A long-awaited companion to the wildly popular HEART!, SOUL! empowers educators take another giant leap toward fulfilling their professional promise. Refreshing and uplifting, this resource leads readers on a deeply rewarding journey toward discovering their soul story--the pursuit of their moral good in order to create good in others. It also includes dozens of stories from real educators, as well as ample space for journaling and self-reflection. Use this resource to examine and reflect with provided journaling spaces: Become more confident, joyful, whole, and healthy in your professional life. Explore the four actions of SOUL--searching, overcoming, unifying, and living--that will help you sustain a fulfilling professional life. Learn the concept of a soul story, diving into what it is and why it should matter deeply to all educators. Understand your own soul story, and reflect on how you can use it to create good in others. Learn how to overcome challenges and obstacles that hinder you from fulfilling your soul story. Discover how to create a positive school culture focused on meaningful relationships and collaboration. Follow the discussion of SOUL! on Twitter by using the hashtag #heartandsoul4Ed Contents: Table of Contents About the Author Foreword A Note to Readers Introduction Part 1: Developing Your Soul Story Chapter 1: The Soul Asks, Now What? Chapter 2: A Perfect Pair: Heart and Soul Chapter 3: In Loco Parentis Chapter 4: In the Name of Social Justice Chapter 5: The Second Mountain Chapter 6: No Compassion, No Soul Chapter 7: The Soul Story Whisperers Final Thoughts: The PLC Life is a Seeking-System Life Part 2: Developing Your SOUL Story Chapter 8: Lost and Overwhelmed Chapter 9: The Shallows Chapter 10: SASHET Chapter 11: Anger Never Wins Chapter 12: Good Enough, For Now Chapter 13: The Road Less Hardened Chapter 14: A Season for Obstacles Final Thoughts: Hatred Corrodes Your Container Part 3: Developing Your SOUL Story Chapter 15: E Pluribus Unum: Thriving in Community Chapter 16: Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Belonging Chapter 17: Beyond Collaboration: Intimacy Chapter 18: Beyond Collegiality: Vulnerability Chapter 19: Beyond Tolerance: Validation Chapter 20: Beyond School: Community Engagement Chapter 21: The Quietude Quest Final Thoughts: Semper Fidelis Part 4: Developing Your SOUL Story Chapter 22: The Date Always Arrives Chapter 23: Carpe Diem Chapter 24: Mirror, Mirror Chapter 25: Soul Story Courage Chapter 26: Joy, Gratitude, and Grace Chapter 27: One More Trip Around the Sun Final Thoughts: Social Justice Is the PLC Life Epilogue Finding Our Slack Tide Acknowledgments Notes

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!