Chase Mielke, author of The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again, describes how we can reframe unhealthy thinking—identifying and fixing cognitive distortions like "mind reading" and "permanence" that lead us to assume the worst.

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How Cognitive Distortions Undermine Well-Being

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While external conditions, like low pay and testing pressures, contribute to burnout, we also need to ask ourselves how our own actions and attitudes are compounding the problem. Are we trying to be heroes? Are we overworking ourselves? Chase Mielke, author of The Burnout Cure, shares four ways that teachers commonly overextend themselves—and what to do about it.Part of a theme issue on "Time Well-Managed."

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Tough teaching conditions affect us. But they don't define us, says teacher Chase Mielke, author of The Burnout Cure (ASCD, 2019). In this heartfelt letter to new teachers, Mielke shares five "Passion Stokers" to keep the teaching fire alive. Some of these he learned from research in positive psychology. Others he learned the hard way, by doing the opposite. All of them stem from a core philosophy: Our well-being, passion, and ability to thrive are within our control.

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How Cognitive Distortions Undermine Well-Being

Reining in the Super-Teacher Complex

Teaching Comes in Seasons

A Letter to New Teachers

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