As academic achievement becomes narrowed into a single-minded obsession with test scores, what possibilities remain for ethical, caring teachers to hone their craft and inspire their students with the joy of learning? In The Mindful Teacher, authors MacDonald and Shirley begin by articulating the prevalent problem of alienated teaching the kind of teaching that teachers perform when they must comply with external conditions that they feel do not serve their students well. As a solution, they propose mindful teaching the kind of teaching that is informed by contemplative practices and teacher inquiry. The authors identify key strategies that teachers can use daily to integrate more reflection and awareness into their busy classroom life. The seven synergies of mindful teaching are Open-Mindedness, Caring, Stopping, Professional Expertise, Authentic Alignment, Integration, and Collective Responsibility

The Mindful Teacher (Series on School Reform)

Education & Teaching

Dennis Shirley

Elizabeth MacDonald

Schools & Teaching

Teachers College Pr

This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created “Mindful Teacher” seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students can learn with dignity and purpose. This updated second edition includes completely new sections on the promise of teacher leadership, the strengths and perils of technology, and schools in the midst of change. The Mindful Teacher is an indispensable and timely resource for all educators who seek to transform schools into places of learning and joy.
Book Features:
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<li> Nitty-gritty descriptions of teachers leading grassroots change.</li>
<li> Practical recommendations on ways to retain the best of previous practices while creatively blending them with new innovations.</li>
<li> Valuable ways of using principles of mindful teaching for thinking through the affordances, as well as the distractions, that accompany new technologies.</li>
<li> Research-tested approaches to whole-school change that honor the work of educators and accelerate the learning of students.</li>
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The Mindful Teacher describes real educators in real schools working with real students. It bridges the rapidly evolving field of mindfulness studies with educators’ life-long quests for substantial and sustainable improvements in the educations we provide our students.

The Mindful Teacher (the series on school reform)

Teachers' College Press

Winner: 2009 National Staff Development Council's Staff Development Book of the Year Award What can organizations do to create changes that are both profound and enduring? This anthology explores why traditional change strategies have failed and examines constructive alternatives. International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal. Real examples of pilot projects, model schools, and other groundbreaking endeavors illustrate precisely how theory translates into practice. Benefits: 
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<li>Discover why the purposeful pursuit of a democratic and professional approach to change is essential for meeting the goals of education systems. </li> <li>Study the relationship between the government and teaching profession, a central issue in education reform. </li> <li>Understand the complexity and contours of change and the roles of leaders within racially polarized institutions. </li> <li>Examine the merits of international comparative benchmarks as drivers for educational change. </li> <li>Utilize industrial benchmarking a--research technique borrowed from industry to examine what makes education systems successful in countries across the world. </li> <li>Learn why research and development efforts must focus on the day-to-day practice of leadership and management. </li>
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Contents: Introduction: Change Wars: A Hopeful Struggle Chapter 1: The Fourth Way of Change: Towards an Age of Inspiration and Sustainability Chapter 2: Teaching and the Change Wars: The Professionalism Hypothesis Chapter 3: From System Effectiveness to System Improvement: Reform Paradigms and Relationships Chapter 4: International Benchmarking as a Lever for Policy Reform Chapter 5: Industrial Benchmarking: A Research Method for Education Chapter 6: The Music of Democracy: Emerging Strategies for a New Era of Post-Standardization Chapter 7: Preparing for the New Majority: How Schools Can Respond to Immigration and Demographic Change Chapter 8: When Politics and Emotion Meet: Educational Change in Racially Divided Communities Chapter 9: Engaging Practice: School Leadership and Management From a Distributed Perspective Chapter 10: Institutions, Improvement, and Practice Chapter 11: Level-Five Networks: Making Significant Change in Complex Organizations Chapter 12: Reform Without (Much) Rancor Chapter 13: Have Theory, Will Travel: A Theory of Action for System Change

Change Wars (Leading Edge)

Andy Hargreaves

Douglas Reeves

Michael Barber

Linda Darling-Hammond

Richard Elmore

Michael Fullan

Jonathan Jansen

Ben Levin

Pedro Noguera

Andreas Schleicher

James Spillane

Marc Tucker

Solution Tree

Product Description 
This is a breakthrough book on student engagement. Join Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves, two award-winning authors and leaders in their field, on a profound educational quest that will take you through exciting and challenging terrain. Five Paths of Student Engagement will open your eyes, heart, and mind and empower you to implement practices that lead directly to your students' well-being, learning, and success. 
By integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, and using inspiring examples from seven years of research, this book delves deeply into the what, why, and how of student engagement. It reveals who and what the true enemies of student engagement are, and shows you how to defeat them. It will enrich and reward your work for years to come. 
Utilize research-based strategies to promote active engagement in the classroom and build the foundation for student growth: \nLearn why active engagement is the new frontier of student achievement. 
Understand how engaging students means so much more than defeating boredom. 
Consider psychological and sociological theories that cast new light on engagement and motivation. 
Reflect on how engagement is about mystery and magic, meaning and purpose, and focus and mastery. 
Understand why increasing classroom engagement requires much more than surveys, rubrics and observation protocols. 
Learn strategies to battle all five enemies of engagement in order to engage students totally and motivate unmotivated students. 
Explore five clear paths of engagement that lead to improving student learning and success that all teachers and schools can embark upon immediately.\nContents: Preface Chapter 1: From Achievement to Engagement--Two Ages of Educational Change Chapter 2: Theories of Engagement and Motivation--From Maslow to Flow Chapter 3: Three Myths of Engagement--Relevance, Technology, and Fun Chapter 4: The Five Enemies of Engagement--How to Defeat Them Chapter 5: Standardized Testing--The Archenemy of Engagement Chapter 6: The Five Pathways of Student Engagement--In Theory and Practice Chapter 7: The Promise of Engagement and the Battle for Change References Index 
 Review 
"In the recent past, well-motivated educational policymakers sought to install more ambitious curricula and secure higher student performances. But they left out a crucial variable: sustained student engagement. In this original, provocative, and engaging book, Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves synthesize fundamental ideas from the social sciences and draw as well on their practical experiences around the world. Readers will come to understand how to nurture students who desire to learn and succeed in doing so." 
 --Howard Gardner, Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education 
"In this important new book, Shirley and Hargreaves remind us of something that education policy has for too long ignored: academic engagement is the vital pathway to higher student achievement. This book not only provides clear examples of how to get students engaged in learning, it also explores the research behind the different dimensions of engagement itself. For educators and researchers who seek greater clarity on how to improve student academic outcomes and performance, this book will be an invaluable resource." 
 --Pedro A. Noguera, dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California 
"With Five Paths of Student Engagement, Shirley and Hargreaves have given us not just food for thought, but fuel for action. Their analysis reminds us why student engagement is an educational must-have and cogently lays out the policies, like overemphasis on standardized testing, that can undermine it. As we reimagine learning beyond COVID, I'm grateful to have this clear articulation of the paths to engagement along with the recognition that teachers' judgment and students' voices are key to all of them." 
 --Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation

Five Paths of Student Engagement: Blazing the Trail to Learning and Success (Your Guide to Promoting Active Engagement in the Classroom and Improving Student Learning)

Solution Tree Press

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