SAFEGUARDING THE MENTAL HEALTH OF TEACHERS: Why it’s important for teachers — and their schools — to create space to acknowledge and respond to the stress of the job
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SAFEGUARDING THE MENTAL HEALTH OF TEACHERS: Why it’s important for teachers — and their schools — to create space to acknowledge and respond to the stress of the job

High-poverty schools also often attract a certain type of intensity junkie who loves the intensity of that work — a person who, previously, has always been able to get through it. Talking about issues of mental health can be seen as a weakness and there’s this mentality of “I just need to be tougher. I just need to work harder and work smarter.

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(Article courtesy of Harvard University)

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