Publications

Solving School Challenges: The Everything Guide to Transformative Change

In this comprehensive handbook, Solving School Challenges: The Everything Guide to Transformative Change, you’ll gain a treasure trove of strategies that you can implement to address some of the most common school challenges. You’ll see the amazing impact that educators are having on their schools and classrooms across the country.

The authors offer tangible solutions to problems such as teacher retention and the educator pipeline, money, technology, innovation and initiatives, mental health and well-being, data, perceptions of education, educator commitment, and systemic issues. These issues may seem daunting, but the authors share stories of educators across the country who are already overcoming such obstacles. Each chapter provides inspiring examples, action steps, and takeaways to help you improve your school or classroom.

This thorough resource is designed to be a reference that you can use as needed—either by reading in order or flipping to the sections that most apply, and returning to again and again for a wealth of practical ideas that you can bring to your own setting.

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Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling

Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today’s students—climate fiction and protest poetry, fiction and documentary films, video games and social media.

The stories are used as exemplars, from exploring space debris to urban design planning to fast fashion, and they provide entry points for investigating particular aspects of climate science, including the local and global impacts of a warming planet.

Each chapter provides analyses and strategies for fostering climate (and space) literacy through knowledge, empathy, and agency. Contributors from around the world encourage educators to answer students’ calls for comprehensive K–12 climate education by aligning pedagogy with real-world challenges in order to prepare students who understand the myriad injustices of the climate crisis and feel empowered to confront them. They share their own stories and urge educators to join the growing, hopeful movement for action, classroom by classroom.

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Reviews

Peter DeWitt, Ed.D., Instructional Leadership Collective

“Solving School Challenges is an important read for any educator. It’s filled with real stories, practical advice, and strategies that you can use to make a difference in your school or classroom. This book is an empowering guide for tackling tough issues and creating real, lasting change.”

Principal Salome Thomas-El, Ed.D., Award-winning Principal & Teacher and Internationally Recognized Speaker

“If you want to be a teacher and leader who brings joy to the job and helps to reduce stress for others, read this book. If you want to be the kind of principal who is a blesser and not a stressor, read this book. If you want to advocate for diversity, increased educator salaries, more state and federal funding, and access to technology for every child, read this book. If you want to be the kind of superintendent who supports engaging curriculum and classrooms, personalized professional learning, effective mental health support for staff and students, and trusting relationships in schools, read this book as well.”