75 New Years’ Resolutions for Educators

Teachers check out these New Years’ Resolutions for Educators. New Year’s resolutions are a great way to reflect on ourselves as educators and strive to work harder in a specific area. Some resolutions may be specific to yourself as a teacher, others as a partner or mother, and still others as a whole person. Isn’t it incredible that teachers strive to make themselves better each and every year?! Here is a list of New Years’ Resolutions for educators you can choose from. Pick one for each day, each week, or even a month. The goal is a better you.

New Years’ Resolutions for Educators As a Teacher

1. Teach the students, not the test regardless of the pressure.
2. Focus more on the students.
3. Shut the door and just do what you know is best.
4. Ask more open-ended questions.
5. Look students in eye as much as possible.
6. Find and use more diverse books in your classroom.
7. Try something you have never tried before, even if you are scared.
8. Ask for help with technology. (Here are some of my posts on this subject.)
9. Offer help to others in an area you have strength.
10. Find a way to reach that one student who tried their hardest to be unreachable.
11. Make more positive parent contacts. (I love using Stories and messenger on Class DoJo.)
12. Read a new professional development book with an open mind.
13. Strive to be the teacher you pray your own children to get.
14. Pray for your students daily.
15. Then, pray for your students’ families daily.
16. Next, pray for your team and administration daily.
17. Go out of your way to help a first-year teacher or let them know you are supporting them.
18. Dig deeper into content and a little less on cute.
19. Make a craft project meaningful.
20. Work to connect subject areas to teach smarter not harder.
21. Stop stressing the assessing… (Can I guess ESGI… a serious game changer!)
22. Find a powerful way to connect with parents.
23. Take time to color with your students and listen to them.
24. Organize… organize… organize.
25. Find a way to use those parent volunteers more efficiently.

New Years’ Resolutions for Educators For Yourself

1. Find a way to make your true self show.
2. Tell yourself you are beautiful every day.
3. Listen to yourself when you tell yourself you are beautiful.
4. Laugh more often.
5. Stop being a pushover.
6. Say what you really mean, in a nice way.
7. When you make a mistake, laugh through it.
8. Where a different color or style of clothing than you usually do.
9. Buy new socks. We all need some new socks.
10. Do something for yourself. Just for you.
11. Sit in your car for 10 minutes to decompress.
12. Go a whole day without complaining.
13. Drink only water for a whole day or even a whole week.
14. Go cell phone free for 12 hours.
15. Go TV-free for a whole day.
16. Read a book… an actual paper book.
17. Clean out the junk drawer.
18. Clean out your closet.
19. Volunteer your time at a local charity.
20. Participate in a fun run.
21. Have a Nerf Gun war at your house because it is fun.
22. Play a board game with someone new.
23. Try a new recipe.
24. Sleep in. Sometimes you just need some sleep.
25. Find a cool, free place close to you to visit like a park or museum.

New Years’ Resolutions for Educators For Your Children

1. Spend the whole day in your jammies together watching family movies.
2. Camp out in the living room.
3. Have a selfie contest.
4. Make art projects together.
5. Bake something… bake anything… bake everything. Licking the bow is required.
6. Build Legos together.
7. Ride bikes together.
8. Go on a picnic outside.
9. Go on a picnic inside. It is just fun to eat on the floor sometimes.
10. Set up a lemonade stand.
11. Let your children pick a dinner option, shop for the ingredients, and then make it with you!
12. Give them a glow stick bubble bath.
13. Bubbles… are just fun. Use lots of bubbles.
14. Have a date night with your kids… but set a budget. It isn’t about the money, it is about the time.
15. Start collecting something; rocks, ornaments, cups.
16. Make each other birthday gifts and/or cards instead of purchasing them.
17. Do chores together to support each other.
18. Eat ice cream for breakfast on a special occasion.
19. Listen without offering advice or your opinion. Just listen.
20. Have a dance party.
21. Run through the sprinkler.
22. Donate old toys and clothes together so everyone can see the good it is doing others.
23. Write affirmation notes to each other and leave them around the house.
24. Write love notes on the bathroom mirror.
25. Hug them and kiss them and let them you love them… even in public… even if they say it embarrasses them.

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