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Teaching with mental health challenges

1. Teachers who face mental health challenges often bring heightened empathy to their classrooms, fostering environments where students feel safe, valued, and understood. This empathy leads to compassionate teaching practices and open communication, crucial for supporting students’ emotional and academic growth.
2. While teachers play a significant role in creating a supportive atmosphere, we should not be expected to act as therapists. This expectation can add undue stress to our already demanding roles. Schools must provide adequate mental health resources and professionals, ensuring that teachers can focus on their primary responsibilities without burdening them with therapeutic duties.
3. Those of us who openly discuss our mental health journeys help destigmatize mental illness within the school community. We become powerful advocates for mental health awareness, encouraging students and colleagues to seek support and promoting a culture of understanding. Additionally, fostering open dialogue about mental health can save lives by creating an environment where students feel comfortable discussing their struggles. Research emphasizes that schools play a crucial role in suicide prevention by building trust and offering resources, such as access to mental health professionals and crisis lines. Teachers can advocate for these supports and ensure that students know where to turn in moments of crisis, ultimately contributing to a safer and more supportive school environment.

Sewell, A. (2024, December 9). Supporting teachers with anxiety and depression. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/teachermental-health-challenges/

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Reddit. (2023, June 8). Anatomy of an English Teacher [Comic]. r/comics. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/144c8h2/anatomy_of_an_english_teacher_oc/

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Where did English come from?

1. If you guessed that English came from England, you’re right—sort of. And if you guessed that English did not come from England, you’re also sort of right!
2. About 1,600 years ago, the southern part of what we now call England was a land of many small groups, kingdoms, and tribes—and a complex linguistic landscape. There were speakers of Celtic languages, like the one that eventually became Welsh, and Roman soldiers speaking one or more dialects of Latin. (Not to mention many Celts would have been speaking Latin, too!)
3. So linguistically, there was a lot going on on that relatively small island!
4. Around the 5th century, several groups of people from northern Europe (modern-day Germany and Denmark especially) moved to the southern part of that island. They were called the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, and they were Germanic, so they were different culturally, ethnically, religiously, and linguistically from the Celts and Romans already settled there. In the end, English (the language of the Angles and the Saxons) became the predominant language of Engla lond (the land of the Angles). Today we call that language variety Old English.
5. But that’s only the beginning. A few centuries later, they’d be joined by people of Scandinavian descent (Vikings!) speaking languages that originated in the places we now call Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

Blanco, C. (2025, April 17). Dear Duolingo: Where did English come from? Duolingo Blog. https://blog.duolingo.com/history-of-englishlanguage/

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Where did English come from?

1. If you guessed that English came from England, you’re right—sort of. And if you guessed that English did not come from England, you’re also sort of right!
2. About 1,600 years ago, the southern part of what we now call England was a land of many small groups, kingdoms, and tribes—and a complex linguistic landscape. There were speakers of Celtic languages, like the one that eventually became Welsh, and Roman soldiers speaking one or more dialects of Latin. (Not to mention many Celts would have been speaking Latin, too!)
3. So linguistically, there was a lot going on on that relatively small island!
4. Around the 5th century, several groups of people from northern Europe (modern-day Germany and Denmark especially) moved to the southern part of that island. They were called the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, and they were Germanic, so they were different culturally, ethnically, religiously, and linguistically from the Celts and Romans already settled there. In the end, English (the language of the Angles and the Saxons) became the predominant language of Engla lond (the land of the Angles). Today we call that language variety Old English.
5. But that’s only the beginning. A few centuries later, they’d be joined by people of Scandinavian descent (Vikings!) speaking languages that originated in the places we now call Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

Blanco, C. (2025, April 17). Dear Duolingo: Where did English come from? Duolingo Blog. https://blog.duolingo.com/history-of-englishlanguage/