From Head to Heart: High Quality Teaching Practices in the Spotlight

From Head to Heart: High Quality Teaching Practices in the Spotlight is an evidence-based book chock-full of engaging strategies for teaching diverse students while meeting their academic and emotional needs. Educators will find a wide array of intriguing, state-of-the-art topics: new ways to use student-centered learning, strategies to embed social-emotional skills in daily instruction, strategies to prevent teacher burnout---and many other topics essential for 21st-century educators. From Head to Heart is unique, timely, and important for ensuring that today’s educators are well informed and recognize the significance of personal relationships inherent in teaching!

Rosalie Fink, Ed.D.

Author, Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: Engaging Content Area Literacy Strategies

Professor of Literacy Emeritus, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

From Head to Heart: High Quality Teaching Practices in the Spotlight examines the more personal topics in teaching that are rarely discussed yet are so important to the field of education. The authors address the academic and social-emotional challenges faced in today’s classrooms and provide research-based strategies, practices, and theories that can easily be applied and implemented. This is a book that every general and special educator will go back to time and time again.

Angela C. Fain, Ph.D.

Professor of Special Education, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA

The authors of From Head to Heart: High Quality Teaching Practices in the Spotlight provide teaching practices that are user-friendly, time-sensitive, and innovative to inspire teachers to access the measures of instruction. An eclectic approach to teaching, this book covers such topics as teacher identity, research-based instructional practices, positive classroom management, and the all-important topic of self-care to prevent career burnout that is often overlooked within the teacher community. Long overdue, this book is geared toward teachers and reinforces that they are doing the quality work they dreamt about within their teacher training programs.

Anne Marie Leonard-Zable, D.Ed.

Full Professor of Psychology, Curry College, Massachusetts

Few books offer a detailed look at the heart of teaching; however, Head to Heart: High Quality Teaching Practices in the Spotlight does just that. Teacher enthusiasm, social-emotional learning, positive classroom management, the importance of parents, and how the administration can assist educators in student success are only some of the important topics covered in this revolutionary tome. Current classroom teachers, both special education, and inclusion, as well as all preservice teachers, will benefit from a reminder that the best teaching begins with the heart.

Judith L. Klimkiewicz, Ed.D.

Senior Consultant for K-12 College/Career Education and Workforce Development

Commissioner's Office

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Superintendent of Schools, retired, Nashoba Valley Technical School District, MA