New Releases by Lee Crockett

Culture of Excellence is a practical guide for school leaders building high-trust learning cultures. Grounded in real school contexts, it offers a clear path beyond compliance toward intentional, sustainable leadership.

This practical guide explores how to transform education through the concept of global digital citizenship (GDC). Embraced by thousands of schools, global digital citizenship practices empower students to effectively and ethically participate in and contribute to the digital world around them. The authors provide a clear path for establishing a global digital citizenship program in your school and give guidance on how K-12 teachers and administrators can grow global citizens who are respectful and responsible critical thinkers equipped with the 21st century skills necessary for an interconnected world. This global digital citizenship guidebook will allow you to: Discover the characteristics and 21st century skills of global digital citizens and what these citizens stand for. Consider the limitations of conventional acceptable use policies and instead embrace ethically driven digital citizenship agreements. Learn how to address the various stakeholder communities involved in developing students into global digital citizens. Use tools, rubrics, and resources for gauging the effectiveness and progress of your global digital citizenship practices. Review digital citizenship agreements for students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, as well as for professionals and the wider community.

Lee Crockett''s highly anticipated Agents to Agency: A Measurable Process for Cultivating Self-Directed Learner Agency follows on from his bestselling Future-Focused Learning: 10 Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice. The transformation of classroom practice and moving the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the learner is examined in greater detail, with an emphasis on the specific learning practices that successfully underpin the transition. Agents to Agency explores how to adopt learning practices that develop and enhance learner agency and will provide the understanding you need to move forward with it in your classroom. Lee guides you through the journey from agents to agency with clear summaries, key points, and tangible examples you can apply to your practice. Additionally, the final chapters also present a series of sensible and practical continuums for facilitating and measuring the progression of learner agency.

A guide to holistic education covering personalized learning, process-oriented learning, mindful assessment, and more.

The book provides scenarios, lessons, activities, and assessment rubrics that allow educators to focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback for improvement, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate.

This book is the latest in a series of books written and published by the 21st Century Fluency Group, headed by Ian Jukes and Lee Crockett. This book will focus on how to lead the shift to a 21st century school. It will delve into gaining community, parental, and staff support around the concept of why change is needed and how that change occurs. The book will focus on implementing whole school reform, starting with small teams of teachers to build capacity. It will explain how to make the shift no matter the level of technology available to schools and emphasize how the IT departments in schools must change their perspective and their role in this change. It will also consider schools through different lenses—i.e., what schools are presently and what they could and may be in the future (e.g., virtual high schools like the largest school in the country, Florida Virtual High School; and online universities such as the largest university, Phoenix). A running theme throughout the book will be attention to maintaining a focus on short term goals (NCLB, interim assessments, remediation) while planning for long term goals (21st century fluencies so that students become college and/or career and life ready) and aligning the short term with the long term. It will also show how to align resources such as staff development, money, time, and personnel to support learning that focuses on both sets of goals. A practical book, it will offer numerous strategies, suggestions, tips and templates to support school leaders in making the shift to 21st century learning.

If you have ever wanted to know more about how to build self-confidence or if you struggle with a low self-esteem, this book offers simple and time-tested principles for developing a healthy view of yourself.You will learn how to build confidence through what you think to yourself, what you tell yourself, and through the things you say in life. You always believe what you tell yourself. Learn how to gain confidence one thought, one word at a time!

How to upgrade literacy instruction for digital learners Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. The authors explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy: Solution Fluency Information Fluency Creativity Fluency Collaboration Fluency Students must master a completely different set of skills to succeed in a culture of technology-driven automation, abundance, and access to global labor markets. The authors present an effective framework for integrating comprehensive literacy or fluency into the traditional curriculum.

An innovative look at reshaping the educational experiences of 21st-century learners! Inspiring thoughtful discussion that leads to change, this reader-friendly resource examines how the new digital landscape is transforming teaching and learning in an environment of standards, accountability, and high-stakes testing and why informed leadership is so critical. The authors present powerful strategies and compelling viewpoints, underscore the necessity of developing relevant classroom experiences, and discuss: Attributes common among digital learners The concepts of neuroplasticity and the hyperlinked mind An educational approach that supports traditional literacy skills alongside 21st-century fluencies Evaluation methods that encompass how digital generation students process new information

This book takes a pragmatic look at the realities of today''s digital landscape. It provides a detailed account of the six global exponential trends that are vital to understanding our increasingly digital lives.

My dissertation uses multiple methods to introduce the novel concept of racial sexual preference - individuals & rsquo; preferences for a sexual or romantic partner based on race. This project builds on an insight from Daryl Bem & rsquo;s & ldquo;Exotic Becomes Erotic & rdquo; theory of sexual development: a diverse set of sexual preferences exists beyond gender. I argue the very real social consequences of race make preferences in regard to it (sexual or otherwise) an important area for systematic study. I focus on gay male subculture, which has uniquely developed a terminology for expressing racial preferences. I investigate how racial preference is understood and organized within this subculture by collecting gay men & rsquo;s sexual history narratives of cross-race preferences through interviews, as well as collecting archival materials from the national organization Black and White Men Together (BWMT) that pertain to racial sexual preference. I find that racial sexual preferences are experienced early in the life course and are consistent over time, similarly to experiences of gendered sexual orientation, though generally less exclusive. Unlike gendered sexual orientation, identities are unlikely to form in relation to racial sexual preferences because there is little ideological structure to support expression of cross-race racial preferences. Even within the organizational structure of BWMT, founded to support racial sexual preferences, over time I find a decrease in discourse and identity related to racial sexual preference (in favor of a colorblind ideal of preferences). I end my study by using the concept of racial sexual preference, supported by the findings from interviews and case study, to build on and challenge the theoretical work of Daryl Bem, Lisa Diamond, and James Giles in the area of sexual development and desire.