<p><span style="background-color: rgba(245, 245, 245, 1); color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1)">Like so many other American institutions, public education stands at a crossroad. It can either continue down a destructive path of conformity and standardization, or it can open up to the unique gifts that each student and teacher bring to the educative process.&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1)">Pockets of Freedom</em><span style="color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); background-color: rgba(245, 245, 245, 1)">&nbsp;champions the latter and proposes that educators, guided by their hearts' powerful intuition, create "pockets of freedom" within their teaching/learning environments to support the shift toward student-centered learning. In this book, three teachers, spanning a range from pre-school through the university level, share stories that illuminate the process of creating freedom spaces within their classrooms, supporting their goal of awakening self-guided learning in all their students. Despite teaching, for the most part within traditional public institutions, they succeeded. And now you can learn how by reading their stories.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span>Authors and teachers Phyl Brazee, Lisa Plourde, and Sue Haynes invite readers into their classrooms to discover how they:</span></p><ul><li><span>See the unique potential in each and every student through honoring their needs, interests, and passions</span></li><li><span>Observe and trust their intuition through involving their hearts as well as their heads in moment-to-moment decision-making</span></li><li><span>Evaluate their students through honorin<span></span>g their learning process and how they make meaning in their lives</span></li><li><span>Share power in authentic ways through promoting risk-taking, choice-making, and collaboration</span></li></ul><p><span>By creating pockets of freedom within whatever teaching and learning settings educators find themselves, they can exercise the powerful potential to transform education in service of authentic teaching and learning.</span></p>