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Why Teach? Lessons From and Educator Who Stayed

by Corey Williams

A candid look at the work of teaching

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A candid look at the work of teaching

Drawing on experiences across teaching, administration, consulting, and mentoring, Corey Williams examines the question of why educators stay in the profession. The book brings together accounts of classroom and school life, including unsuccessful lessons, difficult evaluations, and relationships with students that give the work meaning. Its perspective connects the everyday realities of education with a broader concern: the human work in schools that can be hard to capture in formal measures. The emphasis is on imperfect educators and the reasons teaching can remain worthwhile amid its challenges.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teachers considering questions of burnout and staying in the profession
  • New educators navigating their early years
  • School leaders interested in perspectives from across education roles

Themes

The realities of teachingEducator burnout and perseveranceStudent relationshipsThe human dimensions of education

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Book overview

After fifteen years as a teacher, administrator, consultant, mentor, and self-proclaimed World's Okayest Educator, Dr. Corey Williams set out to answer a question that every educator eventually asks:

 

Why keep teaching?

 

Through funny, heartbreaking, and deeply honest stories from classrooms, hallways, boardrooms, and school parking lots, Why Teach? explores the realities of modern education. From failed lessons and terrible evaluations to life-changing student relationships and moments that make the struggle worthwhile, this book pulls back the curtain on what teaching actually feels like.

 

This is not a book about perfect educators.

 

It is a book about real ones.

 

For teachers battling burnout, new educators trying to survive their first years, school leaders seeking perspective, and anyone who believes education is ultimately about people, Why Teach? offers a powerful reminder that the most important work in schools rarely shows up on a spreadsheet.

 

A funny, honest, and inspiring look at why teaching still matters.

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