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There are things you can do today to make yourself happier. Your life circumstances and personality aren't nearly as important as you think in deciding how happy you can be. Dr Laurie Santos explains how understanding the latest science will point you in the right direction to making you more satisfied with your life.

Read Post Importance of Happiness - In Our Lives and Our Students

We have to be intentional about how we use our energy. If we don’t pay attention to the things that drain it and do less of those things and pay attention to things that are energy-giving and do more of those things, we’ll find ourselves feeling depleted all the time.

Read Post 4 teaching mistakes that drained my energy (and the solutions that changed everything)

What if being your best in the classroom didn’t mean changing yourself or “fixing” things that are wrong with you?

Read Post Teach Like Yourself: Why YOU are the person your students need most (with Dr. Gravity Goldberg)

Respect, flexibility, teamwork and communication are cornerstones to an effect and positive Co-Teaching learning environment.

Read Post How Co-Teaching Can Be Adapted to Large Group Instruction

Podcast by Angela Watson

Read Post 5 back-to-school time traps (and how to escape them)

Listen to EP166 How Kim Lepre trimmed 15 hours off her workweek from Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers in Podcasts

Read Post How Kim Lepre trimmed 15 hours off her workweek

Teachers are using countdown clocks as a classroom tool - Jay Mathews

Read Post Time is on their side

Conversations Instead of Grades Posted on May 10, 2016 by Catlin Tucker

Read Post Conversations Instead of Grades

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Catlin Tucker

Read Post A New Program and a New Approach to Homework