The Next Level Teacher Podcast

Have you ever made a mistake working as a teacher? Since most teachers are human, it's likely most of us have made some mistakes throughout our careers.

While no one likes mistakes, the way we handle them can make a big difference in the eventual outcomes.

Listen in to learn:
* What NOT to do when you realize you've made an error.
* How to get out of the vicious cycle of blame and shame.
* How taking responsibility for our mistakes can improve the culture of our classrooms!
* How to have your own back even when you mess up!


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4. Why Emotions Are Important

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Most teachers know what it feels like NOT to be the favorite teacher at times. Someone--perhaps our students, a parent, a coworker, or an administrator--seems to prefer someone else over us. Sometimes teachers find themselves in situations where others do not approve of us. Most teachers would agree that this doesn't usually feel great.

So what do we do when we find ourselves worried about other people's opinions?

Join me for this episode as we explore:
- Why teachers (and humans) are concerned about what other people think
- What to do when you find yourself in a situation where someone shares their disapproval
- How to consider other people's feedback
- How to show up as your authentic self in order to create the impact YOU were meant to have on the world

Feeling Overwhelmed in the Classroom?Anxiety is all too common for teachers--especially this time of year! Grab your free guide to feeling better while still teaching here!
Is Coaching for You?Most people prefer to try on a new pair of jeans before they buy! Coaching can feel the same way: you want to know what you're getting before signing up!
Your first mini-session with Certified Life Coach Brenna Nelson is FREE! Click HERE to sign up today! 

Teachers are masters at teaching growth mindset to our students! A great teacher will help their students see their potential. Despite our belief in our students, sometimes sneaky limiting beliefs will keep US stuck in a vicious cycle of anxiety, stress, or overwhelm. Upon careful examination, we can understand that what restricts us is not our circumstances, but our very own minds!
Join us in this episode to learn:* How limiting beliefs prevent us from progressing–both as teachers in our classrooms and careers AND in our personal lives.* How to identify if a belief is limiting us or serving us.*What to do when we notice we have a limiting thought and want to let it go.
* How to produce the results we want in our classrooms and our lives. 

Not sure if Coaching for You? 
There's Only One Way to Find Out!
Most people prefer to try on a new pair of jeans before they buy! Coaching can feel the same way: you want to know what you're getting before signing up!

Your first mini-session with Certified Life Coach Brenna Nelson is FREE! Click HERE to sign up today! 
Want Quick and Easy Anxiety Symptom Relief While Teaching?Try these three quick and easy strategies to instantly reduce your anxiety symptoms--even with a room full of students!

Does teaching ever feel a bit...messy to you? If I had to guess, I would assume that most educators rarely have a day or a week or a year where everything goes exactly to plan! Teachers are constantly facing disruptions both big and small. 

When teachers (or anyone) face a disruption, it is normal and natural to feel some unpleasant emotions or some "clean" pain. In fact, all humans will face a significant amount of "clean" pain throughout their lives!  This is unavoidable.

What is optional, however, is "dirty" pain. We experience "dirty" pain when we layer additional unpleasant and painful emotions on top of the normal and natural "clean" pain. We create "dirty" pain when we fight with the reality of our circumstances.

Join me in this episode as we discuss:
* How we know if we are experiencing clean pain or dirty pain
* How dirty pain is optional
* Why both of these responses are normal and a part of our humanness 
* What to do when we notice we are in dirty pain
* How to break the dirty pain cycle
* How to process and feel our clean pain

The concepts taught in this episode will help you understand how we create our own suffering and lower your overall experience with unpleasant emotions! 

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8. The 50-50 Principle

Ready to Try Out Coaching?
Is Coaching for You? There's Only One Way to Find Out!Most people prefer to try on a new pair of jeans before they buy! Coaching can feel the same way: you want to know what you're getting before signing up!
Your first mini-session with Certified Life Coach Brenna Nelson is FREE! Click HERE to sign up today! 

