Foreword by Salome Thomas-EL Part I: Getting Curious About Curiosity Chapter 1: What is This Funny Little Thing Called Curiosity? Chapter 2: Are We Naturally Curious? Chapter 3: This Is Your Brain on Curiosity Part II: Curiosity in Classrooms Chapter 4: Quashing Curiosity Chapter 5: Engineered Boredom Chapter 6: Reengineering Learning with Curiosity in Mind Chapter 7: When Teams Lose Their Curiosity Part III: Curiosity in School Communities Chapter 8: Inquire Within Chapter 9: Creating Curious Organizations Part IV: Curious at Heart Chapter 10: Alone Together Chapter 11: Going Cold Turkey Chapter 12: Falling In Love With Curiosity Part V: Curious for Good Chapter 13: The Search for Happiness Chapter 14: Curiously Happy Chapter 15: A Wonderful Life Epilogue: Standing at a Curious Crossroads
If you've ever wondered anything, really-just out of curiosity-then you've got what it takes to lead your students to restored curiosity and success.
Bryan Goodwin thrives on translating research into practice, scanning the world for new insights and best practices on teaching and leading, and helping educators everywhere adapt them to address their own challenges. A frequent conference presenter, he is the author of Out of Curiosity: Restoring the Power of Hungry Minds for Better Schools, Workplaces, and Lives and Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success, and is co-author of Curiosity Works: A Guidebook for Moving Your School from Improvement to Innovation; The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching; and Balanced Leadership for Powerful Learning: Tools for Achieving Success in Your School. Before joining McREL in 1998, Bryan was a college instructor, a high school teacher, and an award-winning business journalist.