🌱 New Post on The Interhuman Art of Teaching 🌱

Our latest Substack article, “Worry or Excitement? Why Naming Emotion at the Beginning of a School Year Matters”, just went live.

In this piece, Wendee and I reflect on a powerful classroom moment that reminded us how easily our assumptions about students’ emotions can miss the mark. We often expect excitement at the start of a new year—but for many learners, what looks like enthusiasm on the surface may actually be worry beneath.

🔹 Why does this matter? Because worry and excitement are both activating emotions. One narrows attention and drains energy; the other expands possibilities and fuels learning. Recognizing and reframing these feelings—for students and for ourselves—can transform how we step into new beginnings.

This week’s post also includes a practical tool (Recipe Card #2): an emotion check-in strategy using visual metaphors that helps learners notice, name, and reframe emotions in ways that open up space for growth.

👉 Read the full piece here: https://interhumanteaching.substack.com/