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Eradicate Average
CULTURIZE Your School.
Average schools don't inspire greatness--and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners.
In Culturize, author and education leader 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. You'll learn...
How to reach those who seem unreachable
What to do when students disengage or drop out of school
How to ensure your learners feel cared for and empowered
How to create an environment where all learners are challenged and inspired to be their best
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Jimmy Casas guides readers to understand that school culture must be a daily focal point for all school leaders.
--Beverly Hutton, Ed.D., Deputy Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
No matter your title or profession, page after page of this book will inspire you.
--Kayla Delzer, CEO, Top Dog Teaching Inc.
Read this book to culturize your school and to live your excellence--every day.
--Thomas C. Murray, Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools
In Recalibrate the Culture, author Jimmy Casas examines the challenges that teachers, leaders, and schools face and shares his assessment on what makes the difference in the overall culture of a school - why do some continue to show positive results while others continue to struggle to maintain a healthy learning environment for all students and staff? This book provides the necessary strategies and tools to assist all teachers, principals, and district office administrators in exploring our inner selves to understand the role we each play in how we can impact the climate and culture of an entire campus when we are strategic and aligned in our practices. The classroom, building, and district levels must see themselves as one and must be intentional in replicating the processes, protocols, and frameworks provided in this book to recalibrate and bring about system-wide change and cultivate a healthier culture.
When we equip our people with a new way of thinking and strategies for approaching their work, we can revitalize our schools and make an immediate positive impact on the culture of every classroom and school across the country.
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.
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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
Jimmy Casas, veteran educator and the author of Live Your Excellence: Bring Your Best Self to School Every Day, challenges educators to identify where average exists in their school. This Action Guide is a tool intended to help you take an honest look at your culture in order to help shift schools away from a culture that runs on compliance, blame, and fear to a culture based on connection where students and adults feel cared for, empowered, and inspired to be their very best.
By taking the 4 Core Principles and contents from Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes. and organizing them in a way that provokes discussion, reflection, and most of all action, educators serving at schools and districts everywhere will find this companion guide to be a valuable resource for professional growth for their teams.
Eradicate Average
CULTURIZE Your School.
Average schools don't inspire greatness--and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners.
In Culturize, author and education leader 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. You'll learn...
How to reach those who seem unreachable
What to do when students disengage or drop out of school
How to ensure your learners feel cared for and empowered
How to create an environment where all learners are challenged and inspired to be their best
______
Jimmy Casas guides readers to understand that school culture must be a daily focal point for all school leaders.
--Beverly Hutton, Ed.D., Deputy Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
No matter your title or profession, page after page of this book will inspire you.
--Kayla Delzer, CEO, Top Dog Teaching Inc.
Read this book to culturize your school and to live your excellence--every day.
--Thomas C. Murray, Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools
Seven years ago, Jimmy Casas published Culturize, a Washington Post best-seller designed to help educators envision their culture through the four core principles of being a Champion for Students, Expecting Excellence, Carrying the Banner, and being a Merchant of Hope. Now, Casas has teamed with Cale Birk to write Words on the Wall: Culturizing Your Classroom For Observable Impact, the highly anticipated sequel to Culturize that helps teachers and leaders go deeper to create a high-resolution picture of what it looks like and leads to when we truly Culturize our classrooms and schools.
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.
Join the movement! Empower yourself and your school community to move beyond Words on the Wall to observable impact where it matters the most-
in every classroom, every day, for every student and every educator.
Jimmy Casas, award-winning principal and author of the best-selling books Culturize and Live Your Excellence, reminds educators in Recalibrate the Culture that we are all responsible for the climate and culture of our school and district campuses and that changing any culture starts with small steps across all levels - classroom, building, and the district office. This Action Guide is a tool intended to help us take an honest look at our culture in order to help us shift away from pointing the finger and blaming others. Instead, Jimmy reminds us to examine our own behaviors to see how we often create the negative undercurrents that exist in our organizations.
By taking the 4 Core Premises of Culturize and contents from Recalibrate the Culture: Our Work. Our Why. Our Values. and organizing them in a way that provokes discussion, reflection, and - most of all - action, educators serving at schools and districts everywhere will find this companion guide to be a valuable resource for professional growth for their teams.
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.
