The Positivity Powerhouse Playbook for New Teachers

The Positivity Powerhouse™ Playbook for New Teachers : Navigating the SEAS to Inspire Social, Emotional and Academic Success is a heart-centered, practical guide for educators who want to lead with confidence, clarity, and purpose from day one. Grounded in real-world experience and research-based strategies, Dr. Lori Koerner shares actionable tools, mindset shifts, and empowering insights to help new and aspiring teachers navigate the classroom with compassion, resilience, and joy. This book is a roadmap for transforming overwhelm into confidence, challenges into opportunities, and classrooms into spaces where both students and educators truly thrive.

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This book was written to tie the SEAS together—Social, Emotional,

and Academic Success—and to guide us toward a more balanced and

humane vision for education. Together, we’ll explore practical ways to:

• Build classrooms rooted in trust, empathy, and belonging,

where relationships come first.

• Integrate social and emotional learning seamlessly into

academics, instead of treating it as an add-on.

• Foster curiosity and creativity through hands-on, inquiry-

driven experiences that make learning come alive.

• Encourage reflection and self-awareness for both students

and educators—because growth requires looking inward.

• Reimagine assessment, valuing progress and effort as much as

performance.

• Support educator wellbeing, knowing that inspired teachers

create inspired learners.

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Welcome aboard!

The Positivity Powerhouse™ herself

Dr. Lori Koerner