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What Makes Your School Special?If you're a teacher, you want your students to love coming to class. If you're a school leader, you want your teachers to love coming to work. So how do you make your school a place where students and teachers alike want to be--because it's where they feel energized, inspired...special? In Making Your School Something Special, educator and international speaker Rushton Hurley explores the mindsets, activities, and technology that make for great learning. You'll learn: How to think about and create strong learning activities Why fostering and sharing successes benefits everyone How to strengthen individual confidence in both students and teachers How to know, and help others know, what makes your school special. A great school is a place where everyone experiences meaningful learning, and this book is designed to help you and your colleagues make such learning happen at your campus.

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Wow! A must-read for anyone in the profession who wants to make a difference! -Dr. Kathy Perez, Professor of Education, Saint Mary's College of California Rushton lays out some simple ways any school can make it a place where innovation, imagination, and excellence flourish. -Steven W. Anderson, Educational Evangelist and Speaker/Consultant What a great read! I kept switching my past and present hats paragraph by paragraph, wishing I had understood so many of the concepts earlier in my teaching career. -Aubrey Patterson, Superintendent, Lloydminster Catholic School Division, Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada

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Rushton Hurley was raised in Texas, Singapore, and Arkansas (in that order), and has worked and studied on three continents as a high school Japanese language teacher, principal of an online school, teacher trainer, and motivational speaker. He founded and is executive director of the educational nonprofit Next Vista for Learning, which houses a free library of videos by and for teachers and students at NextVista.org. Additionally, Rushton is the Global Projects Lead at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. He holds masters degrees in Education and East Asian Studies from Stanford University. Rushton regularly keynotes at national and international conferences, and has trained and worked with educators and other professionals around the world. His fun and thoughtful talks center on inspiration and creativity, avenues for engaging learning, the power of digital media and tools for collaboration, and personal and professional perspectives in a technology-infused, every-changing world. His first book, Making Your School Something Special, was released in January, 2017. Rushton also cleans up after cats, juggles, and considers himself to have married up.

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