Navigating tricky topics: War
If you can listen to your students non-judgmentally, not only will you get insight into what they are thinking and feeling, but they might, too. Answers to big questions aren’t always necessary. Simply listening with an open, prayerful heart and acknowledging their feelings of confusion can be helpful by itself
Sometimes it's just hard...
There are days when the good bits of teaching get clouded. Weeks when the joy of seeing young lives grow feels small compared to all the things that are feeling hard. There are times when laughter with colleagues is displaced by a quiet cry in the bathroom. Months when the routine is less about using our gifts and more about an endless list of fire-fighting the classroom disruption, the paperwork, the expectation of others and the criticism around.