Welcome to Season 2, episode 1 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson, and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized

for the week ahead.

Today I'm going to share some thoughts on turning your back-to- school anxiety into excitement and

enthusiasm for the new year.

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links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show.

So here we are in season 2. Yay!

Man, the summer has just flown by.

I can't believe that it's already August. I've gotten a ton of

tweets and Facebook messages from people who are really anxious to get season 2

underway so I really appreciate those words of support and encouragement.

It's really motivated me to bring back season two and make it even better than season one.

So I've got some really great episodes planned and I'm excited to get started.

So here in New York, the kids don't start back to school

until after Labor Day.

So I still have many more weeks left, actually.

But I know that many of you are right in the thick of back to school prep.

And I'm betting that the back to school nightmares have already started for you.

I mean, you don't think that it's just you that toss us

and turns all night long right and dipping in and out of these dreams that feature

crazy things like managing a hundred sixty five kids in one classroom or finding out that you got moved to a new grade level in the middle of the first day of school or losing your carefully crafted lesson plans and materials and having no clue whatsoever what you're doing while the worst class ever

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