The Book Depository Onward by Elena Aguilar
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Price: £26.99
Brand: The Book Depository
Description: Onward : Paperback : John Wiley & Sons Inc : 9781119364894 : 1119364892 : 03 Aug 2018 : Resilience in teachers is key for creating quality classrooms and schools. By cultivating resilience, teachers can fulfill the intentions that brought them into the teaching profession. This practical resource identifies 12 habits and dispositions that can be cultivated in order to build resilience.
Category: Books
Merchant: The Book Depository
Product ID: 9781119364894
MPN: 1119364892
GTIN: 9781119364894
Author: TRS
Rating: 5
Review: In February 2019 I was blessed to attend "The Art of Coaching Conference" with Elena Aguilar. While at the retreat, I purchased her book "Onward" my shameless way of thinking I could get an autograph and a picture. Little did I know this book would influence me as a parent, as a partner, and as a professional! Please bear with me as I attempt to find the correct words to convey my enthusiasm about this work. This lady is brilliant! Her book provides a “Calendar of Learning” best described as a reflective journey for educators. I must take a few lines to summarize the chapters so that you may feel my overall excitement about the layout of this book. Each chapter represented a month and shared feelings, struggles and action steps beginning not in January or September as most educators would expect but JUNE! YEP, June! The calendar presented as follows: June – Know yourself, July – Understand Emotions, August – Tell empowering stories, September- Build Community, October- Be here now (be present for the moment), November – Take care of yourself, December – Focus on the bright spots, January – Cultivate compassion, February – Be a learner, March – Play and Create, April- Ride the waves of change, and May – Celebrate and appreciate. Elena goes further to discuss our individual resilience, organizational conditions and systemic conditions as teacher leaders. She references Frederick Douglass early on in the book with the quote, “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” I rephrased this statement to drive my professional practices to state “Leadership concedes nothing without a demand.” As a classroom leader, there will be struggles and difficulties but we must continue to press forward to meet the needs and demands in our schools. I am still digging into this book month after month, discovering new things. A must-read!
Author: Chris
Rating: 4
Review: I am a teacher specialist who works with new teachers and their mentors. This book and its workbook were very useful for me as I guided teachers through their first year (and helped mentors as they coached their mentees). To be honest, I used many of the activities on my own and with my team. The school year framework of the book made it easy to access activities for each month for our team meetings.