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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
Book

Impossible to Tell

Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Random House, February 1, 2022

May
,
2023
DEIJ
Current Events & Civic Engagement
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
Book

Can You Be a Helper?

Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way by Jonah Berger
Harper Collins, March 7, 2023

March
,
2023
Teaching Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Book

An Important Reminder

Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success by Christopher Emdin
Beacon Press, August 10, 2021

March
,
2023
DEIJ
Teaching Practice
Leadership Practice
Book

EQ, IQ, AI

Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby
Penguin Random House, April 20, 2021

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

Of Note: Plate Tectonics of Mind and Culture

Imaginology by Stephen T. Asma
Aeon, May 26, 2022

March
,
2023
Creativity
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Book

A Rare and Nourishing Feast

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004 - 2021 by Margaret Atwood
Doubleday Books, March 1, 2022

February
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Article

Beyond Employee Surveys

Want to Retain IT Staff? Start with Stay Interviews by Robert Sidford and Dr. Lisa Gonzales
Tech & Learning, February 16, 2023

February
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Book

Transfer of Ownership

The Shift to Student-Led: Reimagining Classroom Workflows with UDL and Blended Learning by Caitlin R. Tucker and Katie Novak
IMPress, November 9, 2022

February
,
2023
Teaching Practice
Social-Emotional Learning
Science of Learning
Podcast

A Gift of Wonderment and Concern

This Conversation About the 'Reading Mind' Is a Gift by Ezra Klein and Maryanne Wolf
New York Times, November 22, 2022

February
,
2023
Science of Learning
Teaching Practice
Book

Contradictory and Interdependent

Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems by Wendy K. Smith and Marianne W. Lewis
Harvard Business Review Press, August 9, 2022

February
,
2023
Creativity
Leadership Practice
Article

Identity Seeping Through

Five Ways to Support the Well-Being of School Leaders by Julia Mahfouz, Kathleen King, Danny Yahya
Greater Good Magazine: University of California, Berkeley, September 6, 2022

February
,
2023
Leadership Practice
Article

Of Note: Protective Factors

Teen Girls Report Record Levels of Sadness, CDC Finds” by Azeen Ghorayshiand Roni Caryn Rabin
New York Times, February 13, 2023

Teens Are Struggling Right Now. What Can Parents Do?” by Melinda Wenner Moyer
New York Times, February 20, 2023

American Teens Are Really Miserable. Why?” by Ross Douthat
New York Times, February 18, 2023

February
,
2023
Student Wellness & Safety
Book
Leadership Practice
Book

The Urgency of Action

Learning and Teaching While White: Antiracist Strategies for School Communities by Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi
Norton Professional Books, July 26, 2022

January
,
2023
Teaching Practice
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Article

Overheated Rhetoric

"How social-emotional learning became a frontline in the battle against CRT" by Meg Anderson
All Things Considered, National Public Radio, September 26, 2022

January
,
2023
Social-Emotional Learning
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Book

The Math They are Doing

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl
Corwin Mathematics, October 1, 2020

January
,
2023
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Article

Serious about Play

Learning Through Play at School – A Framework for Policy and Practice by Rachel Parker, Bo Stjerne Thomsen, and Amy Berry
Frontiers in Education, February 17, 2022

January
,
2023
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Article

A Continuum of Competencies

Critiquing Racial Literacy: Presenting a Continuum of Racial Literacies by Laura C. Chavez-Moreno
Educational Researcher, AERA, April 28, 2022

January
,
2023
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Book

The Necessary Ingredient

Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection And Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L. Cohen
W. W. Norton & Company, September 13, 2022

January
,
2023
Social-Emotional Learning
Student Wellness & Safety
Teaching Practice
Article

Of Note: Ashes and Unknowns

The College Essay Is Dead” by Stephen Marche, "The End of High School English" by Daniel Herman, and "The Transcendent Brain" by Alan Lightman
The Atlantic, December 5, 2022 - December 9, 2022

