The Heart of Education: Honor our Teachers on Teacher Appreciation Day – May 7, 2013By: Dara Feldman WASHINGTON - April 13, 2013 - PRLog -- Just in time for Teacher Appreciation Day, award-winning teacher and inspiring speaker Dara Feldman offers powerful strategies for bringing joy, meaning and purpose back to teaching and learning. Her new book The Heart of Education offers insights and advice for improving education. She shares simple, yet powerful ways for cultivating thoughtful and compassionate students in classrooms and homes. Here’s why new approaches to teaching and learning are sorely needed: For more than a decade, America’s focus in education has been solely on high-stakes testing and academic rigor. This has had some tragic results: · As a result of No Child Left Behind, the majority of teachers and administrators have lost their passion for teaching. · Shockingly, 50% of new educators get burned out within the first 5 years and leave the profession. This not only harms students and teachers, it costs taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for each new teacher we lose. · The relentless emphasis on testing makes students feel hopeless and reduced to a statistic. This leads to boredom, skipping class and increasing numbers of students who are dropping out. Feldman’s book highlights The Virtues Project’s 5 simple strategies for reigniting educators’ passion and reawakening their students’ inherent idealism. Feldman discusses: How educators can balance academic rigor and accountability with supporting the needs of the Whole Child. How we can use language to build trust and develop resilience, grit and authentic self-esteem. How these strategies can contribute to safer schools and decreased bullying. How restorative justice can stop the school-to-prison pipeline. What makes her approach unique. At a time when teacher morale is at an all-time low, The Heart of Education offers an important new approach to show both teachers and students that they have value and are valued. Ted Leonisis, owner of the Washington Capitals, Wizards & Mystics and author of The Business of Happiness said, “Dara’s love and knowledge of education extends well beyond the classroom and into our daily lives. The Heart of Education is an uplifting, passionate roadmap with strategies applicable in the classroom, in the workplace and at home.” A National Board Certified Teacher, Dara Feldman has spent over 20 years in public education as a classroom teacher, instructional technology specialist and character development coach. Throughout her career she has experienced first-hand the emotional rollercoaster of the changing landscape of public education. She is determined to hold fast to her idealism and empower others to do the same. In her new book The Heart of Education (foreword written by best-selling author and co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Jack Canfield) she shares her personal journal of transformation and offers 5 strategies for bringing out the best in ourselves and others. CREDENTIALS:
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