New Book Helps Educators Address Complexities of the Learning Process to Ensure Successful Outcomes for All Students
Bloomington, Ind. (November 20, 2024)—Science shows that unaddressed trauma and mental health struggles limit student learning. In Humanized Education: A Mastery-Based Framework to Promote Student Growth and Strength, published by Marzano Resources, a team of education experts delivers a holistic approach that emphasizes growth-based, strength-based, and mastery-based learning to help all students succeed.
Authors Mike Ruyle, Libby Child, Jason D. Cummins (Awachíikaate), and Donyall D. Dickey, with Hawar Khalandi and Nancy Weinstein, provide administrators and teachers with an evolved schooling framework that is more humanized than standardized and addresses the great complexity of the learning process. Using this book’s evidence-based indicators, strategies, and interventions, readers will:
- Understand how they can help address the student mental health crisis.
- Receive guidance for enacting the fifteen indicators of humanized education.
- Learn how to adopt a customized, integrated school model focused on mental, psychological, and academic fitness.
- Discover how literacy, equity, agency, relationships, and neuroplasticity apply to student development and a strength-based approach.
- Get help creating a Portrait of a Graduate learner profile.
Using these actionable steps, educators can learn to be more strategic about which developmental competencies to prioritize and how to approach them for successful outcomes.
About the Authors
Mike Ruyle, EdD, has served as a classroom teacher, athletic coach, school principal, program director, university professor, and professional development presenter over a 30-year career.
Libby Child has spent over 27 years in education as a high school special education teacher, program coordinator, and educational consultant for the Montana Office of Public Instruction.
Jason D. Cummins (Awachíikaate), EdD, is an enrolled member of the Apsaalooke Nation and has served more than 20 years in various education leadership roles, implementing initiatives from traditional school improvement efforts to culturally sustaining, trauma-informed, and restorative approaches.
Donyall D. Dickey, EdD, is the chief executive officer and lead consultant for Educational Epiphany, and is a nationally recognized authority on curriculum, instruction, organizational development, and school administration.
Hawar Khalandi helped lead the development and implementation of standards-based learning policy and a discipline philosophy centered on restorative practices in the North Kansas City School District and was a driving force in creating an educational experience that empowers all students to reach their full potential.
Nancy Weinstein is the founder and CEO of MindPrint Learning, an educational technology company that identifies student learning strengths to support differentiated instruction and improve learning outcomes.
About Marzano Resources
Marzano Resources, formerly Marzano Research, is dedicated to helping K–12 educators advance student achievement. Built on the foundation of Dr. Robert J. Marzano’s 50 years of education research, Marzano Resources supports teachers and administrators through customizable on-site professional development, educator events, virtual coaching, books, videos and online courses. Our associates and authors are thought leaders in the field of education and deliver research-backed guidance for all major areas of schooling, including curriculum development, instruction, assessment, student engagement and personalized competency-based education. Marzano Resources is the home of High Reliability Schools and The New Art and Science of Teaching.
