The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again

As an educator, you often burn at both ends—not only eroding your own well-being but diminishing your ability to engage students in the classroom. You can also often find yourself in challenging contexts that are beyond your control. Rather than become a complacent curmudgeon, you can take control of your own actions, using the science of well-being to learn to love teaching again.

In this webinar, Chase Mielke, author of the new book The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again, will highlight research-based, teacher-tested methods that helped him fight through burnout and learn to love teaching again. You will explore practical strategies for increasing your own well-being (or that of educators you work with), reducing burnout, and improving learning in the classroom. To start, Mielke will introduce a simple Model for Thriving that empowers you take your well-being into your own hands. Then, you'll explore multiple themes for social-emotional thriving:

• Mindfulness
• Goodness Curation
• Forgiveness
• Gratitude
• Optimism
• Altruism
• Goal-Striving
• Empathy
• Job Crafting

Each theme will explore the peer-reviewed science of the concept along with specific strategies for educators. You will learn methods to ensure not only your own thriving, but also the social-emotional well-being of your students.

Chase Mielke is a writer, speaker, and award-winning high school teacher. He runs a blog dedicated to helping educators better understand and teach social-emotional learning.

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