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Fully and confidently step into your role as an instructional coach with the support of Coaching for Professional Wellness. This instructional leadership guide offers evergreen strategies alongside fresh new solutions that will help you differentiate coaching practices for new and veteran teachers, address teacher self-care, and more. You'll turn to this resource again and again as you continue to improve your craft and help teachers find their own greatness. Increase teacher expertise and self-efficacy by providing a strong foundation of physical, institutional, emotional, and instructional support: Review research surrounding best teacher coaching practices. Explore strategies for differentiating coaching practices for teachers at every stage of their career. Study the four types of support, and learn how to match support to meet each teacher's needs during different phases of the school year. Use interactive activities, tools, and templates to help support all teachers in increasing their expertise. Consider how self-care and professional wellness for adults are foundational supports for social-emotional learning for students. Answer end-of-chapter questions to reflect on your journey and deepen your understanding. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: A Portrait of You, an Instructional Coach Chapter 2: Building an Effective Coaching Relationship Chapter 3: The Phases of the School Year and the Four Types of Support Chapter 4: Physical and Institutional Support for New and New-to-the-Building Teachers Chapter 5: Emotional Support and Professional Wellness for All Teachers Chapter 6: Instructional Support for All Teachers Epilogue References and Resources Index

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

Teachers can’t teach effectively if they’re demotivated and exhausted; and they shouldn’t they have to! A Little Guide for Teachers: Teacher Wellbeing and Self-Care explains how wellbeing is essential to effective teaching, and gives teachers practical tools to take back control of the classroom. The Little Guide for Teachers series is little in size but BIG on all the support and inspiration you need to navigate your day to day life as a teacher. · Authored by experts in the field · Easy to dip in-and-out of · Interactive activities encourage you to write into the book and make it your own · Fun engaging illustrations throughout · Read in an afternoon or take as long as you like with it!

Teaching can be a highly satisfying profession, but it can also be overwhelming. Stress management. Self-care. Mental well-being. Mindfulness. These words have become all too familiar, but what do they actually mean for you? And how can they help without adding to your to-do list? All teachers have different experiences and different needs. Through stories by diverse educators, this professional resource invites you to try different wellness strategies, explore varying perspectives, and consider new ideas of what it means to “be well.” Grounded in servant leadership and a holistic model, each chapter connects to Indigenous perspectives of wellness through remarks from Elder Stanley Kipling and Knowledge Keeper Richelle North Star Scott.

Teacher wellbeing, or a lack of it, is a major concern for the teaching profession. Research shows that there is a recruitment and retention crisis with over a third of the school, FE and HE profession expecting to leave by 2020. This new text supports teachers to be aware of themselves and the pressures they face at work.

Your straightforward resource for coaching partnerships that focus on student learning Teaching in today′s classrooms is different, so why shouldn′t coaching strategies evolve too? Shift the conversation from teacher "shoulds" to innovative systems and structures that build lasting student success. This powerful follow-up to Diane Sweeney′s Student Centered Coaching: A Guide for K-8 Coaches and Principals is a strategy-packed roadmap to dynamic teacher-coach collaborations in middle and high schools. Written for coaches who work with secondary teachers in all content areas, Student-Centered Coaching at the Secondary Level offers rich case studies and practical tips and tools. Coaches and administrators get real-world specifics on Core practices for tackling the unique challenges of coaching across a variety of content areas at the secondary level Extending coaching to teams of teachers, rather than just individuals Using standards, such as the Common Core, to coach toward specific goals for student learning Embedding formative assessments into coaching conversations Moving past teacher resistance Working in tandem with principals to ensure that coaching accomplishes the goal of increased student learning With graphic organizers, planning matrices, and other valuable resources, this step-by-step guide is your ultimate roadmap to coaching success. By focusing coaching on student learning—rather than on fixing teachers—you can make a measurable impact on student achievement. "This book provides both veteran and novice instructional coaches and school leaders with practical tips and tools they can use to move instructional coaching from focusing on teacher behavior to focusing on student learning. It offers strategies to help demonstrate the direct impact that coaching has on student achievement." —Deborah Mitchell, New Teacher Induction Coordinator Merced Union High School District, Merced, CA

Provides quick expert advice and tips for teachers to make wellness a regular part of their day, both in the classroom and outside. Brief tips focus on keeping balance and staying healthy in the midst of the many demands of teaching.

Give new teachers the time and professional guidance they need to become expert teachers. Investigate key research, and examine the four types of support—physical, emotional, instructional, and institutional—that are crucial during a teacher’s first year in the classroom. Discover essential strategies for K–12 mentors, coaches, and school leaders to develop an effective mentoring program schoolwide.

Learn how to make instructional coaching more empowering and effective by supporting teachers as learners and leaders in their own classrooms. This unique book offers a powerful assets-based coaching framework that capitalizes on teachers’ strengths, internal motivation, and professional goals. The authors provide a useful analysis of popular theories and models that ground coaching and support intentional planning; tools and strategies to help you enact the framework through ongoing coaching cycles; and examples, vignettes, and transcripts to illustrate coaching in practice. Each chapter also includes opportunities for reflection and practice to guide you along the way. Appropriate for school-and district-based coaches of all levels of experience, this book will enable you to provide a more targeted, proactive learning experience for ongoing teacher growth. With an instructional framework designed to empower teachers, increased teacher professional capacity can be expected for lasting impact on students, classrooms, schools, and communities.

The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing addresses challenges faced by schools wanting to improve wellbeing. While many schools globally now understand the need to promote and protect student wellbeing, they often find themselves stuck – not knowing where to start, what to prioritise, or how to implement whole-school change. This book fills that gap. This book provides companionship through rich stories from schools around the world that have created wellbeing practices that work for their schools. It guides educators through processes that help create individualised, contextualised school wellbeing plans. With chapters addressing ‘why wellbeing?’, ‘what is "whole school?"’, change dynamics, measurement, staff wellbeing, coaching, cultural responsiveness, and how to build buy-in, it is the first of its kind. Balancing research and practice for each topic with expert practitioner and researcher insights, this book gives schools access to best-practice guidance from around the world in a user-friendly format, designed for busy educators. What sets the authors apart from the many school wellbeing practitioners globally is their substantial experience working alongside diverse school groups. While many have experience in one school, few work across a multitude of very different schools and clusters, giving these practising academics a unique appreciation for effective, cross-context processes.