180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators (A 36-Week Plan of Low-Cost Self-Care for Teachers and Educators) - Softcover

Tina H. Boogren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194953927X ISBN 13: 9781949539271

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2019

Synopsis

Rely on 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to help you lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life inside and outside of the classroom. With author Tina H. Boogren's guidance, you will work your way through thirty-six weeks of daily self-care strategies and techniques, each corresponding with a week of the school year. Weekly themes range from creativity and inspiration to relationships and time management for teachers and administrators.

Follow this self-care plan designed to support your health and wellness during the school year:

• Understand how prioritizing your own self-care will better equip you to positively impact student learning and achievement.
• Discover low- and no-cost self-care ideas for teachers and administrators designed to help make meaningful, positive change.
• Explore the dangers of stress in the classroom and in an educator's personal life, and understand how this stress affects students.
• Learn how to assess what you need, check in with yourself throughout the day, and act on what you learn.
• Utilize reflection questions to help you think through which strategies worked -- and which didn't.
• Let go of the expectations of perfection while practicing these self-care techniques and teacher wellness ideas.

Contents:
Introduction

Section I: Preparing for a Season of Sacrifice
Week One: Music (Days 1-5)
Week Two: Nutrition and Hydration (Days 6-10)
Week Three: Sleep (Days 11-15)
Week Four: Laughter (Days 16-20)
Week Five: Technology (Days 21-25)
Week Six: Altruism (Days 26-30)
Week Seven: Wardrobe (Days 31-35)
Week Eight: Time (Days 36-40)
Week Nine: Mindfulness (Days 41-45)

Section II: Dealing With Disillusionment
Week Ten: Time (Days 46-50)
Week Eleven: Relationships (Days 51-55)
Week Twelve: Gratitude (Days 56-60)
Week Thirteen: Saying No (Days 61-65)
Week Fourteen: Inspiration (Days 66-70)
Week Fifteen: Help (Days 71-75)
Week Sixteen: Comfort (Days 76-80)
Week Seventeen: Social Media (Days 81-85)
Week Eighteen: Habits (Days 86-90)

Section III: Finding Balance
Week Nineteen: Creativity (Days 91-95)
Week Twenty: Altruism (Days 96-100)
Week Twenty-One: Indulgence (Days 101-105)
Week Twenty-Two: Adventure (Days 106-110)
Week Twenty-Three: Orderliness (Days 111-115)
Week Twenty-Four: Obligations (Days 116-120)
Week Twenty-Five: Play (Days 121-125)
Week Twenty-Six: Email (Days 126-130)
Week Twenty-Seven: Replay (Days 131-135)

Section IV: Finishing Strong
Week Twenty-Eight: Hobbies (Days 136-140)
Week Twenty-Nine: Cognition (Days 141-145)
Week Thirty: Transitions (Days 146-150)
Week Thirty-One: Listening (Days 151-155)
Week Thirty-Two: Journal (Days 156-160)
Week Thirty-Three: Outdoors (Days 161-165)
Week Thirty-Four: Morning Routine (Days 166-170)
Week Thirty-Five: Active Rest (Days 171-175)
Week Thirty-Six: Summer To-Do List (Days 176-180)

Epilogue: Create Your Own Self-Care List
Appendix: Final Reflection
Index

About this title

About the Author:

Tina H. Boogren, PhD, is a former classroom teacher, English department chair, teacher mentor, instructional coach, professional developer, athletic coach, and build­ing-level leader. She has presented at the school, district, state, and national levels and was a featured speaker at the International Literacy Association annual conference and Barnes & Noble's educators' nights.

Dr. Boogren was a 2007 finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year and received the Douglas County School District Outstanding Teacher Award eight years in a row, from 2002 to 2009. In additional to writing articles for the National Writing Project's The Voice and The Quarterly, she is the author of In the First Few Years: Reflections of a Beginning Teacher, Supporting Beginning Teachers, The Beginning Teacher's Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years, and Take Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators, which was the Independent Publisher's Gold award winner in the Education category. She is a co-author of Strategies to Motivate and Inspire Students along with Robert Marzano, Darrell Scott, and Ming Lee Newcomb, and is a contributing author to Richard Kellough's Middle School Teaching: A Guide to Methods and Resources and Robert J. Marzano's Becoming a Reflective Teacher.

Tina holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa, a master's degree with an administrative endorsement from the University of Colorado Denver, and a doctorate from the University of Denver in educational administration and policy studies.

To learn more about Tina's work, visit facebook.com/selfcareforeducators or follow @THBoogren on Twitter and Instagram.

Review:

"This book is the perfect companion for the busy educator. Its easy self-care steps and well-thought-out plan allow educators the ability to reflect on their self-care practice and implement a plan to be the best version of themselves. This guide is easy to follow, practical, and full of tips that teachers can use each day to bring their best selves to the classroom and be their best for students." ----Kayla Dessert, third-grade teacher, curriculum developer

"Multiple teaching award-winner Tina H. Boogren cites the research on the high level of teacher stress as a call to arms against it. She offers intense encouragement to find the eye in the storm of teacher stress and gives readers multiple tips, strategies, ideas, and paradigms. The pages of this book jump with Boogren's smorgasbord of offerings for wellness. Teacher stress will lose its mighty grip on readers of this book!" ----Tom Skovholt, author, The Resilient Practitioner, Third Edition, licensed psychologist, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota

"Tina H. Boogren's latest book is a blessing for busy educators. Rich in practical suggestions, the book allows readers to explore new ways of tackling their difficult profession while choosing what works best for them. The book is comprehensive in that it covers mental, emotional, and physical tactics, but also ways to make the job more sustainable (such as using strategies for saying no and finding order). Whether you are new to self-care or a veteran, Boogren will give you new ways to combat burnout and find joy in your professional life." ----Jenny Grant Rankin, author, First Aid for Teacher Burnout and Psychology Today

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 194953927X
• ISBN 13: 9781949539271
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 176