Heart!: Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader

by Timothy D. Kanold

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943874439
Publisher:	Solution Tree Press
Publication date:	03/17/2017
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

About the Author vii

Preface: Why I Wrote HEART! ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Developing Heart-H Is for Happiness 5

Chapter 1 The Happiness Dilemma 7

Chapter 2 The Happiness-Passion Connection 13

Chapter 3 What's Love Cot to Do With it? 19

Chapter 4 Got Compassion? Check! 25

Chapter 5 Wanted: Persons of Positive Character and Hope 33

Chapter 6 The Joy-Gratitude-Stability Connection 39

Chapter 7 Why Should We Weep? 43

Final Thoughts: The World Happiness Report 49

Part 2 Developing Heart-E is for Engagements 53

Chapter 8 Full Engagement Not Ahead 57

Chapter 9 Gating Engaged! 63

Chapter 10 It's Energy, Not Time 69

Chapter 11 Name That Energy Quadrant 75

Chapter 12 Avoiding the Quadrant III Drift 79

Chapter 13 Quadrant II Time Required 87

Chapter 14 Grit: Deliberate Daily Practice 93

Final Thoughts: The MTXE Perspective 97

Part 3 Developing Heart-A Is for Alliances 101

Chapter 15 The Primary Purposes of Collaboration 105

Chapter 16 PLCs: Serving the Greater Good. 109

Chapter 17 Oh, the Inequity Places We'll Go! 115

Chapter 18 Reduce Our Professional Noise 123

Chapter 19 Relational Intelligence Required 129

Chapter 20 What Are Those Black Boxes? 137

Chapter 21 Celebration: Making Above and Beyond the Norm the Norm 141

Final Thoughts: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success 147

Part 4 Developing Heart-R Is for Risk 151

Chapter 22 What's in a Goal? 155

Chapter 23 Shared Purpose: Each and Every Child Can Learn 163

Chapter 24 Results or Persons? 167

Chapter 25 The Risk-Vision Dependency 173

Chapter 26 Build Trust the Millennial Way 179

Chapter 27 Fixed or Growth Mindset? 185

Chapter 28 Warning: Entropy Ahead! 191

Final Thoughts: A Sense of Urgency 197

Part 5 Developing Heart-T Is for Thought 201

Chapter 29 Your Great Adventure! 205

Chapter 30 Your Voice of Wisdom 211

Chapter 31 Clean Up the Climate 217

Chapter 32 Become a Feedback Fanatic 221

Chapter 33 Yours, Mine, and Ours 227

Final Thoughts: Hold the Mayo! 231

Epilogue 235

Acknowledgments 239

Notes 241

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Finally, a book that goes straight to the heart of what it means to be an educator. In HEART!: Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader, Tim Kanold reminds us that the journey to becoming a great teacher or administrator begins on the inside."

—Robert Eaker, professor emeritus, Middle Tennessee State University

"In a time when far too many educators feel beaten down and struggle to keep their passion for teaching, Kanold has thrown a lifeline ... or perhaps he would call it a heartline."

—Grace Kelemanik, educational consultant and author

"You will be touched, emotional, and reflective as you read Timothy Kanold's HEART! Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader. This book should be required reading for both pre-service and in-service teachers, education leaders, and also a much broader audience. Tim intersperses stories about real educators and leaders to intentionally focus readers on reflecting about their current state and what it takes to leave a lasting heartprint on those they touch either directly or tangentially. Another outstanding book by Tim Kanold, an educator and leader whose words and actions are congruent."

—Denise M Walston, director of mathematics, Council of the Great City Schools

"In his latest book, HEART! Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader, Timothy Kanold provides educators with a unique opportunity to reconnect with a fundamental human longing—to make a positive difference in the lives of students and colleagues. Through research, powerful stories, questions, and activities, Kanold challenges readers to examine current habits and practice, test new strategies, and reflect on the results. HEART! is not a book to read once and put on a shelf. Readers will find themselves coming back again and again on their journey to becoming fully formed professionals."

—Rebecca DuFour, educational consultant and author

"Teaching is a giving profession, and we must pay a debt to do it well. Beyond the technical skills, educators must invest their hearts and minds into the work, which has the potential to replenish as well as consume them. With refreshing honesty and humor, Timothy Kanold challenges us to consider what it means to fully commit your life's work to learning and the service of others. It is much more than a book; it is a wonderfully reflective, interactive journey."

—Mike Mattos, educational consultant and author

"In a profession inundated with mounds of scientific theories, research-based practices, and quantitative data, Timothy Kanold persuasively encourages us to pause, reflect, and realize that it is our emotional, spiritual, and physical status as educators that fuels and drives our work with students. His talented blend of anecdotal references, personal experiences, and quotes from an array of individuals with whom he has crossed paths over the years serves to reinvigorate and remind us why we chose a profession focused on positively impacting students in the first place."

—Luis Cruz, president, Cruz & Associates Consulting