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Resources

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. -- Lemony Snicket

In addition to the texts I use to host book clubs for parents five evenings each school year, I recommend the following books.

**Denotes a book I would recommended for parents as well as teachers

Child Development and Parenting

  • Carlisle Solomon, Deborah. Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE Way. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 2013. Print.**
  • Christakis, Erika. The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups. New York: Viking. 2016. Print.**
  • Daum, Meghan. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. London: Picador. 2016. Print.**​
  • Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. New York: Scribner. 2012. Kindle.**​
  • Gray, Peter. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. New York: Basic Books. 2013. Print.**​​
  • Holt, John. How Children Learn. New York: Da Capo Press. 2009. Kindle.**
  • ​Lanza, Mike. Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play. Menlo Park: Free Play Press. 2012. Print.**
  • Mohr Lone, Jana. The Philosophical Child. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2015. Print.**
  • Shumaker, Heather. It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids. New York: Tarcher. 2012. Print.**
  • Tough, Paul. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012. Print.​​

Children's Rights and Equity Issues

  • Cohen, Howard. Equal Rights for Children. Totowa: Littlefield, Adams and Co. 1980. Print.
  • Goyal, Nikhil. Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice. New York: Doubleday. 2016. Print.
  • Holt, John. Escape From Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children. Medford: HoltGWS LLC. 2013. Kindle.
  • Sprung, Barbara. Non-Sexist Education for Young Children: A Practical Guide. New York: Citation Press. 1975. Print.
  • Sylvester, Paul Skilton. "Teaching and Practice: Elementary School Curricula and Urban Transformation." Harvard Educational Review. Harvard Education Publishing Group. 1994. Print. 2010. Online. 23 May 2013.
  • Wardy, Melissa Atkins. Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 2014. Print.**​

Classroom and School Design

  • Greenberg, Daniel. Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School. Framingham: Sudbury Valley School Press. 1995. Print.
  • Henderson, Anne T. Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships. New York: The New Press. 2007. Print.**
  • Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara. The Essential Conversation: What Teachers and Parents Can Learn from Each Other. New York: Ballantine Books. 2004. Print.**
  • Lit, Ira W. The Bus Kids: Children's Experiences with Voluntary Desegregation. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2009. Print.
  • Meier, Deborah. The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem. New York: Beacon Press. 2002. Print.
  • Sizer, Theodore R. and Nancy Faust Sizer. The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract. Boston: Beacon Press. 2000. Print.​

Classroom Read Alouds

  • Dahl, Roald. D Is for Dahl. London: Puffin. 2007. Print.
  • Fletcher, Ralph. Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid. New York: Collins. 2005. Print.
  • Gray-Kanatiiosh, Barbara A. The Ohlone. Edina: ABDO. 2002. Print.
  • Kelley, True. Who Was Roald Dahl? New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 2012. Print.
  • Williams, Jack S. The Library of Native Americans: The Ohlone of California. New York: Rosen Publishing Group. 2003. Print.​

Deeper Learning and Project-Based Learning

  • Berger, Ron. An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students. Portsmouth: Heinemann. 2003. Print.**
  • Berger, Ron, Leah Rugen, and Libby Woodfin. Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 2014. Print.
  • Berger, Ron, Libby Woodfin, and Anne Vilen. Learning That Lasts: Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 2016. Print.
  • ​Hallerman, Sara, John Larmer, and John R. Mergendoller. PBL in the Elementary Grades. Novato: Buck Institute for Education. 2011. Print.
  • Lenz, Bob, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston. Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 2015. Print.
  • Levy, Steven. Starting From Scratch: One Classroom Builds Its Own Curriculum. Portsmouth: Heinemann. 1996. Print.
  • Maker Ed. Open Portfolio Project Research Brief Series. Oakland: Maker Ed. 2015. Online 30 July 2015.
  • Patton, Alec. Work That Matters: The Teacher's Guide to Project-Based Learning. London: Paul Hamlyn Foundation. 2012. Online. 23 May 2013.
  • Vander Ark, Tom and Carri Schenider. Deeper Learning: For Every Student Every Day. Getting Smart. 2014. Online. 22 Jan 2015.​

Social-Emotional Learning

  • Costello, Bob. Restorative Circles in Schools: Building Community and Enhancing Learning. Bethlehem: International Institute for Restorative Practices. 2010. Print.
  • Costello, Bob. The Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers, Disciplinarians, and Administrators. Bethlehem: International Institute for Restorative Practices. 2009. Print.
  • Gibbs, Jeanne. Reaching All by Creating Tribes Learning Communities. Windsor: CenterSource Systems, LLC. 2006. Print.​

Professional Development and Teaching Practice

  • The d.school. Bootcamp Bootleg. Stanford: The d.school. 2011. Online. 18 January 2014.
  • Glasser, William. Choice Theory in the Classroom. New York: Harper Perennial. 1998. Print.
  • Glasser, William. Schools Without Failure. New York: Harper Perennial. 1975. Print.
  • Grant, Adam. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. New York: Viking. 2016. Print.
  • Hattie, John. Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn. New York: Routledge. 2013. Kindle.
  • IDEO. Design Thinking for Educators. Palo Alto: IDEO. 2013. Online. 18 January 2014.
  • Kleon, Austin. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. Austin: Workman Publishing Company. 2014. Kindle.
  • Kleon, Austin. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. Austin: Workman Publishing Company. 2012. Kindle.
  • McKeown, Greg. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. New York: Crown Business. 2014. Print.
  • Stone, Douglas. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well. New York: Viking. 2014.​

Teaching Profession

  • Botstein, Leon. Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture. New York: Doubleday. 1997. Print.
  • Deresiewicz, William. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. New York: Free Press. Kindle.**
  • Godin, Seth. Stop Stealing Dreams: What Is School For?. 2012. Online. 7 April 2014.**
  • Goldstein, Dana. The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession. New York: Random House. 2014. Kindle.**
  • Green, Katherine. Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2014. Kindle.
  • Kahlenberg, Richard D. Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battle Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy. New York: Columbia. 2009. Print.
  • Keizer, Garret. Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher. New York: Picador. 2015. Print.**
  • Ravitch, Diane. Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools. New York: Random House. 2013 Kindle.

