Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School (Hack Learning Series)
Description:
Ready to Hack Learning? It's What You Can Do Tomorrow! You have problems, but you don’t have time for a 5-year plan. You want practical strategies that you can implement immediately. You don’t need outdated research. You need EduHackers—experienced educators who understand your problems and see quick fixes that may be so simple that they’ve been overlooked. Hacking Education and the Hack Learning Series provide what every teacher, principal, parent, and education stakeholder has been waiting for--realistic solutions to your biggest problems. Read it today—fix it tomorrow! In Hacking Education, Mark Barnes and Jennifer Gonzalez employ decades of teaching experience and hundreds of discussions with education thought leaders, to show you how to find and hone the quick fixes that every school and classroom need. Using a Hacker’s mentality, they provide one Aha moment after another with 10 Quick Fixes for Every School--solutions to everyday problems that any teacher or administrator can implement immediately. Imagine being able to walk into school tomorrow and eliminate:
- Hours of wasted meeting time
- Classroom management issues
- Interruptions in planning time
- The need for more books
- Negative attitudes
- Technology issues
- Pineapple Charts
- The 360 Spreadsheet
- Glass Classrooms
- Track Records
- Marigold Committees
- The TQZ
- More Impactful Hacks
- The Problem
- The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)
- What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary)
- Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)
- The Hack in Action (yes, someone has actually done this)