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Teaching With Light

Ten Lessons for Finding Wisdom, Balance, and Inspiration

This vivid and inspirational guide offers educators practical strategies to promote their wellbeing and balance.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071822708
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Teaching Essentials
  • Year: 2021
  • Page Count: 160
  • Publication date: April 01, 2021
Price: $30.95

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Description

Click here to listen to Carol's summer advice: https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/files/corwin-blog-be-the-wavem4a

Illuminate your education path with uplifting lessons and mindful living practices. 
 
It takes courage, positivity, and passion to thrive as a teacher. This vivid and inspirational guide offers educators practical wisdom and strategies to promote their wellbeing and balance.  

Carol Pelletier Radford shares 10 important lessons she has learned in a long career as an educator that can help you build a fulfilling and lifelong career in education. In each lesson, readers will find:

• Stories of resilience from classroom teachers
• Self-care tips and assessments
• Podcasts with inspiring teachers and leaders who have lived out the 10 lessons
• Reading plans for teachers, teacher teams, and mentor/mentee pairs
• Ways to dive deeper with additional companion website resources

Teaching With Light equips courageous teachers with the tools they need to take care of themselves so they can serve their students, step into leadership, and contribute to the education profession. 
 
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Carol Pelletier Radford

Carol Pelletier Radford is the founder of Mentoring in Action, an organization dedicated to the success of novice teachers and their mentors. She received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she focused her studies on mentoring and teacher leadership. Carol is an experienced classroom teacher, university education administrator, and certified yoga instructor. She is the author of bestselling Corwin books Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing, and Reflecting With Novice Teachers; The First Years Matter: Becoming an Effective Teacher; Teaching With Light: Ten Lessons for Finding Wisdom, Balance, and Inspiration; and "When I Started Teaching, I Wish I Had Known..." Weekly Wisdom for Beginning Teachers.

Visit https://mentoringinaction.com/ to learn more about her books and access free podcasts, videos, and courses. You can find her near the beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts and Venice, Florida.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kristen Lee

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Parker J. Palmer: “Carol Radford is a teacher's teacher—one who cares for the caregivers. Full of real-life stories, practical tools, evocative art that adds a fourth dimension to the text, and links to podcasts that bring the text to life, the book does exactly what its title suggests: shines a light of affirmation and guidance on a noble profession.”
“Carol Radford is a teacher's teacher—one who cares for the caregivers. Full of real-life stories, practical tools, evocative art that adds a fourth dimension to the text, and links to podcasts that bring the text to life, the book does exactly what its title suggests: shines a light of affirmation and guidance on a noble profession.”
Parker J. Palmer
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