Practical Self-Care Solutions for the Busy Teacher
Do you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and stressed-out much of the time? You're not alone! But teaching doesn't have to be this way. Practicing self-care is critical to building resilience and creating a sustainable career as a teacher. In this book, you'll learn what self-care is and why it's so important for teachers. Whether you're a brand-new teacher preparing for your first year in the classroom or a veteran educator realizing you need to take better care of yourself, The Teacher's Guide to Self-Care will help you create the self-care routines you need for a sustainable career. Plus, learn how to practice self-care while navigating additional responsibilities, such as parenting, graduate school, and a second job.

Leave the teacher-martyr complex behind and embrace a lifestyle that includes taking care of yourself physically, mentally, and spiritually while continuing to make a difference in the world.

The Teacher's Guide to Self-Care will help you:
-Assess your current self-care status
-Create a self-care plan
-Set boundaries
-Learn powerful affirmations
-Reflect and set concrete self-care goals
-Learn strategies for physical, emotional, spiritual, social, intellectual, vocational, and environmental self-care

Master the art of crafting workshops that not only educate but also inspire lasting transformation in participants, with this time-tested and user-friendly guide.

Gain the skills and confidence needed to:

• Design and use interactive techniques: Craft engaging activities that prompt deep self-reflection and discovery in participants.
• Show up authentically: Embrace vulnerability and honesty to build trust and connection with participants, creating a safe space for exploration.
• Build trust for honest dialogue: Establish clear communication and empathy to foster an environment where participants feel comfortable sharing openly.
• Ignite original thinking and group wisdom: Facilitate dynamic discussions and activities to encourage creativity and collaboration, leading to lasting learning and transformation.

This comprehensive guidebook equips you with everything you need to successfully facilitate personal growth and collective wisdom in workshops, retreats, and trainings. Featuring a range of ready-to-use exercises, templates, worksheets, and checklists, this results-driven guide empowers you to confidently create and fine-tune your workshops with confidence and skill.

Discover the tools needed to design workshops that resonate deeply with participants, fostering lasting change and growth. From planning and execution to earning trust and igniting original thinking, this comprehensive resource covers it all.

This book will help you create life-changing experiences.

Join thousands of readers who have experienced firsthand the impact of this book. With its emphasis on mindful facilitation, holistic approaches, and empowering content, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops is more than just a manual-it's a gift that can help you make a difference in the world.

Profound and practical, this seminal work reveals the road all leaders must travel to create inspiring, stimulating, and life-changing learning environments. A must-read for all leaders.-Richard Miller, PhD, Founder of iRest Institute

Women's Ways of Leading: Revisited invites the reader into a journey of self-discovery informed by a

fresh definition of leadership and an original Framework of Women's Leadership. Based on the studies of women across multiple fields and the latest sciences, stories emerged of remarkable women who have reframed power in pursuit of women's ways. The authors set forth provocative possibilities for transformation and the creation of a new future. The perspectives and themes of this Framework structures the book, chapter by chapter, study by study, story by story and question by question.

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Educator and teacher wellness is a personal journey. And like all journeys, there are starts, stops, and bumps in the road. The question becomes, how do we bring our best selves to our students and colleagues each day? Designed as a reflective journal and guidebook, Educator Wellness by Timothy D. Kanold and Tina H. Boogren will take you on a deep exploration where you will uncover profound answers that ring true for you.

Rely on this book of ideas for self-care for educators and develop ongoing habits for wellness:

Use this resource on your own or as a book study to guide staff through a reflective, goal-setting process.

Observe the importance of self-care for teachers and other educators and how a commitment to daily self-care and well-being leads to a more fulfilling, successful life in and outside of the school setting.

Review the four dimensions of educator self-care and wellness--(1) physical, (2) mental, (3) emotional, and (4) social--and 12 corresponding routines.

Explore self-care activities for teachers and educators to sustain well-being in the face of workplace overload and potential burnout.

Use the My Wellness Action journaling spaces designed to encourage thoughtful reflection to wellness and self-care plans for teachers and educators.

Learn how to monitor your self-care progress and design an actionable wellness plan for next steps.

View videos that highlight the authors' personal experiences with the four dimensions of educator or teacher well-being.

