Inspirational, Administration, Instruction Methods, Religious Studies 

This book is a collection of essays, written by teachers at every level of practice, that honors the hearts of all teachers who struggle to reconnect with the source of their vocation. These teachers have found ways to serve their students, rekindle their passion for teaching, connect in life-sustaining ways with colleagues, and work towards creating educational institutions that seek to be places that, as Parker J. Palmer writes, "bring more light and life into the world." Their warm, practical, funny, and wise stories will provide inspiration, companionship, and hope to teachers who strive to reclaim the courage to teach.  

Contents:
Gratitudes.
Foreword: Listening to Teachers (Parker J. Palmer).
Introduction: Honoring the Teacher's Heart (Sam M. Intrator).
PART I: Turning Inward: Sustaining Our Own Hearts.
Speaking from the Heart (Amy Symons).
This Is Where Teaching Gets Real (Jim Burke).
Teaching Had Become an Ordinary Job (John Rockne).
An Experiment with Truth: One Teacher's Path (Leslie Young).
Doing Small Things with Great Love (Mary Alice Scott).
Despair and Love in Teaching (Daniel P. Liston).
Sam Scheer: Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Teaching (Rosetta Marantz Cohen).
Adult Conversations About Unasked Questions: Teaching for
Educational Justice (Sonia Nieto and Stephen Gordon).
PART II: Reaching Out: Forging Relationships That Sustain
Our Hearts.
The Meaning of Life Assignment (Robert Kunzman).
Reclaiming Identity: Sharing a Teacher's Truth (Kirstin Tonningsen).
Of Aliens and Space (Elizabeth Keats Flores).
You're the One I Expected to Meet (Mary Rose O'Reilley).
Arriving Where I Started: Rediscovering the Newness (Susan Etheredge).
Feeling, Thinking, and Acting for Change (Catalina Rios).
Finding the Courage to Be Seventeen in
Forty-Four-Year-Old Skin (Lori Fulton).
Adversity as Ally (Rachael Kessler).
PART III: Making Change: Reforms That Honor
the Teacher's Heart.
So Sweet It Made Me Jingled: Offering My Own Truth
Within the System (Clayton Stromberger).
The Risk of Teaching and Learning Differently (Katherine Kennedy).
Lift Every Voice (Chip Wood).
Teaching Excellence and the Inner Life of a Faculty (Robert G. Kraft).
Journey into the Wilderness: A Teacher-Researcher
Group's Retreat (Kelly Chandler-Olcott).
Teachers-to-Be Learning from Students-Who-Are:
Reconfiguring Undergraduate Teacher Preparation (Alison Cook-Sather).
Honor the People; It's the Leader's Work (David Hagstrom).
From Charity to Justice: Toward a Theology of Urban School
Reform (Linda C. Powell).
Toward a Leadership of Peace for the Twenty-First-Century
Academy (Diana Chapman Walsh).
PART IV: Rejuvenating Heart: The Courage to Teach
Program.
Courage to Teach: A Retreat Program of Personal and
Professional Renewal for Educators (Marcy Jackson and Rick Jackson).
Afterword: What I Heard Them Say (Parker J. Palmer).
Resources That Honor and Sustain the Teacher's Heart (Compiled by Helen Lee).
The Editor.
About the Courage to Teach Program.
Index.