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Like a Haunted House Survived

The Teachers' Lounge Screenplay by lker Çatak and Johannes Duncker
Video [Streaming on Netflix and other platforms. Screenplay [PDF available from Sony]
February 18. 2023

November
,
2024
Media and Entertainment
Book

Pathways to Acceptance

Big by Vashti Harrison
Little, Brown, May 1, 2023

November
,
2024
Social-Emotional Learning
Student Wellness & Safety
Curriculum
Article

Yoked to a Deep Commitment

Postplagiarism: transdisciplinary ethics and integrity in the age of artificial intelligence and neurotechnology by Sarah Elaine Eaton
International Journal for Educational Integrity, October 12, 2023

November
,
2024
Technology
Teaching Practice
Article

About Men

A Fatal Miscalculation: Masculinity Researcher Richard Reeves on Why Democrats Lost Young Men by Sam Wolfson
The Guardian, November 8, 2024

The Real Reason for the Rise in Male Childlessness by Stephanie Hegarty
BBC, October 31, 2024

Trump Offered Men Something that Democrats Never Could by Elizabeth Spiers
The New York Times, November 6, 2024

November
,
2024
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Book

Yellow and Dog-Eared and the Meaning They Sparked

November
,
2024
Curriculum
Teaching Practice
Book

Nature’s Greatest Opportunity

10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by Dr. David Yeager
Simon & Schuster, LLC, August 6, 2024

November
,
2024
Psychology & Human Development
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Of Note: Human Construct

In a Human Voice by Carol Gilligan
Polity Press, September 18, 2023

November
,
2024
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Psychology & Human Development
Book

Fearless Children, Complicated Adults

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Knopf, October 1, 2024

October
,
2024
Curriculum
Literature
Podcast

Traffic Making Visible

October
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Technology
Book

The Leadership Choice

October
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Book

Talking with Jay Gatsby

October
,
2024
Technology
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Book

Scan the Field

Eyes Up! by TJ Kostecky with Dan DiClerico
Matt Holt Books, February 6, 2024

October
,
2024
Social-Emotional Learning
Student Wellness & Safety
Teaching Practice
Podcast

The Complexities of Memory

Hidden Brain: Remember More Forget Less by Shankar Vedantam with Daniel Willingham
September 9, 2024

October
,
2024
Science of Learning
Teaching Practice
Book

Of Note: Tremendous Fulfillment and Exploitation

The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World by Allison Pugh
Princeton University Press, June 4, 2024

October
,
2024
Technology
Teaching Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Book

Not Yet Sentient, But…

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
Penguin/ Random House, January 1, 2024

September
,
2024
Creativity
Teaching Practice
Technology
Podcast

77 Times Daily

Tired? Distracted? Burned Out? by The Ezra Klein Show
New York Times, January 5, 2024

September
,
2024
Teaching Practice
Technology
Science of Learning
Article

A Culture of Absence?

School Attendance Suffers as Parent Attitudes Shift by Evie Blad
Education Week, August 28, 2024

September
,
2024
Covid-19
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Book

Teachers at the Heart

Transforming Teacher Work: Teacher Recruitment and Retention After the Pandemic by Aimee Quickfall & Phil Wood
Emerald Publishing, July 24, 2024

September
,
2024
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Book

Happier, Healthier Workplaces

The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being More Human by Karolin Helbig & Minette Norman
Page Two, February 22, 2023

September
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Student Wellness & Safety
Article

A Child’s Right

Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play: Navigating the balance with injury prevention by Émilie Beaulieu and Suzanne Beno
Canadian Paediatric Society, January 25, 2024

September
,
2024
Psychology & Human Development
Teaching Practice
Student Wellness & Safety
Article

Of Note: Ever-Present Reflections

Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools? by Jay Caspian Kang
The New Yorker, August 30, 2024

September
,
2024
Teaching Practice
Technology
Article

Evidence of Beauty and Wonder and Learning

The Case for Hope by Nicolas Kristof
New York Times, May 9, 2024

A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered. by Elisabeth Egan
New York Times, March 18, 2024

May
,
2024
Curriculum
Teaching Practice
Podcast

Forward Actions, Alignment, and Accountability

Episode 81: The 9 Steps To Having a Difficult Conversation With One of Your Teachers by The Private School Leader Podcast, Host: Mark Minkus
May 4, 2024

