My Books!
Passing Notes©
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Coming Fall 2025
What they don’t tell you at the best public high school in America...Passing Notes© is a searing collection of essays chronicling my lived experiences inside two very different—but equally hostile—school systems: one that claimed to be the best public high school in America, and one that I believe actually is. Beneath their glossy reputations, both revealed a darker truth—one where racism, sexism, retaliation, and institutional silence thrived. This book is not just a memoir. It’s a survival guide for educators, staff, and anyone navigating toxic workplace environments—especially those who dare to speak up. With honesty and urgency, Passing Notes examines how schools fail the very people who hold them up: teachers and students, and offers critical insights into knowing your rights, protecting your peace, and reclaiming your power. Pre-order here.
Passing Notes: Excerpt
It is best to read this chapter by first listening to George Michael’s “Freedom! '90”
The FOIA chapter is part legal awakening, part personal reckoning. After being silenced, sidelined, and gaslit by systems built to protect power — not people — I learned to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as both a shield and a sword. Here, I document how I used FOIA to reclaim my narrative, expose institutional misconduct, and demand truth from the public systems that failed me. It’s not just a chapter — it’s a warning, a love letter, and a mirror held up to the structures that pretend to be neutral. It’s also where I discovered that one of the “best public high schools in America” was less about education and more about business.
Because freedom isn’t given. It’s filed for.
FOIA: I think there's something you should know (I think it's time I told you so)
Get Married In It, Get Buried In It:
Style Intelligence™️
A style guide for people who don’t follow trends — they follow instinct. This is not a fashion book. It’s a blueprint for intentional living, told through the clothes you already own. Get Married in It, Get Buried in It teaches you how to think critically about what you wear, why you wear it, and how to dress like you mean it — every single day. Part manifesto, part workbook, this pocket-sized companion belongs in your closet, not your bookshelf.
Because style is forever. And style intelligence? That’s yours to master.
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Fish Food for a School of Students©
Fish Food for a School of Students is a love letter to the power of music in education. Blending memoir and manifesto, this book traces how one teacher transformed early mornings, long commutes, and heavy emotional labor into moments of connection—through a carefully curated soundtrack.
What began as a passing period tradition became a community ritual: students dancing, laughing, Shazaming tracks, and walking into the school day with rhythm and joy.
With influence from her DJ sister and grounded in nearly 15 years of classroom experience, author Courtney Randle explores how music became her bridge to students—a daily act of resistance, ritual, and relationship-building. Part narrative, part blueprint, Fish Food for a School of Students shows how a speaker, a playlist, and a little mood lighting can change the tone of a hallway—and the hearts inside it.
It’s about more than playing music. It’s about feeding the school’s spirit.
I listen to music every day. I have to. However, I tend to listen to specific songs repeatedly, some lyrics just stick, for inspiration. Currently, this is my theme music for the month of July.
School's out for summer
School's out forever
I'm bored to pieces
Well, we got no class
And we got no principals (ooh)
And we got no intelligence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes, well
