Teacher Burnout, Childhood Books, and the Stories that Build Stronger Resumes

About this episode

Vanessa discusses how childhood books influence our values and storytelling in resume writing.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Teachers in Transition, Vanessa explores how the books we loved when we were young helped shape what we notice, value, question, and carry into adulthood AND how our own stories can help us write a better resume. From Erma Bombeck and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple to Nancy Drew, The Boxcar Children, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games, Divergent, and more, this episode looks at the “childhood bookshelf” as more than nostalgia. Those early st...

People in this episode

Host: Vanessa Jackson

Topics covered

• teacher burnout
• childhood books
• resume building
• personal stories
• nostalgia
• literature impact

Keywords

• teacher burnout
• childhood books
• resume
• storytelling
• literature
• nostalgia

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Erma Bombeck, Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Nancy Drew, The Boxcar Children, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games, Divergent

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