Chapter 1. Building Lifelong Connections; Jacqueline Daniel Chapter 2. Outcries of the Silent Voices: A Resistance Against "Bless your Heart"; Allison Jones Chapter 3. What Got Me Through: The Importance of Mentoring and Affinity Groups for Teacher Educators of Color; Brandon J. Beck Chapter 4. Why I have Chosen to Remain an Educator; Carlos J. Minor Chapter 5. Community and Career Connected Learning: Creating an Ecosystem of Belonging in Appalachia; Allison Ricket, Jacqueline Yahn, and Tasha Werry Chapter 6.

Loving Coalitions: Teaching and Forming Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Community in the Classroom; Carrie Hart Chapter 7. To Dare Mighty Things: Student-Led Communities of Learning -- A Reflection on Empowered Voices and Their Transformative Power; Peter Locher Chapter 8. My Joyous Teaching Journey; Nathan Herndon Chapter 9. Quiet Rebellion in an AP English Classroom; Allison Thompson Chapter 10. Establishing Connection Through Collaborative Studio Making: Working Alongside Students as an Artist; Morgan B. Clifton and Victoria Goeckel Chapter 11. Make Social Studies Fun Again: Finding the Joy in Developing Enriching Social Studies Curriculum; Ashley Wright Chapter 12. Persistence Through Authenticity: The Case of Two Teachers from Southwest Appalachia; Carrie Rogers Chapter 13.

Surrender the ME for the WE: Joyful Collaboration; Jordan Henry Chapter 14. The Stories That Bind US; Jennifer Fox Chapter 15. Pursuing Their Purpose: Oklahoma Educators Teaching What They Believe to Be Right in Contentious Time; Erin Bronstein and Don C. Murray Chapter 16. We Probably Have It Better Than You Think: Musings of a Teacher-Rocker; David Prince.