Are You Ready to Take the First Step Toward Excellence? What does it take to be the very best teacher—or the very best leader? What sets excellent educators apart from their peers? And how can you join their ranks? In their work leading up to Start. Right. Now. Todd Whitaker, Jeff Zoul, and Jimmy Casas studied educators from across the nation and discovered four key behaviors of excellence: Excellent Leaders and Teachers... Know the Way From their content to best practices, these educators know their stuff. Show the Way Casting a bright vision for the future, these educators see possibilities where others see problems. Go the Way Leading by example is a way of life for the very best. and Grow Each Day A focus on personal and professional development helps these educators succeed. Wherever you are on your journey as an educator, choose to become even greater still—our kids are worth it. Start. Right. Now.

Start. Right. Now.: Teach and Lead for Excellence

Education & Teaching

Zoul, Jeffrey

Whitaker, Todd

Casas, Jimmy

Schools & Teaching

Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated

What Connected Educators Do Differently

Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, and now they are sharing their best practices! In What Connected Educators Do Differently, they show how being a connected educator―by using social media to connect with peers across the country and even across the globe―will greatly enhance your own learning and your success in a school or classroom. You’ll find out how to create a personal and professional learning network to share resources and ideas, gain support, and make an impact on others. By customizing your professional development in this way, you’ll be able to learn what you want, how you want, when you want. Best of all, you’ll become energized and inspired by all the great ideas out there and how you can contribute, benefiting both you and your students. Whether you are a teacher or school leader, you will come away from this book with step-by-step advice and fresh ideas to try immediately. Being a connected educator has never been easier or more important than it is right now!

Routledge

Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, and now they are sharing their best practices! In What Connected Educators Do Differently, they show how being a connected educator―by using social media to connect with peers across the country and even across the globe―will greatly enhance your own learning and your success in a school or classroom. You’ll find out how to create a personal and professional learning network to share resources and ideas, gain support, and make an impact on others. By customizing your professional development in this way, you’ll be able to learn what you want, how you want, when you want. Best of all, you’ll become energized and inspired by all the great ideas out there and how you can contribute, benefiting both you and your students. Whether you are a teacher or school leader, you will come away from this book with step-by-step advice and fresh ideas to try immediately. Being a connected educator has never been easier or more important than it is right now!

This Action Guide is a tool to accompany Live Your Excellence: Bring Your Best Self to School Every Day by Jimmy Casas. A practical book to help all educators rediscover themselves in order to bring their best self to school every day, Live Your Excellence begins with the premise 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 to a culture based on investment and caring. Jimmy shares inspiration, stories, and strategies to help overcome the negative undercurrents that exist in school cultures today and explains how educators of all stripes can embrace an investment-based approach to everything they do, from collaborative leadership, to working with challenging students, to feelings of inadequacy. His insights into navigating the complexities of working in schools is an invaluable resource for all educators who desire-more than anything-to rediscover their own excellence and make a difference. This Action Guide is just that: a road map to taking action steps based on the ideas found in Live Your Excellence.

Live Your Excellence: Action Guide

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In 
Handle with Care, authors Jimmy Casas and Joy Kelly examine a variety of difficult school-related situations, both in and out of the classroom. In schools across the country, educators at every level are faced with delicate, challenging situations that require leadership skills and insights in order to produce favorable outcomes for students and staff. This book provides educators with insights into a variety of difficult-to-handle situations and scenarios that educators can relate to and may have experienced themselves. Well-intentioned, but inadequate, human responses are identified and practical ideas for handling delicate situations with dignity and respect are provided. This book will help educators develop tools and techniques to help students and staff emerge from missteps more self-aware, feeling valued, and able to move forward.\nIn this book, you will learn:\nWhat it takes to cultivate a school culture in which every student and staff member feels seen and heard. 
How to treat student and staff missteps as opportunities for teaching and learning based on dignity and respect. 
How to build leadership capacity and Culturize school pride. 
The value of student-centered classrooms and school-related programs.\nReview 
Best-selling author Jimmy Casas and Joy Kelly share powerful and relevant stories in Handle with Care - Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with Dignity and Respect. They remind us that the heart and soul of a healthy culture begins and ends with the way we handle all members of a school community with care, grace, and dignity. This book is filled with heartfelt, practical advice and will serve as a reflection guide for educators for years to come.\nJon Gordon, Best-Selling Author of The Energy Bus 
and The Power of Positive Leadership \nIf we want all students to reach beyond their own expectations, then we need to make sure that our interactions with them need to be more human, especially those students who do not always make it easy. In Handle with Care Casas and Kelly offer important insight into turning those difficult situations into more impactful learning experiences.\nPeter DeWitt, Ed.D.School Leadership Coach/Facilitator of 
Learning 
 Finding Common Ground Blog (Education Week)\nHandle with Care 
 gives real solutions to real challenges that educators face daily. Through the authentic vignettes that are shared, along with the reflective questions and tone of the book, Jimmy and Joy are able to connect with readers. This connection makes Handle with Care read like a conversation instead of a book. This resource is a go to for educators as they navigate challenges and remove barriers to ensure that students and staff feel emotionally safe and supported at school. Handle with Care focuses on the most important aspect of the school experience - Relationships.\nSanée Bell, Ed.D, Author of Be Excellent on Purpose: 
Intentional Strategies for Impactful Leadership 
 From the Inside Flap 
Jimmy + Joy + a Culturizing Mindset + Supportive & Demanding Leaders + Empathy + Grit + Grace + Gratitude = a catalytic read & resource for schools & districts to...THRIVE! #Read #Heed. #Cutlurize #KeepGoing\nKevin Carroll, author/speaker/instigator of inspiration\nHandle with Care 
 by Jimmy Casas and Joy Kelly is a masterclass of teachable moments and usable strategies for educational leaders and classroom teachers alike to implement within their schools while working through disruptive situations with students. Looking further than the moment to use disruptions as opportunities to teach and learn. Leading educators on a path to go beyond the call and teach beyond the walls of the classroom providing strategies for building relationships that empower our students.\nJonathan Alsheimer, Teacher, Speaker, 
Author of Next Level Teaching\nInspiring and empowering! I feel like I was just gifted decades of experience from culture of excellen

