Coming Fall 2025
The Listening Leader
Learning to listen is one of the most challenging leadership skills, and also the most critical. From an expert on listening and leading through listening, this book describes what ‘deep’ listening skills are and shows how to build stronger listening practices through real leaders’ stories.
Books
Schools As Colonizers
A look at six radical educational theorists from the 1960s and 70s who wrote about the meaning and purpose of education. If education is an expression of what we believe makes life meaningful, these theorists believed in the vitality and wisdom of young learners, and wanted to remake school to foster vitality and divinity.
Wounded By School: Recapturing the Joy In Learning and Standing Up To Old School Culture
How do we recognize the "wounds" caused by outdated schooling policies? How do we bring back joy in learning? Through learner’s stories, this award-winning book brings to light the devastating consequences of an educational approach that values conformity over creativity, flattens students’ interests, and dampens down differences among learners–and describes what to do about it.
The Mindful School Leader: Practices To Transform Your Leadership (co-authored with Valerie Brown)
A deep yet practical handbook on how leaders can add mindfulness to their days, bit by bit, in meetings, in challenging conversations, while giving feedback to colleagues, and in managing the many aspects of their lives as leaders.