Vertigo: Transforming Teaching and Learning in Public Education

Vertigo tells the timely story of an Indiana school district's dramatic transformation. Cushenberry shows "Students First" is more than a slogan. Over ten years, district leader and superintendent Dena Cushenberry with her team navigated a turbulent policy environment to identify goals for student performance within a personalized learning environment and establish a clear moral purpose and set of core values to impact teaching and learning. Over her tenure leading Warren Township in Marion County, Dr. Cushenberry developed a culture of trust and respect, retained talented teachers and administrators, and built community engagement programs while securing the funding to pursue major goals.Instructive, hopeful, critical, and prescient, Dr. Cushenberry documents her successes as well as failures in order to boost the next generation of American educators.