Eric Toshalis, Co-author

Eric Toshalis is the co-author of the forthcoming 13th edition of Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems, with Vern Jones and Louise Jones. Dr. Toshalis has 32+ years of experience in education that includes serving as a public middle and high school teacher, mentor teacher, teacher educator, community activist, curriculum director, researcher, professor, professional development provider, foster parent, and author. Recognized as Teacher of the Year by his school district in Santa Barbara County in 1997 and awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching by Harvard College in 2002, he has long focused on what it takes to educate adolescents and adults who bring a diversity of racial, cultural, ethnic, gender, linguistic, sexual, (dis)ability, and socioeconomic insights. Dr. Toshalis is the author of the award-winning book, Make Me! Understanding and Engaging Student Resistance in School (2015), and is co-author of the widely used text, Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators (2006), both published by Harvard Education Press. He is the lead author and editor of the “Detracking for Equity” series at KnowledgeWorks.org, and is also the lead author of the “Motivation, Engagement and Student Voice” white paper and its series of linked professional development curricula at StudentsAtThe-CenterHub.com. He provides consulting services for a range of clients at EngagingResistance.com.