Planning to Stay: Burnout, Demoralization, Exploitation, and How to Reclaim Self-Care, Your Classroom, and Your Life … Anyway; Breaking the Mold: Changing the Face of Climate Science and Roar like a Lion: How Animals Can Help You Be Your Best Self

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Book Review| October 01 2023 Planning to Stay: Burnout, Demoralization, Exploitation, and How to Reclaim Self-Care, Your Classroom, and Your Life … Anyway; Breaking the Mold: Changing the Face of Climate Science and Roar like a Lion: How Animals Can Help You Be Your Best Self Planning to Stay: Burnout, Demoralization, Exploitation, and How to Reclaim Self-Care, Your Classroom, and Your Life … Anyway. By Jess Cleeves. 2023. Learning Humans. (ISBN 979-8988047001). Paperback. $18.99. eBook also available.Breaking the Mold: Changing the Face of Climate Science. By Dana Alison Levy. 2023. Holiday House. (ISBN 978-0-8234-4971-2). Hardcover. $22.99. eBook also available.Roar like a Lion: How Animals Can Help You Be Your Best Self. By Carlie Sorosiak. Illustrated by Katie Walker. 2002. David Fickling Books (printed in the United States by Scholastic). (ISBN 1338802186). Hardcover. $14.99. Paperback, eBook, and audiobook also available. Kirstin Milks, Kirstin Milks Department Editor science teacher, Bloomington High School South, Bloomington, IN kmilks@mccsc.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Frank Brown Cloud Frank Brown Cloud Department Editor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar kmilks@mccsc.edu The American Biology Teacher (2023) 85 (8): 474–475. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2023.85.8.474 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kirstin Milks, Frank Brown Cloud; Planning to Stay: Burnout, Demoralization, Exploitation, and How to Reclaim Self-Care, Your Classroom, and Your Life … Anyway; Breaking the Mold: Changing the Face of Climate Science and Roar like a Lion: How Animals Can Help You Be Your Best Self. The American Biology Teacher 1 October 2023; 85 (8): 474–475. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2023.85.8.474 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search I am a high school teacher, and I love my work – but I cried every single day of the 2021–2022 school year. Like most of us employed in schooling at the time, I had found the previous year challenging, and eventually the stress of working with and through the enormous trauma of our students, staff, and community felt overwhelming. I’m lucky I have an exceptional support network, including the exceptional coeditor of this column, but it became clear I had to make major changes in my experience and perception of school. (I did, and I’m in a much better, more sustainable place now, ready to continue our wonderful work and finding the fun in it.) I’ve been wondering recently about how to support other teachers who go through difficult professional times, as well as our students who are finding themselves more uncertain and adrift after the past few years.... You do not currently have access to this content.