The Peak Performing Teacher

The Peak-Performing Teacher is intended for both practitioners and PD professionals who understand how difficult it can be to draft and implement an action plan for self-care. Using new research, reflection prompts, vignettes, checklists, and templates,the author targets critical habits that have been shown to increase productivity, strengthen critical thinking capability, and relieve stresses that have led to increased depression, anxiety, and even suicidal ideation. This book will dedicate itself to five critical practices and how to implement them in the middle of an already busy schedule. The author concentrates on the small changes most likely to yield significant improvements. This approach makes it easier for workshop organizers to structure sessions and it allows the author to dive more deeply into the most important changes educators can make. These include physical exercise, managing stress, creating personal mission statements and mental frameworks, establishing morning routines, and purposefully sharing gratitude--