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Educators, you can continue to make an impact after you’re ready to leave the classroom! This handy, comprehensive resource will help you explore alternative career paths in education that will still allow you to use the skillsets and unique qualifications you developed as a teacher or leader.

Bestselling author Starr Sackstein begins by helping you decide whether you want to move into another position or leave altogether. She then shows you how to seek opportunities, take risks, network, and prepare for interviews. Next, she presents a wide variety of career pathways for educators, including school and district-based options, consulting work, EdTech opportunities, publishing jobs, higher education, and more!

Starr also answers frequently asked questions such as how much you should charge and whether you need additional degrees. Throughout, there are fascinating case studies highlighting people who have left to do alternate jobs and their top takeaways. An accompanying video series offers even more advice from a wide variety of educators who have switched roles. With this helpful guide, you’ll feel empowered to courageously restart – and continue to leave a legacy in education.

Educators, you can continue to make an impact after you’re ready to leave the classroom! This handy, comprehensive resource will help you explore alternative career paths in education that will still allow you to use the skillsets and unique qualifications you developed as a teacher or leader.

Bestselling author Starr Sackstein begins by helping you decide whether you want to move into another position or leave altogether. She then shows you how to seek opportunities, take risks, network, and prepare for interviews. Next, she presents a wide variety of career pathways for educators, including school and district-based options, consulting work, EdTech opportunities, publishing jobs, higher education, and more!

Starr also answers frequently asked questions such as how much you should charge and whether you need additional degrees. Throughout, there are fascinating case studies highlighting people who have left to do alternate jobs and their top takeaways. An accompanying video series offers even more advice from a wide variety of educators who have switched roles. With this helpful guide, you’ll feel empowered to courageously restart – and continue to leave a legacy in education.

In this comprehensive handbook, you’ll gain a treasure trove of strategies that you can implement to address some of the most common school challenges. You’ll see the amazing impact that educators are having on their schools and classrooms across the country.

The authors offer tangible solutions to problems such as teacher retention and the educator pipeline, money, technology, innovation and initiatives, mental health and well-being, data, perceptions of education, educator commitment, and systemic issues. These issues may seem daunting, but the authors share stories of educators across the country who are already overcoming such obstacles. Each chapter provides inspiring examples, action steps, and takeaways to help you improve your school or classroom.

This thorough resource is designed to be a reference that you can use as needed—either by reading in order or flipping to the sections that most apply, and returning to again and again for a wealth of practical ideas that you can bring to your own setting.

In this comprehensive handbook, you’ll gain a treasure trove of strategies that you can implement to address some of the most common school challenges. You’ll see the amazing impact that educators are having on their schools and classrooms across the country.

The authors offer tangible solutions to problems such as teacher retention and the educator pipeline, money, technology, innovation and initiatives, mental health and well-being, data, perceptions of education, educator commitment, and systemic issues. These issues may seem daunting, but the authors share stories of educators across the country who are already overcoming such obstacles. Each chapter provides inspiring examples, action steps, and takeaways to help you improve your school or classroom.

This thorough resource is designed to be a reference that you can use as needed—either by reading in order or flipping to the sections that most apply, and returning to again and again for a wealth of practical ideas that you can bring to your own setting.

Transform your classroom into a dynamic learning experience with small groups 

A learning centers model enhances excellent pedagogy. Learning is a dynamic experience, and students thrive when educators acknowledge individual learners'' needs and interests and inspire them to engage with the content more deeply within personalized spaces. 

Learning centers create robust thinkers, problem-solvers, and brave leaders. As teachers and administrators, we can build learning structures that include everyone and allow students to collaborate, experiment, reflect, self-assess, and transfer the learning to their lives beyond school. 

Hacking Learning Centers in Grades 6-12 shares the "why" along with practical guidance to design and teach with learning centers. Authors and award-winning educators Starr Sackstein and Karen Terwilliger show how to: 

Now is the time to reimagine assessment and throw out traditional grades

Internationally-recognized grading and assessment expert Starr Sackstein is back with the long-awaited update to her highly-regarded guide to throwing out grades, even in a traditional grades school.

Over 100 new strategies and resources

Nearly seven years after helping launch a global no-grades classroom movement, Sackstein has honed her practice and now brings teachers and school leaders more than 100 new and updated strategies, solutions, and practical resources you can read today and use in any classroom tomorrow to transform how you assess learning.

Understand modern assessment problems and how to fix them

Readers will learn about the flaws of traditional assessment systems and how to make immediate changes so students can better advocate for themselves as learners.

Change the mindset

Begin by addressing your mindset about grading, and learn how to help your community buy into the shift and to go gradeless. Bravely change the systems that aren''t serving your students.

In this power-packed second edition of Hacking Assessment, you will find:

Read this impactful, updated second edition of Hacking Assessment today, and immediately start building a culture of students who embrace learning for learning''s sake, not for a grade.