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