Category Archives: Wellness

Classroom Comfort: Finding the Right Pair of Shoes

Classroom Comfort: Find A Pair of Comfortable Shoes

Comfortable Shoes Are Important

Comfortable shoes are important assets for educators. Teachers and administrators are constantly on your feet. You walk around classrooms. Then you stand for long periods of time. Schools have long hallways and stairs that keep your fitness tracker buzzing. The last thing you want is for your feet to hurt because of uncomfortable shoes. Painful feet add on stress. Classroom comfort begins with finding the right pair of comfortable shoes.

How many of you have a couple or several pairs of shoes underneath your desk? Perhaps, you store yours in the classroom closet or in the trunk of the car. Just in case, you want to prepare for every occasion at the school. You want casual comfort, but sometimes you may need professional comfort, too. Also, you want comfort and cute at the same time. Continue reading →

Two Easy Ways to Help Organize Your Desk

Two Easy Ways to Help Organize Your Desk

Organize Your Desk

Piles of papers, charts, pens, and pencils are often seen on an educator’s desk. There are student papers to grade, reports to finish, and class schedules scattered about.  Can you relate to a messy desk? Either you are constantly trying to find things or constantly trying to clean the desk. A messy desk equals stress. Therefore, let’s relieve some stress. Here are two easy ways to help organize your desk. Continue reading →

Create a stress reduction plan.

Create Your Stress Management Plan and Find Balance

 

Good and Bad Stress

In our last post, we talked about creating a stress management plan for your sanity. Stress is a health wrecker. It causes physical and mental harm. So, as your new school year begins, we want you to develop a plan to reduce and relieve stress.

We have created simple worksheets to help you create a personal stress management plan. The worksheets allow you to identify your good stress and bad stress. Then you must identify the physical and mental symptoms caused by the stressors. So, this creates an opportunity for you to think about which stressors you the most concern.  Continue reading →