January
,
2023
Creativity
Technology
Teaching Practice
Podcast

For the Winter and Spring to Come

November
,
2022
Teaching Practice
Curriculum
Article

Sadness in View

Why American Teens Are So Sad by Derek Thompson
The Atlantic, April 11, 2022

November
,
2022
Student Wellness & Safety
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Book

Rooms We Did Not Choose

November
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Book

They Must First Feel Understood

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy
HarperCollins, September 13, 2022

November
,
2022
Social-Emotional Learning
Teaching Practice
Podcast

Struggle and Hope

Walks of Life by Kareem Rahma

November
,
2022
Psychology & Human Development
Book

Paradoxical Necessities

Dear Math: Why Kids Hate Math and What Teachers Can Do About It by Sarah Strong and Gigi Butterfield
Times 10 Publications, June 22, 2022

November
,
2022
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Curriculum
Book

Of Note: Plain Speaking about What Matters

November
,
2022
Science of Learning
Social-Emotional Learning
Teaching Practice
Article

Begin (Again) as We Wish to Continue

Back to Basics, Not Back to "Normal" by Eric Hudson
Global Online Academy Insights Blog, August 23, 2022

October
,
2022
Covid-19
Leadership Practice
Social-Emotional Learning
Book

Impossibly Expensive

Counterfeit by Kristen Chen
Harper Collins, June 7, 2022

October
,
2022
DEIJ
Psychology & Human Development
Book

A Marked Lack of Genius

Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn by Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, and Terrence J. Sejnowski
TarcherPerigee, June 15, 2021

October
,
2022
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Article

What are You Good at?

Against Algebra by Temple Grandin
The Atlantic, October 6, 2022

October
,
2022
Teaching Practice
Creativity
Science of Learning
Book

A Space to Rethink

The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930 by Autumn Womack
The University of Chicago Press, April 4, 2022

October
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Teaching Practice
Article

Strategic Learning

"Strategic Planning Should Be a Strategic Exercise" by Graham Kenny
Harvard Business Review, October 4, 2022

October
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Book

Chronic Unrelenting

Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Johns Hopkins University Press, September 20,2022

October
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Teaching Practice
Article

Of Note: Breathing Room for a Change

The Power of Doing Less In Schools by Justin Reich
ASCD Educational Leadership, Vol. 80, No. 2, October 1, 2022

October
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Book

Path Full

Bright Star by Yuyi Morales
Neal Porter Books, September 7, 2021

September
,
2022
DEIJ
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Book

Reflective Practice in School Equity

September
,
2022
DEIJ
Teaching Practice
Podcast

Movement Changes the Brain

Dr. Jennifer Heisz "Move Your Body, Heal Your Mind" by Jonathan Fields
Good Life Podcast, July 14, 2022

September
,
2022
Creativity
Student Wellness & Safety
Science of Learning
Teaching Practice
Book

Not Pie

September
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Book

Counting the Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, August 10, 2021

September
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Article

Teachers, Parents, Students, Citizens

What Is School For? 
New York Times, September 1, 2022

September
,
2022
Covid-19
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Of Note: Considerable Peril

The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be by Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner
MIT Press, March 22, 2022

September
,
2022
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Astonishing Freedom

Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, Translated by Sara Lissa Paulson
Enchanted Lion Books, April 26, 2022

May
,
2022
Curriculum
Creativity
Book

A Necessary Voice

May
,
2022
General
Curriculum
Book

Teach to Reach

May
,
2022
Teaching Practice
Social-Emotional Learning
Curriculum
Article

The Longer History

To Own Whiteness by Musab Younis
London Review of Books, February 10, 2022

May
,
2022
DEIJ
Book

The Textured Reality of Commitment

Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing by Pete Davis
Simon and Schuster, May 4, 2021

May
,
2022
Technology
Psychology & Human Development
Leadership Practice
Article

Circling Around

The Redemption of Frederick Shegog by Eric Hoover
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2022

May
,
2022
Student Wellness & Safety
Psychology & Human Development
Teaching Practice
Report

