by Lisa Baylis | Mar 18, 2023 | Positive Education, Teacher Talks
This conversation on “Teacher Talk” with Chip Baker centered around the importance of celebrating successes and learning from our challenges. Chip Baker is a fourth-generation educator, a speaker, host of the Success Chronicles Podcast, host of the Radio...
by Lisa Baylis | Mar 1, 2021 | Mindfulness, Positive Education
Dear friends. March is here and so are you. You officially made it through the first two months of 2021. It’s time to take a pause to reflect, turn inward, and remind yourself that this month – this moment – is a new opportunity to begin again. I...
by Lisa Baylis | Sep 23, 2019 | Educator Burn Out, Mindfulness, Positive Education
Educator Resiliency: My story September is almost over. How quickly we forget that we’ve had two months to recharge as we fall back into the daily routine in schools. The summertime seemed to have slipped out the door when we reentered our classrooms. It’s amazing...
by Lisa Baylis | Aug 19, 2019 | Educator Burn Out, Parenting, Positive Education
Back to school is a busy time for educators and parents. And, if you’re like me and live both of these roles the busyness can sometimes feel overwhelming and anxious. For educators this time is full of planning lessons, setting up classrooms, organizing schedules and...
by Lisa Baylis | Jun 11, 2019 | Educator Burn Out, Positive Education
I missed my flight home today. It almost broke me. I stood at the counter as the lady rebooked me for a later flight home which would stop me from being able to see my kids tonight, and then charged me full price for another ticket, with tears streaming down my...
by N1k1 | Feb 17, 2018 | Educator Burn Out, Mindfulness, Positive Education
I recently watched Susan David’s TEDWomen Talk from 2017. She speaks clearly and passionately about emotional agility and how learning to radically accept of all our emotions – even the messy and hard ones – which is the cornerstone to resiliency,...