The Educator's Guide for Peace and Joy: An Alphabet of Strategies to Help You Light Your Inner Candle is an empowering book for educators. The authors, both seasoned educators, use the twenty-six letters of the alphabet to guide you to success. Each chapter focuses on one strategy or idea specifically connected to one letter of the alphabet. As you read: - Elevate with an inspiring quote to set the tone for the strategy or idea being shared; - Practice the strategy or idea; - Reflect on your personal connection or experience with that strategy or idea; - Discover more resources to continue your journey with a strategy or idea that speaks to you., Educators are more than just the lessons, activities, and experiences they plan for their students; they are also the light and inspiration for their students, colleagues, families, friends, and communities. This soul book serves as a guide for educators to reflect, recharge, and rekindle their inner light.

The Educator’s Guide for Peace and Joy: An Alphabet of Strategies to Help You Light Your Inner Candle is an empowering book for educators. The authors, both seasoned educators, use the twenty-six letters of the alphabet to guide you to success. Each chapter focuses on one strategy or idea specifically connected to one letter of the alphabet. As you read: • Elevate with an inspiring quote to set the tone for the strategy or idea being shared; • Practice the strategy or idea; • Reflect on your personal connection or experience with that strategy or idea; • Discover more resources to continue your journey with a strategy or idea that speaks to you. , Educators are more than just the lessons, activities, and experiences they plan for their students; they are also the light and inspiration for their students, colleagues, families, friends, and communities. This soul book serves as a guide for educators to reflect, recharge, and rekindle their inner light.

Happy Teachers Change the World is the first official, authoritative manual of the Thich Nhat Hanh/Plum Village approach to mindfulness in education. Spanning the whole range of schools and grade levels, from preschool through higher education, these techniques are grounded in the everyday world of schools, colleges, and universities. Beginning firmly with teachers and all those working with students, including administrators, counselors, and other personnel, the Plum Village approach stresses that educators must first establish their own mindfulness practice since everything they do in the classroom will be based on that foundation. The book includes easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques perfected by educators to teach themselves and to apply to their work with students and colleagues, along with inspirational stories of the ways in which teachers have made mindfulness practice alive and relevant for themselves and their students across the school and out into the community. The instructions in Happy Teachers Change the World are offered as basic practices taught by Thich Nhat Hanh, followed by guidance from educators using these practices in their classrooms, with ample in-class interpretations, activities, tips, and instructions. Woven throughout are stories from members of the Plum Village community around the world who are applying these teachings in their own lives and educational contexts.

“His ideas will help anyone who has the courage to understand that a real education must go beyond filling in circles on a standardized test form.” —Rafe Esquith, New York Times-bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire Can playing a game lead to world peace? If it’s John Hunter’s World Peace Game, it just might. In Hunter’s classroom, students take on the roles of presidents, tribal leaders, diplomats, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations, standoffs and summits, they strive to resolve a sequence of many-layered, interconnected scenarios, from nuclear proliferation to tribal warfare. Now, Hunter shares inspiring stories from over thirty years of teaching the World Peace Game, revealing the principles of successful collaboration that people of any age can apply. He offers not only a forward-thinking report from the frontlines of American education, but also a generous blueprint for a world that bends toward cooperation rather than conflict. In this deeply hopeful book, a visionary educator shows us what the future of education can be. “The World Peace Game devised by fourth-grade teacher Hunter has spread from a classroom in 1978 to a documentary, a TED Talk, the Pentagon, and now finally a book, in which he describes the ways his students have solved political and ecological crises that still loom large in the world of adults . . . Hunter’s optimism is infectious.” —Publishers Weekly “Inspired, breath-of-fresh-air reading.” — Kirkus Reviews “Hunter proves the value of ‘slow teaching’ in this important, fascinating, highly readable resource for educators and parents alike.” — Booklist

An Educator’s Guide to living a virtuous life aids educators and parents in understanding the importance of living a virtuous life. It will assist you in teaching those entrusted to your care. The guide answers the following questions: why, what, who, and how to educate in virtue. The Educator’s Guide provides the content needed to educate youth in discipleship and virtue by providing in-depth knowledge of the theological and moral virtues, as well as the corresponding gifts of the Holy Spirit. Educators will help students clearly understand how everyone is called to be a disciple of Christ, and that through a personal encounter with Him, each of us is gifted with interior happiness and true freedom.

Inspiration for those working in education—to prevent burnout, persevere through challenges, and keep their spirit strong! This book supports and uplifts those who have devoted themselves to the demanding, difficult, and often underappreciated work of education—offering strategies, exercises, and tools that align teachers’ spirits with God to stay at peace while teaching. Educators Claire Rachel Maghtas and Karen Jean Epps’ intention is to energize other educators and give them useful techniques for handling stress and persevering through the difficult times. This inspirational guide includes invigorating verses from the Bible along with personal testimonies to help teachers cope. Teachers will learn strategies to stay in balance while enhancing students’ achievements and well-being.

Weaving together his own spiritual journey, stories from his experience coaching others, and down-to-earth principles and practices, management consultant and Christian life coach Jeff Spadafora helps readers find the joy in a life that is more vibrant and real than any they have experienced before. An increasing number of American Christians are frustrated. Even as they read their Bibles, listen to sermons, and hang out with other Christians, they become painfully aware that something is missing: joy. As a result, many have given up on their faith being a source of joy, and instead they seek meaning, purpose, and joy through their Christian service, work, relationships, hobbies, possessions, or even more destructive and hollow substitutes. The Joy Model offers a better way, showing readers that joy comes from balancing the practical and spiritual sides of our lives—the “Doing” and the “Being” of the Christian life. Jeff Spadafora reveals a plan to uncover significant increases in joy, including: tried and true disciplines to engage God practically a blueprint to move from knowing about God to actually experiencing him practical steps to let our new understanding of God transform relationships, attitudes, finances, service, and work