Creating Compassionate Change in School Communities

Praise for Creating Compassionate Change in School Communities

“What a timely gift of a book! Filled with gratitude and hands-on support for healing spaces of learning, Creating Compassionate Change in School Communities is a text that is poised to (gently) transform the lives of students and teachers.”

—Antero Garcia, Associate Professor, Stanford University

“Education has changed drastically in the past five years. This book humanizes the difficulty of the changes and provides tangible steps educators can take to support their students and the people many often overlook, themselves.”

—Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Yearand2022 National Teacher of the Year Finalist

“This exceptionally written book reminds us to engage our work in education with our heads and our hearts. A much-needed text during these times of intensified stress, anxiety, self-doubt, and blame, these authors shepherd readers through strategies and tools to help us heal individually as we renew and reset our commitments to practices of listening, compassion, empathy, and understanding, in service with and to others. An accessibly written book, grounded in transformative and rigorous research, this book should be read by any of us determined to keep pressing and fighting for education for all.”

—H. Richard Milner IV, Professor, Vanderbilt University, and author of The Race Card

“This important book builds on a simple but radical premise: ‘Our schools today need to become spaces of healing’ for students, parents and families, and educators themselves. If we acted on that premise—as the authors of this book urge and equip us to do—American education would be transformed. We would no longer focus single-mindedly on conveying information and developing cognitive skills. Instead we would attend to the development of whole persons and to the well-being of their communities. That’s an uphill task to say the least, but this well-researched book gives us the motive and means to make that journey.”

—Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy