Drawing on her 35-year plus experience in the classroom, Lisa Lee has transformed her extensive and authentic teaching experience into a contagious passion and energy with a specialization in Gifted and Talented programs and a focus on the students who don’t always fit in a box. The Heart of Teaching is a book about her experience as a teacher, and the students she both taught and learned from, and the lessons she garnered as someone who always taught from the heart.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword 11
Introduction 13
Real Teachers: Touch the Heart, Teach the Mind 19
Riding the Waves 27
The Times, They Are A-changin’! 31
A Lifetime to Pay It Forward 41
Back from the Edge 49
Comm UNITY 53
From Country to City 63
Politically Speaking 73
To Teach and Protect? 79
Hard Truths 83
LIPS and SNIPS 91
A Land of Immigrants 97
Love in Any Language 101
You Just Gotta Laugh 109
Everyone Can Give 117
People First 123
Lessons of a Pandemic 129
It’s a Jungle in Here! 135
School of Hard Knocks 145
A Universal Language 153
The Next Chapter 157
Circa l’autore
Lisa Lee is a 35-year veteran educator with the honors of being named ‘Teacher of the Year’ in De Kalb County, Georgia (2007) and Runner-Up ‘Teacher of the Year’ for Colorado (2017). Over the years, Lisa Lee has taught in Georgia and Colorado elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, with a specialization in Gifted and Talented and a focus on the students who don’t always fit in a box. An experienced TEDx speaker, Lisa embraces the TEDx platform as a gateway to deliver her messages of connection and relationship building that she so strongly believes in.Her personal life philosophy is that ‘We’re put here on the planet to make life better for others. Period.’ This belief is the foundation ofher messaging in that making connections with others and building community can change lives. Lisa lives in the Denver, CO areawith her wife, 2 grandtwins, and her dog Rosa Barks.
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