Elise Javetski

Have you experienced guilt for leaving a position or even thinking about leaving a position? 👋

It’s time to kick that narrative to the curb. I think we’ve all experienced waves and levels of entitlement when teachers chuckle at how long certain teachers “lasted” at their school.

It becoming more common for people to find fault in sayings like “hustlers don’t sleep” “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” , so why do we feel empowered to shame people who need to make a change? Or quantify someone’s worth through the number of year they did something for?

Read between the lines here. This doesn’t just have to be about the classroom, this could be about any major change in your life right now, Teach.

Thank you, Meredith Newlin ❤️ your support is so appreciated. This program is what I wish I had when I was in the classroom. It’s taken me years to develop strategies to help teachers begin building sustainable relationships with their careers in education so they can stay in the field for the long run. I can’t wait to get started coaching a cohort of teachers ready to start prioritizing their needs in order to better help their students ❤️

TIME Waiting List Hi, I'm Elise! I'm a high school educator turned coach helping teachers recharge from burn out and build sustainable careers in education. 

Yep, I said it!

Somewhere along the way it’s drilled into us early in our teaching career that this job is about everything except us. We are just mere servants doing this work.

And it actually is an unspoken dirty secret that calling teaching a job rather than something like a calling or your life’s work makes you seem less invested.

At some point teachers learn, (if they’re able to stay around and beat burn out) that this job HAS to include your needs in order for you to succeed.

💥You can feel called to this job and still exhibit boundaries, teach!

If you make it all about a calling to serve or all about the kids and completely let it take away from your own needs you’ll be left feeling:
❌unappreciated
❌overworked
❌burned out
❌and using whatever energy and resources you got to “keep the dream” going so to speak.

👉That is exactly what happened to me.

💙Teaching is a job. A heartfelt, emotional, exciting, full of potential and rewarding job.

Continue to show up and do your best, give what you got, but don’t keep living it once the day is done.

❤️we need you to keep being YOU, teach.

👇What’s ONE way you can start to separate yourself from you job teach and start to meet your needs more often?

😑You’re having “one of those days”, teach...

I get it... we’ve all been there: second guessing and questioning if you’re on the right path, in the right career, in the right school...

🤦‍♀️Feeling misunderstood, sensing push back, being undermined is NEVER enjoyable..

Whether it’s just a one off thing or something that is consistently occurring (not cool, we’ll talk some more later about that) this list of affirmations is for you to repeat and remind yourself of your worth.

⭐️I AM FINANCIALLY WORTHY— quit saying yes to extra tasks that don’t fuel your finances. Teachers too often work for free and it leaves us feeling less than appreciated. Don’t consistently fill up time. Just because it’s “free” time doesn’t make it less valuable... savor it.

⭐️I AM VALUABLE —yes you are! Even if kids aren’t engaging in zoom, even if a parent sent a nasty email, even if your admin got short with you, you are the most important adult in that school building and they need you more than you need them. Remember that ❤️

⭐️I DESERVE TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT MY JOB— if more often than not your dreading what you do, it may be time to look elsewhere OR may be time to start redefining your role at your current school and leading/teaching the way you want! Live the life you want not by the way some cookie cutter system told you how! Sometimes it’s better to act for forgiveness rather than permission, teach!

⭐️I AM A PROFESSIONAL — people don’t fully understand what teachers do but it’s not your job to teach them! You have degrees teach! Most likely multiple! You’re not a babysitter! You have a skill set unlike any other and you are one professional cookie ((in a power suit!) 🍪 🧥 cookie in a suit! So cute.. ok got sidetracked there...)

⭐️I AM NOT INDEBTED TO MY SCHOOL — Don’t let admin, students, parents or other teachers guilt you to feeling like you owe more than what you’re willing. Know your limits and stick to them. Going over them will only hurt you more in the long run.

🙌Which affirmation is resonating with you most today teach? Is there another you you tell yourself often when you need a pep talk? Share below!

🐚Hermit crabs change homes when they grow.

The act is a positive one for not only the crab, moving on from his old home to his new, but for other crabs smaller than him who will now find his old home to be spacious and fitting.

The bigger hermit crab doesn’t take on the responsibility of housing both him and his smaller friends.

He does what’s good for him and in the process helps out another along the way.

Be the hermit crab, teach.

Your shell does not fit the burden of everyone in your life. Your shell only fits the burden that YOU were meant to bear.

You may wish your shell could carry more, to further please those around you. But that’s not your responsibility or lesson to teach. Others need to learn to carry their own shells and in the process support those around them, but not carry.

💥What’s ONE responsibility that you are carrying that you can put down today, teach? What is not fitting on your shell or needs to be addressed to lift the load? Let me know below! 👇

Period.

I love working in education. I love teaching.

👉However, nothing I love is worth my health.

👉If your health is being compromised...

👉If you’re crying everyday after school...

