Recommended Reading for Educators

 

  • #FULLYCHARGED, Julie Adams, PJ Caposey, Rosa Isiah

  • The Teenage Brain, Frances Jensen

  • Manage Your Time or Time Will Manage You, PJ Caposey

  • The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor

  • The Power of Positive Leadership, Jon Gordon

  • Chop Wood, Carry Water, Joshua Medcalf

  • Your Child’s Growing Mind, Jane Healy

  • What Connected Educators Do Differently, Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, Jimmy Casas

  • Game Changers-7 Instructional Practices that Catapult Student Achievement, Julie Adams

  • Drive, by Daniel Pink

  • Building a Culture of Support-Strategies for School Leaders, PJ Caposey

  • The Power of Branding, Tony Sinanis, Joe Sanfelippo

  • The God-Shaped Brain, Timothy Jennings

  • Teach Smart, PJ Caposey, Todd Whitaker

  • The Flip Side, Flip Flippen

  • Who Switched Off Your Brain?, Caroline Leaf

  • Open Leadership, Charlene Li

  • The Six Secrets of Change, Michael Fullan

  • Man Down, Dan Abrams

  • Principals and Student Achievement, Kathleen Cotton

  • Focus, Mike Schmoker

  • Teach Like a Pirate, Dave Burgess

  • Wooden on Leadership, John Wooden

  • Jump Into Literacy, Rae Pica

  • Developing the Leaders Around You, John C. Maxwell

  • Digital Leadership, Eric Sheninger

  • Teaching Smarter with the Brain in Focus, Sarah Armstrong

  • The Founding Fathers on Leadership, Donald Phillips

  • Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home & School, John Medina

  • Accountability for Learning-How Teachers & School Leaders Can Take Charge, Douglas B. Reeves

  • Secrets of the Teenage Brain, Research-Based Strategies for Reaching & Teaching Adolescents, Sheryl Feinstein

  • The Primal Teen, Barbara Strauch

  • Learning to Lead, Bennis & Goldsmith

  • The Shallows-What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr

  • The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman

  • The Leadership Brain for Dummies, Marilee Sprenger

  • Man Down, Dan Abrams

  • The Principal, Michael Fullan

  • Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning, Judy Willis

  • The Instructional Leader's Guide to Strategic Conversations w/Teachers, Robyn R. Jackson

  • Mindset, Carol Dweck

  • Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Eric Jensen

  • The Learning Leader, Douglas Reeves

  • Hooked-New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting our Children, McIlhaney & Bush

  • When Kids Can’t Read, Grades 6-12, Kylene Beers

  • Classroom Instruction That Works, Robert Marzano

  • Infotext, Karen Feathers

  • Bringing Words to Life, Isabel Beck

  • Real Reading, Real Writing, Donna Topping and Roberta McManus

  • Stuck in the Middle-Helping Adolescents Read & Write in the Content Areas, Donna Topping & Roberta McManus

  • Words, Words, Words, Janet Allen

  • Deeper Reading, Kelly Gallagher

  • Reading & Writing Informational Text in the Primary Grades, Nell Duke

  • Illuminating Texts, Jim Burke

  • Music with the Brain in Mind, Eric Jensen

EXCELLENT WORKBOOKS for STUDENTS

  • Teaching Academic Vocabulary Effectively, Part I, Julie Adams

  • Teaching Academic Vocabulary Effectively, Part II, Julie Adams

  • Teaching Academic Vocabulary Effectively, Part III, Julie Adams

  • PDP Cornell Notes, Julie Adams

  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens workbook and book, Sean Covey

  • Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens Journal, Richard Carlson

  • The Anxiety Workbook for Teens, Lisa Schab