The FuelEd Blog

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

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

Welcome to Part 1 of the Think Safe series where you'll hear from Derek Espadas, seasoned educator and FuelEd trainer. In this series, Derek will lead school leaders through the process of developing a relationship-driven leadership style.

Without mutually stimulating interactions, people and neurons wither and die.

It's critical to take the time to name and celebrate the ways that you are being held, and are holding others, and to honor the tears you’ve shed together.

In order to see each other, in all our complexity, we must first work to see ourselves more clearly.

Education doesn’t need a hero, it needs you.

Instead of preparing students to succeed in a world that values compliance, schools have the potential to equip students to build a happier, healthier, more whole world.

FuelEd Counselor, Nancy Southern reflects on her role as a therapist and the importance of a secure attachment relationship in overcoming the stresses and pressure of being an educator.

Revisit a simple, foundational technique for practicing empathic listening with those in our personal and professional lives.

FuelEd founder, Megan Marcus, shares more of FuelEd’s history and where she sees the organization going in the future.

In our final foundational article of the 4-part series, we take a look “under the hood” to explore just how FuelEd goes about growing emotionally intelligent educators that build relationship-driven schools. Surprise, surprise — it happens through the experience of a secure relationship.