On last week’s blog, I talked about restarting the new semester with our students. Now let’s take a look at how we can restart the new semester and year for us as teachers.

As mothers, wives and teachers, we tend to put ourselves last. Not only is this common and feels like the right thing to do, in hindsight it couldn’t be any further from the truth.

When I was a young teacher and up until a few years ago, I was always scheduling appointments on days off or vacations because I didn’t want to miss work, or it was too much work to miss work.