Elena Aguilar, an instructional coach, author, and Education Week Teacher blogger, shares eight tips to prevent teacher burnout and build emotional resilience. This video originally streamed as a Facebook Live here: https://www.facebook.com/EducationWeekTeacher/videos/10155782270659738/ Make sure to check out Elena’s blog at EdWeek Teacher. She frequently writes about building emotional resilience among teachers: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coaching_teachers Here’s more on Elena’s forthcoming book on this topic: http://onwardthebook.com/ Here’s the personality-test website Elena mentions: https://www.16personalities.com/ And here are a couple of other blog posts Elena wrote to check out: https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-resilience-preventing-burnout & https://www.edutopia.org/article/helping-teachers-thrive If you like this video, follow Education Week Teacher on Facebook. We’ll be posting more teaching tips and advice: https://www.facebook.com/EducationWeekTeacher/
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