School Stress

We can talk about balancing health and education, but it’s almost impossible without maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Moving to new locations like school can throw your life pattern off balance. Exams, deadlines and school life can change your food and sleeping pattern, but you can manage all this pressure for better or for worse. …

I remember crying to my older cousin during school hours about the chaos in my head. It felt like my brain had been disconnected from its place, and I was rushed to a hospital. All because I was fixated on getting the best grades and pulling ‘all-nighters.’ Health matters above…

How to get the most power out of the process — Often when folks think about evaluation, they’re thinking about in the context of determining eligibility for special education services. While extremely common, this idea of evaluation is not only incomplete, it obscures the vast power that evaluation can actually provide. When public schools assess students for learning and attention issues…

How to manage your anxiety about it — When I set out to write this series, I knew the first thing I wanted to address was the anxiety involved in the evaluation journey. Almost every resource I’ve seen advising parents on this journey acknowledges the fear and worry that they’re experiencing. The message in these resources is, “Your…

Introduction — How are you doing on your journey to get your child evaluated? Are you getting what you need? Feeling emotional? Overwhelmed? Confused? You are so far from alone. The journey to getting your child evaluated for learning and attention issues is filled with anxiety and questions for every parent who…

Why you should give your peers, students, teachers — and yourself! — extra grace this year. — Let’s talk about stress. Did every student’s blood pressure just spike? Did teachers’ heartbeats quicken? (We would say, “SAME,” but we’re preeeetty sure our fight-or-flight responses kicked in during April of 2020 and never turned off…) The start of the school year usually triggers stress in teachers and students alike. But this year, the…

Or, will I? — It’s unusually quiet and peaceful in the house. No kids running down the stairs to grab a snack during one of their many virtual class breaks. No doors slamming or toilets flushing. No rattling noises from our printer. No animated voices resounding in the hallway. …

If you’re a classroom teacher in the US, chances are that you’re struggling right now. I’m in Florida, which means that I’m in the classroom during this pandemic. I know that many of my sisters and brothers around the nation are teaching from home. The nuttiest scheme that I’ve seen…

A poem to resonate with the tired student. Scrolling down a page when an article headline popped out at me High school students it read printed with the word anxiety And I quote the words I saw that day Students these days have stress levels similar to those in the…