May
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Book

Antinomies and Dilemmas

International Perspectives on Inclusive Education: In the Light of Educational Justice by Simone Seitz, Petra Auer, Rosa Bellacicco
Verlag Barbara Budrich, April 24, 2023

May
,
2024
DEIJ
Teaching Practice
Book

If Drawn to the Fire

The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant
Harvard Business Review Press, July 11, 2023

May
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Article

The Students are Still Watching

Screen Time for Kids Is Fine! Unless It's Not by Matt Reynolds
Wired, March 29, 2024

The Bad Science Behind Jonathan Haidt's Call to Regulate Social Media by Aaron Brown
Reason Foundation, April 2, 2024

It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber by Derek Thompson
The Atlantic, December 19, 2023

When parents practice good screen habits, it rubs off on the whole family by MindShift
KQED, March 14, 2023

When Kids Are Addicted to Their Phones, Who is to Blame? by Kathryn Jezer-Morton
The Cut, New York, March 30, 2024

May
,
2024
Technology
Teaching Practice
Student Wellness & Safety
Article

Attending to Our Histories

Institutional Historical Acknowledgement: What Does It Hurt to Embrace the Past? by Michelle A. Purdy
Teachers College Record, Volume 125, Number 7-8, "Minding the Gap in Education Discourse: Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Independent and International Schools", August 2023

May
,
2024
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Book

Of Note: Positionality and Experience

The Identity Conscious Educator: Building Habits & Skills for a More Inclusive School by Liza A. Talusan
Solution Tree Press, February 18, 2022

May
,
2024
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Book

The More You Pause

Noticing by Kobi Yamada, Elise Hurst
Compendium, January 15, 2023

April
,
2024
Creativity
Curriculum
Podcast

Play Informed

Pursuing the Public Good, "How Playful Technologies Can Build More Meaningful Schools" by Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College, April 8, 2024

April
,
2024
Science of Learning
Teaching Practice
Book
Teaching Practice
Leadership Practice
Article

Under Protecting?

April
,
2024
Psychology & Human Development
Student Wellness & Safety
Technology
Book

Language, Identity, Worldview

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 20, 2024

April
,
2024
DEIJ
Teaching Practice
Book

Under Protecting

April
,
2024
Student Wellness & Safety
Technology
Teaching Practice
Book

Of Note: A Healthy Dose of Scientific Optimism

Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, Robert MacCoun
Little, Brown Spark Hachette Book Group, March 26, 2024

April
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Science of Learning
Teaching Practice
Book

In Front of Us

March
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Article

Even a Fleeting Phrase

The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned by Rachel Kadish
NY Times, February 18, 2024

That Numbness You’re Feeling: There’s a Word for It by Adam Grant
NY Times, January 1, 2024

March
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Article

Never Too Late

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now by Jonathan Haidt
The Atlantic, March 13, 2024

March
,
2024
Psychology & Human Development
Student Wellness & Safety
Technology
Book

Using their Voice

The Antiracist Kid by Tiffany Jewell
Harper Collins Publishers Versify, October 4,2022

March
,
2024
DEIJ
Curriculum
Podcast

Particular Complexities

March
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Gender & Sexual Identity
Book

Playbook for the Age of Adaptability

Raising A Kid Who Can: Simple Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Adaptability and Emotional Strength by Catherine McCarthy, MD, Heather Tedesco, PhD, and Jennifer Weaver, LCSW
Workman Publishing Company, September 12, 2023

March
,
2024
Psychology & Human Development
Science of Learning
Student Wellness & Safety
Article

Into the Deeper Considerations

The AI Influencers Selling Students Learning Shortcuts by Marc Watkins
Rhetorica Substack, February 9, 2024

March
,
2024
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Technology
Teaching Practice
Book

Of Note: What’s this really about?

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
Random House, February 20, 2024

March
,
2024
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Leadership Practice
Website

Amidst the Exigencies

February
,
2024
Teaching Practice
Creativity
Article

Not Less of Making Art

How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society by David Brooks
The New York Times, January 25, 2024

February
,
2024
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Curriculum
Social-Emotional Learning
Book

More than Aptitude

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, October 24, 2023

February
,
2024
Creativity
Teaching Practice
Leadership Practice
Book

Any High School, USA

February
,
2024
DEIJ
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Article

Beyond an Initial Viewpoint

A Matter of Perspective by Jessica Minahan
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ascd) Vol. 81 No.3, November 1, 2023

