Engage, Empower, Energize: Leading Tomorrow's Schools Today

by Robert Dillon

Overview

In an era of high stakes accountability, testing, and standardization in education, Dr. Robert Dillon attempts to bring the student back into the center of the learning. This book is ideal for school leaders and teacher leaders that are searching for a new way to inject fresh energy and ideas into their learning spaces. By placing student engagement and the joy of learning into the center of the conversation, Dr. Dillon is able to showcase how providing students with choice, voice, and authentic audience can allow deeper learning to occur. Throughout the book, readers have the opportunity to journey with a principal as he regains his footing as a leader and begins to moving away from the inertia to just manage his school. In parallel, readers will be presented with ten proven strategies for bringing the quality of learning to their learning spaces that students, teachers, parents, and a community can truly celebrate. Dr. Dillon weaves this story into a vision of what is possible for schools when courage, leadership, and desire to maximize the potential of all students is paramount.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475806861
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/25/2014
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. Robert Dillon is an innovator and education thought leader, he has helped to bring positive changes to classrooms and schools throughout the country as a teacher, principal, technologist, and consultant. His focus on student engagement and building passion in our student learners remains all the core of his work to real, meaningful systemic change to all of the learning spaces of our interconnected world.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1- Wandering into Safety
Chapter 2- The Roadmap
Chapter 3- A Walk in the Park
Chapter 4- Experiencing Engagement
Chapter 5- Growing a Sustainable School
Chapter 6- Engaging Through Education for Sustainability
Chapter 7- Riding the Wave of Technology Integration
Chapter 8- Infusing Technology Integration
Chapter 9- Throwing Away the Box
Chapter 10-Beyond the Volcano: Excellence Through Project-Based Learning
Chapter 11-Building Connected Conversations Through Systems Thinking
Chapter 12-Seeing in Systems
Chapter 13- The Power of Story
Chapter 14- Engaging Learners Through Story
Chapter 15- The Science Project
Chapter 16- Empowering Citizen Scientists
Chapter 17- Unlocking the Past, Engaging the Future
Chapter 18- Learning Beyond the Classroom
Chapter 19- A Place to Make
Chapter 20- Making Things Better
Chapter 21- Finding The Edge Through Empathy
Chapter 22- Slipping into the Shoes of Others

Editorial Reviews

Through the art of storytelling Dr. Robert Dillon has crafted an inspirational call to action for the types of transformative changes schools desperately need. He provides clear action steps that any educator, regardless of position, can initiate and sustain meaningful change that will create a culture of teaching and learning primed for student achievement and success. The fact that he ties in stories of other practicing educators adds to this resource that, in my opinion, is desperately needed. Dr. Dillon's work fits in nicely with that of Yong Zhao making it a compelling read for all in the education space.

Eric Sheninger

The 21st century educator leads and models teaching and learning through connected, reflective, transparent, and collaborative methods. School leaders must recognize the changes in the educational landscape and support teachers in utilizing the continuous advances in technology. Dr. Dillon's book challenges us to recognize that we must be ready and willing to transform learning spaces in today’s classrooms if we truly intend to impact learning far beyond the walls of the school community.

Jimmy Casas

Providing an effective exit strategy from the Industrial Age model of assembly line education can seem a daunting, if not impossible job.  In “Engage, Empower, Energize”, Dr. Dillon provides both a narrative of why this change is critical to each of us as educational leaders, as well as pragmatic, straight forward, implementation strategies.  By embracing his ten hallmarks of a transformed learning experience—expeditions, effective technologies, story-telling, systems thinking, making, and more—any school can transform learning from test-focused and teacher-centric, to one where students own a learning process that will prepare them for the real challenges they will face in their futures beyond school.

Grant Lichtman

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