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HEART!: Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader (Support Your Passion for the Teaching Profession and Become a More Effective Educator)
HEART Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader - Support Your Passion for the Teaching Profession and Become a More Effective Educator Author:Timothy D. Kanold This inspiring 2018 IPPY gold medal award winning book presents the idea of your heartprint: the distinct impression an educator's heart makes on students and colleagues during his or her career. For teachers, understand how teacher motivation, teacher-student relationships, and collaborative teaching all affect your career and professional deve... more »lopment. For school leaders, discover your impact on staff, students, and culture as you progress in your career. Kanold writes in a conversational manner, offering his own anecdotes and reflections on being a professional teacher, invites the reader to pen their personal reflections and voice, and helps readers uncover their impact on student learning to foster heart-centered classrooms and schools.
Examine the 5 HEART aspects of your professional life:
Happiness: a passion for teaching, a purpose, and a desire to positively impact education
Engagement: teacher motivation, energy, and effort necessary to impact student learning
Alliances: relationships, collaborative teaching, and teacher support
Risk: vision-focused risk taking to create sustainable change in schools
Thought: the knowledge and professional development integral to advancing your career
Discover Your Answer to the Question "Why Teach" and Advance Your Career in Education:
Reflect on your journey and the personal and professional qualities of the teacher or leader you want to be. Discover your distinctive heartprint on your students and colleagues, and decide what the qualities of a good teacher are for you. Gain personal development plan ideas and inspirational insights from Kanold as well as dozens of thought leaders and researchers. Connect your professional life to each chapter and reconnect to the emotion, passion, energy, growth, and collaborative intimacy expected when joining the teaching profession. Use the book as part of professional development for teachers in a group book study.
Contents:
Part 1: H for Happiness
Chapter 1: The Happiness Dilemma
Chapter 2: The Happiness-Passion Connection
Chapter 3: What's Love Got to Do With It?
Chapter 4: Got Compassion? Check!
Chapter 5: Wanted--Persons of Positive Character and Hope
Chapter 6: The Joy-Gratitude-Stability Connection
Chapter 7: Why Should We Weep?
Final Thoughts: The World Happiness Report
Part 2: E for Engagement
Chapter 8: Gallup Says--Full Engagement Not Ahead
Chapter 9: Getting Engaged!
Chapter 10: It's Energy, Not Time
Chapter 11: Name That Energy Quadrant
Chapter 12: Avoid the Quadrant III Drift
Chapter 13: Quadrant II Time Required
Chapter 14: Grit--Deliberate Daily Practice
Final Thoughts: The MTXE Perspective
Part 3: A for Alliances
Chapter 15: The Primary Purposes of Collaboration
Chapter 16: PLCs--Serving the Greater Good
Chapter 17: Oh, the Inequity Places We'll Go!
Chapter 18: Reduce Our Professional Noise
Chapter 19: Relational Intelligence Required
Chapter 20: What Are Those Black Boxes?
Chapter 21: Celebration--Making Above and Beyond the Norm the Norm
Final Thoughts: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
Part 4: R for Risk
Chapter 22: What's in a Goal?
Chapter 23: Shared Purpose--Each and Every Child Can Learn