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About the AuthorLauren Porosoff is the founder of EmpowerForwards, a collaborative consultancy practice that builds learning communities that truly belong to everyone and where everyone truly belongs.
Lauren has 18 years of teaching experience and has also served as a DEI coordinator, grade level dean, and leader of curricular initiatives. Her commitment to transforming the psychological experience of school has been a constant in her teaching practice, leading her to learn about values-guided behavior change in contextual psychology.
Informed by research and practice, as well as her 18 years as a teacher, Lauren develops tools and protocols that empower students and teachers to make school a source of meaning, vitality, and community.
Daniel Willingham—Why Don’t Students Like School? 2nd Edition
Ulcca Joshi Hansen—The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive
Diana Parafiniuk—E-Therapy
Jane Kise—Doable Differentiation: Twelve Strategies to Meet the Needs of All Learners
Randy Weiner & James Bailey—The Daily SEL Leader
Andrew Marotta—The School Leader: Surviving & Thriving
Patrice Bain—A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching
Steve Zonnevylle & David Armstrong—The Forty-Hour Principal
Robyn Jackson—Stop Leading, Start Building!: Turn Your School into a Success Story with the People and Resources You Already Have
Teaching With the Instructional Cha-Chas: Four Steps to Make Learning Stick—LeAnn Nickelsen & Melissa Dickson
Danny Brassell—Leadership Begins with Motivation
Jed Dearybury—The Playful Classroom: The Power of Play for All Ages
Annie Murphy Paul—The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Courtney Ostaff—The Teaching Online Handbook
Jared Cooney Horvath & David Bott—10 Things Schools Get Wrong and How We Can Get Them Right
Ted Bunch & Anna Marie Johnson Teague—The Book of Dares: 100 Ways for Boys to be Kind, Bold, and Brave
Barbara Blackburn—Rigor in the Remote Learning Classroom: Instructional Tips and Strategies
Jennifer Abrams—Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work
Michael Bungay Stainer—The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Jessica Lahey—The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence
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