So You Want to be a Speaker

By Dr. Jane BluesteinAugust 7, 2022September 27, 2022 Career Growth, Educators, General Interest, Professional growth, Speaking educational consulting, growing your career for teachers, keynoting for educators, parent training, preparing to speak, professional development, professional growth, professional growth for teachers, speaking, speaking to educators, tips for keynoters, tips for parent educators, tips for presenters, tips for speakers Leave a comment

Getting your message out to the world How exciting! I just got a request for tips from another teacher who wants to get a speaking career off the ground. This is something I’ve been wanting to write for a while, so the inspiration hit at a good time. I remembered that I had posted an article…

Educators at Risk

By Dr. Jane BluesteinJune 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Avoiding burnout, Counselors, Life Management, Mental Health, Professional growth, Self-care and Inspiration, Taking care of yourself, Teacher retention, Teaching harmful beliefs, teacher stress, teachers at risk Leave a comment

Characteristics of educators at risk: * Feels personally responsible for a student’s successes and failures Measures personal success or failure by student behavior and achievement, or by approval from others Has an overwhelming need to avoid conflict and generate approval from others (which can manifest as attention-seeking, maintaining status quo, or even rebelliousness) Willing to…

Book: The Beginning Teacher’s Survival Guide

By Dr. Jane BluesteinAugust 13, 2021April 27, 2023 Assessment and Testing, Avoiding burnout, Avoiding power struggles, Beginning Teachers, Behavior Management, Behavior Management, Body and Brain, Books, Building responsibility, Classroom management, Creating community, Cultural Changes, Culture and Community, Discipline, Educators, Emotionally safe schools, Feedback and encouragement, Health and Safety, Homework, Increasing Positivity, Intervening negative behavior, Leadership, Learning, Learning styles, Life Management, Mentorship, Modeling positive behavior, Motivating cooperation, Non-traditional learners, Parent-Teacher relationships, Problem solving, Professional growth, Recognition and reinforcement, Relationships, Rules and Boundaries, School climate, Schools in Society, Self-care and Inspiration, Social and Emotional Growth, Special Needs, Taking care of yourself, Teacher Appreciation, Teacher retention, Teaching, Teaching, Tolerance and Respect, Win-win authority avoiding power struggles, beginning teachers, boundaries, challenges for new teachers, creating community, difficult students, discipline, emotional safety, emotionally safe classroom, learning differences, parent-teacher relationships, positive consequences, professional development feedback, professional growth, professional identity, school culture, self-care, student behavior, student self-management, teacher retention, teaching

Win-Win Strategies for Success by Dr. Jane Bluestein At the start or your career or at the end of your rope… Get your teaching career off to a winning start—or recharge your passion for your work! The new & revised edition of Dr. Jane Bluestein’s pivotal guide for your teaching career! A great gift for new…

What I Learned When I Started Teaching

By Dr. Jane BluesteinFebruary 14, 2017June 13, 2022 Beginning Teachers, Educators, Professional growth, Teacher retention beginning teachers, complexity of teaching, new teachers, teacher retention, teaching community, transition from student to professional, why teachers quit 2 Comments

And why I write books for beginning educators This excerpt was pulled from the introduction of the final draft of The Beginning Teacher’s Survival Guide, a book I wrote to help prepare beginning teachers enter—and STAY—in the field. The piece has been revised somewhat to refer to resources available on this website. In retrospect, I was one…

Making a Mistake in Front of Your Class

By Chick Moorman and Thomas HallerMarch 20, 2015May 2, 2022 Educators, Leadership, Perfectionism, Professional growth, Teaching 2 Comments

A defining moment in every teacher’s life How do you handle mistakes you make in front of your class? Some important lessons these two authors learned in observing teachers. In Anchorage, Alaska, a first-year teacher made a spelling error on the board during the first week of school. As often happens in these kinds of…

Respect, Reflection, and Resources

By Dr. Jared ScherzOctober 23, 2014June 13, 2022 Avoiding burnout, Educators, Feedback and encouragement, Leadership, Mentorship, Professional growth, Taking care of yourself Leave a comment

Tips to Improve Teacher Efficacy Guest blogger, Dr. Jared Scherz, offers some ideas for teachers to enhance their professional growth and their experience as a professional educator. Respect Teachers need to be treated like professionals, offered meaningful feedback but allowed and encouraged to provide input of their own. If adjustments are needed, they are informed…

Leading Learning with Glenn Capelli

By Dr. Jane BluesteinJanuary 26, 2013May 7, 2022 Body and Brain, Counselors, Educators, General Interest, Leadership, Learning, Motivating cooperation, Parents, Podcast, Professional growth Leave a comment

The art, science, and craft of teaching Episode Summary: Did you ever have a teacher who changed your life? Dr. Jane Bluestein talks with author, speaker, and songwriter Glenn Capelli about how teachers can have a powerful impact on a child’s life—for good or bad. They discuss the importance of new and different experiences, including encounters…

So You Want to Write a Book?

By Dr. Jane BluesteinDecember 28, 2012September 26, 2022 Blog, Professional growth 2 Comments

Tips for Would-Be Authors (and Speakers) I wrote this piece a few years ago after numerous requests for help from individuals who aspire to seeing their ideas in print. The following suggestions are based on my own experiences and conversations with other authors. There are loads of books and articles on getting published that will…

What’s a Purchase Order?

By Dr. Jane BluesteinDecember 28, 2012May 23, 2022 Blog, Counselors, Educators, General Interest, Professional growth building a career as a speaker, building a speaking career, career arc, educational consulting, entrepreneurship for educators, getting paid to present, growing a business, marketplace changes, media promotion for your book, publishing your book, speaking, the arc of a career, working with the media, writing and publishing, you need a website 3 Comments

Confessions of an Accidental C.E.O. The following article begins with an adaptation of a chapter for Tricia Gallagher’s 1991 book, For All the Write Reasons: Forty Successful Authors, Publishers, Agents, and Writers Tell You How to Get Your Book Published. I have followed this excerpt with updates on what’s been happening in the years since…

Presentation: So You Want to Write a Book?

By Dr. Jane BluesteinNovember 8, 2012May 23, 2022 Counselors, Educators, General Interest, Presentation, Presentation for educators, Presentation- general interest, Professional growth Leave a comment

Sharing your Passion, Ideas, and Voice with the World Presentation by Dr. Jane Bluestein The author of 19 books (so far!) explores various dimensions– practical, strategical, and emotional– of writing books and getting them published!