Resources for lasting change
Explore books, articles, and tools from Don’t Ever Stop! LLC designed to strengthen leadership, build collective efficacy, and support personalized mastery.
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Don’t Ever Stop! publications
A selection of resources that support districts, schools, and teams as they build the conditions for empowered, proficient, and engaged learners.
Reawakening the Learner: Creating Learner Centric, Standards Driven Schools (2012) — Copper Stoll and Gene Giddings
Reawakening the Learner: Principles and Tools to Create School Systems in Achieve Personalized Mastery, 2nd Edition (2015) — Copper Stoll and Gene Giddings with contributions from Katheryn Keyes and Cristina Leal
This is OUR School! Esta Es Nuestra Escuela! (2026) — Copper Stoll and Gene Giddings
Publication highlights
Each chapter begins with guiding questions for the reader, embeds tool references for each topic, includes voices of stakeholders,
and answers guiding questions with summarized key points.
Creating the Schools our Kids Deserve
Creating Systems and Structures for the 21st Century
Partnering with learners
Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Developing a Moral Purpose
Preparing Staff for Change
Building Trust-to-Doubt
Creating Collective Efficacy
Establishing a Personalized Mastery Cycle
Assessing
Evaluating
Planning
Learning
Synchronizing the Personalized Mastery Toolkit to the needs of the Learners
Tools for Personalization
Tools for Mastery
Templates and Examples of each tool
Continuous Improvement Systems
Use of the Developmental Continua
Aligning the roles of the stakeholders
Goal-setting and progress monitoring
This is OUR School!
Fictitious learner empowers school to create a Personalized Mastery learning environment
Written in English and Spanish