Beyond subject knowledge and teaching techniques, what do exemplary educators know and do that could be adapted for use by others? Exploring this question serves as the basis for Avoiding Burnout: How Exemplary Teachers Find Fuel and Cultivate Success. The featured educators - among the most distinguished American teachers - provide insight into their successful strategies with students, parents/caregivers, colleagues, and administration. Their honest and thoughtful voices provide compelling evidence of how they navigate today's complex issues in education. Concise connections to relevant research underscore the value of their perspectives.
This highly engaging and easy to use book is designed to spur thinking and conversation about what supports and inhibits educator success at all levels. In small meaningful bites, readers will learn what exemplary educators do, why they do it, and how it helps. The book explores timely and important topics such as educator wellbeing, teacher bias, adult social and emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, and teaching excellence. In this time of unprecedented challenges, we need to share ideas about how to succeed in the teaching profession.