How Good Teachers Thrive:Flourishing Long Term in a Noble Profession offers teachers hope by outlining ways to think about and fulfill their teaching vocations. The book opens by surveying some of the ways the non-teaching public and teachers themselves view and talk about teachers and teaching. To help teachers think about their work in new ways, it offers some new and unusual metaphors for the central activities of teaching and teachers' work. It addresses some of the specific challenges novice, mid-career, and veteran teachers face, then suggests strategies and practices to help them carry out their day-to-day teaching tasks in ways that nourish and sharpen their sense of vocation. These suggested strategies have their sources in educational research, interviews conducted with senior educators, and written responses to questions sent to mid-career educators. In the end, the book goes over the dispositions, strategies, systems, and practices typically associated with long-term flourishing in the teaching profession to help teachers who want to thrive inside and outside their school buildings.

Ken is also a named author or editor of 17 other books, including both professional books and textbooks for teacher education programs or secondary classrooms. As book-review editor for an academic journal in education for 12 years (published by SAGE), Ken oversaw the publication of 400 book reviews by about 200 reviewers. Ken has taught secondary, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in Canada and the US. He has led hundreds of workshops for in-service teachers and have served as a conference speaker or guest professor on five continents. He currently holds the position of Research Professor in Education at Tyndale University in Toronto, where his primary responsibility is to support education faculty members in research and publication.