 Get the book, Beyond Standards: The Fragmentation of Education Governance & the Promise of Curricular Reform Follow Morgan on Twitter @MPolikoff About the Author Morgan Polikoff is an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.

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 Get the book Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader through Corwin Press Get the book Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader through Amazon Get a free sample chapter of Mastermind Visit Daniel's Website, BetterLeadersBetterSchools.com Learn more about the Mastermind About the Author Daniel Bauer is the founder of Better Leaders Better Schools, where he helps school leaders fight isolation and frustration via a leadership community in order to gain clarity and find solutions to their greatest challenges.

Daniel Bauer—Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader

 Get the book, The Five-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be Visit Patrick's Website, LeddinGroup.com Listen to Patrick's Podcast, Leadership Lab Follow Patrick on Twitter @PatrickLeddin About the Author Patrick Leddin PhD. has benefited from both hands-on leadership and management experience in the military as well as the corporate world. He is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University, as well as founder of The Leddin Group, and he is author of The Five-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be. 

Patrick Leddin—The Five-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be

 Get the book, Leading Schools Through Trauma: A Data-Driven Approach to Helping Children Heal Visit Mike's website, MikesMicroMinute.com Follow Mike on Twitter @GaskellMgaskell About the Author Dr. Michael Gaskell is a veteran middle school principal in East Brunswick, NJ. He writes extensively on school culture, trauma, and educational leadership, and mentors new principals through the Leaders to Leaders program.   

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 Visit Daniel's website, www.danielwillingham.com Follow Daniel on Twitter @DTWillingham Get the book, Why Don't Students Like School? 2nd Edition About the Author Daniel Willingham earned his B.A. from Duke University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University in 1990. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. Until about 2000, his research focused solely on the brain basis of learning and memory. Today, all of his research concerns the application of cognitive psychology to K-16 education.He writes the “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” column for American Educator magazine, and is the author of Why Don't Students Like School?, When Can You Trust the Experts?, Raising Kids Who Read, and The Reading Mind. His writing on education has appeared in seventeen languages. In 2017 he was appointed by President Obama to serve as a Member of the National Board for Education Sciences.  

Daniel Willingham—Why Don’t Students Like School? 2nd Edition

 Visit Ulcca's website, www.EducatingPotential.com Follow Ulcca on Twitter @Ulcca Get the book, The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive Ulcca Joshi Hansen - TEDx Talk: The Future of Smart Ulcca Joshi Hansen - TEDx Talk: Re-thinking The 3Rs About the Author Ulcca Joshi Hansen is the author of The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive. She is also Chief Program Officer at Grantmakers for Education. Hansen is a mother of two and a former elementary teacher who has worked in education for two decades. Her experiences as an English-language learner and first-generation college student inform her perspective on what it means to provide an “equitable” education for every child and engage communities in that effort  

Ulcca Joshi Hansen—The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive

 Visit the E-Therapy Website, www.electronic-therapy.com Follow Diana on Twitter @DianaParafiniuk About the Author Diana is a seasoned and nationally recognized business leader in the teletherapy market. Her company, E-Therapy, pioneered the teletherapy industry in education with its innovative practices, services, and solutions and first-to-market approaches to serve PreK-12 schools and students. Diana is an honored recipient of the inaugural Women Achievers of Arizona award in recognition of her leadership in the online therapy field.

Diana Parafiniuk—E-Therapy

 Get the book, Doable Differentiation Visit Jane's website, www.JaneKise.com About the Author Dr. Jane Kise is the author of 27 books and an organizational presenter with extensive experience in leadership development and executive coaching, instructional coaching, and differentiated instruction.

Jane Kise—Doable Differentiation: Twelve Strategies to Meet the Needs of All Learners

