1st Edition
Addressing Compassion Fatigue in Urban Schools Strategies for Sowing Seeds of Resilience
Preface
1. The Slow Burn of Teaching: Understanding Compassion Fatigue in Urban School Teachers
2. Understanding Compassion Fatigue
3. Research Shows Teachers Suffer from Compassion Fatigue
4. Addressing Compassion Fatigue in Yourself
5. Sowing Seeds of Resilience
Biography
Jacquelyn Ollison is an equity-focused education expert in improving teacher retention in high-poverty schools by addressing teachers' compassion fatigue. She is a featured TEDx speaker on educators' compassion fatigue, and she knows the impact compassion fatigue has on educators because it happened to her, and she left the classroom. She is the Director of the Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity at UC Berkeley and an instructor at the UC Merced Extension Teacher Preparation Program.
"As a former teacher myself, completing the reflective prompts throughout each chapter was cathartic and meaningful. I will be sharing this book and its resources with my former colleagues and administrators, as well as the educator leaders I have the privilege to work with in my new role. I know it will be just as impactful for them as it was for me."
—Lanae Jimenez, Network and Teacher Mobilization Manager, Teach Plus California
