The Heart of Teaching

by Lisa Lee

Overview

Drawing on her 35-year plus experience in the classroom, Lisa Lee has transformed her extensive and authentic teaching experience into a contagious passion and energy with a specialization in Gifted and Talented programs and a focus on the students who don't always fit in a box. The Heart of Teaching is a book about her experience as a teacher, and the students she both taught and learned from, and the lessons she garnered as someone who always taught from the heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798987506677
Publisher:	Mind Flash Publishing
Publication date:	05/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Lisa Lee is a 35-year veteran educator with the honors of being named "Teacher of the Year" in DeKalb County, Georgia (2007) and Runner-Up "Teacher of the Year" for Colorado (2017). Over the years, Lisa Lee has taught in Georgia and Colorado elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, with a specialization in Gifted and Talented and a focus on the students who don't always fit in a box. An experienced TEDx speaker, Lisa embraces the TEDx platform as a gateway to deliver her messages of connection and relationship building that she so strongly believes in.Her personal life philosophy is that "We're put here on the planet to make life better for others. Period." This belief is the foundation ofher messaging in that making connections with others and building community can change lives. Lisa lives in the Denver, CO areawith her wife, 2 grandtwins, and her dog Rosa Barks.

Table of Contents

Foreword 11

Introduction 13

Real Teachers: Touch the Heart, Teach the Mind 19

Riding the Waves 27

The Times, They Are A-changin'! 31

A Lifetime to Pay It Forward 41

Back from the Edge 49

CommUNITY 53

From Country to City 63

Politically Speaking 73

To Teach and Protect? 79

Hard Truths 83

LIPS and SNIPS 91

A Land of Immigrants 97

Love in Any Language 101

You Just Gotta Laugh 109

Everyone Can Give 117

People First 123

Lessons of a Pandemic 129

It's a Jungle in Here! 135

School of Hard Knocks 145

A Universal Language 153

The Next Chapter 157