 Get the book, The Daily SEL Leader Visit the Brass Tacks Innovations website, www.brasstacksinnovations.com About the Authors James Bailey’s career has encompassed teacher, principal, assistant superintendent, school turnaround leader, consultant and superintendent roles spanning Texas, Colorado and Wyoming. As Superintendent in Wyoming, his district was the first member in the state to join the League of Innovative Schools after reform efforts around personalized learning and social-emotional development. In San Antonio, he led the turnaround efforts for the Carpe Diem Schools. His deep-seated commitment to equity and supporting school leaders led to his training as an executive coach and co-founding Brass Tacks Innovations with a focus on supporting educational leaders to develop their SEL skills to support adults and students. He is also an advocate for helping schools and districts create better learning capacity to adapt to the future and in helping leaders and young people become more self-aware of their social and emotional needs to develop the skills to work with others on a more human level. He has a PhD in Educational Leadership and Innovation from the University of Colorado-Denver, is a prolific publisher and presenter, and currently serves as a core faculty member at Walden University in the area of educational leadership. Randy Weiner has worked in education and education technology and consulting throughout his career. He co- founded and served as the first Chairman of the Board at Urban Montessori Charter School (UMCS) in Oakland, CA—the nation’s first public Montessori, Arts Integration and Design Thinking school. Randy is also a co-founder and the CEO at BrainQuake, a two- time U.S. Department of Education Small Business Innovation Award winner. A Teach for America alum and father to two daughters, Randy taught for 5 years in Oakland and Madagascar, and holds two BAs from Middlebury College and an MA in Education from Stanford.

Randy Weiner & James Bailey—The Daily SEL Leader

 Get the book, The School Leader: Surviving & Thriving Visit Andrew's website, www.AndrewMarotta.com About the Author Andrew Marotta is an author, speaker, high school principal, and former NCAA basketball official. 

Andrew Marotta—The School Leader: Surviving & Thriving

 Get the book, A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching Learn more about Patrice on her website, www.PatriceBain.com Follow Patrice on Twitter @PatriceBain1 About the Author Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S. is an educator, speaker and author. Finalist for Illinois Teacher of the Year and a Fulbright Scholar in Russia, she has been featured in national and international webinars, podcasts, articles and press. Bain was asked by the Department of Education to work with cognitive scientists to co-author Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning. In addition, Patrice co-authored Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning.

Patrice Bain—A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching

 Get the book, The Forty-Hour Principal: Provocations for the Discerning Educator Visit the 40-Hour Principal website, 40HourPrincipal.com Follow Steve on Twitter @OABZonnie About the Authors Steve Zonnevylle and David Armstrong are both principals on the South Island of New Zealand and the authors of the book, The Forty-Hour Principal: Provocations for the Discerning Educator

Steve Zonnevylle & David Armstrong—The Forty-Hour Principal

 Get the Book, Stop Leading, Start Building!: Turn Your School into a Success Story with the People and Resources You Already Have Follow Robyn on Twitter @Robyn_Mindsteps Visit Robyn's Website, Mindstepsinc.com About the Authors Robyn Jackson, PhD., is the founder of Mindsteps and the host of School Leadership Re-Imagined, the podcast for school administrators, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders. She's the award-winning author of 11 books including the best selling The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers and Never Underestimate Your Teachers, which was chosen as an ASCD Member Book.

Robyn Jackson—Stop Leading, Start Building!: Turn Your School into a Success Story with the People and Resources You Already Have

 Get the Book, Teaching With Instructional Cha-Chas Visit Leann's website, MaximizeLearningInc.com Visit Melissa's website, MelissaDickson.com Follow Leann on Twitter @lnickelsen1 Follow Melissa on Twitter @mdickson221 About the Authors Melissa Dickson, MEd, is an outstanding presenter and educator. She is passionate about providing teachers with research-based ideas and strategies that can be immediately implemented. In her decades as an educator, Melissa has been a literacy coach, staff developer, site-based team leader, mentor teacher, inclusion teacher, classroom teacher, and early-childhood teacher. S LeAnn Nickelsen, MEd, delivers presentations nationally on brain research topics, differentiation, reading and vocabulary strategies, and nutrition affecting cognition, all based on the latest research. She is known for delivering a wealth of information in an active, fun format with very specific, practical classroom examples. Participants leave with many ideas for maximizing learning for all students.

Teaching With the Instructional Cha-Chas: Four Steps to Make Learning Stick—LeAnn Nickelsen & Melissa Dickson

 Get the Book, Leadership Begins With Motivation Visit Danny's Website, DannyBrassell.com Visit The Reading Habit website, TheReadingHabit.com Follow Danny on Twitter, @DannyBrassell About the Authors A highly-sought after speaker, trainer and coach known as “Jim Carrey with a Ph.D.,” Dr. Danny Brassell has spoken to over 3,500 audiences worldwide and authored 16 books, including his latest, Leadership Begins with Motivation. He is the co-founder of www.theREADINGhabit.com, the world’s top reading engagement program.

Danny Brassell—Leadership Begins with Motivation

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