Stories of the Courage to Teach
Honoring the Teacher's Heart, paperback reprint
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 28. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-7879-9684-0 (ISBN)
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WISE STORIES TO HONOR AND ENCOURAGE THE HEARTS OF TEACHERS
"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
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Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-9684-0 (9780787996840)
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04/2002
Jossey-Bass
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Person
The son of two retired New York City teachers, Sam M. Intrator began teaching at Smith College in 1999 after more than a decade of teaching and administrative service in public schools in Brooklyn, Vermont, and California. Intrator teaches courses on Urban Education, Teenagers in American Culture, and the Teaching of Writing. He also founded the Smith College Urban Education Initiative-an educational outreach program that seeks to deepen students' understanding of the theoretical, practical, and human issues facing urban educators by engaging them in intensive service learning experience in urban school settings. Intrator's books and research inquire into what it takes for teachers and students to co-create intellectually vibrant and genuinely meaningful experiences in the classroom. He has written or edited five books, including Tuned in and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom (Yale University Press, 2003), which was a finalist for the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education. Intrator has received a number of awards for his teaching and public service, including a Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, an Ella Baker Fellowship, and the Distinguished Teacher Award from the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars. His latest effort is the co-development of Project Coach-an after-school program that prepares high school students from underserved communities to be youth sport coaches. These youth coaches then run neighborhood sport leagues in their home neighborhoods.
Intrator holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an MA degree from the Bread Loaf School of English.
Intrator holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an MA degree from the Bread Loaf School of English.
Content
Gratitudes xi
Foreword: Listening to Teachers xvii
Parker J. Palmer
Introduction: Honoring the Teacher's Heart xxv
Sam M. Intrator
I Turning Inward: Sustaining Our Own Hearts 1
Speaking from the Heart 6
Amy Symons
This Is Where Teaching Gets Real 12
Jim Burke
Teaching Had Become an Ordinary Job 18
John Rockne
An Experiment with Truth: One Teacher's Path 28
Leslie Young
Doing Small Things with Great Love 34
Mary Alice Scott
Despair and Love in Teaching 42
Daniel P. Liston
Sam Scheer: Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Teaching 54
Rosetta Marantz Cohen
Adult Conversations About Unasked Questions: Teaching for Educational Justice 64
Sonia Nieto and Stephen Gordon
II Reaching Out: Forging Relationships That Sustain Our Hearts 79
The Meaning of Life Assignment 84
Robert Kunzman
Reclaiming Identity: Sharing a Teacher's Truth 94
Kirstin Tonningsen
Of Aliens and Space 100
Elizabeth Keats Flores
You're the One I Expected to Meet 108
Mary Rose O'Reilley
Arriving Where I Started: Rediscovering the Newness 116
Susan Etheredge
Feeling, Thinking, and Acting for Change 126
Catalina Rios
Finding the Courage to Be Seventeen in Forty-Four-Year-Old Skin 132
Lori Fulton
Adversity as Ally 140
Rachael Kessler
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
Clayton Stromberger
The Risk of Teaching and Learning Differently 178
Katherine Kennedy
Lift Every Voice 192
Chip Wood
Teaching Excellence and the Inner Life of a Faculty 202
Robert G. Kraft
Journey into the Wilderness: A Teacher-Researcher Group's Retreat 218
Kelly Chandler-Olcott
Teachers-to-Be Learning from Students-Who-Are: Reconfiguring Undergraduate Teacher Preparation 230
Alison Cook-Sather
Honor the People; It's the Leader's Work 242
David Hagstrom
From Charity to Justice: Toward a Theology of Urban School Reform 254
Linda C. Powell
Toward a Leadership of Peace for the Twenty-First-Century Academy 268
Diana Chapman Walsh
IV Rejuvenating Heart: The Courage to Teach Program 279
Courage to Teach: A Retreat Program of Personal and Professional Renewal for Educators 282
Marcy Jackson and Rick Jackson
Afterword: What I Heard Them Say 309
Parker J. Palmer
Resources That Honor and Sustain the Teacher's Heart 319
Compiled by Helen Lee
The Editor 323
Center for Courage & Renewal 325
Index 327
Foreword: Listening to Teachers xvii
Parker J. Palmer
Introduction: Honoring the Teacher's Heart xxv
Sam M. Intrator
I Turning Inward: Sustaining Our Own Hearts 1
Speaking from the Heart 6
Amy Symons
This Is Where Teaching Gets Real 12
Jim Burke
Teaching Had Become an Ordinary Job 18
John Rockne
An Experiment with Truth: One Teacher's Path 28
Leslie Young
Doing Small Things with Great Love 34
Mary Alice Scott
Despair and Love in Teaching 42
Daniel P. Liston
Sam Scheer: Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Teaching 54
Rosetta Marantz Cohen
Adult Conversations About Unasked Questions: Teaching for Educational Justice 64
Sonia Nieto and Stephen Gordon
II Reaching Out: Forging Relationships That Sustain Our Hearts 79
The Meaning of Life Assignment 84
Robert Kunzman
Reclaiming Identity: Sharing a Teacher's Truth 94
Kirstin Tonningsen
Of Aliens and Space 100
Elizabeth Keats Flores
You're the One I Expected to Meet 108
Mary Rose O'Reilley
Arriving Where I Started: Rediscovering the Newness 116
Susan Etheredge
Feeling, Thinking, and Acting for Change 126
Catalina Rios
Finding the Courage to Be Seventeen in Forty-Four-Year-Old Skin 132
Lori Fulton
Adversity as Ally 140
Rachael Kessler
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
Clayton Stromberger
The Risk of Teaching and Learning Differently 178
Katherine Kennedy
Lift Every Voice 192
Chip Wood
Teaching Excellence and the Inner Life of a Faculty 202
Robert G. Kraft
Journey into the Wilderness: A Teacher-Researcher Group's Retreat 218
Kelly Chandler-Olcott
Teachers-to-Be Learning from Students-Who-Are: Reconfiguring Undergraduate Teacher Preparation 230
Alison Cook-Sather
Honor the People; It's the Leader's Work 242
David Hagstrom
From Charity to Justice: Toward a Theology of Urban School Reform 254
Linda C. Powell
Toward a Leadership of Peace for the Twenty-First-Century Academy 268
Diana Chapman Walsh
IV Rejuvenating Heart: The Courage to Teach Program 279
Courage to Teach: A Retreat Program of Personal and Professional Renewal for Educators 282
Marcy Jackson and Rick Jackson
Afterword: What I Heard Them Say 309
Parker J. Palmer
Resources That Honor and Sustain the Teacher's Heart 319
Compiled by Helen Lee
The Editor 323
Center for Courage & Renewal 325
Index 327