 Teaching heroes are role models who inspire us through their own approaches to their subject, their research, and their learning. Great teachers inspire us through stories of their failures as well as their successes. By sharing their failures in particular, they normalize the struggle that good learning involves and the challenges that we are likely to encounter. But crucially, they assure us that these struggles can be navigated and these challenges can be overcome. Heroic teachers inspire us by demonstrating persistence and resilience in pursuit of an important goal.