February
,
2024
Social-Emotional Learning
Teaching Practice
Book

Past the Critical Hundred Days

February
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Book

More Whole

February
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Book

Of Note: Go Outside to Get Better Inside

The Drivers Transforming Learning for Students, Schools, and Systems by Michael Fullan and Joanne Quinn
Corwin; 1st edition, October 30, 2023

February
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Article

One Thing, Then Another One Thing

Stop Multitasking. No, Really — Just Stop It. by Oliver Burkeman
New York Times, July 30, 2023

January
,
2024
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Science of Learning
Book

Trailblazer Toll

First Gen: A Memoir by Alejandra Campoverdi
Hatchett Book Group, September 12, 2023

January
,
2024
DEIJ
Student Wellness & Safety
Psychology & Human Development
Book

Nurturing the Brilliance

Revolutionary Love for Early Childhood Classrooms: Nurturing the Brilliance of Young Black Children by Gloria Swindler Boutte, Kamania Wynter-Hoyte, Nathaniel Bryan
Scholastic, November 10, 2023

January
,
2024
DEIJ
Psychology & Human Development
Student Wellness & Safety
Teaching Practice
Article

Sleep (with) It Off

Anxiety, Depression, Less Sleep – and Poor Academic Performance? by Michael J. Petrilli
Education Next, October 26, 2023

January
,
2024
Technology
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Almost-Constantly-Digital

Growing Up In Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World by Devorah Heitner
TarcherPerigee(an imprint of Penguin Random House), September 12, 2023

January
,
2024
Social-Emotional Learning
Technology
Student Wellness & Safety
Article

Worth Saving

Does Learning To Be a Good Writer Still Matter in the Age of A.I.?  by Jeremy Engle
New York Times, January 11, 2024

How Octavia Butler Told the Future by Tiya Miles
The Atlantic, January 12, 2024

January
,
2024
Teaching Practice
Technology
Book

Of Note: Speed’s Harm and Undoing

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Hachette Book Group, October 11, 2022

January
,
2024
DEIJ
Social-Emotional Learning
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Insecurities, Introspection, and Growing Confidence

Look No Further by Rioghnach Robinson and Síofra Robinson
Amulet/Abrams, August 25, 2023

November
,
2023
DEIJ
Curriculum
Psychology & Human Development
Literature
Book

Dignity Is Not

Miles Morales Suspended by Jason Reynolds
Simon & Schuster, May 7, 2023

November
,
2023
DEIJ
Curriculum
Book

A Light on the Changes

November
,
2023
Student Wellness & Safety
Psychology & Human Development
Social-Emotional Learning
Book

A Blueprint

The Nativity Phenomenon: A Model That Works by Jack Podsiadlo
Manuscripts, LLC, August 11, 2023

November
,
2023
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Book

Landscape of Failure

Right Kind of Wrong by Amy C. Edmondson
Atria Books, September 5, 2023

November
,
2023
Science of Learning
Teaching Practice
Leadership Practice
Article

Clarity, Not Answers

Navigating a World of Generative AI: Suggestions for Educators by Lydia Cao and Chris Dede
The Next Level Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education, July 28, 2023

November
,
2023
Technology
Teaching Practice
Article

The Messages They’re Receiving

Teaching Critical Thinking: Media Literacy and Document-Based Historical Inquiry by Megan Fromm and Abby Reisman
The Educator’s Playbook, Penn Graduate School of Education, October 17, 2023

"Ten Things Students Wish You Knew About Social Media”
The Social Institute, January 14, 2023

November
,
2023
Technology
Student Wellness & Safety
Teaching Practice
Podcast

Of Note: Awe-Inspiration

Feeling Awe Might Help Kids Be More Generous by Maryam Abdullah
Greater Good Magazine, September 11, 2023

Awestruck from Unexplainable
Vox, June 7, 2023

November
,
2023
Psychology & Human Development
Social-Emotional Learning
Teaching Practice
Book

Already Creators

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Penguin, January 17, 2023

October
,
2023
Creativity
Technology
Book

Redshirting all Boys

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard V. Reeves
Brookings Institution Press, September 27, 2022

October
,
2023
Gender & Sexual Identity
Social-Emotional Learning
Psychology & Human Development
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Book

Muddled Messages

Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To) by Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt
Harvard University Press, August 8, 2023

October
,
2023
Curriculum
Teaching Practice
Article

Linguistic Identity

Reclaiming Ruralisms by Samantha Nousak and Sarah D.C. Harvey
Inside Higher Ed, April 7, 2023