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
The best educators never stop learning about their students or their craft. In this second volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, ten of education's most inspiring thought-leaders come together to bring you their top suggestions for improving your students' learning in the classroom and your own professional learning as an educator.
You'll gain fresh insights on learning how to...
- Influence others and make a greater impact as a leader. (Todd Whitaker)
- Unlearn traditional practices that no longer serve our students. (Jeffrey Zoul)
- Be vulnerable and willing to learn from and with colleagues. (Jimmy Casas)
- Master your emotional intelligence to improve people skills. (Sanée Bell)
- Shift the focus from grading to standards-based learning. (Garnet Hillman)
- Create student-centered learning environments with flexible seating. (Kayla Dornfeld)
- Balance the role of technology in your life and plug in more intentionally. (Jessica Cabeen)
- Focus on the non-negotiables for success with the hardest-to-reach kids. (Brian Mendler)
- Apply a cross-curricular, design-thinking approach to your curriculum. (Erin Klein)
- Connect with colleagues and students for true collaboration. (Derek McCoy)
The book's practical strategies and stories will inspire you on your journey to make a difference in students' lives.
School can be amazing. But for far too long, many practices have continued simply because that is the way we have always done it. The status quo and average results are no longer acceptable
In Stop. Right. Now. authors and education leaders Jimmy Casas and Jeffrey Zoul identify 39 practices, programs, processes, philosophies, and people problems that schools must eliminate in order to improve education for all involved. Schools are inspiring and joyous places, but they can be so much better. In this book, the authors invite you to join a campaign to do less by. . .
Putting an end to more solely for the sake of more
Not doing things merely because they have always been done
Saying no to what doesn't work
Finding better ways to serve students--and the entire school community
The time has come to not only do things better but to do better things.
This book is full of immediate, practical ways for our schools to improve without a strain on the system's resources.
--Andrea Townsley, school improvement consultant, Grant Wood AEA
Read this book with an open mind. It is a coach's manual for good practice, and a rallying call for educators to not simply 'stop' but also rethink the ways we do school.
--William D. Parker, executive director, Oklahoma's Association of Secondary School Principals
Wherever you are on your path as an educator, your practice is sure to benefit from this important and convincing read.
--Laura Fleming, educator and best-selling author of Worlds of Making
How do great educators bring about real change to make a difference in students' lives? In this first volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, 10 of education's most inspiring thought-leaders come together to share their top suggestions you need right now to innovate in your school or classroom. You will gain fresh insights and practical strategies on these essential topics:
Filled with inspiring stories throughout, the book will leave you feeling motivated to take risks and try new things in your own school or classroom. As the authors say, if we want to make a real difference, it's not enough to do the things we do better; we must also do new and better things!
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.
How do great educators bring about real change to make a difference in students' lives? In this first volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, 10 of education's most inspiring thought-leaders come together to share their top suggestions you need right now to innovate in your school or classroom. You will gain fresh insights and practical strategies on these essential topics:
Filled with inspiring stories throughout, the book will leave you feeling motivated to take risks and try new things in your own school or classroom. As the authors say, if we want to make a real difference, it's not enough to do the things we do better; we must also do new and better things!
The best educators never stop learning about their students or their craft. In this second volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, ten of education's most inspiring thought-leaders come together to bring you their top suggestions for improving your students' learning in the classroom and your own professional learning as an educator.
You'll gain fresh insights on learning how to...
- Influence others and make a greater impact as a leader. (Todd Whitaker)
- Unlearn traditional practices that no longer serve our students. (Jeffrey Zoul)
- Be vulnerable and willing to learn from and with colleagues. (Jimmy Casas)
- Master your emotional intelligence to improve people skills. (Sanée Bell)
- Shift the focus from grading to standards-based learning. (Garnet Hillman)
- Create student-centered learning environments with flexible seating. (Kayla Dornfeld)
- Balance the role of technology in your life and plug in more intentionally. (Jessica Cabeen)
- Focus on the non-negotiables for success with the hardest-to-reach kids. (Brian Mendler)
- Apply a cross-curricular, design-thinking approach to your curriculum. (Erin Klein)
- Connect with colleagues and students for true collaboration. (Derek McCoy)
The book's practical strategies and stories will inspire you on your journey to make a difference in students' lives.