Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education

I. Introducing the Book and the Best-Loved Self.- Chapter 1. Introducing the Book.- Chapter 2. Introducing the Best-Loved Self.- II. Identifying the Best-Loved Self.- Chapter 3. Challenging Teaching Experiences Cultivate Profound Professional and Personal Rewards.- Chapter 4. Searching for the Best-Loved Self.- Chapter 5. Teachers’ Best-loved Selves in Changing Contexts.- Chapter 6. The Mathematics Educator Mother: An Emergent Best-Loved Self from Two Separate Identities.- Chapter 7. Kicking and Screaming: Reflections of a Reluctant Educator and Educational Leader.- Chapter 8. Joined at the Hip: Learning the Ropes and the Charge to Pass it On.- Chapter 9. Vignettes of the Best-Loved Self.- Chapter 10: Exploring your Past to Strengthen your Best-Loved Self.- Chapter 11. Discovering the E in STEM.- Chapter 12. Researching, writing and shepherding the Best-Loved Self.- Chapter 13. Unleashing the Best-Loved Self.- Chapter 14. Engaging in Social Media Scholarship as an Act of Sustaining ourBest-Loved Black Selves: Black American Womxn Scholars and Emancipatory Knowledge Transfer.- Chapter 15. Finding one’s Best-Loved Self Internationally.- Chapter 16. Creating a Milieu for the Best-Loved Self to Flourish.- III. One’s Best-Loved Self Reflected Back.- Chapter 17. Breaking Down Barriers: Obstacles STEM Students Face When Challenging Misinformed Perceptions about the Teaching Profession.- Chapter 18. She Even Gave Me Her Liver: A Story Given Back.- Chapter 19. Bernardo through Jackie’s Eyes and Jackie through Bernardo’s Eyes.- Chapter 20. Rediscovering the ‘Good’ in Teaching: How Lost Stories of Our Best-Loved Selves Sustain Educators.- Chapter 21. Discovering the Best-loved Self as a Multifaceted Mentor.- IV. Parting Words.- Chapter 22. What We Know About the Best-Loved Self in Review.- Chapter 23. Where To From Here?.- Afterword: The Best-Loved Self Poem.