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EPISODE · Feb 2, 2026 · 13 MIN

Episode 387: Monday Mindset: Trust Your Decisions (Even When Everyone Else Has Opinions)

from Teaching Middle School ELA · host Caitlin Mitchell

Today's Monday Mindset episode, we explore how to quiet outside noise and trust our professional judgment, especially when admin directives and social media trends collide with what we know works. We share a simple pause-and-align framework, a real classroom example, and a weekly challenge to build self-trust.• why trusting our own decisions matters• how social media erodes confidence• recognizing advice as context-bound opinion• the pause, align, decide framework• integrating mandates without losing your method• using evidence from your own classroom• the weekly challenge to notice second guessing• living and teaching with alignmentLet us know over on our Instagram at @ebacademics

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