Todd Whitaker

Jimmy Casas

Jeffrey Zoul

Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, and now they are sharing their best practices! In What Connected Educators Do Differently, they show how being a connected educator--by using social media to connect with peers across the country and even across the globe--will greatly enhance your own learning and your success in a school or classroom. You'll find out how to create a personal and professional learning network to share resources and ideas, gain support, and make an impact on others. By customizing your professional development in this way, you'll be able to learn what you want, how you want, when you want. Best of all, you'll become energized and inspired by all the great ideas out there and how you can contribute, benefiting both you and your students. Whether you are a teacher or school leader, you will come away from this book with step-by-step advice and fresh ideas to try immediately. Being a connected educator has never been easier or more important than it is right now!

What Connected Educators Do Differently

In Culturize, Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion. His stories reveal how these "soft skills" can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of twenty-first-century learning.

Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

Culturize

Invest in excellence--for your students every day, your colleagues year after year, and yourself for a lifetime. Jimmy Casas, veteran educator and author of Culturize, believes that by cultivating a mindset that centers on investing in students, colleagues, and--most of all--themselves, educators can shift schools away from a culture that runs on compliance, blame, and fear. In Live Your Excellence, he shares inspiration, stories, and strategies to help overcome the negative undercurrents that exist in school culture today. Jimmy explains how educators of all stripes can embrace an investment-based approach to everything from collaborative leadership to challenging students to feelings of inadequacy. His insights into navigating the complexities of working in schools will be an invaluable resource for all of the educators who desire--more than anything--to rediscover their own excellence and make a difference. Dave Burgess Consulting books What can you do to achieve excellence as an educator and inspire it in your students and staff every single day? In this outstanding book, Jimmy Casas answers that question with refreshing honesty and insight. --Manny Scott, Original Freedom Writer, author, speaker This book is a gift to any educator who wants to make their school better than it's ever been. --Dr. Jody Carrington, Author, speaker, game changer This is a wonderful book filled with great ideas and strategies, but what makes it special are the stories--some will break your heart, some will help you put it back together, and all of them will remind you of the importance of living our best lives and helping others live their best lives too. --Jim Knight, Senior partner, Instructional Coaching Group

Bring Your Best Self to School Every Day

Live Your Excellence

Onica L. Mayers

In this third volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, ten of education’s inspiring thought-leaders come together to bring you their perspectives on how to improve equitable outcomes in your school or classroom, so that all students have what they need to succeed. You will learn how to overcome barriers to equity of access; embrace a student’s cultural capital; attract and retain a diverse talent pool; incorporate intersectional identities in an inclusive classroom; implement more equitable assessment practices; build resilience and equity through chess; advance equity in early childhood programs; abolish a culture of competition and work toward a culture of cooperation; and increase stakeholder commitment to racial equity. Appropriate for K–12 educators at all levels, the book provides strategies, insights, and inspiration to help you lead for equity and make real changes in your classroom, building, and community.

10 Perspectives on Equity in Education

Joy Kelly

In Handle with Care, authors Jimmy Casas and Joy Kelly examine a variety of difficult school-related situations, both in and out of the classroom. In schools across the country, educators at every level are faced with delicate, challenging situations that require leadership skills and insights in order to produce favorable outcomes for students and staff. This book provides educators with insights into a variety of difficult-to-handle situations and scenarios that educators can relate to and may have experienced themselves. Well-intentioned, but inadequate, human responses are identified and practical ideas for handling delicate situations with dignity and respect are provided. This book will help educators develop tools and techniques to help students and staff emerge from missteps more self-aware, feeling valued, and able to move forward. In this book, you will learn: What it takes to cultivate a school culture in which every student and staff member feels seen and heard.How to treat student and staff missteps as opportunities for teaching and learning based on dignity and respect.How to build leadership capacity and Culturize school pride.The value of student-centered classrooms and school-related programs.

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