Video Workshop Now Available for the Best-selling and Award-winning HEART!

Bloomington, Ind. (September 21, 2018)—Solution Tree, an educational publisher and professional development provider, has announced the release of HEART!: Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader, a book and video set by Dr. Timothy D. Kanold. Included is the award-winning and best-selling HEART! and a facilitator’s guide to implement the video for book study groups.

Both the book and video explore the concept of a heartprint, the distinctive impression that an educator leaves on students and colleagues during his or her professional career. Participants will explore five essential elements—Happiness, Engagement, Alliances, Risk and Thought—that can define their heartprint, deepen their connection to their work and help them to become more reflective and mindful practitioners.

“The DVD provides support for using HEART! for a professional development book study throughout the year,” explained Kanold. “It provides insights into why I wrote the book, as well as some incredible stories from real teachers who have used the book for book studies.”

The 51-minute video workshop is divided into three segments:

1. Group Session I (Welcome and Video): The first workshop session gives a general introduction of the self-reflection process and outlines its scope and structure.
2. Individual Reflection: Over a school-specific predetermined span of time, participants will read HEART!, conduct self-reflection and journaling activities and incorporate lessons learned into their professional lives.
3. Group Session II: After all participants have had the opportunity to practice the mindfulness reflections contained in the book, they will reconvene at the end of the designated time span for a second session, in which they will analyze, evaluate and share examples of the program’s efficacy.

Mike Mattos, an award-winning educator and expert, gave high praise to HEART!, stating, “Beyond the technical skills, educators must invest their hearts and minds into the work, which has the potential to replenish as well as consume them. With refreshing honesty and humor, Timothy Kanold challenges us to consider what it means to fully commit your life’s work to learning and the service of others.”

The HEART! video and book set is now available to order at SolutionTree.com.

About the Author
Timothy D. Kanold, PhD, is an award-winning educator, author and consultant. He is former director of mathematics and science and served as superintendent of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, a model professional learning community district in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

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