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5 Ways To Set The Stage For Success In September

5 Ways To Set The Stage For Success In September

September is easily one of our busiest months as teachers, the workload sometimes seems to never end! Follow these 5 easy tips to manage your classroom, create balance in your life, and ensure a successful school year! Throughout the years, I have found it helpful to...

4 Ways to Stay Positive in 2020… And Help Students Do The Same!

4 Ways to Stay Positive in 2020… And Help Students Do The Same!

These days, it seems easier than ever to get caught up in the negatives. We’re surrounded by scary news, new routines that are less than ideal, and a world of unknowns that can weigh heavily on our minds and anxiety levels. Now, more than ever, I think that a positive...

How to Maintain a Work-Life Balance: 5 Tips for Teachers

How to Maintain a Work-Life Balance: 5 Tips for Teachers

“If you’re not working until 11:00 every night in your first year of teaching, you’re doing something wrong”.   As a student teacher in my last placement, and as an over-achiever (to a fault) this was by far the worst advice that a supervisor could have told me....

5 Ways to Overcome The Back to School Jitters

5 Ways to Overcome The Back to School Jitters

Anyone else feelin' like it's our first day of teaching, regardless of the years we've put in? This year will be unlike any other, so let's stick together and share ways to help our friends and colleagues through a year that's sure to be full of firsts!   Here...

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Micki Banks

Micki has been working in education since 2014 and is currently finishing her Master of Education degree , specializing in Guidance and Counselling. She is currently a Guidance Counsellor at a K-8 school and has a range of teaching experience in Grades 2 through Grade 5. Her passions are relationships both in and outside of the classroom as well as the mental health of teachers and their students.

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