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

Host Lauren Keeling talks with a student in the classroom.

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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Breaking the Cycle of Math Anxiety

“I’m not a math person” is a phrase almost every educator has heard.

It’s a phrase that reflects a belief passed from one generation to the next: that math capability belongs to someone else. But once that belief sets in, it has the power to shape an entire life. What will it take to break this cycle of math anxiety once and for all?

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Coming Soon

For many students, deciding they’re not a “math person” happens early and follows them long after the classroom, closing doors they never knew were open. The upcoming collection of Heart Work explores how math anxiety takes root in the classroom and what it will take to break this cycle once and for all.

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