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Elena Aguilar and coauthor Lori Cohen offer seven habits—and a wealth of practical tools

Rooted in the values of equity, relationships, and listening, this luminous book helps reimagine what is possible in education today.  

Being a great teacher is one thing, but leading a team, or team development, is an entirely different dynamic.

Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. 

In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her groundbreaking instructional model. 

What would it take to transform our high schools into places capable of supporting deep learning for students across a wide range of aptitudes and interests? To find out, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine spent hundreds of hours observing and talking to teachers and students in and out of the classroom at thirty of the country’s most innovative schools 

In this mixture of scholarship and storytelling, you’ll learn how to create intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of all children. 

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