ASCD Virtual Conference, May 2012 – The Well-Balanced Teacher Webinar

Original Presentation Link: http://www.ascd.org/programs/The-Whole-Child/whole-child-virtual-conference.aspx#anderson_m

Presenter: Mike Anderson, professional development specialist and consulting teacher for Northeast Foundation for Children

Mike Anderson is a teacher, writer, and consultant who works with teachers and schools across the United States and Canada. His book, The Well-Balanced Teacher: How to Work Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out, helps highlight the challenges that today’s teachers face as they struggle to maintain their love and passion for teaching in the midst of increasing stress and pressure in education. Anderson offers suggestions for how teachers can take good care of themselves personally and professionally. If schools are going to foster a whole child approach to education, their teachers need to be healthy, safe, supported, engaged, and challenged as well.

Related resource: Whole Child Podcast on the whole child needs a whole teacher

Please note: There is no handout for this session.

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  • Mike Anderson

    Mike Anderson has been an educator for many years. A public school teacher for 15 years, he has also taught preschool, coached swim teams, and taught university graduate level classes. He now works as a consultant providing professional learning for teachers throughout the US and beyond.

    As a classroom teacher, Mike was awarded a national Milken Educator Award and was a finalist for NH Teacher of the Year. In 2020, he was awarded the Outstanding Educational Leader Award by NHASCD for his work as a consultant. A best-selling author, Mike has written ten books about great teaching and learning. His latest book is Rekindle Your Professional Fire: Powerful Habits for Becoming a More Well-Balanced Teacher.

    When not working, Mike can be found hanging with his family, tending his perennial gardens, sorting baseball cards and searching for new running routes around his home in Durham, NH.

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Mike Anderson
Mike Anderson has been an educator for many years. A public school teacher for 15 years, he has also taught preschool, coached swim teams, and taught university graduate level classes. He now works as a consultant providing professional learning for teachers throughout the US and beyond. As a classroom teacher, Mike was awarded a national Milken Educator Award and was a finalist for NH Teacher of the Year. In 2020, he was awarded the Outstanding Educational Leader Award by NHASCD for his work as a consultant. A best-selling author, Mike has written ten books about great teaching and learning. His latest book is Rekindle Your Professional Fire: Powerful Habits for Becoming a More Well-Balanced Teacher. When not working, Mike can be found hanging with his family, tending his perennial gardens, sorting baseball cards and searching for new running routes around his home in Durham, NH.

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