Texas teachers: Our hearts breaks the sadness and threats you experience right now. For yourselves, in your families, and students and the school communities you love very much. Many of us are teachers the community associated with Kerr County and other districts that affect the dragons, this sadness sounds from own, quickly, and grinding.
I have lived all my life on Texas shores and I have a few floods – a few storms, storms, and miss near Tornado. I was teaching during the 2017 Harvey 2017, where many learners and colleagues here in Houston lost homes, cars, and perfect neighbors. But what happened now in Kerr County is a heart-up to a different degree.
We regret the valuable lives lost. We mourn the destruction of homes, schools and sacred public spaces. We also acknowledge a heavy fact: For many, the difficult parts of the trip is before.
If you are a teacher taking the pieces now, I know you may not have space to be proud of your energy or stiffness. You can feel tired, angry, afraid, or just disabled. (If so, you may want to continue and the bookmark this to return when you’re ready.) But if that moment you’ve already grateful, and maybe you have left the same words for this school’s inspiration.
This school year, “have conditions” will take a new meaning.
Teachers have already made changes to converts. But when your school is under water, your class has gone, and suddenly teaches a gym or a church hallway – without getting technology, books, or even basic things – fluctuations reach the whole new level.
Hold your plans freely. When you meet your students – either in person or about – may require a ring space, ask questions, or just to be. Not that is enough for the day.
Thus arts will build.
You might not feel your game this year. Learning strategies may feel compiled together. You can’t reach all the benches or cover the whole unit. OK.
Instead of being judging according to common standards, consider: You are taught the experience of teaching. He appears, thinking on your feet, and he is compatible with problems – solve the problem in the face of the disaster. That is not failure – that is a wonderful art and maintenance.
It’s okay wrong.
Teaching to a Natural Disaster Tragedy – While Living with the same abuse – passes hard. If you strive, that doesn’t mean you fail. It means you’re a person.
Please give yourself the same kind that gives your readers. And when you’re in trouble, here are 35 advice to teach teachers for teachers that may help. Many of your students will be walking, fear, or ungodliness – know that you don’t have to make strong emotional lift. Mental health professionals can – and should enter.
OK – when you’re ready to laugh.
A few weeks after the Harvey Harvey, our staff had returned to the building, even though the students had not returned. The rain started to fall hard on the roof, and you can feel shocking and climbing the room. Then, our teacher’s teaching teacher is usually shouting, “it is soon a long time, natural mother!”
We all burst laugh. And in that moment, something within us is released.
Laughter does not delete distress. But reminds us that the tribulation comes to the last name. Children still need happiness even during pain. It helps to reconcile a small piece of energy from a completely sensitive state without our control.
Your students will remember your hope.
You don’t have to be your student doctor or fix what’s broken in their world. You don’t need to force “normal” in space when everything is far away.
What will they remember the way you show it. That he created peaceful times. That they leave the room, even if your heart was hard. That you remind them – by your actions than your words – that the earth is still king, and that healing is possible.
Life will not be nations standard – not to you, not your students. But your presence, your patience, your Grit – are more important than you know.
So go on, one spirit and one day at a time.
He does more than teach – helps refresh lives. And maybe, maybe, one day your readers will face the challenge and think, I can do this. I’ve seen what stability looks like.
Because they see it for you.