Topic of the Month
August/September 2025
Welcome Back!!
As they always seem to do, our summer vacation days flew by in a whirl. I hope you were able to sleep in, reconnect with family, friends, pick up those novels and hobbies that were pushed to the side, carve out days for close to home and far away adventures, spend lots of time outside in restorative Nature, stay up later, and above all else, rediscover YOU.
August rolling into September brings a completely different set of emotions for educators. We begin to feel those all familiar negative stressors nipping at our heels - getting up at the crack of dawn, being “FOCUSED AND ON” for the next 8 hours or so, grading assignments and prepping for the next day which can add two to three hours a night, figuring out before school and afterschool care for our own children, logistics of packing lunches the night before, keeping up with our own family schedules and obligations, as well as our own.
A new school year also brings those positive butterflies of anticipation. We open up our new class lists and peruse the names of unknown students who will soon become “our kids - for always and forever”, start constructing our curriculum using new instructional ideas, rebuild our classrooms into welcoming and nurturing homes, our iPhones buzz with work related texts from our educational team - not mere coworkers but year-round besties, new academic calendars arrive in the mail and we cannot wait to mark them up with our new colorful markers, our cars filled with classroom supplies and find ourselves checking school emails, a few times a day, for news when our rooms will be open and available to us. All of these emotions and more swirl in educators as lazy summer days wind down and we anticipate a new school year.
As we embark on the 2025-26, together, teacher-colleagues, never lose sight that K-12 teachers show up every day for our students, and that each and every one of us does incredibly important work in our classrooms. Wishing all of us an enormously successful school year!