Don
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Author: Schooling For Holistic Equality
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Don created the Attitutor Classroom Climate: a new tool that can be used by educators to ensure their students are optimally engaged. It provides feedback on how classroom leadership affects students. Information which is essential to ensuring student engagement. A formative assessment for classroom management. The tool can be found on https://www.holisticequity.org/.
on Berg is the author of Schooling for Holistic Equality, winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award in Psychology and a Distinguished Favorite in Education.
Don is a psychologist with more than twenty years of experience in leading children in self-directed educational settings. He earned a degree in Psychology from Reed College in Portland Oregon. A researcher, alternative education practitioner, leader, and author. Don’s work has been published in numerous journals and he has presented at conferences worldwide. Don is the founder of Attitutor LLC and the Executive Director of Deeper Learning Advocates. A self proclaimed recovering faux achiever, Don lives in West Linn, Oregon on The Joyful Llama Ranch.
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Schooling for Holistic Equality details how the the American School System is in crisis due disengagement among students and staff. Don maintains that students go through the motions of learning without actually mastering the material. He has labeled it “fauxachievement”. He believes that a possible solution is psychological expertise on all levels to make things equitable in the classroom. Policy makers, teachers and students will be engaged and feel a sense of belonging resulting in an excitement about learning which will ultimately lead to a deeper understanding and grasp of subject matter. The goal is to achieve optimal student engagement and make “Deeper Learning become the norm, not the exception”. “Learning is deeper when needs are satisfied and shallower when they are not.”
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