Hermann Hesse - Peter Camenzind, Erzählung.

Onward reveals Elena Aguilar's wisdom and humanity in helping educators find the power within themselves to realize their aspirations, despite the pervasive challenges. It is truly an amazing book, full of brilliant strategies and advice and rooted in her own vulnerable, honest, beautiful experience and stories. Anyone who makes the time to read and sit with this incredible resource will be stronger, happier, and better for it, and, I predict, forever grateful.

Wendy Kopp, founder, Teach For America; CEO, Teach For All

Onward will change your life! Elena Aguilar provides a thoughtful, moving, and timely framework for how to increase the resilience of the adults who serve our students. It provides a clear path using science, research, and the compelling experiences of one who has been down this path herself. This book is a gift to every teacher, from novice to veteran, and should be required reading for anyone in school leadership.

Ron Severson, superintendent of the Roseville (CA)
Joint Union High School District

Elena Aguilar offers a hopeful message to stressed-out educatorsresilience is something that you can cultivate through your habits and dispositions. There is no magic wand to sweep away all stress and weariness, but this book offers good guidance for fostering a sustainable approach to the meaningful but arduous work of educating the young minds entrusted to our care.

Megan Tschannen-Moran, professor of educational policy, planning, and leadership, William & Mary School of Education

Elena Aguilar's writing is the antidote every teacher needs to fight burnout and meet challenging students with fresh set of eyes. Onward is empowering, specific, and makes it seem possible to bring your best self to the classroom every day. When you feel the need to hit the reset button, pick up this book!

Celine Coggins, lecturer and entrepreneur-in-residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education

I invite every educator to keep a copy of this book by your nightstand. Each month a new chapter provides you new opportunities for exploring how you will build your resilience and commitment to great teaching.

Stephanie Hirsh, executive director, Learning Forward

Onward is not a feel-good, theoretical guide to enhancing resilience. It's a tough, look-in-the-mirror-and-do-it set of practical strategies for all educators to be their personal and professional best in this inherently stressful profession.

Colin Seale, founder and CEO, thinkLaw

Leaders, in schools big and small, will use this book every year! Onward guides you through the best strategies to bring out the leaders in your staff and students. It acknowledges the ebbs and flows of a school year and how to keep your organization and you moving forward!

Michelle Carpenter, principal, Berney Elementary, Walla Walla, WA

We educators owe it to ourselves and our students to cultivate resilience so we can continue to inspire, teach, and lead. Read this book. Grow your resiliency. Stay in this work to transform education.

Christine Carlson, instructional coach, KIPP Northeast Denver
Middle School

Onward opens up the real conversation about how to support teachers and leaders. Each page addresses essential, but often overlooked, ways we can all thrive as educators. Every new teacher and administrator needs this book.

Cheryl Lana Agrawal, San Mateo (CA) County Office of Education

We know that for teachers, symbolic violence within this work is a natural reaction to being silenced, but Onward helps us to create a world where there isn't such a heavy weight behind us while at the same time cultivating the resistance needed for the freedoms within ourselves to be felt by the nature of our very own existence and relationship to resilience.

Mario Benabe, STEM educator

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Aguilar, Elena, 1969- author.

Title: Onward : cultivating emotional resilience in educators / by Elena

Aguilar.

Description: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017057676 (print) | LCCN 2017061590 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119364924 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119364900 (epub) | ISBN 9781119364894 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Teachers--Psychology. | Teacher morale. | Educators. | Resilience (Personality trait)