October
,
2023
DEIJ
Teaching Practice
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Honest Regard for Mystery

October
,
2023
Curriculum
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Book

Apart from Their Achievements

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Portfolio, August 22, 2023

October
,
2023
Social-Emotional Learning
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Countering History

School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness by Jarvis R. Givens
Beacon Press, February 7, 2023

October
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Curriculum
DEIJ
Website

Of Note: Informed, Reflective, and Supported

October
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Teaching Practice
Curriculum
Book

More than Ever, the Future

September
,
2023
Creativity
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Leadership Practice
Book

Altered Vision

Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students by Annie Abrams
Johns Hopkins University Press, May 25, 2023

September
,
2023
Curriculum
Teaching Practice
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Book

Interludes and Insights Across the Generations

September
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Psychology & Human Development
Book

Divergent Understandings

Is Affirmative Action Fair?: The Myth of Equity in College Admissions by Natasha Warikoo
Polity Press, September 26, 2022

September
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Report

Prestige, Interest, Preparation, Satisfaction

The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession: Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction Over the Last Half Century by Matthew A. Kraft and Melissa Arnold Lyon
EDWorkingPaper No. 22-679, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University, November 16, 2022

September
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Article

Rising Costs

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? by Paul Tough
The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 2023

September
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Book

Of Note: A Double Bind

Education Lead(Her)ship: Advancing Women in K-12 Administration by Jennie Weiner and Monica C. Higgins
Harvard Education Press, October 1, 2023

September
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Book

To Feel Whole

Moon Flower by Kacen Callender
Scholastic, September 6, 2022

May
,
2023
Gender & Sexual Identity
DEIJ
Student Wellness & Safety
Literature
Book

Impossible to Tell

Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Random House, February 1, 2022

May
,
2023
DEIJ
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Literature
Article

Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness (and Relevance)

3 Ways to Make Learning Relevant to Students by Larry Ferlazzo
Education Week, March 30, 2023

May
,
2023
Curriculum
Teaching Practice

Power With

May
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Article

Their Connectedness

Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Water and Kinship by Anna Lees and Megan Bang
Bank Street Occasional Paper Series #49, May 9, 2023

May
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Curriculum
Article

Creativity and Harm

AI Machines Aren’t Hallucinating. But Their Makers Are by Naomi Klein
The Guardian, May, 8 2023

AI Is About to Make Social Media (Much) More Toxic by Jonathan Haidt and Eric Schmidt
The Atlantic, May 5, 2023

The Future of Writing Is a Lot Like Hip-Hop” by Stephen Marche
The Atlantic, May 9, 2023

May
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Student Wellness & Safety
Teaching Practice
Technology
Book

A Rich Seedbed of Ideas

May
,
2023
Student Wellness & Safety
Teaching Practice
Leadership Practice
Book

Of Note: Through the Unknown and Unknowable

one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care by Chenxing Han
North Atlantic Books, April 19, 2023

May
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Social-Emotional Learning
Book

When Young People Participate

Student Voice Research by Marc Brasof & Joseph Levitan
Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, October 28, 2022

April
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

A Sincere Synthesis

Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children by Michel Desmurget
Polity Press, December 28, 2022

April
,
2023
Science of Learning
Teaching Practice
Technology
Article

Open not Sacrificing

ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it by Will Douglas Heaven
MIT Technology Review, April 6, 2023

April
,
2023
Technology
Teaching Practice
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Article

Transcending all Disciplines

April
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Teaching Practice
Technology
Book

From the Individual to the Organizational

April
,
2023
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Book

What We Do and Why

Reframing Self-Care for Independent School Faculty
Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education, 2023

April
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Teaching Practice
Book

All a Thread

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin
Princeton University Press, October 11, 2022

April
,
2023
Covid-19
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Article

Of Note: Cabinet-Shaped

The Data Delusion by Jill Lepore
The New Yorker, March 27, 2023

April
,
2023
Technology
Leadership Practice
Creativity
Book

The Essential Question

Do You Wonder? by Wallace Edwards
North Winds Press, September 6, 2022

March
,
2023
Creativity
Curriculum
Book

Choosing to Remember

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Little, Brown and Company, June 1, 2021

March
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Article

Common Goals, Local and Global

Teachers’ Global Perceptions and Views, Practices and Needs in Multicultural Settings by Zoe Karanikola, Glykeria Katsiouli and Nektaria Palaiologou
Education Sciences, April 13, 2022

March
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Curriculum
Teaching Practice