Access the Educator Wellness--Rating, Reflecting, Planning, and Goal-Setting protocol.

Contents:
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Physical Wellness Dimension
Chapter 2: The Mental Wellness Dimension
Chapter 3: The Emotional Wellness Dimension
Chapter 4: The Social Wellness Dimension

For the aspiring student with a full-time life--job, family, and other obligations--taking online college courses can be the perfect way to pursue an education. But you may have questions about how it all works. While the online class experience is different, there are many similarities to an in-seat class. The challenge is reaching a level of comfort and understanding the online learning environment. Online College Success: Prepare, Manage, And Achieve Success in Online Education is the guidebook you need to help you meet that challenge.Online College Success will help you get a quick start, establish good habits, and be successful as an online student. In addition to helping you prepare for your first class, you will explore techniques that successful students use in managing their online education, as well as strategies to make the most of the different activities, such as participating in discussions and writing papers. By the time you've finished reading this book, you'll be ready to succeed not only in your education, but in the life it will open up for you.

Aerospace physiology (also known as flight or aviation physiology, human factors, or aeromedical factors) is the scientific discipline studying the effects of flight conditions on human physiological and cognitive systems teaching aviators to work and function at peak efficiency in the abnormal environment of flight. This information is introduced to pilots throughout their training and includes hypoxia, spatial disorientation, visual illusions, fatigue, trapped gases, and many others. Unfortunately, all of these issues still create incidents and accidents for pilots on a regular basis even today. The reason for this disparity is pilots may know about the information but fail to understand it completely. This book will transform a pilot's potential misinterpretation of this subject matter into definitive action on the flight deck.

The most current, authoritative, and comprehensive resource on this critical subject is Aerospace Physiology: Aeromedical and Human Performance Factors in Aviation (Second Edition). This book provides professional-grade information for enhancing safety-of-flight for all pilot experience levels. The book was written for use in academic settings and is currently the preferred text on flight physiology for the world-renowned University of North Dakota's John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, plus other university aviation programs.

The book's twenty-two chapters follow a logical presentation format, with each chapter thoroughly discussing the topic in understandable language, followed by core competency questions. Each topic details the environmental causes, potential physiological & cognitive responses, plus effective and proven anticipation & mitigation strategies. The book uses the most recent research and experience-based information combined with current aviation incidents and accidents that illustrate how these issues present themselves in realistic flight environments, followed by discussions on how those events may have been prevented. The information in this book is based on Mr. Martin's thirty years of military and civilian aviation experience, as well as modeled after the US Air Force's Physiological Training Program for pilots and the comprehensive European Union Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) flight physiology human performance standards.

Using Aerospace Physiology: Aeromedical and Human Performance Factors for Pilots (Second Edition) as your learning or teaching resource will elevate your standard of training to its highest levels. The book is essential for all student pilots, certified flight instructors, and licensed private and professional pilots.

In the shadows of the Bismarcks totalitarian Germany in 1875, a little-known medical researcher laid the groundwork for a subject that in modern times was to bring American education to its knees--behavioral psychology. A latter-day disciple, B. F. Skinner, later wrote the book Beyond Freedom and Dignity, arguing that such ancient conceptions as these are luxuries our brave new world can no longer afford. Another ardent follower--John Dewey, the Father of American education--took the new radical German redefinition of education to mean the reprograming of young brains and nervous systems, and applied it to his self-appointed task of creating in America the ideal socialist state. John D. Rockefeller, for purposes of his own, bankrolled what was in effect a hostile take-over of our educational establishment. The Leipzig Connection is a startling account of how and why these things came about. It lays out in concise detail the story of the development of the educational malaise which we have unknowingly dropped our children into, explaining not only declining SAT scores and the phenomenon of high school graduates who are barely literate, but also symptoms even more sinister: violence, prostitution and drug dealing in the schools, the self-mutilation of tattooing and body piercing, and teenage suicide.

