{"product_id":"empowered-students-kerry-decker-rutishauser-9781475858365","title":"Empowered Students: Educating Flexible Minds for a Flexible Future","description":"All children deserve the opportunity to practice freedom of thought, voice, and movement in school. Giving students the opportunity to practice freedom--to teach them how to be autonomous, responsible, cooperative and critically literate--should be done in communities and schools across the country, and this book shows how. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe key ability of the human brain that cannot be digitized or mechanized is its ability to interpret--that is, to cope with the intentions of another, to understand what was said and what was meant. Humans have the ability to work together as a team toward a common goal (i.e. cooperate), to be altruistic and make sacrifices to help others, to build trust, and to feel empathy or sympathy--and robots do not. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeveloping and using these interpretive and cooperative skills is essential to having a nation of thoughtful citizens who are capable of seeing themselves as solutions to the problems and issues we face. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmpowered Students: Educating Flexible Minds for a Flexible Future is a theory-to-practice story of how students at a segregated and failing New York City high school were released from years of oppressive schooling practices and learned how to practice freedom, told through the voices and the people who built it: the school leaders, teachers and students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kerry Decker Rutishauser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475858361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475858365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2021","brand":"Kerry Decker Rutishauser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986521325823,"sku":"9781475858365","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21b6f6aa-eeb0-4a0a-b815-cd7101a7af2c.jpg?v=1683283835","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empowered-students-kerry-decker-rutishauser-9781475858365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}