Author: Stephen Sharp, Author & School Counselor
Biography: Stephen Sharp is a school counselor and best-selling author. He has worked to provide students with the knowledge and skills to be healthy and successful in the 21st century. Stephen has served on the governing boards of both his local, state and national school counseling organizations. Stephen completed his M.Ed at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, and BA from Lycoming College. Steve is a best-selling author, and he is a co-founder of the Leadership Summit, a community-based social justice network to provide students the language and tools to understand and combat the many forms of oppression. Stephen is a Nationally Certified School Suicide Prevention Specialist and worked with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to pilot an electronic behavioral health screening for schools. He works tirelessly across nationally to provide education and training on mental health, substance abuse, and inequality. Stephen frequently presents and writes on school counseling practice, leadership, technology, emerging career skills, mental health and race in education. Stephen was named the 2017 Pennsylvania Middle School Counselor of the Year.
Book Description: The statistics are real: Black students are more likely to be suspended, more likely to attempt suicide, and less likely to attend college than their white peers. What can we do to change these realities? Do you want to just talk about race, or do you want to make real change in the lives of children and what they experience every day? In Redesigning Schools, author and professional school counselor Stephen Sharp shares a new framework for implementing effective and sustainable systems change to counter systemic issues impacting students of color and redesign education. You′ll discover: Why so many systems remain unchanged despite intensive self-discovery and learning, What the Oppression Cycle is and how to disrupt it, Lessons learned from history and how to design a better future by remembering and not repeating the past, Redesigning Schools provides school counselors, leaders, and education professionals a way to conceptualize race, understand systems dynamics and the related tools, and apply these tools to make education better for every student you serve.
Theme: Equity
Audience: K-12
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