Hacking School Culture: Designing Compassionate Classrooms (Hack Learning)

Stockman, Angela; Gray, Ellen Feig

ISBN 10: 1948212048 / ISBN 13: 9781948212045

Published by Times 10 Publications, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hacking School Culture: Designing Compassionate Classrooms (Hack Learning)
• Publisher: Times 10 Publications
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948212048
• ISBN 13: 9781948212045
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

If you could teach all kids empathy, tolerance, and compassion, wouldn't teaching all things be easier? Bullying prevention and character building programs are deepening our awareness of how today's kids struggle and how we might help, but many agree: They aren't enough to create school cultures where students and staff flourish. This inspired Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray to begin seeking out systems and educators who were getting things right.

Read it today--fix it tomorrow

Their experiences taught them that the real game changers are using a human-centered approach. Inspired by other design thinkers, many teachers are creating learning environments where seeking a greater understanding of themselves and others is the highest standard. They're also realizing that compassion is best cultivated in the classroom, not the boardroom or the auditorium. It's here that we learn how to pull one another close. It's here that we begin to negotiate the distances between us, too.

Ready to begin but uncertain how? Here's what you'll find inside:

• Protocols that inspire strengths-focused teaching and learning


• Tools for starting hard conversations, coaching critical questioning, and sustaining respectful communication


• Experiential learning models that improve school culture


• Approaches that encourage activism while enabling people to resolve conflicts peacefully


• Design thinking strategies that empower human-centered decision-making

Compassionate classrooms are built one learner at a time. Be that learner. It's time.

About the Author

Angela Stockman spent twelve years teaching at the elementary, middle, and high school levels before becoming an international literacy consultant. Over the last fifteen years, she's supported thousands of educators in hundreds of schools with curriculum and assessment design initiatives as well as instructional coaching. She is also the founder of the WNY Young Writers' Studio, a community of writers and teachers of writing that has existed for over a decade in Buffalo, New York. She's the author of two additional books: Make Writing and Hacking the Writing Workshop: Redesign with Making in Mind, also by Hack Learning.

Ellen Feig Gray began her career 40 years ago as developmental psychology researcher, and since then has been applying relevant findings from positive psychology, communications, and the science of happiness and well-being to support parents and others who  raise and educate children and teens. She uses her expertise to advocate for young people in various ways, including developing policies and practices for television broadcasts, advertising guidelines, marketing communications campaigns, as well as working with nonprofit organizations. As founder of Parent with Perspective she provides practical wisdom and expert advice, through coaching, workshops, talks, blog posts and articles. Ellen is the co-author of Hacking School Culture: Designing Compassionate Classrooms by Hack Learning.