Dear Teacher

100 Days of Inspirational Quotes and Anecdotes

Brad Johnson, Hal Bowman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000353815
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

Dear teacher, you are appreciated! This inspirational book, written by motivational speakers Brad Johnson and Hal Bowman, provides daily encouragement to thank you for all that you do in the classroom and beyond. Johnson and Bowman offer quotes and powerful stories for 100 days of the school year, highlighting topics such as celebrating small successes, bringing out the best in your students, knowing your worth, and being all in. The book is perfect for teachers of all grade levels, and for principals to buy their teachers for schoolwide morale, to keep teachers feeling their best. The uplifting advice will remind you why you've chosen this profession and the impact you have on others!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Meet the Authors
• Preface
• 1 “Love What You Teach, but Love Who You Teach More”
• 2 “Relationships Before Rigor, Grace Before Grades, Patience Before Programs, Love Before Lessons”
• 3 Teachers, Be Memorable to Your Students; Just Make Sure It Is a Good Memory
• 4 You Are the Difference Maker!
• 5 You Are Not in Competition
• 6 Surround Yourself with Those Teachers You Need, as Well as Those Teachers Who Need You
• 7 It Just about Takes a Felony for Me to Send a Kid to the Office; This is Our Family, We Handle It in Here
• 8 You Can’t Pick and Choose Which Kid Needs You and Which Kid Doesn’t, Your Students Will Forever Be Better Actors than You Are a Teacher
• 9 You’re Not Just Teaching Kids What You Know; They’re Becoming Who You Are
• 10 Please Don’t Compare Your Chapter 1 to Another Teacher’s Chapter 30
• 11 You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Great!
• 12 Stay Young at Heart
• 13 What is Your Inner Recorder Playing?
• 14 Celebrate Small Successes
• 15 Failure Is a Comma, Not a Period.
• 16 Just a Few Words Spoken at the Right Moment Can Change a Kid’s Life Forever
• 17 Every Next Level of Teaching Will Require a Next Level of You
• 18 Your Students Desperately Need to Know Why You Teach
• 19 Let’s Not Make It More Complicated than It Needs to Be; Send Your Kids Home Each Afternoon Just a Tiny Bit Better than They Came to You That Morning
• 20 We Underestimate What It Takes for Children to Pull Themselves Up Out of a Chaotic Home Life That’s Immersed in Poverty; It Will Simply Never Happen without Help
• 21 Be World Class You!
• 22 Gratitude Determines Your Attitude
• 23 Don’t Just Make an Impression; Make an Impact
• 24 Stop Underestimating Yourself
• 25 Decision Fatigue
• 26 Please Don’t Just Walk By a Young, Struggling Teacher; Stop, Help, Encourage, and Mentor
• 27 The Double-Whammy of a Lie We Tell Our Students: “I’ll Be Your Teacher This Year”
• 28 It Only Takes a Second to Say the Words, but the Impact Lasts Forever
• 29 You Must Be Willing to Trade Immediate Gratification for Lifelong Impact
• 30 It’s the Kid Who Behaves the Least Who Needs You the Most
• 31 It’s OK to Say NO! Don’t Overload!
• 32 It’s OK to Have a Bad Day!
• 33 Be a Thermostat, Not a Thermometer
• 34 Positively Positive!
• 35 “Just a Teacher”
• 36 You Have to Love Your Kids before You Can Love Your Kids
• 37 Teaching Is Not about Changing Kids; It’s about Empowering Kids to Uncover the Greatest Version of Themselves
• 38 Any Day of the School Year Can Become the New First Day of School
• 39 If You Don’t Like Your Students, It’s Because You Don’t Know Your Students
• 40 Let’s Not Settle for Accepting Differences; Let’s Strive to Celebrate Differences
