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Extraordinary Learning for All: How Communities Design Schools Where Everyone Thrives

Extraordinary Learning for All: How Communities Design Schools Where Everyone Thrives

By Aylon Samouha, Jeff Wetzler, and Jenee Henry Wood

"The book chronicles the stories of how four schools have embarked on these design journeys to create new, extraordinary, and equitable experiences and outcomes for their young people. When you put it down, you'll do so with a deep belief that you can redesign schooling for the better, an urgency to get going immediately, and a deep conviction that it is possible for every young person to thrive.

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Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Publish Date: 11/13/2024
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781394230549
ISBN-10: 1394230540
Language: English

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December 10, 2024

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By Aylon Samouha, Jeff Wetzler, Jenee Henry Wood

The leadership team at Transcend Education highlights insights from innovators in education and presents a framework for creating a more meaningful schooling experience for all students. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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Proven methods, hard-won lessons, and practical tools to create a better future of education

Extraordinary Learning for All: How Communities Design Schools Where Everyone Thrives delivers a hopeful, humane, realistic, and compelling portrait for how we must reinvent schooling for a new century, drawing on the voices and experiences of real school communities who are on that journey and illuminating the specific actions that school and system leaders can take to spark these journeys in their communities. The frameworks, concepts, and stories in this book, emanating from direct, in-the-trenches partnerships with innovators on the ground, show, in genuine detail, what makes this work hard--but also what makes it possible.

Written by the co-founders and Chief Learning Officer of Transcend, a leading nonprofit in school innovation, this book provides solutions to the major problems we face in education, including approaches that:

  • Reverse declining enrollment rates and chronic truancy, especially in large urban districts, through better student engagement
  • Mitigate our national mental health crisis through school designs that address higher-than-ever-rates of boredom, stress, and chronic anxiety
  • Engage and collaborate with parents and communities to improve local schools
  • Uplift the voices and expertise of teachers, 300,000 of whom left the profession between 2020-2022


For educational leaders in communities of all shapes and sizes, Extraordinary Learning for All: How Communities Design Schools Where Everyone Thrives is your blueprint to break free from the traditional model of schooling and build a better future for all.

About the Authors

Aylon Samouha (Chicago, IL) is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Transcend Education. Prior to co-founding Transcend, Aylon was an independent designer providing strategy and design services to education organizations, schools, and foundations.

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Jeff Wetzler has been on a quarter-century quest to transform learning opportunities and unlock human potential. Blending a unique set of leadership experiences in the fields of business and education, he's pursued this quest as a management consultant to the world's top corporations, as a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, as Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America, and currently, as co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization.

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Jenee Henry Wood (New Haven, CT) is Head of Learning at Transcend Education, an organization which helps schools across the country build & share innovative new models of learning. Transcend has served over 800,000 students through their work with nearly 400 districts & schools.

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