Scott Hinkley, a career-changer in Indiana and presently a first-year teacher, teams up with one of his teachers, Debbie Rickey, assistant director of the MA in Teaching Program at Earlham College, to illustrate through personal experiences, their teaching program's emphasis on the practical application of passion for pre-service students that presents them with opportunities to discover passionate teaching for themselves. To make the leap from being "passionate about teaching" to "passionate teaching," the pre-service teacher needs to stop feeling passionate and start acting passionately, and needs to be passionate about children learning.