Includes bibliographical references and index.

The teaching vocation and the interior lives of teachers / Michelle C. Hughes and Ken Badley -- Reciprocates with students / Michelle C. Hughes -- When students become our teachers / Joy A. Chadwick -- Is there a class in this text? / Ken Badley and Dana Antayá-Moore -- Sustainable teaching : reflective & responsive practices / Sunshine R. Sullivan -- Minding the gap : seeing, valuing, and using the theory-practice tension in the classroom / Paige A. Ray -- Colleagues / Tiana Tucker -- The power of gifts from supervisors who share / Jay Mathisen -- A long and rewarding apprenticeship : the sustaining inspiration of our mentors / Andrew Mullen -- Families / Michelle C. Hughes and Ken Badley -- Joyful resilience through dissonance, doubt, and disillusionment / Carrie R. Giboney Wall -- Navigating political, economic, and curriculum constraints with joyful defiance / Dana Antayá-Moore and Joanne Neal -- Teacher-student reciprocates in three educational models / Daniel H. Jarvis and April E. Jarvis -- Uncovering joyful resilience / Ken Badley and Michelle C. Hughes.

"This book offers a foundation from which to reframe obstacles to teaching as opportunities for personal and professional growth. Chapters highlight the reciprocal nature of educational challenges, or how the very challenges found in education-difficult interactions with students, finding and using effective classroom materials, attempts to connect educational theory with classroom practice-are likewise means of cultivating gratitude for the practice of teaching. As this book demonstrates, a perspective that acknowledges the tensions and realities of various teaching contexts prepares educators to teach for the long haul, and to teach with joy"--