Timothy D. Kanold - SOUL!: Fulfilling the Promise of Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader (A professional wellness and self-reflection resource for educators at every grade level)

Fulfilling the Promise of Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader

Timothy D. Kanold

Foreword by Robert Eaker

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Names: Kanold, Timothy D., author.

Title: SOUL! : fulfilling the promise of your professional life as a teacher and leader / Timothy D. Kanold.

Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020040762 (print) | LCCN 2020040763 (ebook) | ISBN 9781951075651 (paperback) | ISBN 9781951075668 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Teachers--Professional relationships. | Reflective teaching. | Educational leadership.

Classification: LCC LB1775 .K283 2021 (print) | LCC LB1775 (ebook) | DDC 371.12--dc23

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This book is dedicated to my family, our FamBam; to the memory of my colleague Becky DuFour; and to all who choose our professionmay your soul story search preserve your good in order to create good in others, each trip around the sun.

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by Robert Eaker

Timothy D. Kanold, PhD, is an award-winning educator and author. He is former director of mathematics and science and served as superintendent of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, a model professional learning community (PLC) district in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Dr. Kanold has authored or coauthored more than thirty books on K12 mathematics, school culture, and school leadership, including his best-selling and 2018 IPPY award-winning book HEART! Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader. He also has authored numerous articles and chapters on school leadership and culture-care development for educational publications.

Dr. Kanold received the 2017 Ross Taylor / Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM), the international 2010 Damen Award for outstanding contributions to education from Loyola University Chicago, and the 1986 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

Dr. Kanold earned a bachelors degree in education and a masters degree in mathematics from Illinois State University. He received his doctorate in educational leadership and counseling psychology from Loyola University Chicago.

Dr. Kanold is committed to equity, excellence, and social justice reform for the improved learning of students and school faculty, staff, and administrators. He conducts inspirational professional development seminars worldwide with a focus on improving student learning outcomes through a commitment to the PLC process and a focus on living a well-balanced professional life by practicing reflection and self-care routines.

To learn more about Dr. Kanolds work, follow him @tkanold or #heartandsoul4ED on Twitter.

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By Robert Eaker

Joy, feeling ones own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Maria Montessori

In an era of increased stress created by statewide testing of students, coupled with the relentless pressure placed on teachers for improving student learning, its time to take a hard look at our cultural values reflected in such words as caring and self-care, compassion for others, and compassion for self as educators search for and find passion for their work.

It is time to examine the heart and soul of what it means to be an educator.

What better person to write about educators hearts and souls than Tim Kanold? For more than four decades, Ive had the pleasure of knowing Tim as he filled a variety of roles across rural, urban, and suburban schoolsteacher, division chair, assistant principal, superintendent, consultant, author, and most important, trusted friend. In each of these roles, Tim has modeled and demonstrated the very best of our professional life, which he wrote about first in HEART!, and now in this companion book, SOUL!

Regardless of their organizational structure, schools are composed of human beings, with each person bringing his or her unique beliefs, attitudes, actions, dreams, and desires to the schoolhis or her unique heart and soul.

Yet schools are more than a collection of individuals. Successful schools agree to unify around ways of doing things, things that flow from a collective organizational soul story. It falls to educators (administrators, teachers, and staff) to lead the collaborative development, articulation, and promotion of core values and behaviors that, taken together, represent those good and right things for which the school standsthe values it will passionately promote, protect, and defend, such as belonging, community, intimacy, vulnerability, and validation.