I get this very question all the time. At the beginning of my career, I was deeply rooted in edtech. I was an elementary teacher who...

You’ve been running and working and grading and subbing and goal setting and scheduling meetings, planning meetings, attending meetings,...

Most of us have heard some sort of metaphor about keeping our personal challenges and professional lives separate such as "keep it in...

Two of the biggest topics in education right now are artificial intelligence (AI) and mental health. Everyone seems to be talking about...

As educators, we often strive to create a calm and positive learning environment for our students. We work hard to regulate our own...

I have been asked more in the last two months than ever in my life if I am a licensed counselor or therapist. I feel like I always make...

This is an excerpt from my newest manuscript which is co-written with Dr. Ashley Streeter tentatively titled The Wounded Healer due out...

I am the ultimate people pleaser, so when I discuss boundaries it comes from a place of knowing what it's like to disregard your own...

It's human nature to try to organize information onto a continuum or into boxes. Especially during the course of an increased level of...

I am confident in saying that most educators remember their first year of teaching, or at least remember parts of it in the blur that it...

To help our students be successful, we know that teaching them to problem solve and search resources for what they need is a necessary...

There are few other professions or systems that need to be more closely aligned than education in order to function. Administration...

My youngest daughter is adopted. She was brought home as a 10-month-old baby from Guatemala all chunkiness and big brown eyes. We were in...

Even people who speak on mental health and know the impact of mental health issues can struggle. I've been dealing with emotional...

The idea of discussing teacher pay has long been largely ignored. At the root, it seems that as a society we underpay professions that...

For many of us, work has been a source of overwhelming emotions for the last couple of years, and even though my focus is mental health I...

As a mental health advocate and consultant, I speak about self-care. A lot. Districts ask me to come in and speak about self-care. A...

The wounded healer is a pretty common psychological term that refers to the idea that people who consider themselves healers can only...

Since the day I started speaking openly about my own mental health issues roughly seven years ago, I have owned my issues and my healing....

I was recently asked why I have such a problem with the term “learning loss” (or any version of that term). It’s not that I don’t believe...