Teachers today are burned out; they feel disrespected and unsupported. A whopping 50 percent say they want to leave the profession.
For a good while, Jennifer Nelson was one of those teachers. But as a single mother who needed a steady job, this journalist-turned-educator had to make teaching work—and gradually, she learned what it took to make the classroom a place where both she and her students could thrive.
Teaching with Heart illuminates why it’s so hard to hold on to classroom teachers these days—and what can be done to better the situation.
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