Self-Care as a Professional Responsibility

A Conversation with Mike Anderson, Little Things First

This is part 3 of a four-part series on how to support educators in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

In this conversation with the Little Things First podcast hosts, Tracy Vandeventer and James Martin, we dig into all kinds of cool topics. We touch on choice, language, social-emotional learning, teacher health and balance, homework and more. We focus on the current COVID-19 crisis, but many of these topics ring true for normal in-school times as well.

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Author

Mike Anderson

A public school teacher for 15 years, Mike has also had many other roles in education: preschool aid, high school and age-group swim coach, camp counselor, graduate class instructor, and Responsive Classroom presenter and developer. 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 many books about great teaching and learning. His latest book is Hugging Porcupines: Month-by-Month Strategies to Support Our Most Challenging Students.

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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