Menopausal Teacher Said What?

Menopausal Teacher Said What?

What I Want Them to Know but Hope to Show

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Kealy Duke
Aug 04, 2025
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On Friday, I’ll begin my twenty-sixth year of teaching. Most teachers will tell you the first-day jitters never go away, but this year, I’m feeling a new kind of trepidation. I spent the summer going deeper into the deprogramming pedagogy I’ve been slowly shaping—this time with deliberate attention to cognitive load.

Step by step, I considered how much s…

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