Teacher Guilt: Why your "worst" moments are strengths

Teaching through Emotions: Teacher Mental Health · Apr 17, 2025 · 1h 2m

In this episode, Joe and I unpack a classroom story from Siobhan, a special ed teacher working with high schoolers who grapple with big emotions — by acting out in big ways. What happened when her students broke a deal they made? How did Siobhan handle it? (It wasn’t pretty, at first! But then it got, well, amazing.)

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We discuss:

Decoding Student Behavior: Understanding what “insufferable” behavior is actually communicating about student needs.

Teacher Self-Blame: How to stop the cycle of obsessive guilt and insomnia…