MY BOOKS
Making sense of how youth experience their learning
Advice for Teachers From Today's High School Students by Kathleen Cushman, Kristien Zenkov, and Meagan Call-Cummings The New Press (2021) • Paper, 208 pages
What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation & Mastery by Kathleen Cushman and the students of What Kids Can Do Jossey-Bass (2010) • cloth & paper, 208 pages
Advice for Teachers from High School Students by Kathleen Cushman and the students of What Kids Can Do Introduction by Lisa Delpit The New Press (2005) • paper & cloth, 224 pages
Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers by Kathleen Cushman & Laura Rogers and the students of What Kids Can Do (WKCD) The New Press (2008) • 242 pages
The Power of Social & Emotional Learning in High Schools by Barbara Cervone & Kathleen Cushman Harvard Education Press (2015) • paper, 248 pages
Designing Lessons that Set Kids' Minds on Fire by Kathleen Cushman & the students of What Kids Can Do with the Distinguished Educators Advisory Group to the Science of Learning Center at University of California, San Diego Illustrated by Suzy Becker Next Generation Press, 2013 • Free e-book with embedded mixed-media
Advice About College for First-Generation Students: Your High School Years by Kathleen Cushman Next Generation Press (2006) • paper & e-book, 80 pages
Advice About College for First-Generation Students: Your College Years by Kathleen Cushman Next Generation Press (2006) • paper & e-book, 124 pages
Students Talk About Making High Schools Better by Kathleen Cushman and the students of What Kids Can Do Next Generation Press (2005) • 224 pages • available used on Amazon • download PDF excerpts below
The Essential Guide to Rigorous and Relevant Learning by Adria Steinberg and Kathleen Cushman Jossey-Bass (1999) • 128 page
Building Patterns for Small School Learning by Victoria Bergsagel, Kathleen Cushman, David Stephen, Lorne McConachie, et al. Eagle Chatter Press (2007) • 156 pages
Teenagers Talk to the Adults in Their Lives by Kathleen Cushman and the youth of What Kids Can Do Next Generation Press (2005) • 146 pages • available used on Amazon • download PDF excerpts below
The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Interacting with Boys of All Ages by William S. Pollack and Kathleen Cushman Villard (2001) • 400 pages
Interviews by Youth with Mentors That Matter Next Generation Press (2008) • paper & e-book, 94 pages • available used on Amazon • link for free e-book below
Stories of New York City Immigrant Workers by the students of three New York Public International High Schools • a What Kids Can Do project • edited by Kathleen Cushman with Rosa Fernandez Next Generation Press (2006) • paper & e-book, 64 pages • Next Generation Press (2008) • paper & e-book, 94 pages • available used on Amazon • link for free e-book below
Invaluable experience from the first decade of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Arranged by theme in 5 volumes. By Kathleen Cushman Coalition of Essential Schools (1998) • paper, spiral-bound
Do You Know What Bronx Kids Know? (Take this test and see!) by the students of Bronx Leadership Academy 2, with Shannon O'Grady, Kristen Ferrales, and Kathleen Cushman Next Generation Press (2008) • paper, 80 pages
The Making of a Circus Artist by Kathleen Cushman and Montana Miller Photographs by Michael Carroll Little, Brown (1990) • 96 pages