Packed with hands-on activities, this practical handbook shows you how to be the transformational leader your school needs to enact a culture change and improve student outcomes.

The Culture Project is a field manual for leaders who want to roll up their sleeves and disrupt the status quo. The Culture Project will show you how you can use practical tactics and common sense to really understand what's going on "in the weeds" of your organization-and why doing so is the only way to end mediocre performance and luke-warm results.Too often, business leaders today look for technology solutions to their business problems. But this approach misses the human side of the story-the culture side of the story-because tech-only approaches to problem solving will fail unless they consider what people in these organizations need from technology. Written by Tom Bradbury, a career-long entrepreneur, this 30-day program removes friction, influences a more authentic tech-enabled culture and then allows the leader to return to the helm as a rejuvenated and strategic champion for the firm's future-a future fueled by improved communication, increased collaboration and greater productivity, all of which foster the innovative thinking required to succeed over the next decade and beyond."Rarely have I seen the topic of culture change addressed so simply and confidently. Tom Bradbury removes the mystery of culture change and offers, instead, a vigorous and smart series of steps leaders can take to get their company culture unstuck and moving in a better direction."Thomas A. StewartExecutive Director, National Center for the Middle Market

School culture is the collective manifestation of the attitudes, outlooks, and behaviors of the entire student, administrative, and faculty body. It's what gives a school its own unique feeling as you walk through the halls. What feeling do you get when you walk down the halls of your school? As an educational consultant with 10+ years of experience and a footprint in over 5,000 schools, JC Pohl specializes in building school culture. This book will walk you through an easy, three step process that will empower student voice, build a cohesive campus, and create a connected community. Join schools across the country as we work to build positive school culture from the inside out!

A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. The book includes: Information on how one’s culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships Ten “key moves” to build students’ learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners Prompts for action and valuable self-reflection

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard′s fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation. A classic in its field, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillard′s critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, communications theory and semiotics. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

Offers advice for closing the achievement gap of low-income African American students in urban schools -- Focuses on issues of assessment for K-12 students and teachers of color -- Explores the declining number of teachers of color in the United States and its relation to school failure among African American and Latino students -- Outlines a curriculum for teacher education programs to help them produce culturally aware and effective teachers -- Examines how colleges of education can reverse the cycle of failure for students of color by producing teachers who are culturally responsive -- Concludes with a summary of the work and recommendations of such scholars as James A. Banks and Sonia Nieto.