Depth of Crisis

Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey - United States, January-June 2021 by Adriana Rico et. al
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 1, 2022

May
,
2022
Student Wellness & Safety
Covid-19
Book

Of Note: Dignity Consciousness

Leading with Dignity: How to create a culture that brings out the best in people by Donna Hicks, PhD
Yale University Press, October 8, 2019

May
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Podcast

Sunday Dinner

Truth for Teachers by Angela Watson

April
,
2022
Teaching Practice
Psychology & Human Development
Article

New Tricks

Proof Points: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years by Jill Barshay
The Hechinger Report, March 7, 2022

April
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Book

The Lens of Circularity

April
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Leadership Practice
Curriculum
Book

Inner Harness

April
,
2022
Psychology & Human Development
Report

Further Consensus

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

April
,
2022
Covid-19
Current Events & Civic Engagement
DEIJ
Article

Quieter Context

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

April
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Covid-19
Book

Of Note: So Much Depends Upon

April
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Leadership Practice
Book

Join the Attention Rebellion

March
,
2022
Student Wellness & Safety
Science of Learning
Psychology & Human Development
Article

Better than We Are

“The Grown-Ups Are Losing It” by George Packer 
The Atlantic, March 10, 2022

March
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Covid-19
Teaching Practice
Book

Complicated and Critical

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

March
,
2022
DEIJ
Teaching Practice
Leadership Practice
Book

A Higher Standard for Grading

Making Grades Matter: Standards-Based Grading in a Secondary PLC by Matt Townsley and Nathan L. Wear
SolutionTree, March 13, 2020

March
,
2022
Teaching Practice
Science of Learning
Book

The Cost After

The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
Harper, January 26, 2021

March
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Book

Bend and Commit

Bending the Arc Toward Justice: Equity-Focused Practices for Educational Leaders by Jajni Shankar-Brown (Editor)
Information Age Publishing, September 1, 2022

March
,
2022
DEIJ
Leadership Practice
Teaching Practice
Book

Of Note: American Currency

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
Grand Central Publishing, January 18, 2022

March
,
2022
DEIJ
Student Wellness & Safety
Book

Nothing / But the World

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Viking, December 7, 2021

February
,
2022
Covid-19
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Podcast

Optimism Brain

The Case for Believing in Yourself by Dacher Keltner and Shuka Kalantari
Episode 108, The Greater Good Science Center, January 6, 2022

February
,
2022
Science of Learning
Social-Emotional Learning
Teaching Practice
Article

Out of the Vacuum

5 Ways to Teach Climate Change, COVID-19 in Polarized Times by Madeline Will
Education Week, Vol. 41, Issue 14, November 24, 2021

February
,
2022
Covid-19
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Curriculum
Teaching Practice
Podcast

A Unified and Usable Shared Past

"A Story Of Us?" by Ramtin Arablouei, Rund Abdelfatah, Tamim Ansary
NPR's Throughline, February 3, 2022

February
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Curriculum
Book

Budgeting for Change

How Much Does a Great School Cost?: School Economies and School Values by Barbara J. Smith
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., April 1, 2021

February
,
2022
Leadership Practice
Book

A Companion for Reimagining

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

February
,
2022
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Curriculum
Podcast

Of Note: Try on Different Perspectives

Free Range Humans by Jal Mehta and Rod Allen

February
,
2022
Covid-19
Student Wellness & Safety
Teaching Practice
Leadership Practice
Book

To Live, To Heal

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Scribner, September 1, 2021

January
,
2022
Student Wellness & Safety
Article

Avoiding the Winner Mentality

January
,
2022
DEIJ
Current Events & Civic Engagement
Teaching Practice
Podcast

Curiosity through Care

January
,
2022
Psychology & Human Development
Teaching Practice
Article

The Right Question

The Question We've Stopped Asking About Teen-Agers and Social Media by Cal Newport
The New Yorker, November 9, 2021

January
,
2022
Student Wellness & Safety
Technology