Bradley Lands has printed Information-ABLE, a private reflection that he hopes will empower a brand new era of lifelong learners
Lands argues that the over-reliance on standardized testing is not aligned with the present calls for of a rapidly-evolving world.
Brad is an Apple Distinguished Educator, a Google for Schooling Licensed Innovator and a Nationwide Board Licensed Trainer in Know-how Schooling.
Nationwide guide prize awarded to Virginia-based instructor in hopes his guide will ignite a brand new era of lifelong learners
— Bradley Lands, Creator, Information-ABLE
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, June 27, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Center faculty know-how instructor Bradley Lands at The Langley College in McLean, VA. has landed within the pantheon of award-winning authors after his self-published first guide, “Information-ABLE: Igniting a New Era of Lifelong Learners,” was awarded the Silver Medal by the Unbiased Writer E-book Awards (IPPY).
The “IPPY” Awards are a set of annual guide awards for independently printed titles, and are the longest-running unaffiliated contest open completely to unbiased, college, and self-published titles worldwide.
“Our schooling system at present remains to be largely measuring pupil achievement primarily based on the quantity of data college students can display on high-stakes, standardized exams,” Lands argues. “Nevertheless, the data and abilities measured on these exams are not aligned with the present calls for of a rapidly-evolving world. Due to this, college students are getting into our international society with out the talents they should be profitable in life.”
Successful within the class of Schooling (Commentary/Principle), the IPPY Awards rewarded Lands for exhibiting “the braveness, innovation and creativity to transcend the confines of conventional publishing with a purpose to share their message, and convey about change on the planet of publishing.” The awards are open to authors and publishers worldwide who produce books written in English and meant for the North American market.
Lands, 38, is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google for Schooling Licensed Innovator who determined to write down the guide through the pandemic to encourage educators and principals to make use of highly effective studying instruments and greatest instructing methods to reinforce pupil achievement.
Valuing curiosity as a conduit for studying, Lands asks the highly effective query: “How would possibly I deliberately mannequin the educational course of with a purpose to efficiently write a guide that positively impacts the broader schooling group?”
Answering the query guided and motivated Lands as he synthesized private experiences in schooling, analysis and sensible methods to assist college students develop the talents wanted to turn into higher learners.
“My guide is an invite to let go of a few of the conventional tutorial strategies which might be not serving college students in a rapidly-changing world,” he says. “It’s additionally a chance to discover what it appears like when college students have possession of their studying and when academics present them with the best situations to maximise their studying.”
To help college students within the studying course of, Lands shares what he calls “the ABLE Cycle” that he developed for his guide:
● A — Ask a query
● B — Consider in your self
● L — Leverage assets
● E — Execute the duty
“If we’re capable of double down on the method of studying, we are able to educate our college students to turn into assured and competent learners who will enter this world as empathetic, vital thinkers prepared to perform any activity and reach any setting,” he says.
Information-ABLE was written for educators in thoughts, however affords loads of takeaways for college students, dad and mom, coaches, and anybody seeking to improve their skilled observe.
Lands brazenly shares his private journey of self-publishing, regardless of missing a background in English or literature. He encourages others to pursue their aspirations, highlighting the significance of analysis, willpower, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Whereas writing the guide, Lands created his personal consulting firm, UpLearn LLC, as a strategy to professionally self-publish his work. He makes use of his guide as a platform for his enterprise mannequin, elevating skilled growth to reinforce instructing and studying.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bradley Lands is the award-winning writer of the guide Knowlege-ABLE, proprietor of UpLearn LLC, and is at the moment the Director of Know-how and Innovation at The Langley College in McLean, Va. He’s additionally an academic advisor accessible for keynote displays, facilitating workshops, and main skilled growth. With 15 years of expertise within the discipline of schooling, Lands has taught in each public and unbiased colleges, in addition to in greater schooling as an adjunct professor. Brad is a Google for Schooling Licensed Innovator, a Google for Schooling Licensed Coach, an Apple Distinguished Educator, and a Nationwide Board Licensed Trainer in Okay-12 Know-how Schooling. Lands graduated from James Madison College with a B.S. and a M.A.T., and graduated from Virginia Tech with an Ed.S. in Instructional Management and Coverage Research. His background is in STEM schooling and he started his profession as a sixth-grade math and science instructor. Lands continues to be a passionate chief who strives to offer college students with the information and abilities they might want to turn into lifelong learners and artistic downside solvers in our international society.
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