Award-winning educator and Modern Classrooms Project Co-Founder Robert Barnett shares simple, research-backed strategies that any teacher can use to keep every student appropriately challenged – and appropriately supported – every day.
Washington, DC, January 28, 2025: The Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) has empowered more than 80,000 educators in all 50 states and 180+ countries, with university researchers finding “overwhelming positive support” for its learner-centered approach to instruction. MCP Co-Founder Robert Barnett’s upcoming book, Meet Every Learner’s Needs: Redesigning Instruction So All Students Can Succeed (Jossey-Bass) tells the story behind the Modern Classroom model, and explains to teachers, administrators, parents, and policymakers:
“I’ve taken everything I know about teaching and shared it here,” said Barnett, an award-winning educator with experience teaching in public and private schools in the U.S. and abroad. “I think of the book as 10% memoir, 10% manifesto, and 80% educator manual: it tells MCP’s story and offers a compelling theory of what education should be, while providing simple, actionable, and classroom-tested strategies that any educator can implement tomorrow. These techniques transformed my classroom and saved my career; I’ve seen them have similar impacts for thousands of educators worldwide, and I’m eager to share them all in one easy-to-read book.”
Prominent education experts agree. “Meet Every Learner’s Needs is a must read for educators,” said Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp. “It is a practical guide to reshaping classrooms and education and the world!” Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews called it “mind-blowing.” And Cult of Pedagogy Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Gonzalez named Meet Every Learner’s Needs a “practical and inspiring book that explains how any teacher, in any school, can redesign instruction to ensure that every student achieves their potential. This method has worked for educators around the world, and with the help of this guide, it can work for you too.”
The book, which features a detailed three-part framework for redesigning instruction as well as tips from 45 Modern Classroom educators, from kindergarten teachers to university professors worldwide, will be available on February 5, everywhere books are sold.
About the Modern Classrooms Project: Founded by two award-winning educators, the Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) is a nonprofit organization that empowers educators to build classrooms that respond to every student’s needs. With the support of innovative educators, diverse school and district partners, and forward thinking donors and foundations, MCP leads a global movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth. For more information about MCP and Meet Every Learner’s Needs, visit modernclassrooms.org, or email book@modernclassrooms.org.
About Robert Barnett: Robert Barnett co-founded the Modern Classrooms Project, which has empowered 80,000+ educators in 180+ countries to meet every learner’s needs. Before that he taught math, computer science, English, social studies, and law, from the middle-school to university levels, at public and private schools in the U.S. and Switzerland. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University and Harvard Law School; speaks English, French, and Spanish; and lives in Washington, DC. He hopes his two young children will learn in Modern Classrooms someday! For more information, visit rsbarnett.com.
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