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Proof Points: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years by Jill Barshay
The Hechinger Report, March 7, 2022
The Waste-Free World: How the Circular Economy Will Take Less, Make More, and Save the Planet by Ron Gonen
Portfolio: Penguin Random House, April 6, 2021
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross
Crown, February 1, 2022
Black Education in the Wake of Covid-19 & Systemic Racism by Sonya Douglass Horsford, Leana Cabral, Cami Touloukian, Siettah Parks, Phillip A. Smith, Chy McGhee, Fawziah Qadir, Dominique Lester, & Jade Jacobs
Black Education Research Collective, Black Education Research Collective, July 1, 2021
Why the School Wars Still Rage by Jill Lepore
The New Yorker, March 21, 2022
Who's Unhappy With Schools? The Answer Surprised Me by Jessica Grose
The New York Times, March 19, 2022
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán
BenBella Books, March 8, 2022
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention – And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Crown (Penguin), January 25, 2022
“The Grown-Ups Are Losing It” by George Packer
The Atlantic, March 10, 2022
Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again edited by Shakirah Bourne and Dana Alison Levy
DK Penguin Random House, September 14, 2021
Making Grades Matter: Standards-Based Grading in a Secondary PLC by Matt Townsley and Nathan L. Wear
SolutionTree, March 13, 2020
Bending the Arc Toward Justice: Equity-Focused Practices for Educational Leaders by Jajni Shankar-Brown (Editor)
Information Age Publishing, September 1, 2022
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
Grand Central Publishing, January 18, 2022
The Case for Believing in Yourself by Dacher Keltner and Shuka Kalantari
Episode 108, The Greater Good Science Center, January 6, 2022
5 Ways to Teach Climate Change, COVID-19 in Polarized Times by Madeline Will
Education Week, Vol. 41, Issue 14, November 24, 2021
"A Story Of Us?" by Ramtin Arablouei, Rund Abdelfatah, Tamim Ansary
NPR's Throughline, February 3, 2022
How Much Does a Great School Cost?: School Economies and School Values by Barbara J. Smith
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., April 1, 2021
The Story of Climate Change: A first book about how we can help save our planet by Catherine Barr and Steve Williams
The Quarto Group, March 2, 2021
"What Are You Doing to Help Students Understand Systemic Racism and Combat It" by Larry Ferlazzo
EdWeek, December 7, 2021
On Being with Krista Tippett | Episode: The Deepest Meanings of Intelligence and Vocation by Krista Tippett
October 7, 2021
The Question We've Stopped Asking About Teen-Agers and Social Media by Cal Newport
The New Yorker, November 9, 2021
Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World. by Dr. Traci Baxley
HarperCollins, October 19, 2021
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet
W.W. Norton & Company, May 25, 2021
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
Random House Books, November 30, 2021
Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices by Lorena Escoto Germán
Heinemann, September 10, 2021
"Great Attrition" or "Great Attraction"? The choice is yours by Aaron De Smet, Bonnie Dowling, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi, and Bill Schaninger
McKinsey Quarterly, September 1, 2021
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
Brookings Institution Press, June 21, 2021
New View EDU Podcast, Episode 8: Schools as Practice Zones for Adulting by Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon with Julie Lythcott-Haims
NAIS, September 28, 2021
"Middle and High School Students Need Social Emotional Learning, Too. Are They Getting It?" by Arianna Prothero
Education Week, October 12, 2021
"How the Bobos Broke America" by David Brooks
The Atlantic, August 2, 2021
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Hachette Go, June 2, 2020
Creative Acts for Creative People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways by Sarah Stein Greenberg
Ten Speed Press/d.School, September 21, 2021
"Gifted Education: Losing the Racism and Elitism" by Dona Matthews
Psychology Today blog, September 28, 2021
Revisionist History, season 6, "Project Dillard" and "Lord of the Rankings" by Malcolm Gladwell
July 8, 2021
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 8, 2021
"This Is Our Chance to Pull Teenagers Out of the Smartphone Trap" by Jonathan Haidt and Jean M. Twenge
The New York Times, July 31, 2021
'This is me': Expressions of intersecting identity in an LGBTQ+ ethnic studies course by Laura Moorhead, Jeremy Jimenez
The Journal of Social Studies Research, January 1, 2021
"We Must Treat Climate Change as an Education Emergency" by Adam Brumer
Education Week, September 29, 2021
White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America by Khyati Y. Joshi
New York University Press, July 2020
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
HarperCollins Publisher, May 5, 2020
"Parents Are Not Okay" by Dan Sinker
The Atlantic, August 22, 2021
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell us About our Past and Future by James Shapiro
Penguin Press, March 9, 2021
How to Set Up Mastery-Based Grading in Your Classroom by Kareem Farah
Cult of Pedagogy, March 7, 2021
Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community by Liz Kleinrock
Heinemann, May 21, 2021
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo
Scribner, September 15, 2020
"How to Support Teenagers as they Head Back to School" by Lisa Damour
The New York Times, August 23, 2021
Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better by Anthony Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow and Paul G. LeMahieu
Harvard Education Press, March 1, 2015
The Social Profit Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations by David Grant
Chelsea Green, March 1, 2015
Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools by Michael Horn and Heather Staker
Wiley, January 1, 2015
Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? by Robert Lee Hotz
The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2016
Why Don't We Differentiate Professional Development? by Pauline Zdonek
Edutopia, January 15, 2016
Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest by Andrew Reiner
The New York Times, April 4, 2016
The Secret of Effective Feedback by Dylan Wiliam
Educational Leadership, ASCD, April 1, 2016
Why Civics Is About More Than Citizenship by Alia Wong
Atlantic, September 17, 2015
Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World - An Invitation, by William Ayers
Teachers College Press, April 8, 2016
Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
HarperBusiness, June 3, 2014
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
Penguin Random House. February 2, 2016
Team Spirit: Businesses are embracing the idea of working in teams. Managing them is hard by Schumpeter
The Economist, March 19, 2016
The Maker Movement in K-12 Education: A Guide to Emerging Research by Benjamin Herold
Education Week's blogs: Digital Education, April 11, 2016
Understanding Misconceptions: Teaching and Learning in Middle School Physical Science by Philip M. Sadler, Gerhard Sonnert
Why Online Gradebooks are Changing Education by Laura McKenna
The Atlantic, March 10, 2016
Shut Up and Sit Down: Why the leadership industry Rules by Joshua Rothman
The New Yorker, February 29, 2016
Pearson's Quest to Cover the Planet in Company-Run Schools by Anya Kamenetz
Wired.com Business, April 12, 2016
High Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability and Education Reform by Christopher Bjork
University of Chicago Press, December 11, 2015
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour
Ballantine Books, February 9, 2016
The Superior Social Skills of Bilinguals by Katherine Kinzler
New York Times, March 13, 2016
Strategies for Reaching Quiet, Disengaged, Struggling, and Troublemaking Students by David Cutler
Edutopia, March 22, 2016
Stress in America: The Impact of Discrimination by the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association, March 10, 2016
Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools by Asaf Orr and Joel Baum
ACLU, Gender Spectrum, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, National Center for Lesbian Rights and National Education Association, August 3, 2015
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang
Jossey-Bass, March 7, 2016
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire
TarcherPerigee, December 29, 2015
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing our Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith
Scribner, August 18, 2015
The Silo Effect: The Perils of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers by Gillian Tett
Simon and Schuster, September 1, 2015
Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good Through College Admissions, by Richard Weissbourd in collaboration with Lloyd Thacker and the Making Caring Common team including Trisha Ross Anderson, Alison Cashin, Luba Falk Feigenberg, and Jennifer Kahn
Making Caring Common Project Harvard Graduate School of Education, January 20, 2016
Teaching Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Roger Brooks
Boston Globe, February 20, 2016
The Math-Class Paradox by Jo Boaler
The Atlantic, December 31, 2015
We Like Leaders Who Underrate Themselves by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman
Harvard Business Review, November 10, 2015
Why Introverted Teachers are Burning Out by Michael Godsey
The Atlantic, January 25, 2016
The Power of Questioning: Opening Up the World of Student Inquiry by Starr Sackstein
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, December 28, 2015
Raising Race Questions: Whiteness & Inquiry in Education by Ali Michael
Teachers College Press, 2015
The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need From Grownups by Erika Christakis
Viking Press, February 9, 2016
The Arts in Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Benefits of Arts Participation: A Literature Review and Gap-Analysis (2000 - 2015) by Melissa Menzer
National Endowment for the Arts, December 2015
The Selfish Side of Gratitude by Barbara Ehrenreich
The New York Times, December 31, 2015
Beyond Growth Mindset: Creating Classroom Opportunities for Meaningful Struggle by Brad Ermeling, James Hiebert, and Ron Gallimore
Education Week, December 7, 2015
Why Identity and Emotion are Central to Motivating the Teen Brain by Emmeline Zhao
kqed.org/mindshift, December 10, 2015
The Little Orange Book: Short Lessons in Excellent Teaching by The University of Texas System, Academy of Distinguished Teachers
University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers, April 30, 2015
Education Eden by Hayley Glatter, Emily Deruy and Alia Wong
www.theatlantic.com, September 4, 2016
Navigating Exciting Possibilities, David Brooks
University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, May 2016
Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making by Daniel Kahneman, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Linnea Gandhi and Tom Blaser
Harvard Business Review, October 2016
Teaching Teenagers to Cope with Social Stress by Jan Hoffman
New York Times, September 29, 2016
The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School by Alex Hill, Liz Mellon, Ben Laker, and Jules Goddard
Harvard Business Review, October 20, 2016
US Leadership in Global Education: The Time is Now by Rebecca Winthrop
The Brookings Press, October 17, 2016
Rethinking Grading by Cathy Vatterott
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), July 1, 2015
Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World by Michelle Borba, Ed.D
Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2016
