A Self-Care HAPPY HOUR on June 25th
The school year is almost over and teachers and parents and kids are TIRED!!!! I know because I’ve been with you throughout the year. I’ve connected with you at your school, at conferences, online, and in life and you’ve told me! You’ve cried...
Mindfulness and Lessons during Covid19
Mindfulness and lessons for children and adults during Covid19 are on high demand. I’ve always been passionate about the mental, social, and emotional state of kids. Naturally, I’m concerned about kids at home during the quarantine and how they’re...
Teaching is so Lonely!
Last week I gave a workshop on Mindful Self-Care and started by asking the following question: Isn’t teaching so lonely? Heads nodded! I sensed the relief flooding the room – this is going to get real! Nobody ever talks about how lonely teaching is. In...
Bullying? Why Me?
Over the years I’ve wondered why I’m so hell bent on putting a stop to bullying. Like most normal people, I feel really sad imagining a child being bullied; it’s just so hard to feel unwelcome, alone, and hurt. Thinking about a kid deciding that life is not worth...
SEL begins with the SELF
As you probably know – we can control very little in life; and so, controlling others is simply not possible. Yet, influencing them absolutely is! The only things we can really try to control in life are our thoughts and our actions – and I don’t write that...
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Hello! It’s Jodi, founder of Imperative Education. You know, ever since I can remember I’ve been interested in how people communicate… how relationships are formed. At McGill University, I studied Communications so that I could take this focus from intuition to fact, and from serious interest to passion. I decided to become a teacher, like so many, to make a difference and that initial goal hasn’t paled at all throughout the years
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