This year is exceptionally hard on us all and Administrators, I would not want to be in your spot. I understand that often you find yourself between a proverbial state or district level rock and teaching staff hard place. So it is not without much gratitude and appreciation that I make this appeal.

I know many other similar stories, not to mention the 500+ AFT teachers known to have died from COVID while teaching. The self-care PDs and warm check-ins are not enough. We need time to recover from our own traumas, time to gather strength, time to be healthy enough to care for our students and for ourselves. 

My ask is this: please, reduce the number of 'must haves'; streamline systems; minimize clicking around with the use of hyperdocs; and please, stop making us come to PDs on teacher wellness. The best wellness is time. Listen for other helpful tips and check out this tweet for others.

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