Introduction
How Do I Read This Book?
Part One – The Big Picture Questions
A Quick Note to New Teachers
Chapter One – Why are Teachers So Special?
Chapter Two – What is Teacher Burnout?
Chapter Three – What is Teacher Retention?
Chapter Four – What is Teaching?
Chapter Five– Why Do You Teach?
Chapter Six – What Does a Good Day Look Like?
Before We Begin
Part Two – The Little Details
Chapter Seven – How Can Email Improve Community?
Chapter Eight– Have You Ever Thought About What You Can Do Before the Learning Begins?
Chapter Nine– How Can You Make Gratitude Your Superpower?
Chapter Ten – How Do You Always Assume Good Intent?
Chapter Eleven – How Do You Reclaim Joy?
Chapter Twelve – Did You Ever Think That You Doing Less is Better for Your Students?
Chapter Thirteen – Why is Accountability Important to Community?
Chapter Fourteen – How Can You Celebrate More in Your Classroom?
Chapter Fifteen – How Can Storytelling Enrich Your Classroom?
Chapter Sixteen – Do You Do Research for Student Comments?
Chapter Seventeen – Do You Remember Your Hobbies?
Chapter Eighteen – What Do Standardized Test Really Tell Us?
Chapter Nineteen – How Can You Befriend AI?
Chapter Twenty – What Does Your To-Do List Look Like?
Chapter Twenty-One – Are You Lonely? Are Your Students Lonely?
Chapter Twenty-Two – How Can You Create a United Front with Parents and Guardians?
Chapter Twenty-Three – What Are the Lingering Effects from COVID in Your Students?
Chapter Twenty-Four – Why is Uncle Bob So Smart?
Chapter Twenty-Five – What Are Your Nonnegotiable?
Chapter Twenty-Six – Are You a Giver or a Taker?
Chapter Twenty-Seven – Why Will Neuroscience Never Let You Down?
Chapter Twenty-Eight – You Are Going to Have Problems. What Kinds of Problems do You Want?
Chapter Twenty-Nine – So, What Do the Experts Have to Say?
Chapter Thirty – A Whole New Approach to Teaching and Learning?
Chapter Thirty-One– What Can You Do With Your Summer Vacation to Reduce Burnout?
Teaching's Parting Gift
Endnotes