Don't Just Survive, Thrive: A Teacher's Guide to Fostering Resilience, Preventing Burnout, and Nurturing Your Love for Teaching
Stay inspired and motivated with this ultimate teacher self-care action plan designed to help educators avoid workplace stress and burnout.

Any educator will tell you it's no surprise that 50% of teachers leave education within their first five years. Being a teacher is deeply rewarding and inspiring, but keeping that big picture in mind is hard after long days, difficult students, and limited resources. On top of it all, teachers have the added burden of managing an entirely new digital learning environment. But burning out doesn't have to be your only option. Don't Just Survive, Thrive offers hardworking teachers a sustainable blueprint for becoming unshakeable at school with the power of self-care.

Through mindfulness, connection, and creative art, you can work toward building a trauma-informed, self-aware strategy that fosters resilience and results in more engaged and effective teaching. Just five minutes a day or more of implementing the practical ideas in this book can result in powerful change. These strategies include:

- Ten ways to practice mindfulness during recess duty
- Guided journaling to celebrate what’s working in your classroom
- Daily routines to keep you in the present moment
- Quick practices for self-regulation during a conflict situation
- Sentence stems to encourage internal dialogue and positive self-talk

Whether you're a special education teacher, paraprofessional, speech pathologist, counselor, or any type of educator, this book offers a guide to becoming not only a social-emotional role model for students but a better, healthier teacher.
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Don't Just Survive, Thrive: A Teacher's Guide to Fostering Resilience, Preventing Burnout, and Nurturing Your Love for Teaching
Stay inspired and motivated with this ultimate teacher self-care action plan designed to help educators avoid workplace stress and burnout.

Any educator will tell you it's no surprise that 50% of teachers leave education within their first five years. Being a teacher is deeply rewarding and inspiring, but keeping that big picture in mind is hard after long days, difficult students, and limited resources. On top of it all, teachers have the added burden of managing an entirely new digital learning environment. But burning out doesn't have to be your only option. Don't Just Survive, Thrive offers hardworking teachers a sustainable blueprint for becoming unshakeable at school with the power of self-care.

Through mindfulness, connection, and creative art, you can work toward building a trauma-informed, self-aware strategy that fosters resilience and results in more engaged and effective teaching. Just five minutes a day or more of implementing the practical ideas in this book can result in powerful change. These strategies include:

- Ten ways to practice mindfulness during recess duty
- Guided journaling to celebrate what’s working in your classroom
- Daily routines to keep you in the present moment
- Quick practices for self-regulation during a conflict situation
- Sentence stems to encourage internal dialogue and positive self-talk

Whether you're a special education teacher, paraprofessional, speech pathologist, counselor, or any type of educator, this book offers a guide to becoming not only a social-emotional role model for students but a better, healthier teacher.
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Don't Just Survive, Thrive: A Teacher's Guide to Fostering Resilience, Preventing Burnout, and Nurturing Your Love for Teaching

Don't Just Survive, Thrive: A Teacher's Guide to Fostering Resilience, Preventing Burnout, and Nurturing Your Love for Teaching

Don't Just Survive, Thrive: A Teacher's Guide to Fostering Resilience, Preventing Burnout, and Nurturing Your Love for Teaching

Don't Just Survive, Thrive: A Teacher's Guide to Fostering Resilience, Preventing Burnout, and Nurturing Your Love for Teaching

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Stay inspired and motivated with this ultimate teacher self-care action plan designed to help educators avoid workplace stress and burnout.

Any educator will tell you it's no surprise that 50% of teachers leave education within their first five years. Being a teacher is deeply rewarding and inspiring, but keeping that big picture in mind is hard after long days, difficult students, and limited resources. On top of it all, teachers have the added burden of managing an entirely new digital learning environment. But burning out doesn't have to be your only option. Don't Just Survive, Thrive offers hardworking teachers a sustainable blueprint for becoming unshakeable at school with the power of self-care.

