What does it take to be an effective teacher? To answer this question we often look around us for role models. Beloved educators are the teachers who by their example, whether intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly, inspire us to become our best selves. The authors of Beloved Educators, experienced educators themselves, identified women from their own lives who stood out as role models. In extended interviews they tried to discover why each woman had chosen as a profession to invest her talents and her future in other people's children; what helped her persevere; what gave...