ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author begins with something resembling a disclaimer: he is not a scholarly researcher with a focus on educational leadership, and has never held a formal position of educational leadership. He invites readers to consider the value of telling stories about our lived experiences with educational leadership. The author invites readers to consider how personal stories shape the understanding of educational leadership and ways of responding to educational leaders. He offers a few stories from a long life of teaching, stories that might raise certain questions for educators. The author focuses on heart, humility, health, and hope as four familiar concepts in teaching and learning in order to contribute to a conversation that is ongoing, always in process, and never definitive. Educators need to communicate, respond to, evaluate, and transform their stories by infusing their pedagogy with heart, humility, health, and hope.
