Today, I turn 35.

A few years back, I set a personal goal for myself that I wanted to be in a position of leadership and/or influence within the sphere of public education improvement advocacy work by the time I was 35.  

I knew that my dream of “fixing” the public education system so it would be more focused on what children and families actually need rather exclusively quantitative measurements was a dream that would lead me to a dead end time after time.

I was beginning to learn that much of the public education system in the United States is designed to focus on quantitative versus qualitative outputs and outcomes, which makes it very difficult for mental health and wellbeing to become focus areas.

Feelings can’t easily be quantified universally.

Trauma doesn’t easily have a metric that all students, staff, and families can be measured against to determine what threshold of pain warrants an intervention.

Socioemotional learning has begun to emerge alongside other revolutionary ideas such as school social workers, school-based mental health centers, and clinical consultation within special education departments for students receiving supports through the IEP and 504 accommodations processes.

This work has intrigued me and it’s been the work I’ve dedicated my career to - alongside recovering from my own burnout and creating tools to support others' burnout recovery, intervention, and prevention.

This fall, I’ll be pivoting to a new role that is yet to be determined.

Alongside this pivot, I’ll be launching online Educator Support Networks to offer 1-1 and group support for burnout, professional development in areas commonly requested from school staff and students surrounding mental health, and creating autism-affirming content, resources, interventions, and tools for TODAY’s public education landscape.

Things are not the same as they were in 2018 and we need to adapt the way our students have.

Students show us what they need, it’s time we listen.

If you’re an education professional looking to join a network of other professionals seeking support and cutting edge interventions for your work with a focus on post-pandemic realities in schools, join my email list and I’ll send you more information when it’s ready.

There WILL be free opportunities to connect and the email list will get first-access.

I hope you’ll join me in celebrating my birthday by committing to yourself to take steps to prevent, intervene, and stave off the burnout that often feels nearly inevitable in public education in 2023.

Pitch:

Do you work in the public education system and find yourself burned out and wondering if you can continue in your career for another school year?

Do you find yourself having nightmares about school violence, testing standards, observations, IEPs, or all of the other tasks put on your plate that exceed your capacity to complete within a 40 hour work week?

Do you work as a leader in education and find yourself struggling to know how to support your team in ways that once worked, but now feel like they are bordering on “toxic positivity’"?

Is your soul tired of witnessing the ways that public education is discussed in the hallways of the internet where teachers, educators, principals, support staff, and others are degraded for needing to take sick-time to attend to their own well-being to continue working?

Is your heart committed to public education, but your mind and body are struggling to navigate the post-2020 landscape of public education?

I’ve been there, I am there.

I want to be there for you.

Coming Fall 2023, I’ll be launching an online support network for Education Professionals with an email newsletter, virtual support groups, and regular workshops to provide professional development and personal support for those of us who’ve dedicated our professional career to helping raise and tend to the next generation.

Click here and sign up today : https://www.kimberlylouvin.com/educatorsupport