Kelly Almer

So much is written on how students learn. But what about where students learn? Environments are never neutral. Educational learning environments must adapt, engage, and create flexible experiences that provide students with places to thrive. Kelly Almer’s Flex Ed encourages educators with inspiration, techniques, and models so that teachers can learn to design their learning spaces into life-giving environments. You will enjoy the stories of successes and struggles and relate to her journey while picking up tips and tricks to flex your classroom into dynamic learning experiences.

LindaGail Walker in collaboration with Rex Miller

A global pandemic. Social unrest. Economic instability. American society is going through unprecedented disruptions that reverberate through every home and every institution. Isolation and anxiety have bred distrust and division. In many places, schools are a lightning rod for rage that threatens to tear our communities apart. Surviving the Storm is essential reading for educators and administrators traumatized by the overwhelming demands placed on them at this strategic crossroads in our history. Through their research, LindaGail Walker, in collaboration with Rex Miller, offers insight into the leader’s journey from disillusionment and despair to possibilities and hope. Leaders will find Surviving the Storm a comprehensive guide for their journey to post-traumatic recovery and growth toward a future of renewed confidence, healthy community, and educational excellence.

Rex Miller, Bill Latham, Kevin Baird, Michelle Kinder

Many K-12 teachers work under chronic stress. Research shows that a stressed out teacher passes that stress to their students. What happens when a child experiences a stressed adult? It generates fear and they shut down. WHOLE explains what administrators, teachers, parents, and communities can do to lower stress and improve teacher-student engagement. This book is packed with real-life examples, new research, and solutions that you can introduce to your own schools, students, and communities. WHOLE shows us how to move schools from the age of stress and insecurity to an age of true educational flourishing.

Kelly Almer

Environments are never neutral…so how will you craft yours?

With her first book, Kelly Almer outlined her journey toward transforming her classroom into a flexible, life-giving environment. This journey profoundly impacted her teaching, her students’ learning, and launched her onto the path of becoming an educational consultant striving to ensure that all educators have the tools they need to embark on the same road.

In this follow-up text, Kelly provides teachers with a practical approach to carefully considering their own classroom environment, imagining its possibilities, and deliberately shifting and redesigning its physical structures for improved student flourishing.

Use this workbook in conjunction with the start of your year, the end of a break, or even mid-year as a catalyst to think differently and act boldly.