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The Teaching Well We empower school systems to more effectively support, retain and leverage their teams.

The Teaching Well is a non-profit that was started by teachers for teachers. We believe that the health and well being of educators makes a critical difference in school culture, teacher retention, and the lives of students. We are committed to cultivating healthy, resilient educators by providing a variety of experiential, somatic-based workshops and in person offerings for educators, school sites and districts.

10/12/2026

Meet Natalya 💙

Natalya is an equity-based coach, facilitator, systems thinker, and social justice advocate. Her practice lives in the relationship between self and collective: an honest look at the patterns, the stories, and the systems that shape what we believe and how we treat each other. Grounded in restorative approaches to conflict and healing, she holds people with equal parts grace and courage — deep compassion right alongside radical accountability. The kind of growth that feels expansive and sustainable instead of extractive.

She is guided by the ancestral wisdom of her Afro-Puerto Rican, Taíno, and Bohemian Czech roots, carrying forward a legacy of resilience, service, and embodied practice.

Natalya was born in East Oakland and is a second-generation educator. Today she and her husband are raising their family in the same town that poured into her, reinvesting in it and building a culture of belonging, excellence, and collective wellbeing.

Meet our team at https://www.theteachingwell.org/team

Today is World Mental Health Day, a good moment to slow down and check in with yourself. Whatever you're carrying right ...
10/10/2026

Today is World Mental Health Day, a good moment to slow down and check in with yourself. Whatever you're carrying right now, you deserve kindness, especially from yourself. Swipe through, pick the affirmation that speaks to you, and come back to it whenever you need it 🤍

SAVE this post and send it to someone who could use a reminder today.

10/10/2026

Somewhere in the week you stopped asking what you wanted and started asking what was left to do. That's how the job works. It fills whatever space you give it.

So here's the gentle reminder: these two days don't have a deadline. Go outside, even for ten minutes. Sit in the light while we still have it. Let something be unfinished.

The weekend is yours. Let it be 🤍

10/06/2026

Educators are carrying a lot right now 💙

There's what's happening in the world. There's what's happening in the classroom, the kids who need more than one person can give. And there's home, which doesn't pause just because the school day was hard.

That's where Erika starts. She creates not a routine to follow, but a real look at your goals, your stressors, and what's genuinely helped before. What refills one person drains another. 🌱

Your version of care is allowed to look nothing like anyone else's.

Curious what that would look like for you? Start at www.theteachingwell.org/clinical-services

09/30/2026

Top 3 reasons educators seek therapy with us 💙

1️⃣ Anxiety
2️⃣ Personal growth, both in the classroom and outside it
3️⃣ Burnout and work stress

Notice that middle one. Plenty of people wait until they're in crisis to reach out, but a lot of the educators we work with aren't in crisis at all. They're just ready to be more than the version of themselves that survives the school year. 🌱

Both are good reasons. You don't have to be at the bottom to deserve support!

Learn more about our clinical program through www.theteachingwell.org/clinical-services

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09/30/2026

Before Lena was our Managing Director, she was a client.

She spent more than 20 years inside school communities 👩🏾‍🏫 teacher, instructional coach, administrator, director of a teacher residency program. She knows the weight of this work from the inside, which is why she recognized what The Teaching Well was doing the moment she experienced it herself. She saw the impact it had on her. Then she decided she wanted to be part of making it happen for everyone else.

Lena holds tight to the African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child," with one thing added: the village itself has to be well. You cannot raise thriving students inside a community of depleted adults.

That belief shows up in how she leads: calm, patient, listening more than she speaks, tending to the mind, body, and soul of every educator she works with so they can recognize the gifts they already carry. 💙

09/28/2026

Monday morning doesn't need your whole self at 7am. It needs you here, and that's enough to start.

These five aren't about pretending the week will be easy. They're about giving yourself permission before the building asks for everything you've got.

Read them in the car. Read them in the parking lot. Read them with the door closed and the lights still off.

Save this post and run it back every Monday 🤍

09/24/2026

Resting ≠ recovering

Recovery is what happens after. After the semester that took everything. After you've pushed so far past your limit that your body finally forces the issue. It's reactive, you're repairing damage that's already done.

Rest is what you build in before you get there. It's ongoing, ordinary, and unglamorous: the thing that keeps the deficit from piling up in the first place. Not a reward for making it to June. Something that sustains you in October.

Educators are experts at recovery and strangers to rest. You white-knuckle it to the break, crash, patch yourself together, go back. That cycle doesn't solve anything — it just moves the bill to a later date.

So how do you actually rest? Natalya points to the 7 types of rest: physical, mental, emotional, sensory, social, creative, spiritual. The value is in the diagnosis. If you're depleted socially, another night of sleep won't touch it. If you're sensory-drained, and most educators are, after six hours of noise, what you need is quiet, not a nap.

Name what's actually empty. Then you can fill it.

Which one are you running lowest on? Tell us below 💬

09/22/2026

Erika puts it simply: educators spend all day pouring love into their students, and most of them are running on whatever's left over. 💙

That gap is why The Teaching Well exists. Not another initiative to stack onto an already full plate. Not a wellness week with a granola bar in the staff lounge. Real care aimed at the adults in the building: the same steadiness, patience, and attention they hand out a hundred times a day and rarely get back. 🫶🏾

Because the person holding the room needs someone holding them, too. A teacher who is depleted can still show up. But a teacher who is supported can stay.

That's the work. That's what Erika is so passionate about, and it's what we're building alongside schools every day. 🤝🏾

🔖 Save this post and 📩 send it to an educator who needs to hear it.

09/19/2026

You asked for resources that fit real school life, not just more to-dos. 🌿

Our new Resource Hub puts it all in one place:
🎧 Podcasts
📝 Blog posts
🧘🏽 Somatic + mindfulness practices
📚 PD resources

All free. No paywalls, no subscriptions. Search by what you're going through and find something that helps. New resources get added regularly.

🔖 Save this post for your next reset, and explore the hub at www.theteachingwell.org/resource-hub

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