Want Quick and Easy Anxiety Symptom Relief While Teaching?
Try these three quick and easy strategies to instantly reduce your anxiety symptoms--even with a room full of students! 

Hey Teacher Friend! Have you ever had a day when you didn't want to go to school? Even when you love your teaching job? Even when love your students and coworkers?

All teachers have likely experienced a day or two (or ten) where they didn't want to show up.

What are our options when we feel like this? How can we make **those** kinds of days more manageable?

Tune in to discover:

* What options are available to us when we really don't want to go to school.

* How to make showing up at our teaching job less emotionally painful for ourselves.

* Why cleaning out your brain by understanding your thoughts can help you gain leverage over yourself and create fewer days like this throughout your teaching career!

Tune in to get all the teacher tips and strategies! 

Full Show Notes!

Is Coaching for You? There's Only One Way to Find Out!Most people prefer to try on a new pair of jeans before they buy! Coaching can feel the same way: you want to know what you're getting before signing up!
Your first mini-session with Certified Life Coach Brenna Nelson is FREE! Click HERE to sign up today! 

What is the most effective way for teachers to start 2024 on the right foot with their students? While it is tempting to seek elaborate and complicated systems that promise big results, it is often the simple, fundamental tasks that have the most lasting impact on ourselves, our classrooms, and our students.

Tune in to learn why most New Year's Resolutions (and other complicated solutions) don't last and how to make small, but meaningful incremental permanent changes. 

Feeling Overwhelmed this Holiday Season?Anxiety is all too common for teachers--especially this time of year! Grab your free guide to feeling better while still teaching here!
Is Coaching for You?Most people prefer to try on a new pair of jeans before they buy! Coaching can feel the same way: you want to know what you're getting before signing up!
Your first mini-session with Certified Life Coach Brenna Nelson is FREE! Click HERE to sign up today! 

Congratulations Teacher! You made it to Winter Break!

Now what? How can we make the most of our time away from students and the classroom?

Tune in to this short and sweet episode for three quick thoughts to make the most of your time off! 


Feeling Overwhelmed this Holiday Season?
Anxiety is all too common for teachers--especially this time of year! Grab your free guide to feeling better while still teaching here!

Is Coaching for You?
Most people prefer to try on a new pair of jeans before they buy! Coaching can feel the same way: you want to know what you're getting before signing up!

Your first mini-session with Certified Life Coach Brenna Nelson is FREE! Click HERE to sign up today! 

Classroom teachers know there are approximately 10,296,729,310 differing opinions in the world on topics ranging from educational policies to the best NFL team! When our viewpoints are contradicted, we often feel very uncomfortable--even angry sometimes! But why is that?

What are we making it mean when someone has a different opinion--especially when it comes to our jobs as teachers in the classroom?

Tune in to learn:
* Why facing alternate viewpoints is often uncomfortable,
* How a wide variety of opinions is actually a really great thing, and
* How to disagree in a way that feels more like the teachers and humans we ultimately want to be.

Feeling Overwhelmed this Holiday Season?
Anxiety is all too common for teachers--especially this time of year! Grab your free guide to feeling better while still teaching here!

Is Coaching for You?
Most people prefer to try on a new pair of jeans before they buy! Coaching can feel the same way: you want to know what you're getting before signing up!

Your first mini-session with Certified Life Coach Brenna Nelson is FREE! Click HERE to sign up today! 

Most humans--including teachers--carry around a lot of expectations. Expectations for ourselves, our circumstances, and the people around us: coworkers, administrators, students, spouses, partners, family members, and even strangers! While there is nothing inherently wrong with having expectations (it's normal), we create problems for ourselves when we attach our own emotional well-being to whether people meet our expectations or not!

Tune in to learn how to separate your emotional life from other people's actions! Don't let yourself play the role of the victim when it comes to other people's behavior!


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Hi Teacher Friend!

Struggling to get "it all" done? Check out today's episode to learn some strategies to intentionally choose how you spend your time and create your best life!


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