📺 Ditch Summit: Focus on teacher wellness and balance

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The Ditch Summit closes on Jan. 11, 2026. After that, sessions + resources are unavailable until December 2026.

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2 Minute Drill

This activity can help students familiarize themselves with a new chapter in a textbook. Just scan the textbook in Kami and share the file with students. Then, start a 2 Minute Drill activity with them:

• 2 minutes: Scan and make inferences (What is this chapter going to be about?)

• 2 minutes: Use the Summarize tool to summarize sections of the text

• 2 minutes: Use the Explain tool to explain a map or chart

• Students join the document in Kami collaboratively

Migration Social Media Post activity

If students love the idea of becoming a content creator, this activity will get them writing in a format — a social media post — that some of them will be familiar with.

• Students create images of themselves migrating into the Americas using the embedded Adobe Express AI image generator

• They write a short social media post about what they would experience in their migration.

• Students can leave a voice note or a video note, too.

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📺 CATEGORY COLLECTIONS 📺

🧘 Watch these videos on teacher wellness, balance, and mindset

If you’re on break right now (which so many Ditch Summit participants are right now), hopefully you’re resting and recharging.

Teacher wellness is such an important concept in our schools right now.

As they say: “You can’t fill up other people’s cups if your cup is empty.”

In our Category Collection on teacher wellness, balance, and mindset, educators share tips and strategies to manage the stresses and challenges of working in schools.

Here’s what’s in the collection …

Teacher Wellness: From Disengaged to Fulfilled (with Mandy Froelich) — In this session, Mandy Froehlich shares concrete next steps if you’ve become disengaged as an educator.

Simple Steps for a More Well Self (with Crystal Chavez) — In this session, teacher Crystal Chavez shares some quick actions you can take to improve your own wellness.

Self Care for Stressed Teachers (with Dan Tricarico) — In this session, “The Zen Teacher” Dan Tricarico shares how he de-escalates stress in his own classroom through strategies like stillness, silence, and solitude.

Other sessions in the Teacher Wellness, Balance, and Mindset category:

• Building Habits to Be the Most Efficient, Effective You with James Clear

• Find Yourself to Find Your Well-Being with Tanya Avrith

• Go from Burned Out Teacher to Burned In Teacher with Amber Harper

• Teacher Life Balance with Adam Welcome

• The Science of Happiness with Kim Strobel

• What to Do When You Need to Recharge with Dr. Sheldon Eakins

Watch any Ditch Summit session from previous years on the Ditch Summit Video Library page any time.