Love Your Job Longer: An Educator's Guide to Everyday Resilience
Love Your Job Longer: An Educator's Guide to Everyday Resilience
Seize Your Joy!
As educators, we have learned that hope alone is not an effective strategy for getting through our days. This is especially true when you may not have the support, encouragement, and energy to meet the expectations you—and others—have for yourself. This book contains stories of raw failures and brilliant successes from others who have walked in your shoes.
We want everyone—new and veteran, in the classroom and out—to have the capacity to cultivate joy and nourish young minds. We have found that the only way to do this consistently is to find inner balance and strengthen resilience. How one grows their own resilience can look very different from another’s. However, it is vital to do so in order to thrive in our chosen profession for as long as we want rather than only for as long as we can.
This book offers many tools and strategies to encourage and grow your own resiliency, as well as to create peaceful environments. We provide a glimpse into the science behind the strategies, tools, and techniques we share, including resources that will allow you to dig deeper. We also offer you intentional opportunities to pause and reflect, so you can celebrate the new understandings, ponder the experiences, and carve your own path.
We hope that this book will inspire you to embrace your resilience and forge an authentic and fulfilling life for yourself and those around you.