SOUL! (ePub)

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.

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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