New Revised Edition. How can we create a just, healthy, and humane world? What is the path to developing sustainable energy, food, transportation, production, construction, and other systems? What’s the best strategy to end poverty and ensure that everyone has equal rights? How can we slow the rate of extinction and restore ecosystems? How can we learn to resolve conflicts without violence and treat other people and nonhuman animals with respect and compassion? The answer to all these questions lies with one underlying system—schooling. To create a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world, we must reimagine education and prepare a generation to be solutionaries—young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to create a better future. This book describes how we can (and must) transform education and teaching; create such a generation; and build such a future.

"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life." - Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction] Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart. Is it possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do -- give heart to our students? In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students -- and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors.

"It is a pleasure to have a full length treatise on this most important topic, and may this focus on transfer become much more debated, taught, and valued in our schools." - John Hattie Teach students to use their learning to unlock new situations. How do you prepare your students for a future that you can’t see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows them to keep pace with our rapidly changing world without having to overhaul everything they do. Learning That Transfers empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness the critical concepts of traditional disciplines while building students’ capacity to navigate, interpret, and transfer their learning to solve novel and complex modern problems. Using a backwards design approach, this hands-on guide walks teachers step-by-step through the process of identifying curricular goals, establishing assessment targets, and planning curriculum and instruction that facilitates the transfer of learning to new and challenging situations. Key features include Thinking prompts to spur reflection and inform curricular planning and design. Next-day strategies that offer tips for practical, immediate action in the classroom. Design steps that outline critical moments in creating curriculum for learning that transfers. Links to case studies, discipline-specific examples, and podcast interviews with educators. A companion website that hosts templates, planning guides, and flexible options for adapting current curriculum documents. Using a framework that combines standards and the best available research on how we learn, design curriculum and instruction that prepares your students to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, while addressing the unique needs of your school community.

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The 12 Things They Wanted To Teach You In High School...But Couldn't identifies the 12 Things our educational leaders can do to elevate their spirits and create maximum impact in their life during the most chaotic moments of our lifetime. This book will encourage and teach our educators how to influence their students, families, and the communities they serve throughout the year. You'll be trained how to create an atmosphere of love and inclusion as opposed to fear and separation. You'll learn how to overcome the stress and anxiety you're feeling as you're moving throughout your day. If you're feeling it's time for a career change but don't know where to start, this book will help you navigate through your feelings of frustration and discontent. I'm also going to share the foundational principles of nutrition to help you improve your health and manage weight gain. Additionally, you will also discover how to live with the death of a loved one. And those are just four of the 12 Things discussed throughout the book. Unfortunately, these principles aren't discussed in depth throughout the educational system. You'll also be introduced to how you can become a KarlDanny Educator and to The 12 Things They Wanted To Teach You In High School...But Couldn't SUMMIT-a personal development program that focuses on renewing the spirits of our educators. I believe our personal development (PD) days should become an opportunity for our educators to enhance their personal wellbeing so they have an opportunity to develop as people. When we make our PD days "personal" instead of only based on state or district agenda items, we will effectively create lasting change in the people that are in direct daily contact with our kids. The investment we make in our educators will have a direct impact on student performance, student teacher connection, and community involvement. Please allow this book to serve as your blueprint to access immediate answers to what you should have been taught in high school.... but weren't. Be Inspired To Take Imperfect Action! #rajrmethod #12thingsthebook #proeducation

Students today are growing up in a digital world. These "digital natives" learn in new and different ways, so educators need new approaches to make learning both real and relevant for today's students. Marc Prensky, who first coined the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants," presents an intuitive yet highly innovative and field-tested partnership model that promotes 21st-century student learning through technology. Partnership pedagogy is a framework in which: - Digitally literate students specialize in content finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media - Teachers specialize in guiding student learning, providing questions and context, designing instruction, and assessing quality - Administrators support, organize, and facilitate the process schoolwide - Technology becomes a tool that students use for learning essential skills and "getting things done" With numerous strategies, how-to's, partnering tips, and examples, Teaching Digital Natives is a visionary yet practical book for preparing students to live and work in today's globalized and digitalized world.