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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 16/10/2025

“Dear 1st-year teachers, you’re not doing it wrong, it’s just really that hard. Signed, been there, done that, made it through, and so will you.” —Dwayne Reed, Educator

Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Mindful Monday Message: Sleep. I have a complicated relationship with sleep. I absolutely love it, but it doesn’t always reciprocate. This love-hate relationship has grown more complicated the older I’ve gotten. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Mindful Monday Message: Kid President made a Pep Talk years ago and asked, What if Michael Jordan quit when he didn't make the team? He would have never made Space Jam. He goes on to ask, What will be your Space Jam? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com @bradmontague.bsky.social

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Mindful Monday Message: Joyful Rebellion. I absolutely love these two words! Brad Montague, author of Becoming Better Grownups, defines it as rebelling against what is to create what could be. Read more... ✨NEW POST ✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com @bradmontague.bsky.social

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Mindful Monday Message: I recently read a statement that struck me. It said, “Joy wasn’t something to be chased. Instead it’s something that we need to make room for in our lives.” Are you making room for joy in your life? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Mindful Monday Message: I am absolutely guilty of living a double life. And I am certain I'm not the only one. I am one person during the summer months and a completely different person during the school year. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Bored Teachers @boredteachers.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The math just ain't mathin to us

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Mindful Monday Message: I read Becoming Better Grownups by Brad Montague. He speaks about wrestling with his own insignificance and wonders if he’s doing anything with his life to help shape a better tomorrow. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com @bradmontague.bsky.social

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Mindful Monday Message: As you start to settle in this year, have you found your "marigold"? If you garden, you may be familiar with the idea of companion plants. Read More... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Mindful Monday Message: Admin often tells staff, 'Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint. Pace yourself. A lot has to happen btwn now and May.' And while they are not wrong, I think it should be looked at as... ...Read More ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Mindful Monday Message: I’ve never known anyone to call teaching easy. Is it fun? Absolutely! Is it unpredictable? Almost always. Is it ever changing? You can count on it. But easy? Anything, but! Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Bored Teachers @boredteachers.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Dear teacher bestie, I couldn't do it without you! ❤️

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Joe & Kristin Merrill @themerrillsedu.com · 19/05/2025

We're giving away 💥TWO WEEKS💥 of lesson plans to get you through the last few days! 👊🏻🤓 Go grab ⚡️FREE IDEAS ⚡️featuring: 💙 Canva 💖 @wakelet.bsky.social 🤍 Epic for Kids + more! Print, copy and you're ready to go! Grab it all ⤵️ buff.ly/uUCiH75 #EDUsky #interACTIVEclass

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Mindful Monday Message: This is it. The last wk of school. I'd image you find yourself with a multitude of feelings. Thrilled you can count the number of days left on one hand. While also feeling exhausted b/c, well, you've been going nonstop since August. ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

“Even the smallest act of kindness can bloom into something that makes a difference.” We don’t need to see the outcome for it to matter. Kindness often carries on quietly… noticed or not, it still leaves something behind. 🧡 #kindness #positivity Picture by @daddyblackbird.bsky.social

Alt text: A blackbird in flight near a wooden picnic bench surrounded by potted flowers and greenery. Quote on the image: Kindness plants seeds in people you may never meet again, but the garden still grows. Picture by www.daddyblackbird.com

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Joe & Kristin Merrill @themerrillsedu.com · 16/05/2025

📅 10 FREE END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES! 📅 The perfect way to wrap the year with color + creativity = Artist Day! 🌈🎨🖌️ Check it out and grab everything you need (💥PLUS 9 OTHER FREEBIES💥) ⤵️ buff.ly/kDtiIk6 #interACTIVEclass #EDUsky

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candour, and more unashamed conversation.” Glenn Close Struggling doesn’t always look like struggling. Checking in - even when things seem ok. Because support doesn’t always wait to be asked for. 🧡 #community #kindness Image by Mindfulofdreams

Illustrated graphic featuring cheerful, colourful flowers, bees, butterflies, musical notes and smiling insects. In the centre, bold black text reads: “People can be STRUGGLING with their MENTAL HEALTH even if…” Surrounding this are various positive statements written in different colours and fonts, including:
• “they laugh and smile a lot”
• “they have dreams and GOALS”
• “they look put together”
• “they have a caring family”
• “they have a career”
• “they seem to be OK”
• “they have plans for the future”
• “they don’t have a diagnosis or medication”
• “they say positive things”
• “they had a happy childhood”

The image is signed @mindfulofdreamss and decorated with hearts, flowers, stars and bees to convey warmth and care. The overall message is that mental health struggles are not always visible and may affect anyone, regardless of how things appear on the outside.

