Among the many elements that make up an effective educator, the most important is self-efficacy, writes ASCD author Chase Mielke. When schools support educators in developing a sense of efficacy, there’s often a chain reaction.

The Critical Element of Self-Efficacy

Chase Mielke

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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.

How Cognitive Distortions Undermine Well-Being

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Well-being

Mental health

Social-emotional learning

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."

Reining in the Super-Teacher Complex

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Teaching Comes in Seasons

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Teacher leadership

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Showing Up with Empathy

Communication

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Three Teaching Mindsets to Let Go of in 2020

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Overcoming Educator Burnout (Quick Reference Guide)

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The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again (Print Book)

The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again

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The Critical Element of Self-Efficacy

How Cognitive Distortions Undermine Well-Being

Reining in the Super-Teacher Complex

Teaching Comes in Seasons

Blogs by Chase

Chase Mielke

Showing Up with Empathy

Chase Mielke

Three Teaching Mindsets to Let Go of in 2020

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