What Is Heart Work?

Heart Work is an honest profile of America’s educators, capturing the raw stories unfolding in today’s classrooms. Each collection explores a different challenge in education, from addressing math anxiety to navigating AI in the classroom, confronting the reality of change and the courage it takes to embrace it.

Collections

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Rewriting a Literacy Crisis

Reading scores have dropped to historic lows. Something isn’t working, and the search for answers has never been more urgent. But is it too late?

This collection of Heart Work shares the stories of two districts grappling with reading reform and the resolve of educators who refuse to give up, plus expert insight into what it will take to turn the tide.

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Math Anxiety

Coming 2026. Exposing the myth behind math anxiety. Are some people really better at math, or have we just been taught to think so?

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