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Stories of the Courage to Teach
Honoring the Teacher's Heart
“It’s the worst-kept secret in education: the passionate and talented teacher makes more of a difference than any school policy. Yet for all the ink spilled over school reform, little gets written about what makes a great teacher tick. Stories of the Courage to Teach . . . . [Intrator] bucks this trend by looking into the hearts of twenty-five effective teachers, knitting together their first-person narratives with his own ideas about great teaching.”--New York Times “The teachers featured in this anthology have all, at various junctures, been on the verge of exhaustion, and the book is, in many ways, a sustained meditation on how they’ve sought to regain their emotional and spiritual strength.”--Teacher Magazine “Stories of the Courage to Teach . . . honors teachers who struggle to rekindle their passion for teaching.”--Christian Science Monitor “A heartwarming collection of essays about the doubts, passions, insecurities, and life-changing moments of teachers.” --American School Board Journal “Our history books are filled with examples of the efforts of committed education employees who helped to make this country what it is today. Stories of the Courage to Teach challenges today's teachers to see themselves not only as school employees, dedicated to serving children, but as leaders in their schools and communities.”--Bob Chase, president, National Education Association “This outstanding and highly inspiring book offers cool, clear, and nourishing water from the wellspring of the heart, where all teaching originates, and will serve as both a reminder and guide for teachers at all levels to return over and over to the source and nourish what is deepest and best in themselves as they nourish what is deepest and best in their students and their schools.”--Jon Kabat-Zinn, professor of medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School; author, Wherever You Go, There You Are, and coauthor, Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Sam M. Intrator (Author), Parker J. Palmer (Foreword by)
9780787996840, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 28 December 2007
400 pages
23.2 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.469 kg
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"A heartwarming collection of essays about the doubts, passions, insecurities, and life-changing moments of teachers."
-American School Board Journal
"Our history books are filled with examples of the efforts of committed education employees who helped to make this country what it is today. Stories of the Courage to Teach challenges today's teachers to see themselves not only as school employees, dedicated to serving children, but as leaders in their schools and communities."
-Bob Chase, president, National Education Association
"It's the worst-kept secret in education: the passionate and talented teacher makes more of a difference than any school policy. Yet for all the ink spilled over school reform, little gets written about what makes a great teacher tick. Stories of the Courage to Teach . . . [by Sam Intrator] bucks this trend by looking into the hearts of twenty-five effective teachers, knitting together their first-person narratives with his own ideas about great teaching."
-New York Times
"The teachers featured in this anthology have all, at various junctures, been on the verge of exhaustion, and the book is, in many ways, a sustained meditation on how they've sought to regain their emotional and spiritual strength."
-Teacher Magazine
"Stories of the Courage to Teach . . . honors teachers who struggle to rekindle their passion for teaching."
-Christian Science Monitor
Gratitudes xi Foreword: Listening to Teachers xvii Introduction: Honoring the Teacher’s Heart xxv I Turning Inward: Sustaining Our Own Hearts 1 Speaking from the Heart 6 This Is Where Teaching Gets Real 12 Teaching Had Become an Ordinary Job 18 An Experiment with Truth: One Teacher’s Path 28 Doing Small Things with Great Love 34 Despair and Love in Teaching 42 Sam Scheer: Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Teaching 54 Adult Conversations About Unasked Questions: Teaching for Educational Justice 64 II Reaching Out: Forging Relationships That Sustain Our Hearts 79 The Meaning of Life Assignment 84 Reclaiming Identity: Sharing a Teacher’s Truth 94 Of Aliens and Space 100 You’re the One I Expected to Meet 108 Arriving Where I Started: Rediscovering the Newness 116 Feeling, Thinking, and Acting for Change 126 Finding the Courage to Be Seventeen in Forty-Four-Year-Old Skin 132 Adversity as Ally 140 III Making Change: Reforms That Honor the Teacher’s Heart 153 So Sweet It Made Me Jingled: Offering My Own Truth Within the System 158 The Risk of Teaching and Learning Differently 178 Lift Every Voice 192 Teaching Excellence and the Inner Life of a Faculty 202 Journey into the Wilderness: A Teacher-Researcher Group’s Retreat 218 Teachers-to-Be Learning from Students-Who-Are: Reconfiguring Undergraduate Teacher Preparation 230 Honor the People; It’s the Leader’s Work 242 From Charity to Justice: Toward a Theology of Urban School Reform 254 Toward a Leadership of Peace for the Twenty-First-Century Academy 268 IV Rejuvenating Heart: The Courage to Teach Program 279 Courage to Teach: A Retreat Program of Personal and Professional Renewal for Educators 282 Afterword: What I Heard Them Say 309 Resources That Honor and Sustain the Teacher’s Heart 319 The Editor 323 Center for Courage & Renewal 325 Index 327
Parker J. Palmer
Sam M. Intrator
Amy Symons
Jim Burke
John Rockne
Leslie Young
Mary Alice Scott
Daniel P. Liston
Rosetta Marantz Cohen
Sonia Nieto and Stephen Gordon
Robert Kunzman
Kirstin Tonningsen
Elizabeth Keats Flores
Mary Rose O’Reilley
Susan Etheredge
Catalina Rios
Lori Fulton
Rachael Kessler
Clayton Stromberger
Katherine Kennedy
Chip Wood
Robert G. Kraft
Kelly Chandler-Olcott
Alison Cook-Sather
David Hagstrom
Linda C. Powell
Diana Chapman Walsh
Marcy Jackson and Rick Jackson
Parker J. Palmer
Compiled by Helen Lee
Subject Areas: Education [JN]
