Heart! (ePub)

This inspiring book presents the concept of a heartprint -- the distinctive impression that an educator's heart leaves on students and colleagues during his or her professional career. For teachers, understand how teacher motivation, teacher-student relationships, and collaborative teaching all affect your self-efficacy, career, and professional development. For school leaders and administrators, discover your impact on staff, students, and school culture as you progress in your career and gain perspective on creating sustainable change.

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 Dr. 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.



• Build collective teacher efficacy and academic optimism by using the resource as a book study for professional development.

Contents:

Part 1: H Is 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 Is 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 Is 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 Is for Risk


Chapter 22: What's in a Goal?


Chapter 23: Shared Purpose--Each and Every Child Can Learn


Chapter 24: Results or Persons?


Chapter 25: The Risk-Vision Dependency


Chapter 26: Build Trust the Millennial Way


Chapter 27: Fixed or Growth Mindset?


Chapter 28: Warning--Entropy Ahead!


Final Thoughts: A Sense of Urgency

Part 5: T Is for Thought


Chapter 29: Your Great Adventure!


Chapter 30: Your Voice of Wisdom


Chapter 31: Clean Up the Climate


Chapter 32: Become a Feedback Fanatic


Chapter 33: Yours, Mine, and Ours


Final Thoughts: Hold the Mayo!