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What professional development services are available?

We provide various professional development services like teacher training, curriculum design, and strategic school improvement. Our goal is to help educators effectively implement Finnish pedagogical principles.

Start Fresh: The Back-to-School Reset Every Teacher Deserves

vanessa speigle
Jul 31, 2025
2 min read

✨ Introduction: More Than Just New Bulletin Boards

Every August, the air hums with anticipation. Teachers rearrange classrooms, print lesson plans, and mentally rehearse first-day routines. But beneath the fresh notebooks and sharpened pencils, many educators carry quiet exhaustion from the year before.

What if this year could feel different?

What if your back-to-school prep wasn’t just about doing more… but about becoming more grounded, more intentional, more connected?

At Rekla, we believe every teacher deserves a true reset, a pause to reflect, realign, and begin the school year with confidence and calm. That’s why we created the Back-to-School Reset Checklist, a simple but powerful tool to help you:

Reflect on what’s working (and what’s not)
Set priorities for student connection and trust-building
Build habits that align with your teaching philosophy
Create an environment that supports Finnish-inspired, child-centered learning

📥 Download Your Free Checklist

Ready to begin your reset? It’s free, practical, and printable.

Inside, you’ll find reflection prompts, mindset shifts, and gentle nudges to help you plan not just a great classroom, but a joyful school year.

💡 Why Reset Matters More Than Routines

Too often, back-to-school planning focuses on logistics: where to put the glue sticks, how to manage dismissal, which bulletin board to swap out.

But research and Finnish pedagogy reminds us that learning starts with well-being.

In Finland, teachers begin the year slowly, focusing first on relationships, rhythm, and regulation. Content comes later. Connection comes first. (This approach reflects the Finnish philosophy that well-being and emotional security are foundational to academic learning (Sahlberg, 2021; Halinen, 2018)).

A true reset gives you the chance to:

Recenter around your teaching values
Build strong classroom culture from day one
Prevent burnout by naming boundaries early
Prioritize play, inquiry, and autonomy, instead of content

🔄 What’s Inside the Checklist?

This isn’t a to-do list of tasks. It’s a tool for intention. Inside you’ll find:

🔁 Reflection questions to reset your mindset
🌱 Prompts to plant the seeds of Finnish-inspired change
🧭 Simple actions to reconnect with your “why”
💬 Bonus: journaling space and doodling space for your word of the year

Use it on your own or with your teaching team. Either way, it’s a calm and confident way to walk into the year.

🌿 Let Rekla Walk With You

Rekla means re-imagine and that’s exactly what this new school year can be. Not more of the same. Not survival mode. But a chance to re-imagine your classroom as a place of joy, inquiry, and balance.

Explore more at our Rekla Library full of Finnish-inspired lesson bundles, planning tools, and reflection resources to support you all year long.