The Provocation
Your Mind Is Complicit
March Restlessness: Using Movement to Reclaim Your Classroom
When teachers try to manage March restlessness through behavioral means—reminders, consequences, redirections, raised voices—they're using the wrong tool for the problem. It's like trying to fix dehydration by telling someone to think more clearly. The intervention doesn't match the cause.
The 80% Lesson Plan Will Teach Just Fine
The lesson plan you stayed up until midnight perfecting teaches about as well as the one that was 80% ready. Here’s what perfectionism is actually costing you.
The Spring Break Permission Slip
Go Rest. That’s the Whole Newsletter.
The System Isn't Broken. It Just Wasn't Built for You.
A lot of what exhausts teachers isn't a personal failure — it's structural. Here's what Stoicism says about protecting yourself inside a system you can't fix.
Why You Started
It's okay to recalibrate.
Persistence Isn't What You Think It Is
Teachers are told to push through everything. But persistence and endurance aren't the same — and confusing them is what's burning you out. Here's the Stoic take.
Teaching Through March Chaos: Planning for the Disruptions You Know Are Coming
How teachers can plan for surprise disruptions before they occur.
Teaching for the Test Without Selling Out Your Classroom
The problem with panic-driven test prep isn't just that it's unpleasant. It's that it doesn't work. Here are some things that will work for teachers.
How to Keep Students Engaged Before Spring Break
Learn how teachers can make the most of the time leading up to Spring Break.
Push Through Is Not a Strategy
"Just push through" is the worst advice in education. Here's what Epictetus figured out 2,000 years ago — and why it matters on your hardest teaching days.
You Don’t Need a New Career. You Need a Better Tuesday.
Here’s what that actually looks like for teachers who are tired of big promises and small results.