• 41 Teaching Is a Team Effort!
• 42 Appreciation Is an Attitude, Not an Action!
• 43 Challenge the Process
• 44 Bringing Out the Best in Students
• 45 Lace up Your Shoes
• 46 Be the Teacher Your Kids Need, Deserve, and Will Remember Forever
• 47 What’s the Real Lesson of Your Classroom? The One Your Kids Can’t Google the Answer To?
• 48 Of Course He Behaves That Way, Acts Like That, and Does Those Things; That’s Why He’s in Your Class, He Needs You
• 49 If You Own 100% of It, You Can Affect 100% of It
• 50 Just in Case You Don’t Believe Me about Taking 100% Ownership in Your Classroom, Let’s Quantify Influence, That Always Helps
• 51 Teacher of the Year Awards
• 52 Every Day Is a New Beginning
• 53 You Inc!
• 54 Know Your Worth?
• 55 Your Purpose Is Greater Than Your Struggle
• 56 No More Excuses!
• 57 Don’t Just Lean in but Lean On!
• 58 Honk If You . . .
• 59 Utilizing the Pygmalion Effect
• 60 Let Your Classroom Be the Incubator of Character, Potential, and Self-Esteem
• 61 Why Would a Kid Want to Be Successful if He Doesn’t Remember What Success Feels Like?
• 62 Psssst I Have a Secret to Tell You: That Boy Who Acts Like He Doesn’t Care About Anything Is an Amazing Actor
• 63 Greeting Kids at the Door Is the Most Important Moment of the Educational Process
• 64 It’s OK to Find Out about a Kid’s Past; Not to Lower Expectations for That Kid, but Instead, to Better Understand How to Teach and Love That Kid
• 65 If You’re Going to Make a Difference, You Must Be Different
• 66 Before Raising Academic Expectations for Struggling Students, They Must First Experience Evidence of Academic Achievement
• 67 Student Success Is Not about Curriculum, School Leadership, or Funding; It’s about YOU
• 68 You Are the Architect and Carpenter of Classroom Culture; Envision, Design, and Build the Family Your Students Deserve
• 69 Students Sometimes Ask Us Their Most Important Questions with Behaviors, Rather than Words
• 70 Maslow before Bloom
• 71 Follow Your Path
• 72 Be Fully Present!
• 73 Become More Goal Driven
• 74 Everything in Life Boils Down to Relationships
• 75 The Worry Tree
• 76 Take the Time to Tell Your Students What You Needed to Hear When You Were Their Age
• 77 Create a Classroom That Is a Buzzing, Exciting, and Electrifying “Workshop” for Learning
• 78 Partner with an Educator You Love to Dig Down and Discover the Deepest Reason WHY You Teach, Then, Share It with Your Students
• 79 There’s No Other Profession on the Planet Where You Can Impact the Trajectory of a Generation
• 80 Passion and Purpose Are Two Required Ingredients in the Recipe of a Great Teacher
• 81 Never Give Up!
• 82 Don’t Let Others Steal Your Joy!
• 83 Finding Your Voice
• 84 Becoming Emotionally Connected
• 85 You Are a Leader
• 86 Use the Content of Your Classroom to Impact the Character of Your Kids
• 87 Tiny, Incremental Changes Lead to Monumental Impact
• 88 Begin with the End in Mind
• 89 There’s No Tired Like Teacher Tired, But It’s Totally Worth It
• 90 There’s a World of Difference between Classroom Leadership and Classroom Management
• 91 Thank You for Your Faithfulness
• 92 Laughter Is …
• 93 Being All-In
• 94 Teaching Is a Privilege
• 95 Don’t Ask Your Kids to Do a Better Job; Demand Them to Be Incredible
• 96 Don’t Ever Let Someone Make You Feel Crazy for Wanting What’s Right for Kids
• 97 Please, Just Give the Kid a Pencil
• 98 Your Kids May Forget the Content, but They Will Remember the Experience Forever
• 99 Every Word, Look, and Gesture Can Impact a Child Forever
• 100 “You Don’t Just Make a Difference, You Leave a Legacy”