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Resources

Articles, interviews, and publications to help you improve academic and social-emotional outcomes for students.

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Books & Publications

Radically Excellent School Improvement: Keeping Students at the Center of it All

by Kate Anderson Foley, Ph.D.

When gaps keep ambitious instruction and engaging learning experiences out of reach of every student, including students with disabilities, those learning English, and others who tend to be left out of school improvement plans, it's time for radical excellence! Radically Excellent School Improvement presents a model for ambitious improvement and tireless focus that ensures every student grows, thrives, and achieves to their fullest potential. It provides district and school leaders with a bold blueprint for designing, implementing, and monitoring a comprehensive school improvement process for radical excellence.

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Fearless Coaching: Resilience and Results from the Classroom to the Boardroom

by Douglas Reeves, with Kate Anderson Foley, Ph.D., Lisa Almeida, Tony Flach, Amanda Gomez, Jo Peters, and Bill Sternber

Coaching—instructional coaching, leadership coaching, and team coaching—is more important than ever. Education today faces its greatest crisis since the Civil Rights Movement. Teachers and school administrators are leaving the profession, not for lack of dedication, but because they are physically, emotionally, and psychologically exhausted by challenges in academic performance, student behavior, and the sheer lack of sufficient hours in the day to serve students in the manner they know is essential. In this important book, Douglas Reeves and his colleagues provide practical advice that enables coaches and their clients to collaborate effectively to achieve organizational success while also ensuring the professional and personal needs of teachers, leaders, and their families.

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Ida Finds Her Voice

By Kate Anderson Foley, Ph.D. and Jenifer Anderson-Smith. Illustrated by Dawn Griffin.

Diversity is our superpower! A beautifully illustrated book to start the conversation and help children make sense of discrimination and prejudice. With the help of her friends, family, and sidekick owl named Smalls, Ida finds the words to express her feelings and stand up for love.

Praise for “Ida Finds Her Voice”

  • “Truly a book of love and acceptance.”

    Never has the need for the voice of a child been heard to this degree until Ida Finds Her Voice. The destructive force of prejudice, discrimination, and hate turns into love, tolerance, and inclusion when Ida is able to be the voice of equality and social justice. Through her own problem-solving, Ida is able to use her voice to instill in others the importance of valuing diversity. This beautifully illustrated book affords the reader the opportunity to engage in authentic experiences of their world and know that they too can be the voice that can make positive changes. Truly a book of love and acceptance!


    Dr. Kathleen Briseno
    Associate Professor

  • “This book is right on time.”

    With everything that we are going through as a society right now, this puts it in simple language for children to understand in regard to how to feel strong and stand up for others when needed and to also advocate for themselves. Our differences are what makes us stronger. This book is a great read.

    AMAZON REVIEW

  • “A very important and timely book.”

    This is a very important and timely book for children. It does a great job of helping kids express their confusing feelings in a world with so much intolerance by promoting love, acceptance and inclusion of people who look and feel differently than oneself. It’s fun, colorful, and engaging! I’ve gifted this book twice now to families and have received nothing but gratefulness to have this book in their parenting toolbox! Great for elementary schools!

  • “Read this book to your kids.”

    Our five-year-old loves reading this book. The story touches on many areas (feelings and emotions, thinking through how words and actions can have an effect). Whenever we talk about social situations with our son or see that he is feeling shy we now say, "What would Ida do?" Read this book to your kids, you will be pleasantly surprised at the questions your child will ask and how easy it is to use this story to start meaningful conversations with them.

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Ensuring an Equitable Opportunity: Providing a High-Quality Education for Students with Disabilities

Dr. Kate Anderson Foley is a major contributor to this white paper detailing the policy and practice considerations around individualized education programs.

Published by The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), a nonpartisan, nationwide nonprofit.

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