Introduction: How Do I Read This Book?
Part 1: The Big Picture Questions
Chapter 1: Why are Teachers So Special?
Chapter 2: What is Teacher Burnout?
Chapter 3: What is Teacher Retention?
Chapter 4: What is Teaching?
Chapter 5: Why Do You Teach?
Chapter 6: What Does a Good Day Look Like?
Before We Begin
Part 2: The Little Details
Chapter 7: How Can Email Improve Community?
Chapter 8: Have You Ever Thought About What You Can Do Before the Learning Begins?
Chapter 9: How Can You Make Gratitude Your Superpower?
Chapter 10: How Do You Always Assume Good Intent?
Chapter 11: How Do You Reclaim Joy?
Chapter 12: Did You Ever Think That You Doing Less is Better for Your Students?
Chapter 13: Why is Accountability Important to Community?
Chapter 14: How Can You Celebrate More in Your Classroom?
Chapter 15: How Can Storytelling Enrich Your Classroom?
Chapter 16: Do You Do Research for Student Comments?
Chapter 17: Do You Remember Your Hobbies?
Chapter 18: What Do Standardized Test Really Tell Us?
Chapter 19: How Can You Befriend AI?
Chapter 20: What Does Your To:Do List Look Like?
Chapter 21: Are You Lonely? Are Your Students Lonely?
Chapter 22: How Can You Create a United Front with Parents and Guardians?
Chapter 23: What Are the Lingering Effects from COVID in Your Students?
Chapter 24: Why is Uncle Bob So Smart?
Chapter 25: What Are Your Nonnegotiable?
Chapter 26: Are You a Giver or a Taker?
Chapter 27: Why Will Neuroscience Never Let You Down?
Chapter 28: You Are Going to Have Problems. What Kinds of Problems do You Want?
Chapter 29: So, What Do the Experts Have to Say?
Chapter 30: A Whole New Approach to Teaching and Learning?
Chapter 31: What Can You Do With Your Summer Vacation to Reduce Burnout?
Teaching's Parting Gift
Endnotes