The FuelEd Blog

After a year of teaching and living through a pandemic, educator mental health is at risk and yet, we desperately need to avoid further school disruptions. Teacher burnout and turnover — already cause for concern long before pandemic life — have increased, with an additional 11 percent of teachers saying they may leave the classroom even though they weren't planning to do so before. As it is, 40-50% of teachers leave the classroom within their first five years, and 40% of teachers in the three-county area have five or fewer years of experience, which has major implications on student achievement.

Trauma-informed teaching creates safe, supportive classrooms that counter the effects of childhood adversity and toxic stress, helping students thrive emotionally and academically. By fostering empathy, predictable routines, and inclusive practices, educators promote resilience and secure connections, benefiting all students while rewiring stress responses. Training programs like the Whole Educator Collective empower teachers with tools to build self-awareness, improve communication, and model healthy coping strategies for a stronger, more connected classroom.

FuelEd was founded to bridge the gap in new teacher preparation.

FuelEd trainer, HyoYoung Minna Kim, shares powerful insights on the inextricable link between self-care and community care.

FuelEd trainer, HyoYoung Minna Kim, shares important reflections on the centrality of educator well-being in healing fractured systems.

FuelEd partner, Sheila Whittle, shares vulnerable reflections on burnout and hope.

In this episode, Counselor Accents speak with Megan Marcus and Kelley Munger from FuelEd about:

• how educators can heal student trauma through relationships, and the need for educators to first do their own healing
• how equipping educators with relationship skills can make school counselors jobs easier and better
• how the best student SEL is actually educator SEL

In this episode of the Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast, host Daniel Bauer speaks with Megan Marcus of FuelEd to offer a "Leadership Wake-Up Call".

This partnership will bring FuelEd's research-backed lessons for adults to Panorama Education's Playbook Online Professional Learning Library.

FuelEd Partners Megan Marcus Dr. Kelley Munger speak with Matthew Bennett of the Trauma Informed Lens podcast about how educators can serve as secure attachment figures and the power of providing simple and safe places for educators within school culture to receive healing from their own trauma.

FuelEd Partners Megan Marcus Dr. Kelley Munger speak with Mathew Portell of the Trauma Informed Educators Network podcast where they discuss developing trauma-informed educators.

Our own Dr. Kelley Munger speaks with Karen Doyle Buckwalter of the Attachment Theory in Action podcast where they discuss attachment relationships in educational settings.

Join Megan Marcus and Kelley Munger as guests on the Getting Smart Podcast with Rebecca Midles to discuss SEL for Teachers and Relationship Building in classrooms, schools, and districts.

Join Megan Marcus and Kelley Munger on the FuelEd team to talk about relationship-driven education, the science behind emotional intelligence, and what it means for us as we engage students and donors as delivered on the Fundraising Voices podcast from February 25, 2021.

Join Dr. Kelley Munger (researcher) and Megan Marcus, (founder) of FuelEd on the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, episode #105 with Andrea Samadi.