Changemaking in Education.

The world is changing fast, and education hasn’t caught up.
Teachers know schools need more innovation, change-making, and relevance. But in the midst of overwhelming challenges, how can these needs turn into action?

Blanchet and Bakkegard grew tired of everyone telling teachers what to fix without sharing the “how,” so they created easy-to-use professional development tools and strategies to help teachers think like startup entrepreneurs.

Using a visual, interactive format,
The Startup Teacher Playbook helps teachers tackle challenges, turn their ideas into action, and tap into their potential to lead change in the classroom, school, and community.

This shows you how to evolve your teaching and learning to serve the changing needs of students, use professional learning and meeting time to break down challenges and create solutions, and cultivate your leadership capacity to take your ideas further than you ever imagined.

The Educator Canvas

Teachers and school leaders will immediately use the author's powerful and practical Educator Canvas, which will guide your personalized learning and collaboration with your colleagues.

The Startup Teacher Playbook is both professional growth guidebook and meeting workbook, combined into one impactful tool that you will want with you at all times.

Promoting Civic Engagement.


Preventing Polarization provides strategies and ideas to support young people with the skills needed to shape their world. This book is full of activities to spark a sense of civic-mindedness in every student.
 

  • Practice Sense-Making - Equip students with strategies to question their world and their roles in it

  • Keep Asking Questions - Keep curiosity alive for critical and deep thinking

  • Cultivate Humility - Prevent ego from breaking down dialogue

  • Consume Information Mindfully - Create savvy consumers of information with all forms of media and communication

  • Avoid Censorship - Produce critical thinkers through a variety of outlets, voices, and materials

  • Embrace Complexity - Stop oversimplifying difficult issues

  • Promote Collective Leadership - Help students uncover their unique roles in contributing to areas greater than themselves

  • Fight Apathy - Encourage students to think and feel from multiple perspectives through empathy

  • Engage in Moral Ambiguity - Ditch the good guy versus bad guy outlook

  • Inspire Changemakers - Equip students with constructive ways to take on and understand different pathways to action