Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

As an educator and leader I thoroughly enjoyed the book "Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes" by Jimmy Casas. Like when you hear Jimmy present or work/meet with him, the book "Culturize" inspires, challenges, and compels you to be better. Drawing from his own personal experiences as a student, teacher, and administrator, Jimmy sets a framework, a mindset that all educators should have toward their students, their craft, their profession, their schools, and their communities. The book is full of inspiring thoughts, great examples, and frameworks (culture builders) that you can use in your own practices and schools. If you are looking for a book to inspire you, to challenge your thinking, and to improve or reaffirm your mindset that our work as educators is so vitally important - "Culturize" is the perfect book for you. I highly recommend reading it! Thank you Jimmy!

Twitter has revolutionized the way we create and sustain PLC groups in the educational field, as a 21 year veteran I have come to use Twitter as a way to find and access new literature to sustain my own professional growth. In recent months I have started to become disenfranchised with the amount of Twit Lit (152 character one-liners with only slightly more actionable information) that has characterized my personal feed. Then I came across Culturize by Jimmy Casas. I ordered Mr. Casas book based on a recommendation I received during one of my Twitter chats. While initially hesitant, I soon found that Mr. Casas has managed to place my primary concerns and challenges as a building level leader into a reader-friendly book with actionable steps to create a positive culture in our building. He does not shy away from difficult topics and provides a student-focused approach to addressing daily challenges from both administrator and teacher perspectives. Kudos Mr. Casas! Your book continues to guide and challenge my building level leadership and our team's approach to professional self-efficacy.

Reading this book as a teacher has brought me back to the principles that pulled me into teaching from the beginning. I admit that the professional struggles I have faced in my career have left me jaded at times, but this book serves as the perfect reminder of the impact that educators can have on their kids and their colleagues. I read this book as part of a study with my colleagues, and the discussion prompted by this book led us to some incredible conversation and reinvestment in one another and our school. A wonderful book overall that I cannot recommend enough!

Good book. On time.

"Press pause and ask yourself what the situation requires..." this simple but insightful example of Jimmy's advice as an educational leader comes through in this beautifully written book about how to Culturize your school. Throughout his book, Jimmy tells stories of how to reach those who seem to be unreachable. The Culture Builder activities found at the end of each chapter promote thought and will, no doubt, bring about lots of valuable discussion as this book makes it's way into schools. In Jimmy's words, expect excellence, carry the banner, and be a merchant of hope because we cannot allow average to become our standard. This has been one of the best books I have read in a long time...it pairs nicely with the books Teach Like a Pirate and Lead Like a Pirate. Well done!

Simply put, this is a wonderful book for those who have chosen to be educators. Early on in the first chapter the question, “Where does average exist in your organization?” is posed and the rest of the book is spent talking about how we cannot accept average in our schools and must do everything within our power to root it out. Jimmy makes a his case based on four well-written and engaging core principles. Each of the chapter includes Jimmy discussing not only his experiences in education but vignettes from others who offer their specific experiences. This is a book that can and should be read by classroom teachers, principals, superintendents, school boards...heck, anyone who is in the business of educating kids! Culturize is a reminder of why we do what we do! Thanks Jimmy for the great read.

If you work in education and need a reminder why you got into this field read this book! Excellent takeaways, great points to reflect upon and overall worth taking time to read.

This book gives off the feeling of everything being peachy keen in the teaching profession. It talks about things in a best case scenario, but doesn't really offer any solid insights as to how to teach in the real world as opposed to the Disney-fied version of teaching. The author also feels pretty awesome about himself and all of his accomplishments and wants you to feel that way about him as well. Not life-changing. Just middle road. Common sense will get you as far as this book will.

Thank you for this book, too much learn. Really enjoy it.

Hope-filled, relevant and empowering, this book inspires action and leadership no matter your title! Jimmy Casas uses his personal experiences as a struggling student, an educator and an administrator to offer practical ways to positively improve relationships and school culture. This is a book every educator and administrator should read, reread, reflect on, share and put into action!

Great book. Easy read that reaffirms good practices and conventions. A reminder that educators wield such an immense power to do good and to foster positive climates and cultures for our next generations.

I like how he writes like he is talking to a colleague or a friend. An easy read and very practical.

If you have read Kids these days by Dr. Jody Carrington, you will also want to pick up this book. I found this book to have great ideas to implement into a school or classroom. From principal to custodian everyone in a school community is a leader. I enjoyed the refelctive questions at the end of each chapter. I would recommend this book to any teacher administrator and school division employee.