HEART!

Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader (Support Your Passion for the Teaching Profession and Become a More Effective Educator)

Description of book

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 development. 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 listener to pen their personal reflections and voice, and helps listeners 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. This audio edition of HEART! is expertly narrated by Scott Pollak.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.