Teaching through Emotions

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Teaching through Emotions

I offer Social Emotional Learning to teachers through individual and group work that helps them make sense of their emotions and relationships in school.

The work helps teachers:

• respond effectively when students and others push their buttons
• establish and maintain boundaries that facilitate learning
• manage power struggles so everyone “wins”
• notice when and how students are using them for developmental purposes
• channel their emotions into effective and rewarding action

Above all, my work aims at offering relief to teachers as they undertake the difficult, highly emotional, often stressful task of helping all their students learn and grow. I have written an SEL primer for teachers called The Feeling of Teaching: Using Emotions and Relationships to Transform the Classroom. It is a stand-alone manual that explains in clear detail how to acknowledge emotions, what questions to ask of them, and how to make effective plans for action based on them.

10/05/2026

Happy World Teachers Day!! You a teacher? You rock! You not a teacher? Do something nice for at least one teacher in your life. Need an idea? Give them a gift from Teaching through Emotions! Check out today's post to see how.

In which I make you an offer you shouldn’t refuse

10/01/2026

Season 4 of Teaching through Emotions has dropped! Episode 1 of this award-winning podcast is available right now:
https://www.teachingthroughemotions.com/p/overwhelm-and-panic-welcome-to-the

Four high school teachers talk about the overwhelm and panic of the first week of school. Sound familiar? Listen to how we talk about catastrophizing, boundaries, self- (and other-) regulating, and "under-optimizing." You'll relate and get good ideas to use yourself!

09/28/2026

Teaching through Emotions got a great shout-out from Frank Racioppi of Ear Worthy. He's drawing attention to the first episode of Season 4, which drops this Thursday, 10/1!

It takes you inside Teacher Support Groups for the first time ever, where you hear teachers wrestling with the beginning-of-the-school-year emotions of panic and overwhelm. Sound familiar? Check out how several teachers handle these common and distressing emotions.

Tune in to Teaching through Emotions on Thursday 10/1!

09/17/2026

Teachers! Season 4 of the Teaching through Emotions podcast is dropping on October 1st. And the trailer is out today! Take a listen to see what you're in for (link in comments). Hint: It's going to be great.

👉 You'll go inside actual Teacher Support Groups

👉 You'll hear high school and college teachers talk about difficulties they're facing

👉 You'll follow these groups from even before school began, so you'll join them on their teaching trajectory

👉 You'll hear us get to the bottom of issues like student rudeness, AI policy, boundary hangover, and so much more!

09/03/2026

Check out Ande Lyons's interview of me on her podcast, Don't Be Caged by Your Age! I've reposted it on TTE. We talk about how I got to Teaching through Emotions, which is my life's work. And listen to other TTE podcast episodes! A great ritual for the new academic year.

In which Ande interviews me on her wonderful podcast, Don’t Be Caged by Your Age

08/28/2026

Teachers: I hope you're having a good first few days of school. But I'm worried about you. Burnout is coming for many of you, and that is not good. Check out today's tip for battling burnout, then go back for the past two weeks of posts from TTE that will help you prevent burnout starting NOW. Cuz now is when to start!

In which I offer a wraparound blanket approach to staying sane and healthy this year

08/26/2026

Teachers! Check out Day #8 of my battling burnout series! This one helps you start the year off by focusing on the students and their relationship, good, bad, or ugly, with the content you're charged with teaching them. Lots of good food for thought!

08/17/2026

School begins soon! Sign up for my Substack to receive daily posts for the next two weeks that will help you prevent burnout. You are important. You deserve to live healthily, even joyfully, this academic year. Join the TTE community to help make it so. (Link to first anti-burnout post in comments.)

08/13/2026

Wow! A beautiful review of my podcast, Teaching through Emotions! (link in comments) Teachers, now is a great time to subscribe to the TTE Substack at teachingthroughemotions.com so you can get posts and podcasts delivered straight to your mailbox without lifting a finger. Let's work together to battle burnout and make this a happy, healthy academic year!

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08/05/2026

I'm so excited to announce that Teaching through Emotions has won a podcast award!! Women Who Podcast awarded us a spot in the Thought-Provoking category for our most listened-to episode, Handling Teacher Guilt: Are you being too judgmental of yourself? (link in the comments)

It's about a teacher who felt terrible about herself for having negative feelings. In the episode, we show how working through these feelings in a Teacher Support Group helped her banish negativity and embrace self-advocacy. Check it out!!

Thank you, Women Who Podcast, for honoring TTE in this way. We are so proud!!

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