Clayful founder Maria Barrera stops by the show this week to talk about building resilience and adding skills for students to take on the challenges that life brings their way. Maria is on a mission to help kids improve their mental wellness, regardless of socioeconomic status. That, plus your weekly #PepTalk and so much more. MORE EPISODES
Improving mental wellness in Schools: Featuring Maria Barrera
In this week’s episode, Maria Barrera shares how she discovered a mental health crisis and was determined to help solve the issues that were affecting students, teachers, and the community. In this episode, we discuss: Creating a business based on a community need Partnering with schools to assist in crisis Resources to battle mental health About Maria Barrera: Maria is … Read More
Moving From Self-Care to Collective Care
TL;DR: While self-care is important, it has become a way of shifting the responsibility, whilst putting more work on the shoulders of already overwhelmed educators. Mutual aid is collective coordination to meet each other’s needs. Collective care removes the responsibility from the shoulders of individual teachers and shifts the onus to the school, district, and educators as a collective group. … Read More
A #Jungian View of Life! |Wisdom & Productivity| #TeachBetter
As an educator, I enjoy researching strategies and skills from a multiplicity of fields. “A #Jungian View of Life!” is an alternative and innovative way to tackle the issues of this new century that affect students (of all ages). MORE EPISODES
Physical Health & Education Affect Mental Health
TL;DR: Playing and moving around have loads of benefits for physical and mental health. Are we sucking the fun out of sport when we focus on competing? How can we use physical education to address the social-emotional wellbeing of students? Exercise and the Outdoors Exercise and time outdoors in nature are shown over and over again to be beneficial for … Read More