Handle with Care: Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with Dignity and Respect

Kelly, Joy

After writing and speaking about all aspects of education for several years, one day Jimmy Casas decided to begin sharing what he called a "Thought for the Day" through various social media outlets. Most often, these "thoughts" were simply things he had been saying in presentations around the country or snippets from books he had written such as Culturize and Live Your Excellence. He certainly never considered them very profound or even original, yet was gratified by the response these daily thoughts received from those who followed them and he realized that many people were just like him in that they were always on the lookout for a short saying that might make them think or might help carry them through their busy day. As a result of the positive feedback he was receiving from many educators, he continued to send out a daily thought about teaching, learning, leadership, or life in general for over two years. In 2021, he published Volume I of "Daily Inspiration for Educators." Based on its success, he collected another volume of inspirational daily thoughts for busy educators.This book compiles many of these daily thoughts into a collection of 365 daily inspirational messages, most by Casas. Others are sayings found elsewhere, some of which are hundreds of years old and others found only recently. These daily thoughts will provide hope, validation, and inspiration to some of the most inspiring people in the world: hard working education professionals. Thank you for continuing to do what you do each day. For educators reading this collection of daily thoughts, your career in education is likely more of a "calling" than a mere job. Serving as a professional educator is so important that we must commit to doing whatever it takes to ensure that every child achieves success each and every day we serve. Daily Inspiration for Educators can serve as a resource that motivates and inspires educators during times of joy as well as when things get tough, as we know they will periodically in a profession as important and challenging as ours.

Daily Inspiration for Educators: Positive Thoughts for Every Day of the Year, Volume II

Are You Ready to Take the First Step Toward Excellence?
 What does it take to be the very best teacher—or the very best leader? What sets excellent educators apart from their peers? And how can you join their ranks? In their work leading up to Start. Right. Now. Todd Whitaker, Jeff Zoul, and Jimmy Casas studied educators from across the nation and discovered four key behaviors of excellence:
 Excellent Leaders and Teachers...
 Know the Way
 From their content to best practices, these educators know their stuff.
 Show the Way
 Casting a bright vision for the future, these educators see possibilities where others see problems.
 Go the Way
 Leading by example is a way of life for the very best.
 and Grow Each Day
 A focus on personal and professional development helps these educators succeed.
 Wherever you are on your journey as an educator, choose to become even greater still—our kids are worth it.
 Start. Right. Now.

Start. Right. Now.

Dave Burgess Consulting

Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

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

Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.

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...
 <ul>
 <li>How to reach those who seem unreachable</li>
 <li>What to do when students disengage or drop out of school</li>
 <li>How to ensure your learners feel cared for and empowered</li>
 <li>How to create an environment where all learners are challenged and inspired to be their best</li>
 
</ul>
 ______
 “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

Creating the best school experiences for students and educators isn’t about doing more; it’s about doing the right things.
School can be amazing. But for far too long, many practices have continued simply because of the phrase “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. . .
<ul>
<li>Putting an end to "more solely for the sake of more"</li>
<li>Not doing things merely because they have always been done</li>
<li>Saying no to what doesn’t work</li>
<li>Finding better ways to serve students—and the entire school community 
</li>
</ul>

Stop. Right. Now.: 39 Stops to Making School Better

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Start. Right. Now.: Teach and Lead for Excellence

What Connected Educators Do Differently

What Connected Educators Do Differently

Live Your Excellence: Action Guide

Handle with Care: Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with Dignity and Respect

Daily Inspiration for Educators: Positive Thoughts for Every Day of the Year, Volume II

Start. Right. Now.

Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

Stop. Right. Now.: 39 Stops to Making School Better