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 under

take 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.

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!!

07/24/2026

Here's a new bonus episode of Teaching through Emotions! It's about a project founded by my producer, Jullian Androkae, who built a library in a village in south Madagascar. In the episode, Jullian and I talk about the relational issues we all have in common, here in the US and there in Madagascar, as well as the significant differences between our two educational systems. It will make you happy and hopeful! Please give it a listen -- and consider donating to this magnificent project!

Bonus Episode: In which I and my producer discuss a project in a small Malagasy village that can use your help

07/09/2026

It's summertime! And TTE is still going strong! Just posted an episode from the Truth for Teachers podcast on restorative practices in schools. The big question is why so many schools drop the practice? The guest, Marisol Quevedo Rerucha, shares a lot of wisdom that inspires!

In which I share a favorite episode from the Truth for Teachers podcast

07/06/2026

Wanna be a star? Wanna inspire fellow teachers (and others) with your courage and commitment -- and curiosity and concern? Join a TTE Teacher Support Group RIGHT NOW to become an actual participant in Season 4. We've got a few more slots open. Check out my Substack for more information!

In which I ask for your help

06/25/2026

It's summer summer summertime! Which means I continue to drop podcast episodes on the Teaching through Emotions feed. This one is a re-run: I've re-posted the most popular episode from Season 3. It's about being too judgmental -- of yourself. Check it out!

In which we re-broadcast the most listened-to episode from Season 3

06/22/2026

My latest Substack post rips into Grandiosity and being a Savior and suggests an alternative. For teachers and all other human beings who find themselves in relationships!

In which I explore a TTE axiom that applies to teaching and living in general

06/11/2026

The final episode of Teaching through Emotion's Season 3 has dropped! Joe and I review the educational state of the nation (minor topic) and the highlights of Season 3 and Teaching through Emotions generally. And, importantly, we give you a glimpse of what you can look forward to this summer -- the feed will be quite active -- and what Season 4 will look like. (Hint: It's going to be very different.) All good stuff! Check it out!

Season 3 Episode 20: In which Joe and I wrap up this magnificent season

06/05/2026

Are you leaving teaching or thinking of leaving at the end of this year? We're sorry to lose you! But check out this Public Service Announcement from TTE before you blame the system or blame yourself or blame anybody or anything else. Your unhappiness is not a blame game. It's a question of relational patterns and fits and other things you actually have control over.

A Public Service Announcement in which I ponder the way human beings work

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