Betsy Gunzelmann: 7 books

All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities. In today's society, children are dealing with the threat of violence in their schools and online, food insecurity, environmental risks, terrorism, and many other concerns that make them feel less safe. Our jobs as teachers...

This book marks a new beginning, providing a way for parents to understand and help their academically struggling children. Both parents and children should be empowered to recognize the perils and pitfalls of the current educational crisis and take responsibility for and control of education before...

We are in a state of tremendous global unrest with wars, acts of terrorism, genocide, epidemics and untold natural disasters. In some cases students are at risk as a result of safety concerns within their schools, from extremist views that discriminate against obtaining education, from societal issues...

Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States. The reasons behind the academic decline we have seen over the last several decades, the continued inequity in our schools, and the frustration with inconsistent...

This second edition to Hidden Dangers to Kid’s Learning: Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks gives more insight into waysparents can understand and help their academically struggling child. Parents and their children can be empowered to recognize the perils and the pitfalls of our current...

The goal of this book is to provide the necessary lens through which we can see what is really hindering many children in schools today, along with possible approaches and interventions typically not seen as educational in nature, but what may be just the needed prescription for our ailing youth.

The Hidden Dangers in our schools have grown and intensified over the last few years; so much so that I was compelled to write a second edition to Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools. Our schools are complex places; each with its own unique climate, administration, faculty, students, parents...