Education

Remember? YOU WENT INTO EDUCATION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Whether you are searching for a reason to believe or you just need a hope-filled reminder, the bottom line is that you do have tremendous power to make a difference. Dr. Saenzs The Power of a Teacher is the result of years of research and professional development conducted in school districts nationwide. Between the covers of this book you will find unique encouragement and an accessible wellness guide designed specifically for teachers to nurture peak-experience teaching. In The Power of a Teacher you - Develop wellbeing! Take Dr. Saenz 50-item Teacher Wellness Inventory to identify strengths and weakness in the occupational, emotional, financial, spiritual and physical areas of your life. Each chapter is loaded with practical action steps to increase your wellbeing. - Get connected! The Power of a Teacher is filled with discussion questions to create interaction and dialogue between you and your colleagues. Build the support and accountability you need to live and teach well. - Be inspired! Read the stories of real people whose lives were changed by real teachers.

When our children turn 18, we hope to happily launch them into the world to become the adults we've been preparing them to be. Their pathway seems most will go to college, find a vocation and then a true love, and settle into a comfortable life while we parents keep in touch through occasional phone calls, family gatherings, and surprise trips home for Christmas. But now more than ever, these expectations fail to acknowledge the significant challenges faced by many young people, from a pandemic to racial unrest to a climate crisis that is setting the world on fire, figuratively and literally. While young people are consistently told they need to discern God's calling, in Finding Our Way Forward, Melanie Springer Mock draws on her decades as a college professor and mom to four adult children to explore how finding our way means developing a more expansive understanding of calling for ourselves and for the young adults we love, one that moves beyond vocation and capitalistic enterprises to what God really calls us Seeking justice. Loving mercy. Walking with humility. Loving others. Loving God. As we do so, our relationships can be transformed as together we find our way forward.

You are on a school trip to Mexico City. Curiosity becomes an obsession. Who were the people that inhabited the abandoned city that the Aztecs named Teotihuacan, “the city where the gods were born”? Are you daring? Cautious? Caring? Thoughtful? Timid? Outgoing? Easily distracted? Focused? Where will it get you? Step outside your comfort zone and a new fate awaits! \\\* Includes teaching ideas for this book in written and electronic form, including cultural enrichment, word clouds and more! Novice High-Intermediate low. Ideal for Spanish 3 students to read alone, Spanish 2 with guidance. Full glossary and footnotes of selected vocabulary on each page.