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What Matters Most for Teaching, Learning, and Living
How do we find hope and possibility in challenging times? How do we bring our truest selves into our teaching and personal lives? In this unique, inspiring book, beloved author Regie Routman artfully blends stories and strategies to show how we can introduce more joy and gratitude in our classrooms and in our lives.
Regie invites us to focus on what matters most in our work and in our relationships with those we hold dear. She shares ideas and practical takeaways for teaching, learning, and living. Wherever you are on your journey, no matter what loss or hardship you may face, The Heart-Centered Teacher: Restoring Hope, Joy, and Possibility in Uncertain Times will offer you a refreshing chance to pause, take a breath, and reflect on how you and your students can live more compassionate, generous, and authentic lives.
Routledge Amazon Online Resources: Companion Website
Latest Podcast
"What do you know to be true?"
In this conversation with educator and author Tan Huynh, we talk about bringing our humanity into the classroom, focusing on learners' assets, "seeing" possibilities vs. limitations for learners, the importance of a whole-part-whole approach to teaching and learning, the reading-writing connection, and living a full life. "We underestimate what people can do." Listen here or at Tan's podcast space.
Latest Video
In this video interview and conversation with educator, author and coach Matt Renwick, we discuss the importance of building trusting relationships schoolwide, the role of coaching in professional learning, using instructional walks to highlight students’ and teachers’ strengths and efforts, collaborating with students and the school librarian to build a school library where students are empowered to set the budget, order books, and make decisions about how the library works best, and growing professionally and personally—to name some topics we discuss.
Watch the conversation here or on YouTube.
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Featured Review for The Heart-Centered Teacher:
This beautiful book is written for educators, but it offers so much for others about living life authentically and joyfully. It’s memoir-like quality makes the reader feel as though it’s just for them.
- Judy Wallis
Read more testimonials for Regie's new book on Amazon and the book's companion website.