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Welcome to my book shelf. Each of these books has informed my philosophy of school leadership and contributed to my knowledge of teaching and learning. Please stop by if you would like to borrow one or if you have any reading recommendations.

Thanks.

Books That Made Me Smarter
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers will Rule the Future
by Daniel Pink
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
by Clayton Christensen
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven Levit & Stephen Dubner
Good to Great
by Jim Collins
Naked Economics
by Charles Wheelan
Sixteen Trends: Implications for Students, Education, Communities, and the Whole of Society
by Gary Marx
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
by Daniel Goleman
The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen Ambrose
 
Teaching and Learning
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A Handbook for the Art and Science of Teaching
by Robert Marzano
Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement
by Robert Marzano
Classroom Assessment and Grading that Work
by Robert Marzano
Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
by Robert Marzano
Classroom Management that Works: Reasearch-Based Strategies for Every Teacher
by Robert Marzano
EdSpeak: a glossary of education terms, phrases, buzzwords, and jargon
by Diane Ravitch
Mosaic of Thought
by Ellin Oliver Keene & Susan Zimmerman
Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction K-3
by Sharon Vaughn & Sylvia Linan-Thompson
Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning
by Judy Willis
Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning
by Mike Schmoker
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
by David Rose & Anne Meyer
The Art and Science of Teaching
by Robert Marzano
The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners
by Carol Ann Tomlinson
The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher
by Harry Wong
The Universally Designed Classroom: Accessible Curriculum and Digital Technologies
by David Rose
Understanding by Design
by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe
 
PLCs
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Learning by Doing
by Richard DuFour
On Common Ground
by Richard DuFour
Professional Learning Communities at Work
by Richard Dufour
Whatever it Takes
by Richard DuFour
 


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