317: Back-to-School Anxiety? Here's What Every Teacher Needs to Remember
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317: Back-to-School Anxiety? Here's What Every Teacher Needs to Remember

B1IntermediateAugust 3, 202612 min
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Back-to-school season brings a mix of excitement and nerves for just about every teacher. Whether it's your first year in the classroom or your fifteenth, those "back-to-school scaries" are completely normal. In this episode, Stellar Team members Emily and Meghan have an honest conversation about back-to-school anxiety and share simple mindset shifts and practical strategies to help you start the school year with more confidence and less stress. Instead of chasing perfection, they'll encourage you to focus on what matters most: building relationships with students, prioritizing the tasks that truly move the needle, and remembering...

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Welcome back to the Stellar Teacher Podcast. I'm Emily from the Stellar Teacher Team, and you're listening to Episode 317. Today, we're talking all about something that almost every teacher experiences this time of year, and that is back-to-school anxiety. And today, I am joined by my wonderful teammate, Megan. She's a classroom teacher and a member of the

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Stellar Teacher Team. Hey, Megan. Hey, Emily. How are you? Oh, I'm doing good. But what I really should be asking is, how are you? Because you're about to go back to school. So how are you doing? Yes, you nailed it when you said every teacher has back to school anxiety, and I am definitely there. It doesn't matter how many years I've been doing this. There is always those anxious,

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nervous feelings. Yes. Somebody on our team recently described it as the summer, end of summer scaries. Yes, the back to school, end of summer scaries. It is a very real thing. I love that comparison. I mean, as a teacher, I always would get the Sunday scaries, you know, that feeling of, not to be negative, but that feeling of impending doom that Monday brings.

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