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Here you will find each of the books written by Adam Fletcher. They include a handbook, guides, manuals, curricula and more!
Student Voice Revolution: The Meaningful Student Involvement Handbook
(374 pgs, 2017) Student Voice Revolution: The Meaningful Student Involvement Handbook is Adam Fletcher’s masterful guide focused on student voice, student engagement, student/adult partnerships, and more. The research, examples and experience shared in this work can help educators everywhere engage all students in every school as partners in every facet of education for the purpose of strengthening their commitment to learning, community, and democracy. ORDER STUDENT VOICE REVOLUTION >>
The Practice of Youth Engagement
(294 pgs, 2014) Essential lessons, powerful examples and deep insight for newcomers and longtime practitioners. Throughout this field-wide exploration, Fletcher examines the people, places, activities and outcomes that constitute youth engagement. Throughout, he provides slicing analysis and useful tips as well as featuring stories, people and organizations. ORDER THE PRACTICE OF YOUTH ENGAGEMENT >>
Facing Adultism
(190 pgs, 2015) Summarizing a list of downfalls in modern society’s approach to teaching, parenting, and treating children and youth, this book offers new ways adults can stop their negative attitudes and behaviors towards young people. Fletcher analyzes society’s treatment of children and youth, identifies a number of challenges and suggests exciting new roles for youth throughout society. ORDER FACING ADULTISM >>
SoundOut Student Voice Curriculum
(378 pgs, 2012) Teaching students about student voice has never been more exciting! This is a classroom or program curriculum consisting of twenty-seven lesson plans, a facilitator’s guide, a student handbook and an evaluation guide. Focused on how students can become partners in changing schools, this curriculum includes sections on teaching students about learning, about schools, and about actions students can take to improve schools, including research, planning, teaching, and more. ORDER SOUNDOUT STUDENT VOICE CURRICULUM >>
The Guide to Student Voice
(66 pgs, 2014) This is Adam’s accessible introduction to the concept of student voice. Featuring Fletcher’s unique reflection on his combination of research and experience in hundreds of K-12 schools, this book is unlike any other available. With a professional, easy-to-read layout, this short book is packed with useful tips, powerful activities, and great guidance for anyone interested in student voice today! ORDER THE GUIDE TO STUDENT VOICE >>
The Freechild Project Youth-Driven Programming Guide
(38 pgs, 2013) This is an introduction to youth-driven programming for nonprofits, government agencies, and other youth-serving organizations. The booklet gives a definition and compares approaches, and then provides planning tools, evaluations and assessments, and more. It includes the Ladder of Youth Voice, rubrics for assessing youth-driven programming, and links to examples and resources that readers can explore on their own. ORDER THE GUIDE TO YOUTH-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING >>
School Boards of the Future: A Guide to Students as Education Policy-Makers
(54 pages, 2014) This is a practical manual highlighting examples, tips, promotional information and resources, as well as steps to implement student involvement. It also provides state-by-state profiles of students on school boards across the United States. This book offers a meaningful introduction to engaging students as partners in education policy-making, both at the district and state levels. ORDER SCHOOL BOARDS OF THE FUTURE >>
North Omaha History: Volume One
(274 pgs, 2016) The opening tome in the North Omaha History series, this book is a powerful intro this predominantly African American community. The book includes the histories of racism; community leaders; and an African American newspaper, as well as a section on 1960s rioting. Red lining in North Omaha is exposed, along with backgrounds on several historic neighborhoods. The appendices include more than 20 tours around North Omaha and a comprehensive index. ORDER NORTH OMAHA HISTORY VOLUME 1 >>
North Omaha History: Volume Two
(282 pages, 2016) From the outset, this book shares the history of education in North Omaha, including pioneer schools, Catholic schools, segregated schools, and more go on display. Fletcher Sasse then pays homage to his love of nature borne in North Omaha. The book details each cemetery in the community, as well as the complete history of lead poisoning in North Omaha. It revisits the civil rights movement, as well as other events such as the 1913 Easter Sunday tornado, mob terrorism, and more. The ending of the book includes a few important tours of the community, as well as a massive timeline of North Omaha history and a comprehensive index. ORDER NORTH OMAHA HISTORY VOLUME TWO >>
North Omaha History: Volume Three
(292 pages, 2016) In the final book of the North Omaha History series, Adam Fletcher Sasse reveals more of the lost, hidden, neglected and denied history of this predominantly African American neighborhood. He shares biographies of historical crime bosses and an old woman who smoked stogies; details the role of transportation, and dives deep into the architecture in North Omaha. At the end, he shares a timeline of important people in the community’s history, including political, social, social, athletic, educational, economic, criminal and other figures. The book finishes with a bibliography and comprehensive index. ORDER NORTH OMAHA HISTORY VOLUME >>
Suffering Love, Laughing at Myself
(60 pgs, 2013) This is Adam’s first collection of poetry, and it covers many parts of life. In a free-form, light style it addresses childhood and youthdom; love and relationships; livelihoods and jobs; and more. It is written as Adam Sasse. ORDER SUFFERING LOVE, LAUGHING AT MYSELF >>
