Stories of the Courage to Teach

Sam M. Intrator, assistant professor of education and child study at Smith College, is the son of two public school teachers. For many years, he was a public high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York, Vermont, and California.

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.