The mission of Nathan’s work is to make schools more fulfilling places to work, where educators are dedicated to the success and health of their colleagues, their students, and themselves.
This website is a meeting place for educators to discuss issues that are important to them.
As a former teacher, I’ve seen first-hand the issues that educators face every day. I hope that by keeping this website, I can share some insights (as well as a sense of humor) on teacher job satisfaction and school climate, and spark conversation about how to improve our schools.
—Nathan Eklund, M.Ed, Senior Education Consultant
Books authored by Nathan Eklund
How Was Your Day at School?
Improving Dialogue about Teacher Job Satisfaction
The influence of the classroom teacher is the most important factor in predicting student success. Sadly, excellent teachers continue to leave the profession at an alarming rate. What can your school do to retain high-quality educators?
Founded on the strength-based approach of Developmental Assets, this book offers:
• Conversational advice and practical strategies for avoiding teacher burnout;
• Discussion questions to enhance the teacher/administrator relationship; and
• A CD-ROM of reproducible handouts and a multimedia presentation to transform the dialogue about teacher job satisfaction in your school.
When every stakeholder in the school environment is empowered to take action, teacher job satisfaction becomes a win-win situation, resulting in a supportive workplace climate that sustains educators in their pursuit of higher student achievement.
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Ideas for Educators
42 Ready-to-Use Newsletters for School Success CD-ROM
Ideas for Educators gives teachers and administrators a quick and easy way to learn and incorporate the Developmental Assets into daily teaching practices. Designed as a series of newsletters, they can be printed out from the CD-ROM or sent via e-mail as complete documents, modified to fit your school's individual needs, or even cut-and-pasted into your existing school and district newsletters.
Written by two experienced teachers, each newsletter provides an overview of a Developmental Asset and how it works in a classroom setting, and then gives teachers strategies and tips for infusing that asset into work with students. Classroom strategies are easy to implement and can be quickly incorporated into classroom work without requiring special materials or elaborate preparation, and can be adjusted to the needs and education levels of the students. Each newsletter also contains a section on fostering that Developmental Asset in a teacher's life, making Ideas for Educators not only a classroom aid, but a staff development tool as well.