The Flourishing Teacher: Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession (Biblia.com)

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Teaching is a sacred profession to which you have been called. But sometimes you feel burned out: the relentless pace, the overload of classes, the grading, the advising, the additional committee work. Drawing on more than twenty years of teaching experience, Christina Bieber Lake writes to encourage you to rediscover your passion for your profession, to help you move from surviving to thriving,...

calling.”2 The question is, how do we get that passion back, year after year, semester after semester? Part of the answer to this question will be the subject of my next chapter, where I suggest ways to feed off of student energy. But in the middle of the month-that-shall-not-be-named, we are not with them yet. So what can we do? My first piece of advice is to recognize that returning to that level of focus and intensity in the service of others is spiritual work, and it is very difficult. Since

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