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My new book, "The Power of Simple" which helps teacher and school leaders transform their schools through simple strategies is available on Amazon today. It's been very well reviewed so far and the editorial review below was written by a leader in innovative education at High Tech High. Find it here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EAIDBC6
Description:
While the world has propelled itself in the 21st Century with new technology, innovation, and ways of doing things, our schools are having a hard time catching up.
Schools still shuffle hundreds of students daily to classrooms with inflexible learning spaces, an outdated curriculum, and work disconnected from the real world.
What if as an educator you had the power to change that?
What if you could transform student learning and still have time to cover your standards?
What if someone who has made radical changes in education provided you with five simple strategies that you could implement in your school tomorrow?
The power of SIMPLE will inspire you to make those changes by documenting Kyle Wagner's entire journey in creating Futures Academy- a school that changes the way we educate. It is a school that adapts schedules every week depending on the learning experience; has students presenting regularly to experts in the field; and integrates learning around students exploring their passions and creating work of value in the real world.
This book will empower you to create your own vision for school and provide simple and practical strategies to make that vision come to life. You will no longer be paralyzed by fear, but empowered by the fact that you can create real change, and it's not that hard.
Editorial Review:
Wagner's excellent advice to school innovators is to keep it simple. He follows his own advice to great effect in this lively volume, focusing on key aspects of school transformation: clear vision, purposeful use of space, personalization, curriculum integration, community-building, and connection with the physical and temporal world beyond school. At every turn, he fills this framework with practical wisdom and concrete strategies, born of his experience teaching and leading in schools on both sides of the Pacific, for addressing the challenges of contemporary education.