In my first semester of graduate school for clinical mental health counseling, we spent an entire class talking about supervision. Not evaluation.Not observation checklists.Supervision. We talked about structured reflection, emotional containment, ethical limits, and the responsibility organizations have to protect people who do care-heavy work. We discussed what happens when professionals are exposed to distress […]
Kelsey Trumble
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Drowning in the Glow: How the Right A.I. Could Save the Teachers Keeping Schools Alive
We’re living through a technological revolution, but classrooms don’t feel futuristic. They feel tired. Over-lit. Understaffed. Stretched thin across expectations that multiply every year while support shrinks in the rearview. Teachers don’t need more think pieces about innovation.We need oxygen. Every fall, we greet students with hope and a stack of new logins. iReady. Zearn. […]
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We’re back from break — and these are the things teachers are leaving in 2025
There’s a specific kind of clarity that hits teachers right after a break. You’re rested enough to think again, but not rested enough to believe everything will suddenly be different. You remember what you love about teaching… and also exactly what you’re no longer willing to entertain. As we head back into classrooms in 2026, […]
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Oh SNAP! Food for Thought: When Policy Starves the Classroom
We’ve all joked about being hangry. We say it when we snap at someone before lunch or feel our brains fog mid-afternoon.We know hunger makes us short-tempered, distracted — a little less human. Now imagine being seven years old and living in that feeling all the time. As lawmakers debate another round of SNAP cuts […]
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Teachers are Lambs to the Slaughter: The Fiction We Teach, The Reality We Live
By Kelsey Trumble We hand students dystopian novels—1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunger Games—as warnings about what happens when fear becomes normal, when truth bends, when cruelty turns quiet. But somewhere along the way, the fiction blurred. Now, when another teacher bleeds in a classroom, the outrage burns through feeds faster than facts can catch up. […]
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When Advocacy Meets Overload: A teacher’s journey to support a silent student
In the current landscape of education, schools are increasingly challenged by the growing number of students requiring specialized services due to various needs, including learning disabilities, emotional trauma, and behavioral issues. According to a report by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), approximately 14% of all public school students receive special education services under […]