Small Habits Create Big Change: Strategies to Avoid Burnout and Thrive in Your Education Career - Paperback

by Rebecca Branstetter (Author)

Small on-the-job changes you can make to identify your strengths, prevent burnout, and maintain your passion for being an educator

Small Habits Create Big Change is a valuable collection of micro-habits--small, science-backed adjustments--that educators can use to reclaim their mental health and their love for their jobs. This book helps you identify your unique personality type, so you can find the hacks and tweaks that will actually work as you strive to manage stress and reignite your passion for working with students. Many educators feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and on the verge of burnout, but it's never too late to turn things around. Best of all, psychologist Rebecca Branstetter gives you solutions that you can use while you work, so you don't have to sacrifice your already-scarce downtime.

Large-scale approaches to preventing educator burnout often fail to consider an important fact--educators are individuals, and no one-size-fits-all solution will really fit everyone. People's innate strengths and weaknesses play a big part in determining whether the changes we make are likely to work for us. This unique book accounts for what makes you who you are, giving you options, ideas, and proven strategies that set you up for success. This way, you can manage stress, battle burnout, and get excited about your career once again.

• Identify your strengths and weaknesses using the exclusive Thrive-o-gram personality indicator
• Learn micro-habits that turn research about burnout prevention into transformation in your daily life
• Understand how to tap into your core strengths and protect your positive energy
• Personalize your action steps with a Thriving Roadmap

This book isn't just about understanding who you are. It's about preventing burnout by aligning your work with your core strengths, values, and habits. All K-12 educators, including school psychologists and school-based mental health providers, will benefit from this balanced approach to work, fostering self-compassion, mindfulness, and resilience.

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"Rebecca's playful, joyful approach is the perfect model for how to reverse educator burnout."
--ANGELA WATSON, Founder of 40 Hour Teacher Workweek

MICRO-HABITS TO MOVE FROM BURNOUT TO BRILLIANCE AS AN EDUCATOR

Books on burnout can be a little depressing. Authored by a trusted expert and sought-after speaker on educator mental health, Small Habits Create Big Change breaks the mold, with an intriguing, strengths-based approach that's all about you. Inside, you'll discover your educator personality type. Are you a Go-Getter? A Creator? A Helper? Dr. Rebecca Branstetter's research-backed Thriveogram identifies eight distinct styles, uncovering the strengths and growth potential of each and offering a valuable tool for individual educators, teams, and school communities. For each type, Branstetter offers bite-sized changes that you can make on the job to enhance your effectiveness in the classroom.

When educators thrive, students thrive. Unlike resources that offer generic or time-consuming solutions, Small Habits Create Big Change helps you identify potential blind spots, diving deep into what makes you tick and offering practical micro-habits you can use immediately.

Author Biography

REBECCA BRANSTETTER, PhD, is the founder of The Thriving Students Collective and Thrive Hive TV Network, online platforms for boosting the mental health and learning needs of children and the educators who support them. A national media expert, Rebecca's expertise has appeared in The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, and Parents magazine.