Teaching can be one of the most rewarding professions, but it is also rife with stress and fatigue. The amount of effort required from teachers — from classroom instruction to professional development to monitoring student progress and performance in extracurricular activities — can lead to burnout and disengagement over time. 

Schools were designed to educate, equip, and prepare pupils with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate life. But unfortunately, over the years, inefficient mental health programs have hampered student progress in several ways. Mental health is an essential yet often overlooked factor in a child’s happy and healthy development

Stress is contagious! Children know when their caretaker(s) are tense and overwhelmed. Data shows that the greatest source of childhood and adolescent stress is not school work, extracurricular activities, or peer pressure, but parental stress. It’s very important to manage your own stress! Here are some tips to do so:

Is the story telling or is the story telling? The nuance of language has the ability to steer the path of our understanding in the most subtle yet impactful way. With our nation’s current trends, it appears the old adage of “choose your words wisely” has never rang more true.