In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics. Vella sees the path to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process. She uses engaging, personal stories of her work in a variety of adult learning settings, in different countries and with different educational purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of adult learner, anywhere.

praise for previous books by stephen d. brookfield

Award-winning author Stephen Brookfield offers insight, inspiration, and down-to-earth advice to all teachers in settings as diverse as college, adult education, and secondary schools--on how to thrive on the unpredictability of classroom life.--Better Teaching

The author relates] some of his own personal experiences as an educator in encouraging critical thinking. His insight and honesty in relating these experiences is valuable and interesting.--CBE Report

Brookfield's book will serve as an effective focus that can facilitate faculty in thinking critically about their work, their community, their relationships, not only individually but collaboratively.--Teaching Sociology

He offers clear, jargon-free, and unpretentious guidance. --Reference & Research Book News

The author is so darned good at finding and highlighting the key research. --Training

Brookfield illustrates practically his major scholarly interest in this readable, innovative, and perceptive book on college teaching.--Choice

Updated TABE 11 & 12 Student Language Manual for Level E with Practice Exercise Answer Keys

This TABE 11 & 12 Student Language Manual for Level E is designed to successfully prepare adult learners for the TABE 11 & 12 Level E language test and vocational training admission tests. In other words, this manual presents exercises that help adult education programs and workforce programs, and their learners meet the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) reading expectations.

The language exercises of this language manual cover TABE 11 & 12 Level E and CCR language standards and content. For example, the language exercises address a) Conventions of Standards English, b) Vocabulary acquisition and use, and d)Text types and purposes. The TABE 11 & 12 Language Student Manual for Level E is divided into 7 Units.

These units cover the following:

• Reading strategies
• parts of speech
• common and proper nouns
• Plural
• Regular and irregular verbs
• subject and verb agreement
• Determiners
• Punctuation
• Possessive case
• Contractions
• Quotations
• Question words
• Conjunctions
• Simple and compound sentences
• Word study skills
• The writing process
• Writing informative essays
• Writing opinion essays
• Transition words and phrases
• Practice test and answer keys

To be specific, this manual is designed for adult learners as an instructional guide for the development of language strategies and skills. This book offers strategies to help adult learners become more active, strategic, and purposeful readers and language users.

Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.

Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres--fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science--accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter--ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen Hawking--preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.

The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the Great Books without a guide and a plan. Bauer will show you how to allocate time to reading on a regular basis; how to master difficult arguments; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre--what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?--and also between genres.

In her best-selling work on home education, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children; that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In The Well-Educated Mind, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.

The principles, maxims and precepts of Commercial Law are eternal, unchanging and unchangeable. They are expressed in the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New. The law of commerce -- unchanged for thousands of years -- forms the underlying foundation of all law on this planet; and for governments around the world. It is the law of nations, and of everything that human civilization is built upon. This is why Commercial Law is so powerful. When you operate at the level of Commercial Law, by these precepts, nothing that is of inferior statute can overturn or change it, or abrogate it, or meddle with it. It is the fundamental source of all authority, power and functional reality.

Hearing impairment is not a disability but only a difference in human experience and perception. A new Sign Language book is aimed at breaking the barriers between the Deaf community and the rest of society. This book is an introduction to American Sign Language while providing the reader with everything needed to begin using Sign Language in practical, everyday situations, from talking about family, to planning a party, giving your contact number, to dealing with medical situations etc...

Educator and internationally known sketchnoter Sylvia Duckworth makes ideas memorable and shareable with her simple yet powerful drawings. In How to Sketchnote, she explains how you can use sketchnoting in the classroom and that you don't have to be an artist to discover the benefits of doodling!

Sketchnoting (aka visual note-taking) allows students to see the bigger picture in the concepts they are studying, make connections in their learning, and display their learning process--and all of that leads to better retention. In this fun and inviting book, Sylvia equips you with the basic tools you and your students need to introduce doodling and sketchnoting in the classroom. With step-by-step sketchnote practice sessions and 180+ icons you can use or adapt to represent your ideas, How to Sketchnotewill inspire you to embrace the doodler within--even if you think you can't draw.

This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns.

The field of early childhood, after school and youth programming is increasingly dynamic and requires managers and leaders who can continually assess and grow their own knowledge, skills and dispositions to stay responsive to ever-changing needs and expectations in their position. The goal of this book is to describe the many facets of the role of the administrator and the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to be successful managers and leaders. We recognize that wherever an administrator may begin to look at this role, there are multiple layers to every aspect, leading to a role that can be overwhelming. These 4 core areas with 14 competencies and 126 indicators provide a framework that makes the role of an administrator accessible.Therefore, we've designed a self-assessment tool managers and leaders can use to assess their own skill level from beginner to expert for the indicators listed under each of the fourteen competencies. The book includes a template for administrators to create an action plan with specific next steps outlined to increase his/her skill level. Program quality improvement begins with the administrator making a plan for self-improvement through intentional professional development opportunities.

