Books

Grow Your Why: One Story at a Time

by Barbara Bray (2024) with 23 contributing authors

“Grow Your Why” is a compelling collection of stories featuring 23 heartfelt narratives from diverse contributors. These stories delve into pivotal moments that shaped and defined the authors’ lives. As you immerse yourself in the book, you’ll embark on a transformative journey where stories become the bridge between hearts, and purpose becomes the driving force behind our shared human experience. Each story demonstrates that if we live on purpose no matter where we are on our journey, nothing and no one can stop us.

Go to Why Press Publishing or click on the book cover at the right for more information about the book, the authors, and their stories. Get your copy today!

Amazon Paperback Hardback eBook
Goodreads All 3 Editions
Barnes & Noble Paperback
IngramSpark Paperback

Each story will touch your heart. Enjoy! Our hope for this book is to inspire you to share your stories. Your story matters! Please let us know your thoughts about the stories. We would be so grateful if you wrote a review.

“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories.
There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.”
~ Jimmy Neil Smith

Define Your WHY

Own Your Story So You Can Live and Learn on Purpose
by Barbara Bray (2020)

Do you ever feel like you’re going through the motions to get through the day? Do you continue to do what you do because you have always done it that way? You may not even have considered that you can change what you’re doing AND have more joyful experiences. My book, Define Your WHY, shares stories, and involves you in activities to get to know YOU better and have a more meaningful life where you can live and learn on purpose. This book is for anyone who wants to discover or re-discover their WHY.

Define Your WHY: Own Your Story So You Can Live and Learn on Purpose is available on:

Amazon Paperback Kindle Audiobook
Barnes & Noble: Paperback
EduMatch Publishing Paperback

Check out the Define Your WHY Book Study Guide

Make Learning Personal

The What, Who, WOW, Where, and Why
by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey (2015)

Put learning back into the hands of the learner!

Through personalized learning, education, as we know it is transformed as learners, are empowered to take control of their learning. This thorough and timely resource draws on Universal Design for Learning principles to create a powerful shift in classroom dynamics by guiding learners to become self-directed, self-monitoring, and self-motivated.

To get your copy, go to Corwin Press or Amazon

How to Personalize Learning

A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper
by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey (2017)

This practical follow-up to Bray and McClaskey’s first book, Make Learning Personal: The What, Who, Wow, Where, and Why brings theory to practice. Teachers will find the tools, skills, and strategies needed to personalize learning and develop self-directed, independent learners with agency.

Discover how to get started and go deeper by building a shared vision that supports personalized learning using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Create a powerful shift in education by building a culture of learning so every learner is valued. Luis Perez wrote the foreword that builds excitement about UDL and how the strategies laid out in this book reduce the barriers that challenge learners and maximize learning.

To get your copy, go to Corwin Press or Amazon