Transforming Education

Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation's troubled educational system.

Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written, how news is promoted, and even which journalists get hired and fired. Do metrics make journalists more accountable to the public? Or are these data tools the contemporary equivalent of a stopwatch wielded by a factory boss, worsening newsroom working conditions and journalism quality?

Transforming School Culture provides a school improvement plan for leaders to overcome staff division, improve relationships, and transform toxic school cultures into healthy ones. Dr. Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must understand why teachers continue to hold on to models or beliefs contrary to those put forth by their school or district. He explores the human behavior, social conditions, and history that cause the underlying conflict among the four different types of teachers in a school.

In Teach for Climate Justice, accomplished educator and social and emotional learning expert Tom Roderick proposes a visionary interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to PreK-12 climate education. He argues that meaningful instruction on this urgent issue of our time must focus on climate justice—the convergence of climate change and social justice—in a way that is emotionally safe, developmentally appropriate, and ultimately empowering.

Dr. Emerson Eggerichs has studied family dynamics for more than 30 years. As a senior pastor for nearly two decades, he builds on a foundation of strong biblical principles, walking the listener through an entirely new way to approach the family dynamic. Based on what the Bible says about parenting, this book focuses on achieving healthy family dynamics. Dr. Eggerichs offers unprecedented transparency from his wife and three adult children. It's all here in this eye-opening exploration of the biblical principles on parenting that can help make families function as God intended.

Restorative justice represents "a paradigm shift in the way Americans conceptualize and administer punishment," says author Maisha T. Winn, from a focus on crime to a focus on harm, including the needs of both those who were harmed and those who caused it.

In The Ocean in the School, Rick Bonus tells the stories of Pacific Islander students as they and their allies struggled to transform a university they believed did not value their presence. 

Polyvagal Theory (PVT) has had a tremendous impact on the mental health field, shedding light on how the nervous system predictably moves between different states in response to changing situations. School consultant Debra Em Wilson introduces PVT to educators and shows how using PVT-guided strategies can help create optimal learning environments. When school staff understand the role of the nervous system in learning, they can better help students develop the skills leading to increased resilience, adaptability, and flexibility.

There are no bad readers, just those with bad reading habits. We didn’t learn how to read efficiently when we were growing up. Chances are, from the moment you were first taught how to read, you were taught inept reading strategies. Problems arise not when we use such techniques, but rather when we don’t advance them over time.

Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately, share in success. The Second Edition of this best-selling handbook includes new neuroscientific research that demonstrates the potential for change in schools and expands the approach to cover teacher/student interaction.

Loving yourself is all about energy. As humans we devote a great deal of our energy through our time, thoughts and emotions to love. We read about it, watch movies and shows about it, dream about it, hope for it to bless our lives, feel like something critically important is lacking when it doesn't, and at the very least keep a sharp eye out for it when its missing. Too often we look to someone else to fulfill our love and crash and burn when relationships end, or fail to live up to our fantasies of what we thought they should be.

People need better leaders to guide them, but they also have a desire to become better leaders themselves in many aspects of life - such as businesses, churches, non-profits, sports teams, and more. Many corporate professionals and other practitioners in various disciplines pursue the goal of being solid leaders. But despite training and mentoring, these aspiring leaders still fall short of becoming the kind of leader who inspires others to deliver to the best of their abilities.

The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent. The criminal and sexual exploitation of children, FGM, radicalization, and online safety are sadly all now part of the remit, as are self-harm and mental health issues. And these safeguarding challenges are found not only in urban communities but also in leafy suburbs and rural idylls throughout.

Every effective district leader wants to create the conditions for every employee to understand the system vision and know how to align their work to the district goals, so that every student is actively engaged and develops the knowledge, skills, and processes to become effective independent learners, who can solve problems and apply learning in novel situations.

Drawing from her moving personal story and written with a touch of humor, Cherie reveals her top 100 healing tools - without which she wouldn't be alive. The Healing 100 describes each of these in detail, explains their uses, and demonstrates how they can help you heal. This book serves as an invitation to try these tools, with the aspiration of creating a higher level of consciousness regarding health and the healing process.

Shift your mindset, and learn how to use your existing skills to create the life you deserve. Discover proven tactics to develop a rock-solid mindset to create powerful beliefs, develop personal power, overcome procrastination, and move powerfully toward your goals. You'll learn how to be an intelligent investor, how to transition your thoughts into actions, how to say no to negativity, how to demand discipline from yourself, and more.