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Teaching With Light

Ten Lessons for Finding Wisdom, Balance, and Inspiration

By: Carol Pelletier Radford

This vivid and inspirational guide offers educators practical strategies to promote their wellbeing and balance.

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781071822708
Published By: Corwin
Series: Corwin Teaching Essentials
Year: 2021
Page Count: 160
Publication date: April 01, 2021

Price: $29.95

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Click here to listen to Carol's summer advice: https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/files/corwin-blog-be-the-wavem4a

Illuminate your education path with uplifting lessons and mindful living practices.

It takes courage, positivity, and passion to thrive as a teacher. This vivid and inspirational guide offers educators practical wisdom and strategies to promote their wellbeing and balance.

Carol Pelletier Radford shares 10 important lessons she has learned in a long career as an educator that can help you build a fulfilling and lifelong career in education. In each lesson, readers will find:

• Stories of resilience from classroom teachers
• Self-care tips and assessments
• Podcasts with inspiring teachers and leaders who have lived out the 10 lessons
• Reading plans for teachers, teacher teams, and mentor/mentee pairs
• Ways to dive deeper with additional companion website resources

Teaching With Light equips courageous teachers with the tools they need to take care of themselves so they can serve their students, step into leadership, and contribute to the education profession.

Author(s)

Carol Pelletier Radford

Carol Pelletier Radford is the founder of Mentoring in Action, an organization dedicated to the success of novice teachers and their mentors. Before she established her own organization to support mentors and new teachers, she was a veteran elementary school teacher and a teacher preparation leader. Carol is the author of Corwin’s bestselling books Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing, and Reflecting With Novice Teachers and The First Years Matter: Becoming an Effective Teacher.

Carol received her Education Doctorate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she focused her studies on mentoring and teacher leadership. She is also a certified yoga teacher who practices meditation and shares mindfulness strategies with educators through her online courses and website. Her podcast Teaching With Light features the stories of teachers and inspirational leaders. Her next passion project is the creation of a Teacher Legacy Network, where retired teachers can share their wisdom with the next generation of teachers.

You can learn more about Carol, find free resources, videos, meditations, courses, and all of her books at mentoringinaction.com/.

Twitter: @MentorinAction
Facebook: @MentoringinAction4Teachers
Instagram: @cpradford

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kristen Lee

Reviews

“Carol Radford is a teacher's teacher—one who cares for the caregivers. Full of real-life stories, practical tools, evocative art that adds a fourth dimension to the text, and links to podcasts that bring the text to life, the book does exactly what its title suggests: shines a light of affirmation and guidance on a noble profession.”

Parker J. Palmer

Other Titles in: Education | Mentoring

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Related Resources

Access to companion resources is available with the purchase of this book.
How Dreams Can Become Realities [Lessons and strategies]
Inspirational Quote: The Tao of Leadership [Other]
Teaching Through Divorce, Death, and Dissertation [Lessons and strategies]