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

Timothy D. Kanold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943874433 ISBN 13: 9781943874439

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 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
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 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!

About this title

From the Author

I wrote HEART! as my good friend and professional colleague, Richard DuFour was beginning his final journey through Stage IV lung cancer. An inspirational educational leader, he had left his Heartprint not only on me, but thousands of other educators. It was my initial intent to reveal lessons he had taught me over the years about our profession. However, along the way, despite his own pain, he challenged me to expand the book to include the wisdom of many. When you read the Epilogue, know that those words reveal my reflections on the day of his final public message. As I began to write HEART!, I realized I wanted to speak through the vehicle of story, provide insight to the reader from thought leaders inside and outside of our profession, and ultimately allow the reader to tell their own educational story - to discover or re-discover their fundamental purpose for joining our great profession. And to do so, either in self-study or group (book club style) study.  Eventually, each letter of the word HEART became an important part of the book and represented chapters of ideas reflecting both the struggle and the triumph of our daily work life as teachers and leaders. How can we live a professional life, school season after school season, that does not wear us down, or cause us to lose hope? A good friend of mine and loving critic, told me during the early and painful iterative stages of the manuscript process, "Above all else, make sure you take good care of the reader". In the end, I suppose you will have to decide if I succeeded! 

About the Author

Timothy D. Kanold, PhD, is an award-winning educator, author, and consultant and national thought leader in mathematics. He is former director of mathematics and science and served as superintendent of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, a model professional learning community (PLC) district in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Dr. Kanold is committed to equity and excellence for students, faculty, and school administrators. He conducts highly motivational professional development leadership seminars worldwide with a focus on turning school vision into realized action that creates greater equity for students through the effective delivery of the PLC process by faculty and administrators.

He is a past president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) and coauthor of several best-selling mathematics textbooks over several decades. Dr. Kanold has authored or coauthored thirteen books on K-12 mathematics and school leadership since 2011, including the 2018 Gold Medal IPPY Award-winning and best-selling book HEART! He also has served on writing commissions for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and has authored numerous articles and chapters on school leadership and development for education publications since 2006.

Dr. Kanold received the 2017 Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, the international 2010 Damen Award for outstanding contributions to the leadership field of education from Loyola University Chicago, 1986 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and 1994 Outstanding Administrator Award from the Illinois State Board of Education. He serves as an adjunct faculty member for the graduate school at Loyola University Chicago.

Dr. Kanold earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in mathematics from Illinois State University. He also completed a master's degree in educational administration at the University of Illinois and received a doctorate in educational leadership and counseling psychology from Loyola University Chicago.

To learn more about Timothy D. Kanold's work, visit his blog, Turning Vision Into Action and follow him on Twitter at @tkanold.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1943874433
• ISBN 13: 9781943874439
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 264