Cry week is coming, and it's normal
Progress reports, report cards and conferences all land in the same stretch.
With Tammy Striler · 1:28 · Filmed fall 2020
What to take away
- Everyone comes back from summer perky and tan with no bags under their eyes.
- Then it's new kids, maybe a new grade level, progress reports, report cards, conferences.
- Around that first report-card-and-conference stretch, it hits. That's cry week.
- It's normal, and it's what we do. Go home, have a glass of wine, and move on.
Why it works
Naming it in advance is the tip. First-year teachers who hit that week without warning tend to read it as evidence they've chosen wrong; knowing it arrives on a schedule — and arrives for the thirty-year veterans too — makes it survivable.
Tammy Striler
Founder · classroom teacher
Thirty years in the classroom, most of them with the door open and a student teacher in the back. Tammy started these tips because the best things she learned came from other teachers over lunch, and nobody was writing them down.
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