Every student has the right to learn how to read. But learning how to read isn’t enough. Students must also want to read. Students deserve a literacy-rich environment in which reading is championed by all leaders serving in their school--whether in formal or informal leadership roles.

This book provides educators the tools and culture-building strategies needed to help all students fall in love with reading. And it will help you co-create a community of readers that challenges and inspires.

• This book is for any educator who wants to grow as a literacy leader.
• This book will empower teams to initiate conversations that will take the work deeper.
• This book explores six literacy levers that will help you create a community of readers.
• This book will equip you with actionable ideas and the research needed to push the field forward.

Filled with inspiring stories and practical advice and strategies, The 6 Literacy Levers is a book that will transform the literacy culture wherever you serve.

Children are more than numbers, and we are called to teach and reach them accordingly. In this genre-busting book, award-winning educator and principal Brad Gustafson uses stories to capture the heart, mind, and hope of education. 
 
Reclaiming Our Calling will empower you to . . .

• Talk about learning that lasts in tangible terms
• Teach on behalf of the whole learner by tapping into their strengths 
• Take steps toward meaningful change regardless of your role
• Understand and lead with the 4 Passions of the Profession and invite others to do the same
  
  

Get ready to be a renegade with this how-to leadership guide.

We’re all looking for the next best app and what’s just beyond the tech horizon. But why don’t we have the same progressive appetite for pedagogy that we have for technology? Renegade leadership may just be the answer we’ve been searching for.

Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership demands a call to action in the digital age by creating student-centered instructional leadership that connects equity, culture, and technology. After reading this book, you will learn how to:

• Apply transformational tenets of connected pedagogy to your work


• Increase your leadership capacity in curriculum, instruction, cultural proficiency, and school improvement


• Lead staff meetings, plan personalized professional development, and improve student learning through more responsive teaching practices

Using the latest research, vignettes from educational leaders, and profiles of inspiring renegades, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age. The only real question is…are you ready to become a renegade?



Don’t miss the free podcasts, flipped book study, and more on the Renegade Leadership website.



"Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education.  Why can’t schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?"

George Couros, Innovative teaching, learning, and leadership consultant  and Author of The Innovator’s Mindset; Alberta, Canada

"Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined."

Jon Corippo, Director of Academic Innovation, CUE

"Renegade Leadership demonstrates what student-centered schools look like in the digital age. When we get relationships and pedagogy right, we can transform the very nature of learning. This is a book our students desperately need us all to read."

Erin Klein, Scholastic Top Teacher and Michigan Teacher of the Year