Educators are very good at meeting the needs of their students, their families and anyone else who may need their help. We go into education because we care for others and want to make the world a better place. What we are not always great at is taking care of our own needs. In theory we know that we can’t really take care of others until we have taken care of ourselves but in practice that is often the very thing we try to do. When we do not take this time we run the risk of burnout and worse. There has been a lot of research lately about teachers and resilience. There are two resources in particular that teachers can turn to in order to work on building their own resilience: Elena Aguilar’s Onward and Angela Watson’s website. Elena Aguilar has done extensive research in the area of teacher resilience. In her book Onward she identifies the twelve key habits of resilient educators. She has thoughtfully paired each habit to correspond with a month of the school year. She has also