@leroyslanzi
With over 25 years of experience as a Special Education Teacher, Classroom Teacher, and Principal, I have dedicated my life to cultivating relationships built on kindness, empathy, and trust.
If stress isn’t processed at the top,
it will be carried at the bottom.
If leaders absorb nothing,
teachers absorb everything.
If teachers absorb everything,
students act it out.
Emotion does not disappear in systems.
It migrates.
Downward.
Outward.
Into behaviour.
Into tone.
Into culture.
ADULTS set the emotional temperature of a school.
Not the mission statement.
Not the program.
Not the schedule.
Adults.
It’s March.
And you’re not just tired.
You’re carrying A LOT!
Carrying tone.
Carrying urgency.
Carrying meetings that solved nothing.
Carrying behaviour that isn’t yours to hold.
Carrying stress no one processed.
And PRETENDING you’re fine.
Most kids live in two places:
Home.
School.
Two worlds raise protected kids.
Three worlds raise strong ones.
IT TAKES A VILLAGE 💪🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0cb...
We keep saying:
“We tried SEL.”
What we usually mean is:
“We scheduled it.”
Scheduling isn’t integration.
Exposure isn’t culture.
If emotional intelligence lives in a weekly block,
it competes.
If it lives in adult behaviour,
it compounds.
If it’s extra work, it won’t last.
SEL doesn’t fail because it’s a BAD idea.
It fails because it’s treated like an INITIATIVE instead of an environment.
Social-Emotional Learning is NOT wrong.
But it keeps FADING.
Schools don’t feel heavy because people don’t care.
They feel heavy when the system isn’t aligned.
On Friday at Nicola Canford Elementary School, we named the ELEPHANT in the room:
As schools we are designed for connection… but built in SILOS.
The “Emotional Schools Framework,” changes that.
There’s a noticeable difference between schools that feel HEAVY, and schools where people can BREATHE.
Entitled Kids Aren’t the Problem.
Avoided Frustration Is.
We talk a lot about entitlement
at school, at home, in stores, everywhere.
And it’s easy to point fingers at “this generation.”
But here’s the harder truth most of us don’t want to sit with:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNRa...
This isn’t a motivation problem,
or a classroom management problem.
It’s an emotional intelligence problem.
Emotional Schools IS NOT another program layered on top of full plates.
It’s the operating system that lets learning actually run.
That’s it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQqp...
