Onward

Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

By: Elena Aguilar

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

A practical framework to avoid burnout and keep great teachers teaching 

Onward tackles the problem of educator stress, and provides a practical framework for taking the burnout out of teaching. Stress is part of the job, but when 70 percent of teachers quit within their first five years because the stress is making them physically and mentally ill, things have gone too far. Unsurprisingly, these effects are highest in difficult-to-fill positions such as math, science, and foreign languages, and in urban areas and secondary classrooms - places where we need our teachers to be especially motivated and engaged. This book offers a path to resiliency to help teachers weather the storms and bounce back - and work toward banishing the rain for good. 

This actionable framework gives you concrete steps toward rediscovering yourself, your energy, and your passion for teaching. You’ll learn how a simple shift in mindset can affect your outlook, and how taking care of yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally is one of the most important things you can do. The companion workbook helps you put the framework into action, streamlining your way toward renewal and strength. 

• Cultivate resilience with a four-part framework based on 12 key habits.
• Uncover your true self, understand emotions, and use your energy where it counts.
• Adopt a mindful, story-telling approach to communication and community building. 
• Keep learning, playing, and creating to create an environment of collective celebration. 

By cultivating resilience in schools, we help ensure that we are working in, teaching in, and leading organizations where every child thrives, and where the potential of every child is recognized and nurtured. Onward provides a step-by-step plan for reigniting that spark.

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©2018 Elena Aguilar (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

Narrator is a real dud!

30 seconds into the narration and I'm already distracted by the narrator. Really people?! You can't find a narrator who could be taught how to pronounce a few words in Spanish? We are a bilingual country. I know 100s of people who would have done a better job narrating. It ruins this great book. Please, please redo the narration with a professional who can pronounces words correctly.

Her ignorance unfortunately undermines the credibility of the whole book - a book that holds the key to helping educators across the country overcome burnout, sky-high workloads, and everyday challenges of supporting all students.

Way too political for me

I’m sorry but capitalism is not the problem and egalitarianism a s Buddhism is not the answer. I learned a lot from one chapter on emotional intelligence. Stopped listening after overused and inaccurate studies on black deaths in the US. Fact check please. Glad I didn’t pay for this rehash if what is played repeatedly in main stream media.

Disappointing

I kept hoping this book would improve. As a fairly new teacher I appreciate insight into the issues that decrease resilience. However, I need some TOOLS to do the work in these areas. I felt like the part of the book I struggled through was a big ad for the workbook ( considered ) and the authors other book.

Highly Recommended

Teachers please listen to this story! It helps anyone in a teaching rut. It helps get you into a better mindset if you need one. There are so many ideas and takeaways! Please don’t pass by this one!

Great Book!

love it. Bought the book as well to make notes to refer back to.

Sooo good!

We did a year long book club at my school with this book and also used the workbook. There was way too much for us to actually do all of the ideas of how to become better humans and educators.
I didn’t connect with all of Elena Aguilar’s ideas, but there was so much that I was easily able to find ideas to try each month.
I too highly recommend this book to help k it a school together. It was a great choice for ours.
Thank you Elena for writing it and for creating the workbook too!

Essential for educators

I wish I’d had this book in my first year as an educator! Highly highly recommend!!!