Includes bibliographical references and index.

Teacher orientation / Jim Burke -- Burn on, teacher! (but where's that lighter?) / Michael Dunn -- Getting burned / Andy Hargreaves -- Subject love / Rosetta Marantz Cohen -- Practitioner inquiry and the messy reality of classroom practice / Curt Dudley-Marling -- Burning out in the social studies / James W. Loewen -- Regrounded / Sam M. Intrator -- Open doors / Linda Nathan -- Fire and water: reflections on teaching in the city / Gregory Michie -- The believing game / Peter Elbow -- Five alive: why teaching is so compelling / Patricia A. Wasley -- Holding the tension of opposites / Parker Palmer -- The high school teacher as scholar? / Sam Scheer -- The world becomes what you teach: a better world through humane education / Zoe Weil -- What, you wanted an easy problem? / Kirsten Olson -- It's not on the test: a search for existential meaning in three acts / Christopher L. Doyle -- From surviving to thriving / Sonia Nieto -- Conclusion: teachers: arsonists of the best kind / Audrey A. Friedman.

Burned In features essays from today's most visionary educators. Their personal stories will help fuel new and veteran educators' passion for teaching so they stay "burned in" instead of burning out. --from publisher description

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