{"id":4119,"date":"2019-04-11T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=242625"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:14","slug":"teachers-mental-health-check-in-board-goes-viral-for-the-beautiful-standard-it-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/teachers-mental-health-check-in-board-goes-viral-for-the-beautiful-standard-it-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher\u2019s Mental Health Check-In Board Goes Viral For The \u2018Beautiful\u2019 Standard It Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many times have you been having a REALLY bad day, but you couldn\u2019t quite explain it to your coworkers\/family\/friends?<\/span>In our day-to-day lives, there\u2019s not a lot of room for giving a real answer to \u201cHow are you?\u201d But one group of teachers is trying to change all that, starting with their students.<\/span>Texas teacher Jessie Cayton recently went viral for her mental health \u201ccheck-in\u201d poster board<\/a>, where students can explain how they\u2019re feeling with a (private) sticky note. The options include \u201cI\u2019m great,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m meh,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m struggling.\u201d<\/span>The idea has exploded on social media, and for good reason.<\/span>The board may look simple, but it\u2019s an exercise in vulnerability, connection, and self-awareness \u2014 all things that the world needs more of.<\/span>The poster board was originally invented by a high school teacher in San Francisco, Erin Castillo.<\/span>\u201cMany of us struggle to find the words to ask for help,\u201d Erin explained to BuzzFeed News<\/a>. \u201cI thought this poster could make it a bit easier for my students to reach out.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Instagram\/jsscytn<\/span>Jessie Cayton is a teacher in Texas. She works with middle school students, and she shares honest stories about her teaching strategies and challenges on her social media pages.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Instagram\/jsscytn<\/span>
\n<\/span>Like many teachers, Jessie has a special knack for coming up with beautiful displays that look like they could easily be on a fancy restaurant menu somewhere.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Instagram\/jsscytn<\/span>And recently, one of her poster boards gained a lot of attention on social media.<\/span>She created a \u201ccheck-in\u201d board for students to write how they\u2019re feeling by pasting a sticky note with their name on the back.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Instagram\/jsscytn<\/span>The categories range from \u201cI\u2019m great\u201d to \u201cI\u2019m not doing great,\u201d and everything in between.<\/span>As you can see, Jessie\u2019s students were all over the place at the time that she snapped this photo, which allowed her to better understand their behavior throughout the day.<\/span>\u201cStarted class with this check-in today, and I\u2019m so glad I did,\u201d she wrote in the caption. \u201cTime away from school is really hard for some of my kids. Coming back to school can be really tough, too. We\u2019re sleepy, or cranky, or anxious, or turned all the way up to 1,000.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Instagram\/jsscytn<\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to misinterpret behavior and its cause. But I\u2019m grateful (especially as the day goes on) to have a little context for why we might be making the choices we are.\u201d<\/span>Jessie also shared the poster on Facebook, where it went viral. It has almost 70,000 shares to date.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How many times have you been having a REALLY bad day, but you couldn\u2019t quite explain it to your coworkers\/family\/friends?In our day-to-day lives, there\u2019s not a lot of room for giving a real answer to \u201cHow are you?\u201d But one group of teachers is trying to change all that, starting with their students.Texas teacher Jessie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45804,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/45804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}