Empowered Students - Educating Flexible Minds for a Flexible Future

Educators struggle with how to develop agency, ownership, curiosity, and persistence in learners. This book offers practical ideas and examples of how to do this.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Historical Context

Chapter 2: The Principles of Freedom

Chapter 3: Build

Chapter 4: Think

Chapter 5: Speak

Chapter 6: Act: Supporting Intentionality

Chapter 7: Fight for the Principles of Freedom: Rule #23, Keepers of the Culture ®, Promise Cards ®, and KOC Class

Chapter 8: Pushback--and Growth

About the author

Kerry Decker Rutishauser has earned her M.Ed.D in Eeducational Lleadership from Teachers College, Columbia University, and she is currently working as a high school principal in New York City. Kerry has been a teacher, school principal, and a leadership coach across pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades for the past eighteen years working internationally and nationally in some of the world's wealthiest and poorest schools, all with a high percentage of multilingual, special needs, and diverse learners.

Product details

• Authors: Kerry Decker Rutishauser, Kerry Decker Rutishauser
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781475858365
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5836-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Education, EDUCATION / Administration / General, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Decision theory: general