180 Days of Awesome: Celebrating Every Day of Education

by Monica Genta

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Teaching

Unknown Binding

Reviews

[Samantha Holcomb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just a book of pure motivation for those rough days in the classroom!

[Kelli Trusedell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book SO much (and not just because my birthday, August 15th, is featured front and center on the cover 😁)! Monica Genta came and spoke at our school district’s whole-staff back-to-school convocation in August, and she was INCREDIBLE. I want to be in her class AND be best friends. She’s so real, so random, so funny, so positive, so inspiring. This book is all of those things too. After her seventh year of teaching, Ms. Genta wanted to quit the teaching profession. She gave herself one year to decide, but challenged herself during that year, all 180 days of teaching, everyday before she left her classroom for the day, she would write down one awesome thing about the school day. This resulted in her leaving school everyday with the awesomeness on her mind instead of the negative, and she rediscovered her love of teaching. This book is that journal in published form. So many giggles, so many great ideas and challenges, so much real teacher life. This copy belongs to my school, but I will be purchasing my own, and checking out Ms. Genta’s other books as well. I LOVE this book and give it five rockstar teachers! 👨🏾‍🏫👩🏼‍🏫🧑🏻‍🏫👨🏽‍🏫🧑🏼‍🏫 Also, a side note: My awesome coworkers and I have started keeping our own Super Awesome Journals, documenting awesomeness everyday! ✏️📓💗

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for teachers who want to make a daily, positive impact for kids. This book gives 180 days of ways to focus on tiny awesome moments. It makes being recognizing awesomeness an intentional event each day. I am actually trying some of the ideas with my staff.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love reading her work. Actually this is the Game Changer book. I have the 180 days to read next.

[Amanda Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book! Not only was it relatable as a teacher, but I loved the practical tips that could be immediately implemented.

[Robin Pelletier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything in this book is awesome. This is a dairy style reflection of Monica Genta’s 180 days with her students. Some days have creative ideas to try out, some days have insightful analysis and some days are just rough and tough to find the awesome. But Genta finds the awesome in each and every day and she encourages the reader to find the awesome in each and every moment too.

My biggest idea away: getting my mom to teach on the 100th day of school as a guest presenter! We planned out a whole lesson already for this upcoming 100th day of school!