Becoming an Everyday Changemaker

ISBN-13: 9781032597096 / Miękka / 2024 / 328 str.

Alex Shevrin Venet

Opis

Educators with a vision for more equitable, caring schools often struggle with where to begin. In this new book, bestselling author Alex Shevrin Venet empowers everyday changemakers by showing how equity-centered trauma-informed practices can guide our approach to school change.

Spis treści

Part I: Understanding Change  1. How We Move Through Change Matters  2. Why Trauma Makes Change Hard(er)  3. Change Opportunities  4. Dreaming a Vision for Schools  Part II: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Skills for Navigating the Change Journey  5. both/and  6. Everything in Relationship  7. Slowing Down  8. Working from Strengths  9. Tuning in to Many Streams of Information  Part III: Sustainable Structures for Lasting Change  10. Building a Foundation of Care  11. Anticipating Change and Crisis  12. Staying in Community through the Challenges

O autorze

Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, professional development facilitator, and writer. She is a teacher educator at the graduate level. Her teaching experience includes roles as a teacher/leader at an alternative therapeutic middle and high school, a community college instructor, and an elementary after-school teacher. She lives in Winooski, Vermont.