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Teach From Your Best Self: A Teacher’s Guide to Thriving in the Classroom

This book offers a roadmap to every teacher who is looking for practical answers to the challenge of teaching. With fresh ideas throughout, educators at all levels will learn how to prioritize their own well-being so they can continue to make a difference for their students—this year, and for years to come.

Part 1: The Challenge of Teaching

Explains why the self the teacher brings to the classroom matters for both teacher and students.

Part 2: Skills and Principles that Matter

Lays out key skills and principles that help educators sustain a best-self state in all types of situations.

Part 3: Tools for Emotionally Challenging Moments

Gives teachers tools for those moments when, provoked beyond their limits, the teacher finds themselves reacting rather than responding.

Part 4: Creating a Resilient Best Self

Provides simple approaches for building a more resilient best self for the long term—a best self with a capacity to handle the pressurized conditions of teaching.