Self-paced Course For Educators In Florida
Still Called To Teach
Built for teachers today by a licensed educator and therapist
By Michelle Nason, LMHC
The reality of teaching has changed, but the job description has not. Still Called To Teach is a self-paced course for Florida K-12 educators on the emotional load of their work and how to keep doing it sustainably. Michelle combines two decades working in Florida classrooms with two decades as a licensed clinician to hone her perspective.
Get This Course
On Demand Video
You'll get an hour of easy to follow video content by Michelle to watch on your time and schedule.
5 Self-paced modules
Michelle provides downloads and exercises throughout the material to make it sticky and practical
What You'll Learn
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
Understand the load you're really carrying
You will be able to distinguish between stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue, and recognize which one you're truly experiencing. Gain language for the invisible workload that lives outside the job description: the emotional labor, the after-hours communication, the student situations you carry home. You'll also understand why caring deeply about your students can accelerate burnout rather than protect against it.
Use a clinical framework that respects your time
Exhaustion does not lift on a long weekend. You will learn how to run a 2-minute reset designed for the cadence of teaching, usable between classes, in the parking lot, or during a passing period. Michelle's 20-item Burnout & Sustainability Scale also identifies overwhelm, emotional depletion, recovery capacity, and meaning.
Rebuild your energy without restructuring your life.
You'll learn how to map your energy across three systems (physical, mental, and emotional ) and be able to diagnose whether what you are facing is a time-management problem or an energy-depletion problem. The answer changes the strategy entirely. And with the Energy Budget Map, you will have a tool to recover small amounts of energy back inside an already-full week.
Set boundaries that survive school culture
You will have boundary reinforcement available as a reframe for a word the school system tends to dismiss. You'll be able to adapt sample scripts for the specific conversations teachers have to navigate, including email after hours, requests for extra duties, and emotional limits with students. And you will be able to hold a limit without guilt, and without losing the compassion that brought you to the classroom.
Reconnect with the reason you started
Start to recognize the parts of your identity that have been crowded out under the weight of the job. You'll get guided reflection prompts to return to them on a cadence that fits a teacher's week. "What do you need most right now?" is the question Michelle will help you ask and understand
Reframe Your Focus
Call it what it is. You're already carrying it.
The emotional work of teaching lives outside the job description. Compassion fatigue, after-hours communication, the colleague you are carrying in your head — none of it is on a lesson plan. The first move toward sustainability is naming what the career never does, so you stop quietly diagnosing yourself as the problem.
It's about energy. Not about time.
Most advice treats teacher exhaustion as a scheduling issue. It is not. Michelle reframes the work around three energy systems that are depleted during a school day, and introduces practices designed for the cadence of teaching, including a 2-minute reset you can run between classes.
Don't forget how much you matter too.
Your worth is not measured by your exhaustion. The closing lesson returns to the question Michelle plants at the very start — what do you need most right now? — and leaves you with the reminders she most wants Florida teachers to carry forward. You were called to teach. You were not called to collapse.
Which Price Is Right (For You)?
We offer our self-paced courses at three pricing tiers, all of which deliver the same content and resources. Please review below and select the one that fits you best.
Need-Based
$15
If you need this resource and have limited finances of your own, this option is for you.
Please grab it without any questions or shame.
Standard Price
$75
Our standard pricing option helps cover the operational and support costs of building these courses.
Similar to the cost of a seminar or workshop.
Pay-It-Forward
$150
For those willing and able to chip in more to offset the low cost option and keep us creating!
Similar to the cost of a one hour counseling session.
Want to send this course as a gift? Pick Normal or Pay-It-Forward 🎁
Meet Your Course Leader
Michelle Nason, MA, LMHC
Michelle spent 23 years teaching English in Florida public schools, and was a licensed mental health counselor for 21 of those years — holding both credentials inside the same classroom. She left teaching three years ago and now sees Florida educators in her clinical practice at Charis Counseling Center, where she has been on staff for over a decade. Her approach is warm and clinically grounded: she uses the vocabulary teachers actually use, names what the building does not, and refuses the kind of advice that asks tired educators to push harder.
