Tom Rath’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 occupies an odd but revealing niche at the intersection of self-help pragmatism and organizational psychology. Framed less as a conventional argument-driven monograph and more as a practical toolkit, the book’s modest ambition is its strength: it promises not a wholesale reinvention of the self, but a reorientation — to pay attention … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Revisionist Pedagogy – Revolutionizing Special Education: How Critical Theory Transforms SEND Teaching Methods for Equity and Empowerment
Abstract Critical theory and critical pedagogy offer conceptual tools that, when translated into operational practices, can materially improve Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision. This article synthesizes scholarly and practitioner literatures on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), co-teaching, student participation in Individualized Education Program (IEP) processes, Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), anti-ableism professional development, and … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Revolutionizing Special Education: How Critical Theory Transforms SEND Teaching Methods for Equity and Empowerment
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H. Pink’s Drive reads at first like a corrective essay to a long domestic argument: for decades, the dominant picture of human motivation has been the carrot-and-stick economy of rewards and punishments; Pink insists we have the wrong map. The book’s central—and elegantly simple—claim is that for tasks requiring creativity, judgement, and sustained engagement, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
Robert R. Brown’s Wealthing Like Rabbits announces itself like a contrarian primer: modest in size, mischievous in tone, defiantly uninterested in the pieties of finance-speak. Its subtitle — “An Original and Occasionally Hilarious Introduction to the World of Personal Finance” — is not mere marketing flourish but programmatic: Brown wants to teach, to amuse, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh is a short, aphoristic meditation on moral agency and the formative power of thought. First published in 1903 as a slim, pamphlet-like tract, it has since persisted as a staple of self-help and New Thought traditions. Read today through a literary-critical lens, the text is at once a rhetorical … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* by Mark Manson
Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* reads at first like a bracing corrective to the saccharine optimism of mainstream self-help. It promises, in its blunt title and confessional tone, a kind of ethical austerity: rather than accumulating endless possibilities and forced positivity, the wise person economizes her cares, chooses what matters, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* by Mark Manson
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
Og Mandino’s slim manual masquerading as a parable is one of those improbable cultural artifacts that lives at the crossroad of devotional tract, business primer, and bedside oracle. First read as a how-to for commercial success, it invites a closer, more charitable reading: as a concentrated study in habit, identity, and the rhetoric of self-transformation. … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine
Margaret Lobenstine’s Renaissance Soul speaks directly to a contemporary psychological species: the person who delights in more than one thing and hates the shrink-wrap of a single career identity. Rather than treating multi-interest lives as a problem to be cured, Lobenstine treats them as a design challenge—one that asks readers to reconfigure time, narrative, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Who Moved My Cheese? by Spenser Johnson
“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson presents itself as a deceptively simple fable, yet beneath its pared‑down narrative lies a rich allegory about change, fear, and human adaptation. Framed as a parable of two mice—Sniff and Scurry—and two “littlepeople”—Hem and Haw—who live in a maze in search of cheese, Johnson’s novella crystallizes complex psychological … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Who Moved My Cheese? by Spenser Johnson
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
Susan Jeffers’s Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (1987) is often cited as a seminal self‑help text, yet its enduring power lies not merely in its pep‑talk ethos but in the discursive precision with which it maps the cartography of human anxiety. As a “literary scholar” might observe, Jeffers fashions her narrative less as a linear … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
The New Renaissance Mindset 