Future-Focused Learning
10 Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice
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Future-Focused Learning
10 Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice
Buy In Australia
International Retailers
About the Book
Future-Focused Learning is the definitive guide to transforming today’s classrooms into thriving, future-ready learning environments. Drawing on years of work with schools across the globe, renowned keynote speaker Lee Crockett distils his experience into ten powerful shifts of practice, designed to help educators move from good teaching to truly exceptional learning.
With practical clarity and a focus on immediate impact, Lee introduces simple microshifts you can apply right away, regardless of your curriculum or teaching style. These proven strategies make it easy to create more student-centred, inquiry-driven classrooms that foster authentic learning for every kind of learner.
Packed with over 50 classroom-tested examples, Future-Focused Learning provides educators with a clear roadmap for implementing change at any scale. You’ll also discover the six essential fluencies—core skills that empower students with creativity, critical thinking, and adaptability in an ever-changing world.
From project-based learning and essential questions to STEM education and digital fluency, Lee offers a compelling vision of what learning can—and must—become. Future-Focused Learning is both a practical handbook and an inspiring call to action for educators ready to build classrooms that prepare students not just to learn for the future, but to shape it.
About the Book
Future-Focused Learning is the definitive guide to transforming today’s classrooms into thriving, future-ready learning environments. Drawing on years of work with schools across the globe, renowned keynote speaker Lee Crockett distils his experience into ten powerful shifts of practice, designed to help educators move from good teaching to truly exceptional learning.
With practical clarity and a focus on immediate impact, Lee introduces simple microshifts you can apply right away, regardless of your curriculum or teaching style. These proven strategies make it easy to create more student-centred, inquiry-driven classrooms that foster authentic learning for every kind of learner.
Packed with over 50 classroom-tested examples, Future-Focused Learning provides educators with a clear roadmap for implementing change at any scale. You’ll also discover the six essential fluencies—core skills that empower students with creativity, critical thinking, and adaptability in an ever-changing world.
From project-based learning and essential questions to STEM education and digital fluency, Lee offers a compelling vision of what learning can—and must—become. Future-Focused Learning is both a practical handbook and an inspiring call to action for educators ready to build classrooms that prepare students not just to learn for the future, but to shape it.
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“At last, a book that bridges the gap between the realisation that education must change and the real work of transforming it."
Kathleen Baker-Brown
Assistant Director, Dept. of Education, Northern Territory -
"This book provides guidance to understand and accept new practices, then includes classroom activities that will make them effective.”
Eileen Depka
Author of “Raising the Rigor” -
"Lee speaks directly to teachers, inviting them to shift their practice in accessible and meaningful ways with maximum impact for the students they teach."
Jane Danvers
Principal, Kambala School -
"Any teacher, from beginner to veteran, will find practical and proven ideas for invigorating their teaching and enlivening student learning."
Jay McTighe
Educational author and consultant -
“Lee has found a way to do what all the gurus from the era of Bloom’s taxonomy haven’t achieved—alter teaching practice to reach the upper layers of the taxonomy itself."
Prof. John Fischetti
Professor of Leadership and School Transformation, University of Newcastle
