The Educator Wellness Revolution Podcast by EmpowerEd

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The Educator Wellness Revolution podcast from EmpowerEd explores new visions for educator wellness and how to find actual work/life harmony in education. Whether you are a teacher, school admin or someone who cares deeply about educator well-being, this podcast is for you! Visit www.weareempowered.org to learn more.

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    S5, Ep 1: Setting Up Your Classroom (& Lounge) for Success with Kimberly Kelley

    Welcome back to our fifth season! We hope you had a great summer and happy back to school! We wanted to open our fifth season with a topic that may seem a little basic at first but really carries so many important educator wellness implications: setting up your classroom (and staff lounge) for success. As many education experts know, having a rich, beautiful environment is a really important aspect of learning. Despite that, many schools are set up in a way that makes educators have to work really hard to make their classroom a place that looks, feels, and smells inviting and inclusive. This can be even more difficult for the staff lounge, where often nobody serves as point person to declutter, decorate, and tend to, and fun a relaxing space - although teachers need somewhere to decompress. To have this conversation, we invited Kimberly Kelley, a Special Education teacher at the Goodwill Excel Center, a public charter school in DC which supports adult GED students. EmpowerEd has had the opportunity to partner with Goodwill Excel over the past year to support educator wellness, including directing grant funding for their educators to have a small stipend for classroom wellness items. It was so fun to watch them unbox - which we discuss in the episode. As you'll hear, Kimberly is a passionate educator with a commitment to making her teaching space a happy place - for her students and for herself. In this conversation, we also discuss: - Decluttering and executive function for classroom organization; - The first step to an effective staff lounge makeover; - How beautiful spaces can revolutionize our education system; - and much more! We hope you enjoy the episode and the season ahead! EmpowerEd has been doing this podcast for years, which is why it's so exciting that we still have so many wellness topics we're eager to explore. Get ready for a whole new season of thought provoking conversations designed to keep pushing our system toward greater teacher well-being. Thank you so much for listening and we'll be back with another episode soon! Thank you for listening! Please learn more about our educator wellness work in schools at or email gracy@weareempowered.org

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The Educator Wellness Revolution podcast from EmpowerEd explores new visions for educator wellness and how to find actual work/life harmony in education. Whether you are a teacher, school admin or someone who cares deeply about educator well-being, this podcast is for you! Visit www.weareempowered.org to learn more.

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