👉If you’re getting sick and feeling crappy...

👉If you’re not yourself...

Don’t tell yourself that YOU’RE the problem... that’s what toxic positivity and toxic teaching culture wants you to think.

💜YOU belong here, teach!

There is room for all personality types in this career.

What IS the problem is that you need to learn correct mindset shifts and skills to help you create a happy, healthy, sustainable career.

💥That’s where TIME comes in: an 8-week group coaching program for the overwhelmed, exhausted educator who struggles to take care of their own needs first.

💥TIME teaches you tools & self care practices to build a successful and authentic teaching career allowing you to feel grounded, confident, and reenergized during the school year, pandemic or not!

Sound good? Let me know down below teach 🙋‍♀️

I can’t wait for you to see how you and teaching are meant to be. You belong here 💜

🙈Have you seen these zoom classroom pranks, teach?!

Maybe one’s happened to you?

😝Some are hilarious, other give me anxiety...

But seriously, don’t hand over host privileges to your students ...they got something planned when they’re asking for them 😂

Ya only have to be 1 step ahead, for pranks or teaching the rule stands the same❤️

So let this be a reminder to not go overboard with the planning this weekend teach!

🦶Remember: only one step ahead!

Hope this meme makes you laugh
Happy Friday and don’t share the zoom host privileges! 😂

❌If you try to be perfect, you’re doing it wrong, teach!

🤦Are you that teacher who tries to revamp every lesson? Make everything super action packed with 20 stations, arts and crafts, and results in 3 trips to Michaels to make it happen?

😑Your idea of “perfect” is getting in the way of what really matters.

😭And it’s preventing you from having an amazing relationship with yourself, your career, and your kids.

👍If you can teach the same concept with a free worksheet you found online DO IT! “Free” and “worksheet” doesn’t always mean bad... unfortunately celebrating anything other than this has become the norm in teaching.

👉Keep your lessons simple, keep your expectations reasonable not lofty, and give your students opportunities to create rather than you doing it for them.

❤️Most importantly stay true to what you can handle when you plan and realistic with your time frames.

💥Being an okay teacher in your mind probably means you’re being a GREAT teacher to your students.💥

🦶Listen, you only need to be one step ahead to be considered the expert in the room. One step. That’s it.

➡️Quit the over planning

➡️Quit reinventing the wheel

➡️Life is a struggle especially now. Keep it simple, teach!

📱This quote has been saved on my phone for almost 6 years...

👉When I was teaching and August rolled around, I would find myself disassociating and suppressing my anxiety about heading back to school.

😕I would do this by scrolling through social media and YouTube trying to distract myself from what was really plaguing me: could I really do another year?

🤦‍♀️Social media is like the popular kid.. It makes you feel cool and recognized when you’re hanging out, but then leaves you questioning your decisions immediately after.

😑Scrolling, as it still does, left me feeling 10x worse when the evening would hit and I didn’t do anything to better support or work on myself.

📝Something I would do however was save quotes that struck a cord with me by screen shotting them (pre save feature 😂) these quotes spoke to me, made me feel less alone, made my anxiety and pain be seen, understood, normalized.

👀Honestly, looking back, I think I was looking for answers around my uncertainty and sense of feeling lost. Still am till this day... and sometimes it comes in a quote.

💙So teach, if you’re on here scrolling through looking for solace... looking to be seen, your stress, fear, anger, emotional drain... I see you...I’m regifting this quote to you from me 6 years ago, from me today.

❤️Put DOWN what’s heavy, accept and focus on what you can control, learn that simple is better, and that it’s ok sometimes to just live 1 day at a time in order to make it through.

Much love to you this Monday ❤️

⭕️You see those smaller two circles/ovals? THOSE are your ONLY responsibility in life!

😱If you find yourself overwhelmed and over concerned, most likely your giving too much focus to things OUTSIDE your control/ influence and giving things power that you have no say in.

😡Nothing you do, think or say can change it and here you are dancing around, screaming at the top of your lungs trying to make a difference.

But here’s what you can do to give yourself perspective:

1️⃣Write down everything giving you issue right now on post it notes or index cards....The news, your partners lack of communication, the anxiety you wake up with everyday, your lack of getting to the gym, your district switching over from zoom to google meets, your kids attitude when you try taking to them, your lack of morning routine..

2️⃣Start to organize them by what you CAN control and what you CANT.
(I know easier said than done ...DONT let other people’s opinions influence your decision making)

3️⃣Some of those things that you might struggle where to put may fall under the INFLUENCE CIRCLE. You might not necessarily have the control but your actions towards ANOTHER can change the outcome for you and end up making life more manageable for you.

👍It’s always helpful to be reminded of what’s in your control and what’s out of it...it’s easy to get lost in the sauce everyone and again.

Give it a shot for yourself teach... and if your interested in making this an SEL activity to do with your students let me know below! I can share some thoughts in my stories! 😊