Books
Building a positive culture in our schools has never been more critical than it is today. Drawing on real-life stories, engaging narratives, thought-provoking questions, and practical research, Jimmy and Cale guide readers through a process to bring the four core principles of Culturize to life. Words on the Wall serves as a roadmap for moving beyond the posters, billboards, slogans, and acronyms that adorn our walls to concrete actions educators can take to make observable impacts in classrooms and throughout schools. Words on the Wall provides busy teachers and leaders with tools, ideas, and a differentiated approach for building culture at all levels in a way that is logical, practical, and observable.
Words on the Wall
Drift
Given the demands that are put on today’s schools and the number of hats leaders feel they are supposed to wear, the bigger surprise is that we haven’t lost more. But in many ways, school leaders are their own well-meaning worst enemy: they try to be everything to everyone all the time, which takes them away from the work they are supposed to be doing. They begin to drift.
Avoid drifting toward being the “knower” or the “doer” and instead lead others to solve problems using clear evidence to move the needle substantially for kids. This book provides leaders with the research, practical guidance, and hands on tools, to ensure everyone gets better at getting better in their practices and the outcomes we care about
PLC 2.0
Schools across the globe have invested time, effort and resources into creating collaboration time. And while the research on educators collaborating to examine and improve their practice is clear, the practice of educators working together and the impact this has on changing the learning experience for students is less conclusive. PLC 2.0 moves districts and schools beyond research to PRACTICE and OBSERVABLE IMPACT--the type of impact that we can observe in our classrooms. This book will take all educators through the various aspects of the PLC 2.0 Observable Impact Model, provide them with practical tools and protocols developed to enhance their collaborative time, and make them leaving confident their collaborative time is finally making an observable difference within classrooms, buildings and school district.
Changing Change Using Learner-Centered Design
Changing Change with Learner Centered Design is unlike any other book you've encountered. It's in full-color, it's highly graphic (in an image way, not in an explicit way) and unusually humorous. Designed for leaders and educators who are passionate about making schools great, it will celebrate your decision to break away from failed initiatives and empower you to lead a Learner-Centered change process that connects, empowers and actually works. While based on theory, evidence and research, the book stays grounded in practice. Changing Change will actually help you get started designing and leading effective change processes....that is if you can balance your work with frequent chuckling and even the intermittent belly-laughter this book has been known to prompt in readers...