Passionate Learners

As a teacher, speaker, and author, Pernille Ripp's work has influenced thousands of teachers globally, as well as the work of school districts across the United States as they try to empower their students and teachers and change the way we educate. Pernille’s work and thoughts have been included in multiple influential education books published in the last three years. She continues to teach, constantly trying to forward the educational journey of students in her district, and implementing all of the ideas she presents. In 2010, she created The Global Read Aloud, a global literacy initiative that since then has connected more than 500,000 students in 60 different countries. Her first book will be republished this fall by Routledge and is called Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Empower Your Students. Her second book Empowered Schools, Empowered Students was published in September, 2014. Her work has been featured by Edutopia, School Library Journal, MiddleWeb, Learning & Leading magazine, as well as in many podcasts and interviews. She is a Skype Master Teacher, as well as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert for 2015. She is the WEMTA Making IT Happen award recipient for 2015, as well as the 2015 ISTE Award for Innovation in Global Collaboration Award recipient. She teaches others how to give the classroom back to students through webinars, as well as to anyone who walks into her classroom. Her blog has been nominated for several major blogging awards, and her own students blogs’ have had more than 600,000 unique views since they started writing. Follow her on Twitter @pernilleripp.

Introduction: Learning to Break the Rules 1. Now Wait Just a Minute, Mr. Wong 2. Would You Like Being a Student in Your Own Classroom? 3. So You Got the Job. Now What? 4. It’s Not How Your Classroom Looks, It’s How it Feels 5. The First Day of School: Who’s In Charge? 6. Where I Give the Classroom Back to My Students 7. Letting Go of the Punish, Behave, Reward Cycle 8. Common or Not - The Standards Are Always There 9. Homework, Routines, and a Whole Lot of Paper 10. How Grading Destroys Curiosity 11. When Change Happens to Good Teachers