SOUL!

ebook 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)

By Timothy D. Kanold

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A long-awaited companion to the wildly popular HEART!, SOUL! empowers educators to take another giant leap toward fulfilling their professional promise. Refreshing, uplifting, and research affirmed, 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, healthy, and balanced 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 is so important to your positive well-being and emotional health.
  • 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, thriving 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—S is for Searching
    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—O is for Overcoming
    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: The PLC Life is a Corrosion-Free Life
    Part 3: Developing Your SOUL Story—U is for Unifying
    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: The PLC Life Is a Balanced, Unified Life
    Part 4: Developing Your SOUL Story—L is for Living
    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: The PLC Life Is a Bene Life
    Epilogue
    Finding Our Slack Tide
    Acknowledgments
    Notes

    SOUL!