The Teacher’s Nervous System
Master Class

Teaching is a profession that places sustained demand on the nervous system.

Constant noise, emotional labor, responsibility for student safety, time pressure, and behavioral vigilance keep the body in a state of heightened alert. Over time, this chronic activation shows up as fatigue, irritability, reactivity, shutdown, and burnout — not because teachers are failing, but because their nervous systems are overloaded.

The Teacher’s Nervous System Masterclass was created to help educators understand what is actually happening in their body while teaching, and why stress responses make sense in the context of the work.

In this training, educators learn:

• How the teacher stress response operates across a school day

• The basics of polyvagal theory explained in clear, accessible language

• How fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses show up in teachers and classrooms

• What allostatic load is and how stress quietly accumulates over time

• Why burnout is a nervous system issue, not a motivation problem

• Simple, science-informed micro-resets that support regulation during the school day

This masterclass focuses on building understanding, awareness, and capacity in the teacher’s own nervous system because regulation always starts there.