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Educators Need More Than Self-Care. They Need Self-Compassion.

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Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

Faculty Focus

It is based on and necessitates analyzing one’s theories of teaching and learning, the alignment of these theories with the class experience, and critically assessing the student, teacher, and class experience along with successes and failures (Brookfield, 1998). It is not intended that it all be completed in one sitting.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

Faculty Focus

It is based on and necessitates analyzing one’s theories of teaching and learning, the alignment of these theories with the class experience, and critically assessing the student, teacher, and class experience along with successes and failures (Brookfield, 1998). It is not intended that it all be completed in one sitting.

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7 questions after Governor Branstad’s school funding veto

Dangerously Irrelevant

At some point the stresses on the system will cause it to break but for now they can continue to push on the edges, knowing that our schools’ eventual failure will occur during someone else’s political cycle. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery?

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