The Courage To Teach - 10th Anniversary Edition

Exploring The Inner Landscape Of A Teacher's Life

BY PARKER J. PALMER
In this book Quaker author Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in print and the movement it inspired, this updated volume includes a conversational CD about the book's ideas.

Jossey-Bass 2007 272 PP. Cloth

$27.95 (in stock)

Courage To Teach Guide For Reflection And Renewal

With A 70 Minute Dvd

BY PARKER PALMER
This guide is a welcome resource for those who wish to extend their exploration beyond just reading "The Courage to Teach," individually or within a study group. Includes a DVD featuring an interview with Parker Palmer discussing the crisis in education, the heart of a teacher, ways of knowing, and more.

Jossey-Bass 2007 176 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Education And The Inward Teacher - Php 278

BY PAUL LACEY
Lacey examines the concept of the inner guide and how that applies to critical issues in education.

Pendle Hill pamphlet 1988 40 PP. Paper

$7.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Face To Face

Lessons Learned On The Tea

WEHMILLER, PAULA
Go back to the sights, sounds and smells of earliest memories that define our identities. Learn to heal formative hurts and support children in our lives.

FCED 1992 13 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Facilitating Group Learning

Strategies For Success With Adult Learners

BY GEORGE LAKEY
"This book is a must-read for people who teach adults of any age, no matter what the subject, and care about doing it in ways that yield deep and abiding learning. Wonderfully well-written and rich with psychological and spiritual insights as well as practical strategies, it represents the fruits of a lifetime of transformational teaching and learning by one of the foremost adult educators of our time."-Parker J. Palmer.Suggested price $38.00 our Price $34.20

Jossey-Bass 2010 304 PP. Cloth

$34.20 (in stock)

The Garden At Night

Burnout And Breakdown In The Teaching Life

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
It's no wonder that burnout plagues the teaching profession. Teachers are on the front lines every day, meeting the needs of too many students at once. Meanwhile, they must also address an increasingly complex assortment of third-party expectations and deal with the politics of their schools and their departments. Whether you're a beginning teacher trying to sustain your idealism, or an experienced professional courting burnout, take a deep breath and read Mary Rose O'Reilley's The Garden at Night. O'Reilley draws on numerous experiences from the classroom and collegial life and identifies strategies that tap your own courage and strength.

Jossey-Bass 2006 80 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Growing Into Goodness

Essays On Quaker Education

BY PAUL LACEY
This book includes ten essays on the unique aspects of Quaker approaches to education, both its philosophy and practice.

Pendle Hill 1998 292 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

The Heart Of Higher Education

A Call To Renewal

BY PARKER PALMER, ARTHUR ZAJONC
The Heart of Higher Education proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being-mind, heart, and spirit-an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time. The book offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and proposals for action from two educators and writers who have contributed to developing the field of integrative education over the past few decades. The book will appeal to those who are new to the field of holistic education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning.

Jossey Bass 2010 237 PP. Cloth

$22.45 (in stock)

Meeting For Learning

Education In A Quaker Context

BY PARKER PALMER
"Much of what I want to say about education in a Quaker context can be organized around one of Quakerism's most central, concrete, yet spacious images: the image of "meeting." Among Friends, of course, there is first the meeting for worship, but then there is the meeting for business, the meeting for marriage, the meeting on the occasion of a graduation , the meeting in memorial of one who has died.... Friends made a simple and compelling point: The common element in both worship and business should be the search for truth - and the expectation that, if we give it space and time, truth will come to us." - Palmer, from the pamphlet

Friends Council on Education 2007 13 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Minding The Light

Essays In Friendly Pedagogy

EDITED BY ANNE DALKE AND BARBARA DIXSON
This book presents a series of thoughtful and revealing reflections-excerpts from the inner and outer lives of college teachers-from which emerges a common concern for the interactive and spiritual dimensions of the educational process, and a rich sense of the light which can and should illuminate it. Informed either by personal commitment to Quakerism, or by individual work within Quaker institutions, the contributors offer perspectives that are important for teachers, parents, and readers generally interested in the classroom experience as a process of growth and exploration. Minding the Light provides an inspiring outline of "friendly pedagogy."

Peter Lang 2004 209 PP. Paper

$29.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Peaceable Classroom

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
This Quaker teacher and author defines a pedagogy of nonviolence and examines its application in several contemporary teaching techniques. Teachers can inspire future generations to work for peace and justice.

Heinimann 1993 184 PP. Paper

$22.50 (in stock)

Philadelphia Friends Schools

BY FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION WITH JANET CHANCE
In 1689, William Penn established a Friends Public School in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This book includes well annotated images from the 10 Friends schools founded in or near Philadelphia before the 20th century: Abington Friends School, Frankford Friends, Friends Central, Friends Select, George School, Germantown Friends, Greene Street Friends, Plymouth Meeting, William Penn Charter, and Westtown. Philadelphia Friends Schools tells the photographic story of an educational philosophy rooted in three centuries of faith and practice.

Arcadia 2009 127 PP. Paper

$21.99 (in stock)

Quaker Education

A Work In Progress

BY PAUL LACEY
Understanding that Quaker education is deeply rooted in the Religious Society of Friends and the vitality of the Society is deeply rooted in Quaker education, Paul Lacey explores prac-tical ways to support healthy communities and avoid burnout.

FCED 1989 13 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Radical Presence

Teaching As Contemplative Practice

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY, FOREWORD BY PARKER PALMER
This book is about our lives as well as our work, suggesting that the "secrets" of good teaching are the same as the secrets of good living: seeing one's self without blinking, offering hospitality to the alien other, having compassion for suffering, speaking truth to power, being present and being real. These are secrets hidden in plain sight. But it takes the clear sight and courage of someone like Friend O'Reilly to call secrets of this sort to our attention.

Heinemann 1998 50 PP. Paper

$18.75 (in stock)

Rites Of Passage In Children

BY RICHARD ELDRIDGE
Directives for adults on how to allow our children to pass into our world based on rites of passage from Adam and Eve through modern literature.

Friends Council on Education 1989 13 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Stories Of The Courage To Teach

Honoring The Teacher's Heart

BY SAM INTRATOR
A groundbreaking book of stunning insight and wise words, this work speaks as no other can: teacher to teacher and heart to heart, one life at a time. The warm, practical, funny, and moving true stories collected in this volume will provide inspiration and hope to teachers everywhere in the struggle to reclaim the courage to teach. "The teachers featured in this anthology have all, at various junctures, been on the verge of exhaustion, and the book is, in many ways, a sustained meditation on how they've sought to regain their emotional and spiritual strength."--Teacher Magazine

Jossey-Bass 2007 337 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

To Know As We Are Known

A Spirituality Of Education

BY PARKER PALMER
Palmer offers a vision of teaching and learning that engages the whole person. Provides teachers with concrete suggestions for the classroom and addresses their need for spiritual formation.

HarperSF 1983 125 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Tuning In

Mindfulness In Teaching And Learning

EDITED BY IRENE MCHENRY AND RICHARD BRADY
This book is a compilation of essays on how contemplative methods can be used in the classroom (or First Day School) for all ages. By using items such as pebbles, mandalas, books, journals, and artwork in a meditative setting, the core skills underlying all learning: concentration, observation, relaxation can be developed. Also explored are Quaker Meetings for worship, Clearness Committees, yoga and other mindfulness practices. Contributors include Christie Duncan-Tessmer, Chip Poston, Kimberly Post Rowe and the co-editors. "A lovely compilation of stories, ideas, and suggestions for bringing mindfulness to life in the classroom." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Friends Council on Education 2009 144 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)