The Blurb



About my book, Learning, Healing, and Change: Notes on Teaching in Testing Times, due out by Austin Macauley in 2020:

Drawing on illuminating stories from thirteen years as a public school teacher during the institution of No Child Left Behind, Ms. Coolidge challenges cultural assumptions about effecting learning and change, making a compelling case for a Bigger Picture perspective in the classroom and in society at large. She shares personal insights about learning as an innate gift, similar to healing, which is fed by responsive interactions. Learning is at the core of all human endeavors and is essential for individual well-being, democracy and social progress. Although rigid separation is our cultural habit, good teaching is embodied, integrated with the arts and play, and engaged with diverse perspectives. Ms Coolidge offers food for thought on how Twenty-first Century federal education reforms, by elevating the status of words and right answers at the expense of connection and meaning, have played a key role in a reactionary cultural backlash.
 

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