In this episode of The Balanced Educator podcast, we’re interviewing an Educalme ambassador, Renée Lapointe!
Renée is 23 years old and a first year teacher! She teaches grade 1 in a French school in Winnipeg and spends her leisure time traveling. She believes in a balanced life and does so by practicing yoga, going to the lake, spending time with her amazing friends and her wonderful family, all while practicing meditation on a daily basis. Renée has a strong inclination for adventure and has learned to surf, longboard, skate and hoop as an adult!
Renée chats about her experience taking the Educalme Teacher course before starting her first year of teaching and how that was one of the best things she could have done for herself to be well prepared to start her career.
She talks about the importance of taking care of her own mental and physical health so she can be the best version of herself as a teacher.
She explains how she’s been applying what she learned in the course in her day-to-day teaching her grade 1 classroom.
She talks about her biggest takeaways from the Educalme Teacher course. She loved being held accountable for a month while establishing new healthy habits and routines. She chats about how practical the course was and applicable to real life.
She shares her new routines and how they make her feel. She talks about how her self care routines are completely doable on a day-to-day basis.
She talks about how she’s using Educalme in her classroom and how she shares mindfulness with her kiddos.
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