What if the classroom chaos you’re managing isn’t a “behavior problem” or a “teacher problem,” but a money problem wearing a restorative justice mask? We pull back the curtain on how per-pupil funding, enrollment counts, average daily attendance, and civil rights compliance quietly steer discipline decisions—and why suspensions vanish even as disruptions spike. We break down the funding formula in plain English: a base dollar amount per student plus added weights for English learners, specia...
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What if the classroom chaos you’re managing isn’t a “behavior problem” or a “teacher problem,” but a money problem wearing a restorative justice mask? We pull back the curtain on how per-pupil funding, enrollment counts, average daily attendance, and civil rights compliance quietly steer discipline decisions—and why suspensions vanish even as disruptions spike. We break down the funding formula in plain English: a base dollar amount per student plus added weights for English learners, specia...
Why Your Nervous System Is On Fire (And Why You Can't Just Calm Down)
The Burned Out B: Dear Teachers
18 minutes
5 months ago
Why Your Nervous System Is On Fire (And Why You Can't Just Calm Down)
The system is dysregulating—and it’s not you, it’s your vagus nerve. Have you ever gotten an email and your heart rate spiked before you even opened it? Ever frozen in a staff meeting or snapped at your own kid after holding it together all day? Yeah. That’s not you being dramatic. That’s your nervous system sounding the alarm. In this episode of Burned Out B: Dear Teachers, we go way beyond stress management and into the science of survival mode. I share a legendary 4th-period classroom stor...
The Burned Out B: Dear Teachers
What if the classroom chaos you’re managing isn’t a “behavior problem” or a “teacher problem,” but a money problem wearing a restorative justice mask? We pull back the curtain on how per-pupil funding, enrollment counts, average daily attendance, and civil rights compliance quietly steer discipline decisions—and why suspensions vanish even as disruptions spike. We break down the funding formula in plain English: a base dollar amount per student plus added weights for English learners, specia...