Writing Instruction

  • Fletcher, Ralph. How to Write Your Life Story. New York: Collins. 2007. Print.
  • Fox, Roy. Facing the Sky: Composing Through Trauma. Anderson: Parlor Press. 2015. Print.
  • Stock, Gregory. The Kids' Book of Questions. New York: Workman Publishing. 2004. Print.​​​

I also recommend the following videos and podcasts.

Films

  • August to June. Dir. Tom and Amy Valens. Tamalpais, 2011. Film.
  • The Hobart Shakespeareans. Dir. Mel Stuart. PBS, 2005. Film.
  • Most Likely to Succeed. Dir. Greg Whiteley. One Potato Productions, 2015. Film.
  • On the Path. Steven Levy. Burlington: Vanguard Video, 1996. Film. Available for purchase directly from Steven Levy.
  • The Voyage of Pilgrims. Steven Levy. Santa Monica: New American Schools Development Corporation, 1992. Film. Available for purchase directly from Steven Levy.

Bloggingheads.tv

  • Mark Oppenheimer and Daniel Greenberg on Sudbury Schools (January 2015)
  • Glenn Loury and William Deresiewicz on Higher Education (September 2014)
  • Conor Friedersdorf and Freddie deBoer on Education Reform (July 2014)
  • Dana Goldstein, Kevin Carey, and Aryeh Cohen-Wade on Education Reform (April 2014)
  • Glenn Loury and Roland Fryer on Education Reform (December 2013)
  • ​Conor Friedersdorf and Freddie deBoer on Higher Education and the Economy (January 2013)
  • Glenn Loury and Brink Lindsey on Education Reform (August 2012)
  • Conor Friedersdorf and Phoebe Connelly on Student Work and Parenting (July 2012)
  • Conor Friedersdorf and Jim Manzi on Education Reform (May 2012)
  • Conor Friedersdorf and Mark Oppenheimer on Homeschooling (April 2012)
  • Matthew Yglesias and Noah Millman on Education Reform (December 2011)
  • Dana Goldstein and Megan McArdle on Education Reform (January 2011)
  • David Halperin and Katherine Mangu-Ward on Higher Education (Deceber 2010)
  • John McWhorter and Glenn Loury on the Purpose of Education (August 2010)
  • Dana Goldstein and Robert Lerman on Higher Education (June 2010)
  • Dana Goldstein and Matthew Continetti on Education Reform (April 2009)
  • Dana Golstein and Megan McArdle on Education Reform (March 2009)
  • Mark Schmitt and Megan McArdle on Education Reform (November 2007)

Podcasts

  • Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Decide Already! (August 2017)
  • The Weeds: The Bacon Fat Theory of School Segregation, and Some White House Chaos (August 2017)
  • ​Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Dream Jobs (July 2017)
  • Hidden Brain: Deep Work (July 2017)
  • ​Citations Needed: Episode 01: The Charter School Scam (June 2017)
  • ​Hidden Brain: Summer Melt (June 2017)
  • The Ezra Klein Show: Cal Newport on Doing Deep Work and Escaping Social Media (April 2017)
  • ​Stuff You Should Know: Should Advertising to Kids Be Banned? (November 2016)
  • WTF with Marc Maron: Robert Kelly (August 2016)
  • This American Life: The Problem We All Live With (July 2015)
  • The Morning Buzzword: Teaching as a Rational Career Choice (March 2015)
  • How I Teach: Rafe Esquith (March 2015)
  • New Books in Education: Diana Hess on The Political Classroom (February 2015)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Dana Goldstein on The Teacher Wars (December 2014)
  • Education Today: Viet Nguyen on Blended Learning (September 2014)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Elizabeth Green on Building a Better Teacher (August 2014)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Richard Whitmire on On the Rocketship (June 2014)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Sam Chaltain on Our School (June 2014)
  • Education Today: Otis Kriegel on Everything A New Elementary Teacher Really Needs To Know (March 2014)
  • Education Today: Ron Berger on Leaders of Their Own Learning (March 2014)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Amanda Ripley on The Smartest Kids in the World (December 2013)
  • Smart People Podcast: Dan Pink (March 2013)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Tony Wagner on Creating Innovators (March 2013)
  • Ed Next Book Club: David Cohen on Teaching and Its Predicaments (November 2012)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Nate Levinson on Smarter Budgets, Smarter Schools (October 2012)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Paul Tough on How Children Succeed (September 2012)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Peg Tyre on The Good School (January 2012)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Chester Finn's Troublemaker (November 2011)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Paul Peterson on Saving Schools (November 2011)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Rick Hess on The Same Thing Over and Over (August 2011)
  • Ed Next Book Club: Gene Maeroff on School Boards in America (May 2011)

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I believe that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. -- John Dewey
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