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Meet the author, Karen Gross
Discover how the global pandemic crisis allowed educators to improve across the pre–K–adult pipeline. While acknowledging the scale of loss and difficulty the COVID pandemic engendered within the field of education, this book focuses on how sudden and forced changes to teaching and learning created “Pandemic Positives,” which can be captured and brought to scale. In particular, Part I addresses how Positives came into being, with particular attention to the presence of hope and creativity. Part II explores the Pandemic Positives that arose in three settings: when schools were closed, when learning turned online, and when schools re-opened. Part III provides strategies for replicating the Pandemic Positives so they become positive educational game changers. This book is grounded on trauma and mental theory and includes educators’ in-the-trenches experiences and voices. The text features art the coauthors created and shares their professional and personal experiences, and enriching the book. Mending completes a trilogy of Breakaway Learners, and Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door by Karen Gross.

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Focuses on what has been ignored in education in any organized and cohesive fashion― how the pandemic actually improved education if we have the courage and will to see those positives and implement them.
Filled with the voices of educators―their spoken words that are often ignored or not understood, appreciated, or implemented.
Includes an epilogue that is an actual conversation between the authors based on a set of questions, allowing them to share their thoughts and feelings about the book and its positive messages.
Designed to be used in classrooms and in policy discussions―all in an effort to improve education for every student.
Shares the professional and personal experiences of the authors, including their own individual experiences with ―a personal and revelatory read.

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What Kind of Citizen?: Educating Our Children for the Common Good
By Joel Westheimer
Foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings
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As faces increasing struggles around the globe, there has never been a more important time to talk about civic education and the core democratic purposes of schooling. What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the they would like to live in and then shows how schools can make that vision a reality. This updated edition responds to the many challenges that have occurred since this book was first published, such as a global pandemic, social justice protests, a rise in autocratic leaders, anti-woke laws, and more. Westheimer brings his now-classic text up to date with groundbreaking analyses of current policies, including those in Florida, Texas, and Arizona; standardized testing; prohibitions on teaching about race and racism; plus a new section on teacher education. There are many ways to teach children and young adults to engage critically with their world, but instead teachers are forced to test-prep for a narrow set of subjects. This book shows readers how schools can get back on track by creating more engaging, more democratic learning.

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A comprehensive look at why should be at the forefront of public engagement and how we can make that happen.
A framework that has been used in 67 countries to help teachers and school reformers structure educational programs that strengthen democratic societies.
Research-based guidance for aligning school goals with what parents, children, and teachers actually care about.
Accessible and engaging discussions gleaned through consultations with thousands of school and civic leaders.
Empirical research from one of the most influential frameworks for citizenship and , Three Kinds of Citizens,which emerged from a collaboration between the author and Dr. Joseph Kahne.

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