Recommended Reading

The Frazzled Teacher's Wellness Plan

A Five Step Program for Reclaiming Time, Managing Stress, and Creating a Healthy Lifestyle.
By J. Allen Queen & Patsy S. Queen

This wellness plan for today's busy teachers has been custom crafted by an educator and a nurse who know the daily, weekly, and yearly stresses of the academic calendar.

The Frazzled Pricipal's Wellness Plan

Reclaiming Time, Managing Stress, and Creating a Healthy Lifestyle

By J. Allen Queen & Patsy S. Queen

Offers you essential stress management research, tools, techniques, skills and tips to help you understand your stress responses, predict your most vulnerable moments and reclaim your time.  Restructure your personal and professional priorities for a healthier lifestyle.

The Tipping Point

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

By Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point is that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.  Gladwell explores The Tipping Point phenomenon which is changing the way people throughout the world think about disseminating ideas.

Last Child in the Woods

Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

By Richard Louv

This is the first book to bring together a body of research indicating that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults.  Louv offers practical solutions for anyone who cares about the education of children in today’s wired world.

The Obesity Myth

Why America’s Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous To Your Health

by Paul Campos

In this paradigm-busting read, Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political, and cultural meaning of weight and brings a rational and compelling new voice to America’s increasingly irrational weight debate.

Diabesity

What You Need to Know If Anyone You Care About Suffers from Weight Problems, Pre-Diabetes, or Diabetes

by Francine R. Kaufman, M.D.

Diabesity is a call to arms for policy makers and those in the health-care industry  The book intersperses riveting case studies that serve to accentuate the importance of "creating a new normal" mode of behavior in American culture—one that includes eating intelligently and exercising diligently.

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