{"product_id":"somatic-productivity-for-teachers-bart-reevers-9798185513743","title":"Somatic Productivity for Teachers: A Nervous-System Guide to Surviving the School Day, the Marking Pile, and the Drive Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bell rings. The students leave. Your body does not.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou are still in period four when you walk into period five. You are still in the parent email when you drive home. You are still in February when the summer holiday arrives, and you spend the first week of it ill. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a personal failing. It is what teaching does to a human nervous system. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSomatic Productivity for Teachers\u003c\/b\u003e is the first book to give teachers a working language for what their bodies are actually doing across the school day, and the protocols to protect the part of themselves the work is supposed to serve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will find: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe School-Day Carryover Loop\u003c\/b\u003e and how to interrupt it before it costs you another evening. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Teacher State Map\u003c\/b\u003e, a five-state framework (Steady, Braced, Flooded, Depleted, Disconnected) that replaces the blunt one-to-ten scale of stress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Three-Mode Lesson Plan\u003c\/b\u003e for matching what you deliver to what your body can actually give. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Marking Capacity Map\u003c\/b\u003e for the marking pile that eats Sunday evenings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Open-Loop Close\u003c\/b\u003e, a seven-step protocol for the ten minutes between the last bell and the car park. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Corridor Breath\u003c\/b\u003e, a thirty-second reset that works because the vagus nerve is doing the work, not the mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boundary Ladder\u003c\/b\u003e that tells you, honestly, which problems are yours and which belong to the school, the system, or the profession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten by Bart Reevers, a SEND Teaching Assistant and Cover Supervisor at a UK secondary school, and the author of \u003ci\u003eSomatic Productivity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHigh-Functioning Burnout\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDesigning Behaviour in the Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eParenting the System\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor thirty years, the profession has been told that the answer to its exhaustion is resilience. The answer is not resilience. The answer is the slow structural work of changing the conditions, and the small daily practice of protecting the part of you that the work is supposed to serve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is for both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book the profession has been quietly waiting for.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFree companion resources including the Teacher State Map Diagnostic, the Cover Note Template, and the Letter to Your First-Year Teaching Self exercise are available at \u003ci\u003ebartreevers.com\/teachers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bart Reevers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185513743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.59d","brand":"Bart Reevers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174341091583,"sku":"9798185513743","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/somatic-productivity-for-teachers-bart-reevers-9798185513743","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}