Mutual Mentoring for Mid-Career Teachers
Trekking with Colleagues for Joy and Growth
Micki M Caskey author Karen Weller Swanson author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:24th Feb '26
£29.99
This title is due to be published on 24th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£155.00(9781032957289)
Mentoring is for teachers across the career span! In this helpful resource, authors Karen Weller Swanson and Micki M. Caskey show how mid-career mentoring can rejuvenate your joy of teaching, plan for career progressions, and build a healthy work-life balance.
The authors lay out a framework for mutual mentoring that uses a trekking metaphor and a choose-your-own-adventure style, which allows for individualized professional development focusing on topics most important to you. Through this approach, you will learn how to create a community of practice with other teachers, how to engage in dialogue about teaching and exchange ideas, methods for productively responding to challenges, and ideas for learning new skills and revising or abandoning practices. The authors also cover how to establish healthy boundaries, create a sustainable practice, and implement plans to achieve professional goals.
With this book, mid-career teachers will be able to thrive in a mentoring space that creates opportunities for them to embrace innovative and collaborative practices and explore their evolving personal and teacher identities.
"With this book, Caskey and Swanson are meeting a real need in our education community: to support mid-career educators at risk of leaving the profession. Using a trekking metaphor and icons to match, they have created a clear and helpful guide for navigating the challenges of sustaining yourself in teaching beyond those early years, including a 'teacher-friend' mentoring model that should be used to support teachers during this critical and often overlooked time."
—Katy Farber, Assistant Professor and co-author of Real Talk for New Teachers: Tools for Building a Sustainable Career
"Whether you’re on a 'solo trek' or a 'journey with a partner,' Caskey and Swanson’s book is filled with productive questions and strategies for mid-career teachers. These authors powerfully elevate the teacher retention conversation by highlighting the great potential of mutual mentoring. They recognize the challenges of the profession and provide the scaffolding to support even the most experienced educators. It’s the brightly wrapped gift I wish we could give all teachers!"
—Penny Bishop, Dean of Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development and co-author of Real Talk for New Teachers: Tools for Building Sustainable Career
"Never stop trekking. Intentionally developed for educators with 5 to 20 years of experience, Swanson and Caskey’s Mutual Mentoring for Mid-Career Teachers: Trekking with Colleagues for Joy and Growth reads like a wise trail guide. The 'choose-your-own-adventure' style of the book puts the power in the hands of the reader to plot the course while the symbolic gear that shows up in each chapter reminds readers that they are never without support. Whether you read the book while on a solo exploration, on a journey with a teacher-friend, or part of a book club, Swanson and Caskey empower you to embrace an adventure that leads to greater efficacy and renewed passion for the classroom."
—Matt Moulton, PhD, President, Colorado Association of Middle Level Education
ISBN: 9781032957265
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172 pages