Teaching Better Day by Day

A Planner to Support Your Instruction, Well-Being, and Professional Learning
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Jim Burke - Burlingame High School, Burlingame, CA
Teaching Better Day by Day
March 2023 | 248 pages | Corwin
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A low-tech, highly-practical planner everyone wishes for—and every teacher needs

Renowned educator Jim Burke discovered that teaching at the top of your game requires low-tech, low-profile moments for picking up a pen, reflecting, and looking ahead. Maybe that’s why every page of this remarkable planner feels handcrafted with Jim’s wisdom on managing your time, your classes, and your life. You’ll find professional development ideas to nudge you toward new practices as well as the tried and true— with yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily planning pages for you to setting your own personal and professional goals. Highlights include:

  • Fill-in pages for long-range dreaming, annual unit envisioning, and short-term planning, as well as downloadable pages for daily ideas and improvisation based on students’ needs
  • Personal Professional Development (PPD) pages and essential readings to help you focus every month on pressing issues and timeless pedagogy about teaching and learning
  • Space to help you set personal goals and reflect on them throughout the year
  • Tools to help you plan instructional time and focus on students who need extra support

A planner is never about the lessons--it’s always about the life. It’s about the life and growth of teachers and students and the robust, happy development of one’s days. And there’s no better educator than Jim Burke to remind us of that in Teaching Better Day by Day.

Contents

FRONT MATTER

FRONT MATTER

PREPARING TO TEACH

PREPARING TO TEACH

THE YEAR

THE YEAR

THE MONTHS

THE MONTHS

THE WEEKS

THE WEEKS

THE DAILY LESSONS AND UNITS

THE DAILY LESSONS AND UNITS

APPENDICES

APPENDICES

Resources

Additional materials

Description

A low-tech, highly-practical planner everyone wishes for—and every teacher needs

Renowned educator Jim Burke discovered that teaching at the top of your game requires low-tech, low-profile moments for picking up a pen, reflecting, and looking ahead. Maybe that’s why every page of this remarkable planner feels handcrafted with Jim’s wisdom on managing your time, your classes, and your life. You’ll find professional development ideas to nudge you toward new practices as well as the tried and true— with yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily planning pages for you to setting your own personal and professional goals. Highlights include:

  • Fill-in pages for long-range dreaming, annual unit envisioning, and short-term planning, as well as downloadable pages for daily ideas and improvisation based on students’ needs
  • Personal Professional Development (PPD) pages and essential readings to help you focus every month on pressing issues and timeless pedagogy about teaching and learning
  • Space to help you set personal goals and reflect on them throughout the year
  • Tools to help you plan instructional time and focus on students who need extra support

A planner is never about the lessons--it’s always about the life. It’s about the life and growth of teachers and students and the robust, happy development of one’s days. And there’s no better educator than Jim Burke to remind us of that in Teaching Better Day by Day.

Contents

FRONT MATTER

FRONT MATTER

PREPARING TO TEACH

PREPARING TO TEACH

THE YEAR

THE YEAR

THE MONTHS

THE MONTHS

THE WEEKS

THE WEEKS

THE DAILY LESSONS AND UNITS

THE DAILY LESSONS AND UNITS

APPENDICES

APPENDICES

Resources

Additional materials

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Teaching Better Day by Day

A Planner to Support Your Instruction, Well-Being, and Professional Learning


March 2023 | 248 pages | Corwin

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Paperback 01/02/2026 9781071910436 $37.95
Lifetime 01/02/2026 9781071909942 $35.00

A low-tech, highly-practical planner everyone wishes for—and every teacher needs

Renowned educator Jim Burke discovered that teaching at the top of your game requires low-tech, low-profile moments for picking up a pen, reflecting, and looking ahead. Maybe that’s why every page of this remarkable planner feels handcrafted with Jim’s wisdom on managing your time, your classes, and your life. You’ll find professional development ideas to nudge you toward new practices as well as the tried and true— with yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily planning pages for you to setting your own personal and professional goals. Highlights include:

  • Fill-in pages for long-range dreaming, annual unit envisioning, and short-term planning, as well as downloadable pages for daily ideas and improvisation based on students’ needs
  • Personal Professional Development (PPD) pages and essential readings to help you focus every month on pressing issues and timeless pedagogy about teaching and learning
  • Space to help you set personal goals and reflect on them throughout the year
  • Tools to help you plan instructional time and focus on students who need extra support

A planner is never about the lessons--it’s always about the life. It’s about the life and growth of teachers and students and the robust, happy development of one’s days. And there’s no better educator than Jim Burke to remind us of that in Teaching Better Day by Day.


Table Of Contents:

  • FRONT MATTER
  • PREPARING TO TEACH
  • THE YEAR
  • THE MONTHS
  • THE WEEKS
  • THE DAILY LESSONS AND UNITS
  • APPENDICES

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