Ilias Kolokouris's Modern Greek for Classicists is a reading companion for those who have already had some exposure to the Greek world - be it a solid foundation in Ancient Greek, some knowledge of the Greek alphabet acquired while studying Latin, or even just a few set phrases memorized to communicate with locals during a trip to Greece. This book aims to build upon such foundations to expand access to the fascinating culture, literature, and society of Modern Greece. Modern Greek for Classicists is structured as a graded reader, with fictional narratives in Modern Greek, followed by comprehension and discussion questions designed to facilitate language acquisition. Each dialogue has a limited set of vocabulary, and the grammar moves from the more simple to the more complex. Animated videos accompany and expand upon the main story. How does this book teach Modern Greek? Incremental repetition and progressively more complex readings play a key role in our pedagogical approach. We believe that, when highly motivated learners are given confidence in their abilities and an environment with low levels of anxiety, they will be better equipped for success in second language acquisition. This is why we want each lesson to be a playful, enjoyable activity. Most importantly, this book is designed to feel yours. You can read it at your own pace, whenever and wherever you prefer, with whomever you wish. As you go on to use this book, you will notice that learning Modern Greek is both feasible and inspiring.

What about the teachers who stay?

Teachers are leaving!

There is a teacher shortage!

...and still...

Every year we celebrate the careers of veteran teachers who are retiring after thirty or more rewarding years of serving students and staff in their communities and local school districts.

What about them? What about the teachers who stay?

What if we asked these veteran teachers about their perseverance? What kept them going? What helped them overcome the challenges of changing societal pressures for - and perceptions of - teachers?

Turns out, there are four themes that best capture their perseverance in such a way where educators still in the trenches can learn from them and try to focus their efforts to sustain a challenging career. The best part? There are universal takeaways for anyone losing hope in the current, volatile job market.

In this book, readers will...

• Learn how Higher Calling, Community, The Only Option and Contextual Joy can help you - and others - persevere through the challenges of teaching.
• Read narratives and personal stories of veteran teachers who have stayed to inspire hope in the ones who are still serving classrooms and schools daily.
• Experience journal-like prompts to help connect personally with the content and to do the real heart work needed to encourage the educators we need to stay by reminding them how much they - and the work they do - matter.

Teri Almquist has been forunate to collect great tools for teaching Bikram Yoga. Her goal is to share these tools with every teacher who wants them. Teri strongly believes every student deserves a good teacher and every teacher deserves the opportunity to be a great teacher.

Congratulations, you're going to college! The big question is, now what?!

Taking that step to transition from school to college is exciting and scary at the same time. It's your first big step into adult life as a woman. Did you know that 40% of students drop out of college every year in the USA? Well, that's not going to be you, because this book will share with you the proven tips & strategies to make your college days the best days of your life.

In this useful College Life Survival Guide you'll discover:

• Exactly what to pack when going to college for the first time
• How to quickly make new friends without feeling shy or nervous
• How to eat the right foods to stay healthy in college even if you hate cooking
• Dorm room tips for freshmen to help you survive and thrive in your first year in college
• Overcoming homesickness even if it's your first big move away from your family
• Laundry and cleaning hacks for college students so you don't run out of clean underwear
• The best way to budget your money on campus to make it last
• How to choose the perfect major for you without breaking a sweat
• Study tips to help your boost your memory, prepare for exams and be more productive

And as women, we've got extra things to consider when going to college. Things like...

• The 4 ways to boost your mental and physical health in college
• How to deal with conflict safely with friends, strangers or roommates.
• Birth control, reproductive health and safety issues all female college students need to know.
• And lots more tips in this college survival guide.

With this book you'll be able to look forward to many happy years as a successful college student, even if you're overwhelmed or not sure where to begin. So grab a copy today!

An awesome high school graduation gift

The book is also the perfect high school graduation gift. It's packed full of college life hacks to help your daughter, granddaughter, niece or friend succeed in college.