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Mindful Monday Message: I love teaching! But what we do is insanely hard. And by this time of the year, the kind of tired we are can be felt deep down in our bones. It's no wonder why, though. We pour everything into this job. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Mindful Monday Message: The end of another school year is around the corner. Endings often spark reflection, & let’s face it, we can be our own worst enemies when to comes to critiquing ourselves. We often fixate on the negative. Read more... NEW POST👇 justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Mindful Monday Message: The last month of school is plenty challenging without life getting in the way. And yet, life seems to be funny that way - throwing you curveballs when your plate feels plenty full. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Mindful Monday Message: Not sure if you have ever given it much thought, I know I hadn't, but did you know there are three different kinds of legacies we leave behind? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com @newhappyco.bsky.social

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Mindful Monday: Too many times in my teaching career I've done some version of a project with my students about what they want to be when they grow up. However, I wonder if we’ve been asking the wrong question this whole time? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Mindful Monday Message: If students can be more than test scores, so can their teachers. With state testing happening over the course of the next few weeks, know that your hard work will pay off. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Mindful Monday: It's disheartening to see public schools are no longer valued. Districts have had to cut positions, increase class sizes & put more on teacher's plates. I ask you, is any of this best for children? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com @annickrauch.bsky.social

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Mindful Monday Message: How often are you committing your time, your energy, or your resources to something that is no longer serving you? Are you doing something because you made a commitment several years ago? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com @annickrauch.bsky.social

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Mindful Monday Message: Danny Steele stated, Life isn’t always about reaching your potential or changing the world. Sometimes it’s about waking up, going to work, and then coming home and loving your friends and family. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Mindful Monday Message: Harvard Business Review conducted a study and concluded that busyness has been has become a sign of wealth. We are literally working ourselves to the point of exhaustion...Read More ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The kindness you show to yourself shapes the kindness you share with others, because loving others starts with recognising your own worth. 🧡🧡🧡 #kindness #love (picture by ADoseOfReminders)

And don’t forget to love yourself as much as you love others. Writing on a multicoloured heart picture by a dose of reminders.

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Impostor syndrome is not a disease. It's a normal response to internalizing impossibly high standards. Doubting yourself doesn’t always mean you're going to fail. It often means you're facing a new challenge and you're going to learn. Feeling uncertainty is a precursor to growth.

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Mindful Monday Message: With Valentines happening this week, it’s hard not to notice the all the commercials trying to get you to buy all the things. The marketing teams are essentially asking, how are you showing your love to somebody else? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.”Brené Brown I see you. You are enough. 🧡 Be gentle with yourself. #kindness #compassion #belief (Picture by Beth Evans)

Sometimes it feels like no one sees how hard we try. This is me recognising all your effort and all that you do. Thank you for your incredible work and for being you. Picture by Beth Evans. Little cartoon face on a light green background.

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Todd Nesloney @toddnesloney.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Speak up. Speak out. Call your legislators. This is NOT what’s best for kids. #txed

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Mindful Monday Message: You ever have a day where you find yourself asking, "How did I get here?" Maybe your Sunday evening is filled with second guessing your career choice. Do you ever question if you’re even making a difference? Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Yes!!! We were never meant to do it alone! 🙌🏻

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Bored Teachers @boredteachers.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Perfect depiction 🤣

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The New Happy @newhappyco.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

How to bounce back:

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Todd Nesloney @toddnesloney.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Share your story.

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Remember, we are human beings, not human doings - our real value lies in who we are, and that is more than enough. What’s on your To Be list? 🧡 #kindness #positivity #being (Picture by therapywithkimv)

My to-do list instead of a Tobe list and there are lots of different cartoons with ideas on how to be for example curious loving joyful to change for giving confident patient kind embracing self intuitive generous kind (Picture by therapywithkimv)

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Mindful Monday Message: I don’t know about you, but I love fresh starts. They feel hopeful. They feel like anything is possible. However, there is a phrase used frequently in January that I'm not entirely fond of: New Year, New You. Read More... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Mindful Monday Message: As the calendar flips again, and we find ourselves at the start of 2025, I find myself asking, where did another year go? Time is a funny thing. One might even call it mischievous. There are moments that seem to drag on...Read More. ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Mindful Monday: I watched my yearly viewing of A Bad Moms Christmas, and a line from Christine Baranski's character really stood out to me. She says, "Moms don't enjoy. They give joy." And well, I think that's exactly where a lot of us go wrong. Read more... ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Mindful Monday Message: If you're anything like me, sharing good news can feel braggy or boastful. However, here’s the thing about sharing your joy, others are typically genuinely happy for you. Read more… ✨NEW POST✨ justaddheart365.blogspot.com

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Shannon Stockton @justaddheart.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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