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Learn MoreLearning 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
Talking Across Divides: 10 Ways to Encourage Civil Classroom Conversations
by Katherine Schulten
The New York Times, September 28, 2016
Beyond Integration: How Teachers Can Encourage Cross-Racial Friendships
by Kendra Yoshinaga
NPR.org, July 12, 2016
Our Need to Make and Enforce Rules Starts Very Young
by Alison Gopnik
The Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2016
On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting
by Thomas R. Gruskey, PhD
Solution Tree Press, July 2014
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
by Daniel J. Levitin
Dutton, September 2016
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
by Bill Burnet & Dave Evans
Alfred A. Knopf, September 2016
Education and the Commercial Mindset
by Samuel Abrams
Harvard University Press, April 2016
Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice
by Maureen Linker
University of Michigan Press, December 2014
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
by Srdja Popovic
Spiegel & Grau, January 2015
The Trump Effect: The impact of the presidential campaign on our nation’s schools
by Maureen B. Costello
Southern Poverty Law Center, April 2016
How Kids Learn Resilience
by Paul Tough
The Atlantic, June 2016
The Long-Term Effects of Social-Justice Education on Black Students
by Melinda D. Anderson
The Atlantic, July 19, 2016
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August, 2016
Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students
by Michael Sadowski
Harvard Education Press, August 9, 2016
Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
by Peggy Orenstein
Harper, March 29, 2016
The Best Class You Never Taught by Alexis Wiggins
ASCD, January 1, 2017
Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why by Paul Tough
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 24, 2016
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces by John Palfrey
MIT Pres, October 1, 2017
What Kind of Citizens Do We Need? by Joel Westheimer
Educational Leadership, November 1, 2017
Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting by Adam Grant
The New York Times, November 4, 2017
The Purpose of Education--According to Students by Magdalena Slapik
The Atlantic, October 1, 2017
Work and the Loneliness Epidemic by Vivek H. Murthy
Harvard Business Review, September 1, 2017
Anti-bias Lessons Help Preschoolers Appreciate Diversity by PBS Newhour
November 7, 2017
Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth World by Renee Hobbs
Educational Leadership, November 1, 2017
Which One Doesn't Belong? by Christopher Danielson
Stenhouse Publishers, September 1, 2016
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
St Martin's Press, January 1, 2017
We Need To Keep Talking About Charlottesville by Brené Brown
Facebook Live, August 15, 2017
Not Leadership Material? Good. The World Needs Followers by Susan Cain
New York Times, March 24, 2017
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety? by Benoit Denizet-Lewis
New York Times Magazine, October 11, 2017
High School Reading as an Act of Meaningful Aggression by Giles Scott
The Millions, September 19, 2017
Revisionist History, “Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment,” by Malcolm Gladwell
Podcast, July 1, 2016
Inviting Uncertainty into the Classroom by Ronald A. Baghetto
Education Leadership, October 2017
Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World by Ana Homayoun
SAGE, July 1, 2017
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Spiegel & Grau, January 1, 2015
But Why Does It Work?: Mathematical Argument in the Elementary Classroom by Susan Jo Russell, Deborah Schifter, Reva Kasman, Virginia Bastable, & Traci Higgins
Heinemann, April 4, 2017
Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving your Toughest Problems at Workby Joseph L. Badaracco
Harvard Business Review Press, September 6, 2015
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? by Jean Twenge
The Atlantic, September 1, 2017
Emotional Agility as a Tool to Help Teens Manage Their Feelings by Deborah Farmer Kris
KQEd News, February 28, 2017
The Myths That Persist About How We Learn by Ira Flatow
Science Fridays, PRI Public Radio International, September 1, 2017
Revisionist History, Season 1, Episodes 4, 5, and 6 by Malcolm Gladwell
July 1, 2016
Episode 4: Carlos Doesn't Remember
Episode 5: Food Fight
Episode 6: My Hundred Little Million
Coalition to Support Grieving Students by Coalition to Support Grieving Students
September 1, 2017
The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education by Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy
Routledge, November 13, 2014
Why Having One Black Teacher Could Help Keep Black Students In School by Anya Kamenetz
KQED Mindshift, April 10, 2017
Executive Function: Implications for Education by Philip David Zelazo, Clancy B. Blair, Michael T. Willoughby
National Center for Educational Research (NCER), Institute of Education Sciences, February 1, 2017
The Crisis of Western Civ and A Call for Democratic Education (2 articles) by David Brooks; Stephanie Schroeder
The New York Times; tolerance.org, April 21, 2017
Managing the 'Learning Styles' Myth by Keith Lambert
Education World (website), May 1, 2017
Queering Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Policy by Darla Linville, Editor
Bank Street College of Education Occasional Paper Series, #37, April 1, 2017
Making Homework Matter to Students by Lee Walk and Marshall Lassak
Mathematics Teaching in Middle School, May 1, 2017
A Stanford researcher’s 15-minute study hack lifts B+ students into the As by Jenny Anderson
May 9, 2017
