Tag Archives: Resilience

My middle daughter, 11 years old, gave me this note the other day, it’s simplicity stuck with me… “have a good time every day…”Was that how I lived my life … did I have a good time every WORK day? As teachers, it can be so easy to lose our JOY, to forget why weContinue reading “On Joy …”

– Flash back to 28 April 2019 I had just had tea with a friend, we were talking about teaching and for the first time ever, I told someone of my dislike of Sundays … I wrote this “I fear the the return to routine, to demands, to clocks, bells, schedules. These school rituals feelContinue reading “Sad Sundays …”

Resilience – “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties”; “the ability of a substance to spring back into shape”;“elasticity”; “adaptability”; bouncebackability”; “buoyancy”. One of the first aims of THRIVE is to build resilience in us as Zimbabwean educators. Teaching is challenging enough, then throw in the challenges of Zimbabwe. We are getting less bendy, less elastic,Continue reading “Resilience”