Through mindfulness, connection, and creative art, you can work toward building a trauma-informed, self-aware strategy that fosters resilience and results in more engaged and effective teaching. Just five minutes a day or more of implementing the practical ideas in this book can result in powerful change. These strategies include:

- Ten ways to practice mindfulness during recess duty
- Guided journaling to celebrate what’s working in your classroom
- Daily routines to keep you in the present moment
- Quick practices for self-regulation during a conflict situation
- Sentence stems to encourage internal dialogue and positive self-talk

Whether you're a special education teacher, paraprofessional, speech pathologist, counselor, or any type of educator, this book offers a guide to becoming not only a social-emotional role model for students but a better, healthier teacher.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646040827
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Publication date: 03/02/2021
Series: Books for Teachers
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

SaraJane Herrboldt is a former public school teacher and district coordinator for ELD programming, K–12. With over a decade of work in the school systems, she frequently saw the impact of trauma, which drives her passion for creating opportunities to practice resilience. She now provides coaching in support of teachers' health and wellness on topics related to their social-emotional learning, such as secondary/vicarious trauma and caregiver burnout. In addition, she has completed training in therapeutic and trauma-informed yoga, as well as mindfulness. She is an advocate for equity, trauma-informed practices, social-emotional learning, and the well-being of all individuals. When not advocating and educating, she is sharing life with her husband, who is also an educator, and three incredible children.

Kay Waterson is an elementary school art educator and illustrator. She received her bachelor's degree in fine art along with her K–12 teaching certification from Kendall College of Art and Design. Kay has been teaching full time for almost a decade in an urban K–5 school setting. She completed a master's degree in art education. Her thesis work, "Creativity in a Post-Traumatic Mind," explores the cognitive and emotional benefits of creative art within the process of healing from trauma. She puts the research and strategies from this body of work, which embodies her passion for art education and wellness, into practice. Additionally, Kay works part time as a freelance illustrator and painter.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I The State of Education 9

Chapter 1 Why Did You Become an Educator? 10

Chapter 2 For the Love of Learning 17

Chapter 3 Stressed-Out Educators 20

Chapter 4 The New World of Education 30

Chapter 5 Teacher Turnover 35

Chapter 6 Follow the Money 40

Chapter 7 The Work-Life Balancing Act 43

Chapter 8 Minimizing the Demands on Our Time 47

Chapter 9 How Effective Is Highly Effective? 52

Chapter 10 What Gets Noticed 56

Chapter 11 The Myth of "Busyness" 60

Chapter 12 A New Definition of a Highly Effective Educator 68

Part II The Ripple Effect of Trauma 73

Chapter 13 Teaching through Risk 74

Chapter 14 The Effect of Stress 78

Chapter 15 The Potential for Chronic Stress 81

Chapter 16 In Control or Out of Control? Which Is It? 86

Chapter 17 What Is Trauma, Really? 92

Chapter 18 Trauma in the Classroom 94

Chapter 19 The Ongoing Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences 101

Chapter 20 The Role of Social Emotional Learning 103

Chapter 21 Educators and Vicarious Trauma 109

Chapter 22 Widening Our Windows of Tolerance 116

Part III Rising Resilient 119

Chapter 23 Prioritizing Our Well-Being 120

Chapter 24 The Misconceptions about Resilience 124

Chapter 25 Increasing Your Resiliency 126

Chapter 26 Resilience Begins with Self-Awareness 134

Chapter 27 What Exactly Is Self-Care? 139

Chapter 28 Connecting the Mind and the Body 143

Chapter 29 Fostering the "Muscles of Resilience" 146

Chapter 30 Don't Forget to Breathe 153

Chapter 31 The Invitation to Be More Mindful 161

Chapter 32 The Messages We Surround Ourselves With Count 170

Chapter 33 The Messages We Tell Ourselves Matter 174

Chapter 34 Truthful Stories 183

Chapter 35 Keep Cultivating Curiosity, Compassion, and Action 186

References 190

Notes 195

Index 199

Acknowledgments 205

About the Author 208

About the Illustrator 208

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