A supportive classroom climate is the most essential and important thing that you need to have in order for students to feel confident enough to take those risks and truly engage in the learning.

This is why even with my second graders I am still encouraging and promoting those academic discussions. No matter how young they are, they can all benefit from it.

I feel like I mostly teach explicitly to my students and that is what I am most used to in my teaching practice. I think it's clear, concise, and students understand what they're supposed to be doing.

This is very true that we all have our own unique styles but we are all also held to the same standards as educators.

I still struggle with celebrating success at times, I still automatically go to what I could've done or said better, how I could improve or what I can change. I really try to remind myself to think about what went well first before reflecting on what I can improve.

THIS! Sometimes we just want to know that we are not alone and we just want someone to see how we feel, having someone to just listen to how you feel and help validate those feelings can make such a huge impact.

I agree that coping strategies are something that all of us need and benefit from. Not only did I struggle as a first year teacher emotionally but I think that all of us hit some point in our school year where we have that exhaustion and it can be really hard to cope with those feelings if we don't know how or have the strategies to.

Active listening is something that I really try to teach my students about and I myself am still working on as an adult; active listening is a really important skill to have but also takes time to develop

I still feel like I struggle with this and my students sometimes. it can be a little nerve wracking to set them free in a lesson or a project and let go of that control, but at the same time that is when the most rewarding and important learning happens.

Relationships are one of the biggest components of teaching. Our whole job is based upon building meaningful relationships with students before we get into the content of teaching. Relationships are so important.

I want to pushback on this comment as I have seen many things my school does to help students and their families that are at an economic disadvantage and have been historically marginalized. Working in a low income school has shown me how schools can make a HUGE impact on students to try to lessen the gap as much as possible

Students identities play a huge role in their education. There are a lot of outstanding factors that we as teachers cannot control, but they have a huge impact on a students education.

I think that especially right now with all of the uncertainties happening in our political climate this is really resonating with me; so much is out of my control; and while for some of us we have this hope it will get better; for others it is a very fearful time to be an educator. Teaching is so political and it is so hard to gloss over the current things that are happening in the communities that we teach in.