The Empowered Teacher: Proven Tips for Classroom Success

This quick, enjoyable read is packed with proven tips and advice beneficial for teachers at all stages of their career. Drawing on her many years' experience as an elementary and middle school principal, author Susie Wolbe, ED.D. addresses many of the common challenges teachers face, including classroom management procedures and practices, stress and burn-out. Divided into three easy-to-read sections, The Empowered Teacher: Proven Tips for Classroom Success provides educators with practical strategies that will improve the teaching experience, including how to establish strong relationships with students and parents, how to enhance teaching methods and bring joy back to the classroom, and how to develop good professional relationships with colleagues. Dr. Wolbe's practical advice is designed to help educators see their profession through a different lens and to experience new ideas and strategies that will benefit everyone involved.

Dr. Susie Wolbe was a classroom teacher in both public and private schools before serving as K-8 principal in a private school for 14 years. She has a B.S. and M.S. in Elementary Education, an Ed.D. in Educational Supervision with a Concentration in Curriculum and Instruction, and is certified as an Academic Language Therapist and as a Mindful Schools instructor. She currently works with adults and children in both group and individual settings, and is a continuing education provider for the state of Texas (#902209). Dr. Wolbe has used mindfulness strategies to learn how to manage life's sometimes-overwhelming demands. She is now committed to helping other people do the same, especially as it applies to students, educators and parents. As Dr. Wolbe says, ''Teaching, learning, and living life just doesn't have to be all that hard.'' Beyond the classroom, Dr. Wolbe has manufactured children's clothing and holds a real estate broker's license. She and her husband have five children and seven grandchildren.