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Advance Praise for Fearless Teaching

Fearless Teaching is the rare book about education that is both beautiful and critically relevant. With a command of language, story telling, observation, and insight that is all but extinct in non-fiction, Grauer weaves a vivid tapestry where the warp is ‘how we learn best’ and the waft is ‘the soul of the true teacher’. A book that belongs on the shelf of all who are custodians of our youth, to remind us of why we teach and just how powerful the transformation of learning can be.”

—Grant Lichtman,

Senior Fellow,

The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence

"Grauer’s writing reminds “us that Great Teaching, singular, rare, unusual, is something that should be sought after and found. Thank you.”

—Richard Dreyfuss, Actor

Oxford scholar,

founder of The Dreyfuss Initiative

Fearless Teaching is a stirring and audacious jaunt around the world that peeks—with the eyes of one of America’s most seasoned educators–into places you will surely never see on your own. Some are disappearing. It is a bit like playing hooky from school. You will travel to the Swiss Alps, Korea, Navajo, an abandoned factory in Missouri, the Holy Land, the Great Rift Valley, the schools of Cuba, the ocean waves, and the human
subconscious—oh, and Disneyland. There you will find colorful stories for the encouragement, inspiration, and courage needed by educators and parents. Fearless Teaching is not a fix-it book—it is more a way of seeing the world and the school so that you can stay in your work and focus on what matters most to you.

Stuart Grauer on San Diego Living, Channel 6

More Praise for Fearless Teaching

 

“Recommended for parents, teachers, school principals, and children. Want to change your paradigm? Go on . . .”

            —Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational, Technology, Newcastle University, UK

 

"Each story is a gem unto itself — conveyed with humor, compassion, and deep reflection on the deeper meaning of “education” in today’s world. The global perspectives provide richly detailed points of comparison and contrast to American education ideologies. The Socratic framework models best practices for teaching and learning, and sustains ongoing inquiry long after finishing reading."

            —Anita Charles, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Bates College

 

"Fearless Teaching" demonstrates that all great teachers are great storytellers. For us “seasoned” educators, Grauer helps us remember why we went into the field in the first place. For educators in training and new teachers it is a brilliant navigational aid for helping them to find their way in this complex field, cluttered with ideas that remove us from the essential ingredient - it’s about relationships. William Arthur Ward wrote:  “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” Stuart Grauer inspires masterfully with Fearless Teaching. —David Blumenkrantz, Ph.D., Ed.M., LADC, Center for Youth & Community, Inc.

 

“Each story compelled me, challenged me, or just plain stopped me cold in my tracks.”    

—Clint Davis, Head of School, Discovery Preparatory School

 

“Insightful, light-handed, and immediately appealing to any thinking person. It runs out to play in the woods beyond the backyard, but it always comes home.”

            —Doug Katz, Author, founder of JamArtz Studio

 

“With Fearless Teaching, Grauer makes an invaluable contribution to the urgent conversation that we all must have if we are to successfully change the direction and substance of formal education. In Grauer’s hands the ‘story telling’ directs us to crucial and well researched truths about education.”

            —Joe Brooks, Executive Director, Community Works Institute (CWI)

 

“It is a deeply rich journey to far reaches of the globe filled with stories of hope, compassion, and curiosity . . . Fearless Teaching is a way of life—a challenge to us all to stay open, to play, to explore, to stay curious, to be happy and most importantly, to love.”

            —Michelle Rose Gilman, Founder, Fusion Academy and Learning Centers

 

“Fearless Teaching is a unique, consuming, and transformative mediation on a pedagogy of listening that will reinvigorate our shared commitment. Trust Stuart Grauer.”

            —Chris Thinnes, independent school leader, Fellow of the Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence, consultant in Los Angeles.

 

 

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