack. Find your way to educator peace here: thezenprofessional.substack.com/p/the-5-ss?r...
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Finished HAMLET, turned in essays, started movie.
Me: That’s so weird. Because that’s the same look I had when I started reading your essays.
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“Simplicity scales. Complexity stalls.”
—Jon Acuff
Simplify to keep things moving and growing.
Complexity will slow you down.
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When you’re teaching the gravedigger scene from HAMLET, it’s important that you have the right materials and supplies. (Is he still looking at me??? #shook)
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ZEN TEACHER THOUGHTS:
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Love. My. School.
(just a post of simple gratitude).
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For a beautiful morning, breakfast at the diner (eggs over medium, crispy hash browns, sourdough toast) and Steve Miller’s, “The Joker” and CCR’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” on the diner PA system.
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3 deep breaths at lunch, recess, after school, or sitting at a red light on the way home can COMPLETELY reset your nervous system & mood.
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What’s on your calendar, that’s there out of habit, but that you can take off to create a little more time and space?
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For an early morning walk at sunrise, eggs, toast, and coffee for breakfast, texting my daughter, and only two big things on my to do list today.
What are you grateful for today?
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Photo of a manuscript for a book called “Teaching is Being: Embracing the Educator Within.”
2nd draft done. Now off to my Beta reader for feedback. Really happy with how this one’s shaping up. #zenteacher #edchat #edusky #teacherwellness #selfcare #manifesto
Excellent Pamper Triggers from @prairiemusik.bsky.social in response to my original post.
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Breakfast in a diner is one of (what I call) my “Pamper Triggers.” What can you do today to feel soothed, comfortable, and taken care of?
What are your Pamper Triggers?
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Just as I am free to retwee-uh, I mean, repost this for you now. And I am glad.
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Graphic of the quote in the post from The Zen Teacher by Dan Tricarico. Book is in the bottom left corner.
“Accepting life…frees you to start where you are and move toward your desired destination with a glad, receptive heart.” @thezenteacher.bsky.social in The #ZenTeacher.
It’s not “accepting” as in being content to stay there…it’s accepting current reality so that you can make moves accordingly.
In the noise of life, silence is a refuge. It’s where clarity blooms, tension eases, and the soul finds balance. Take a moment today to pause, breathe, and reconnect with stillness and silence. #Mindfulness #Stillness #InnerPeace #zenteacher #edusky #edchat #teacherwellness #k12 #selfcare
For some easy decluttering to create space, throw 10 things away every day.
At the end of the week, you will have eliminated 70 things.
Give yourself some breathing room.
Fill that space with stuff you want.
Or nothing.
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When you have to be downtown in the morning, you might as well practice your street photography.
Such a mindful hobby. Teaches you to be in the moment.
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The breath is the most fundamental unit of existence.
Want to get grounded?
Check in with your breath.
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Love this idea shared by @thezenteacher.bsky.social!
What do your images look like? Do you see any bias in your images? I did when it created mine!
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A little something I whipped up for my high school kids on the day before Thanksgiving break because hand turkeys are always fun. But it’s also why they don’t let me near the Art building. #zenteacher #edchat #k12 #edusky #teacherwellness #selfcare
For my Friday morning bagel and coffee treat on the day before Thanksgiving Break. #zenteacher #edusky #teacherwellness #edchat #selfcare #gratitude
