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1. S’épanouir en temps de crise: 21 techniques de psychologie positive
   Ce guide pratique propose 21 ­techniques pour vous épanouir en période difficile. Applicables dans votre vie personnelle ou professionnelle et validées par la recherche en psychologie, elles vous permettront de vous relier à l’autre, de vous engager dans l’action et d’être plus résilient.
2. Inclusive Texts in Elementary Classrooms: Developing Literacies, Identities, and Understandings
   One of the most important acts of reading is to see ourselves in the books we read. Amy Heineke and Aimee Papola-Ellis explore how teachers can select texts that give students the most authentic views of their identities.
3. Faire son deuil, vivre un chagrin: un guide pour les proches et les professionnels
   Ce livre propose de nombreuses réflexions et des conseils pratiques afin d’offrir un réel soutien dans des situations souvent déroutantes pour les proches, les soignants, les enseignants et les employeurs. Il s’agit d’un guide indispensable pour ­accompagner une personne en deuil ou en détresse.
4. Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice
   How can one become a global citizen without exploring our history from the standpoint of human vulnerability and social justice? Author Becky Thompson shares her experiences in bringing a mix of strategies to learning to teach with tenderness and includes discussions of activities that did not work.
5. Healthy Teachers, Healthy Classrooms: Twelve Brain-Based Principles to Avoid Burnout, Increase ­Optimism, and Support Physical Well-Being
   Are you trying to reduce your stress? Feel like you are ­losing your optimism? This amazing book from Marcia Tate is your must-read guide.
6. Adventures in Authentic Learning: 21 Step-by-Step Projects from an Edtech Coach
   No edtech coach on hand to help develop projects for your class? Not a problem! This book is your portable coach – with answers to frequently asked questions and lots of recommended resources to make project development so much easier!
7. Going Beyond 'The Talk': Relationships and Sexuality Education for Those Supporting 12–18 Year Olds
   It is not easy to talk with children about sex. This book will help make it a little easier by sharing the questions that students ask about sex and how to answer them.
8. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
   A fascinating book that challenges Western thinking by examining issues such as "sustainable development" from an Indigenous perspective.

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Annie Jacques
I just finished Kukum by Michel Jean (in French). Jean is Métis and tells the real story of his grandmother, who married a First Nation, and how she had to adapt to her new life/reality and the ­challenges they went through. It was REALLY good.

Barbara Weir Shepherd
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale). Great author and sadly prescient — but hopeful.

Scott Carey 
Just finished I’m Possible — an amazing book. It’s a powerful account as the author tells the story of his early years being homeless on the streets of Baltimore to becoming principal tuba player for the New ­Mexico philharmonic and a professor of music. First-hand glimpse of a child surviving extreme poverty and trauma … his hope and resilience.

Tabatha Hart
Educated by Tara Westover. Great memoir about growing up with a bipolar father with conspiracy theories and a violent brother and still being resilient enough to succeed.