Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Australian education is caught in a storm. NAPLAN dominates the headlines, and the data tells a sobering story - falling attendance, disengaged students, and nearly four in ten teachers planning to leave the profession. Yet the response keeps being more of the same: narrower purposes for schooling, reduced pedagogical possibilities, and an ever-greater focus on simplistic metrics. Empowering Schools is a provocation to think differently - to ask about an altogether different way of being in educationThis book makes the case for empowerment as something relational, collective and ongoing - not a checklist to complete, but a culture to cultivate. Through a clear Framework for Empowerment and eight connected practices - spanning time, assessment, curriculum, collaboration, critical literacy and policy - it invites teachers and leaders to slow down, sit with their assumptions, and reimagine schools where students, teachers and communities can genuinely thrive. Empowerment can’t be given, but the conditions for it can be created.
