Be Well, Do Well
As the new school year is about to begin across the USA and even across the world, there is an underlying anxious tone permeating the very essence of all teachers, students, parents, admin, staff, etc.
There are so many traumas to heal from last year in a pandemic. In fact, I was talking to a teacher the other day and asked “when do you go back to school?” and the reply was “oh goodness, I don’t even want to think about it let alone talk about it because I am still HEALING.”
I thought “WOW!” The trauma from last year is still going to need some time, attention, intention, nurturing and yes, healing.
We can’t just pretend that last year didn’t happen.
We can’t just ignore everything that happened and not try to learn from all the experiences, even the bad ones.
We can’t start the new year from a place of deficit, perceived “learning loss” (as it is being referred to in the media) and being behind…kind of a mindset of it’s all over before it begins because we can never catch up.
We can’t start letting all the woulda-coulda-shoulda’s reign supreme in our minds and echo through our classrooms and into the minds and hearts of our students and others.
We need to BE WELL and we need to DO WELL.
There are many resources on www.spiritofteaching.org that can help you to be well and do well.
Spirit of Teaching and Teacher Tales have been doing a series of podcasts that highlight mental health and well being.
There is a great deal of awareness being raised about mental health., especially during the past year and a half of a pandemic.
What is mental health exactly?
