Teaching Well: How healthy, empowered teachers lead to thriving, successful classrooms

by Lisa Bush

How can teachers balance the needs of busy, sometimes overwhelming classrooms with the needs of their own health and well-being? This remarkable book shows you how embracing a healthy lifestyle is not only beneficial for teachers, but for students, classrooms, and schools.

Teaching Well explores how to avoid burning out while creating an effective learning community in your classroom. You will find the inspiration you need to make the changes that will lead to a healthier worklife balance. This practical book helps you

- Embrace change, and go from surviving to thriving
- Appreciate the importance of your own wellness – conquer stress and create magic in your classroom
- Reap the benefits of collaboration with strategies for working with partners and mentors to meet the needs of students
- Transform the way you look at learning and soak us on the essentials that are most important to students
- Optimize your time with useful management techniques to use both inside and outside the classroom

This highly readable book will give you the courage and knowledge you need to make wellness a pillar in your life so you can be the motivated and engaged teacher your students need

115 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Lisa Bush is an American Canadian writer, educator, and storyteller. Her work is based on the belief that stories have the power to connect, heal, disrupt, challenge, and ultimately transform ourselves and the world around us.

Lisa has worked in education for over 16 years both in the US and in Canada in the roles of teacher, curriculum consultant, and school administrator. She’s presented locally and internationally on fine arts, language arts, language acquisition, gifted education, and teacher wellness. Lisa received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Colorado State University and a master’s in art education from the University of Georgia with emphasis in language acquisition.

She is the author of Teaching Well: How healthy, empowered teachers lead to thriving, successful classrooms as well as City Hall: A Dr. Ada Logan Mystery. She is the recipient of the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Amber Bowerman prize for emerging writer. Lisa’s work, both in fiction and non-fiction, explores the paradox that exists for women navigating careers in systems that were often not created by women or with women’s wellbeing and success in mind.

Lisa lives and Works in Calgary, Alberta where she is writing, podcasting, and working to create change—both in her family and her community—one story at a time.

Reviews

[Joy Kirr]

This book has a little of everything - the WHY behind self-care, how to benefit from collaboration, changing your classroom to work better for students and yourself, optimizing the precious time you have, and HOW to prioritize and take time for your own well-being. I came away with some concrete ideas to try this school year, and a stronger desire to make my own wellness a priority. (Read in January - blog post here: http://geniushour.blogspot.com/2019/0...)

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a must-read for all teachers. Pursuing wellness and practicing consistent self-care is of course vital for our own personal health (and sanity), but I love how Bush explains how this will in fact make us better teachers, with stronger performance from our students. Self-care then becomes not an indulgence, but a gift that we give to our students and ourselves. And not only does she reinforce the necessity of the pursuit of wellness, but actually gives concrete steps for what that could look like in a classroom. I am implementing some of her ideas in class immediately!