View From the Third Seat: Repairing Education by Changing Mindset

By Raymond Dodd

What if the greatest problem in education isn't curriculum, funding, or standards-but perspective?

View from the Third Seat invites educators, learning facilitators, parents, and students to examine how personal perspective shapes expectations, interactions, and outcomes in learning environments. Drawing on lived experience, reflective practice, and classroom insight, Raymond Dodd challenges readers to look beyond systems and labels and toward the beliefs that quietly influence behavior and performance.

Through accessible storytelling and practical reflection, this book explores how fixed mindsets form, how they are reinforced-often unintentionally-and how intentional shifts in perspective can lead to more productive relationships, improved engagement, and greater student success.

Written for teachers, school leaders, and anyone invested in meaningful learning, View from the Third Seat offers a grounded, human-centered approach to repairing education one interaction at a time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMTGHHT3
• ISBN13: 9798246196243
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"