Contents
Preface: The Embers of Change
Amanda Moreno and Jeanette Banashak
Acknowledgments
They Didn’t Start the Fire:
Why It’s Time to Focus on the Grown-Ups
Amanda Moreno
Original art by Matt Bourque
PART I: COME CLOSER: HEALING TEACHING
THROUGH ACTS OF RADICAL PROFESSIONAL INTIMACY
2. Unconditional Positive Regard:
Practicing a Different World
Alex Shevrin Venet
3. Unlocking HEART Potential: Nurturing Educators for
a Joyful and Purposeful Life Lorea Martínez
4. Good Grief: A Case for Queering Teachers’ Gender and
Sexual Diversity-Focused Professional Learning
Sara Staley
5. Dialogic Inquiry as Care: Healing Early Years Educators
With Professional Learning About Multicultural Education
Eseta Tualaulelei
PART II: BEYOND CULTURAL AFFINITY,
HEALING TEACHING BY AND FOR TEACHERS OF COLOR
6. Community Cultural Healing in Teaching and
Teacher Education: Rooted in Plática, Growing in Justice
Mariana Souto-Manning, Jessica Martell, and Benelly Álvarez
7. Black Educators Healing Together:
The Power of Homeplace
Micia Mosely
8. Who Cares for the Carers? A Holistic Approach to Teacher
Well-Being in a Tribal Head Start Context
Hilary Gourneau, Teresa N. Brockie, and Deborah H. Wilson
9. Healing Teaching With the Power of Language and Cultural Connection: Alzando Mi Voz, Cultivando Identidad
Ivette Marlenne Alvarez and Rebeca Itzkowich
Original art by Matt Bourque
Original art by Matt Bourque
PART III: EXPANSIVE SEL: HEALING LEADERSHIP
AND HUMANIZING SYSTEMS
10. Preparing SEL Systems to Sustain (and Support!)
Educators
Addison Duane, Ashley N. Metzger, Kamryn S. Morris,
Mai Xi Lee, Brent Malicote, and Valerie B. Shapiro
11. Caring for Educators by Addressing Their Psychological
Needs: Recommendations for Policies and Systems
Patricia A. Jennings and Tara Hofkens
12. The Role of the Superintendent in Systemic and Transformative SEL: Toward Critical
Well-Being
Mai Xi Lee and Roberto Rivera
13. Healing by Principals, Healing for Principals: A Conversation With Maurice Swinney
Amanda Moreno and Maurice Swinney
Original art by Matt Bourque
PART IV: HEALING TEACHING THROUGH INNER AND
OUTER HARMONY: SELF, OTHERS, EARTH
14. Peace Education as a Path to Healing in Crisis-Affected
Regions
Dody Wibowo
15. Healing Teaching and the Earth Through Nature
Companionship
Jeanette Banashak
16. Dismantling Toxic “Professionalism” to Liberate Schools and Ignite Healing
Kamilah Drummond
17. Healing the Givers: Addressing the Link Between Emotional
Labor and the Feminization of the Teaching Profession
Alexander Enrique Parker
Conclusion: Healing Teaching, Healing Ourselves:
A Conversation With Amanda and Jeanette
Jeanette Banashak and
Amanda Moreno