Grounded in Greater

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Grounded in Greater</strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Faith-Informed Approach to K-12 Education and Beyond</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By Amy Tepper Ed.D. and Amy L. Vaughn Ph.D.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Feeling disenfranchised with the current state of education in America today? Are you sick and tired of not having a voice at the table? Do you wish there was an impactful way for you personally to act no longer alone and to be part of real change?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Drs. Amy Tepper and Amy Vaughn wrote </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Grounded in Greater</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> as a means to challenge the status quo of commonplace practices and one-size-fits-all standards inherent to the veritably monolithic institution of education. Loosely based on a set of universally recognized principles </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Grounded in Greater</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> provides readers with:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a comprehensive philosophical/theoretical framework that underpins the need to move beyond school reformation at the national level towards institutional transformation at the local level</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a series of vignettes to highlight the authors' actionable model for school transformation based on and aligned with their theoretical framework known as One-to-One Schools and Communities Together!</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a unique approach to define and track individual and collective successes known as The Power of One</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a thought-provoking set of five (5) group discussion questions as well as a challenging set of five (5) individual/group extension activities included at the conclusion of each chapter</span></li></ul><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Grounded in Greater</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> provides all stakeholders (i.e. parents community members education professionals etc.) with the knowledge and skills and more importantly the agency to reinvent K-12 education and beyond purposefully; to be part of the solution.</span></p>