Resources: Books

Education

• Education Unbound by Frederick M. Hess
• The Students Are Watching by Nancy Faust Sizer
• The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner
• The Last Drop Out: Stop the Epidemic! by Bill Milliken
• Reinventing Public Education by Paul Hill
• Education Nation by Milton Chen
• College and Career Ready by David Conley
• Liberating Learning by John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe
• Educational Research by Bill Dagget
• Core-Plus Mathematics by James Fay
• Education and Information Studies by Doug Kellner
• Authentic Education by Grant Wiggins

EdTech

• Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology by Allan Collins and Rick Halverson
• Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen
• Architects of Achievement: Building Patterns for Small School Learning by Victoria Bergsagel, Tim Best, Kathleen Cushman, David Stephen, Lorne McConachie, and Wendy Sauer
• The Edupunks’ Guide by Anya Kamenetz
• Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark
• Born Digital by Palphrey and Glasser

Schools

• Horaces Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School by Ted Sizer
• The Power of Their Ideas: Lesson for America From a Small School in Harlem by Deborah Meier
• Schools That Learn by Peter Senge
• North Carolina New Schools Project by Tony Habit
• Schlechty Center Tools for Change by Phil Schlechty

Organizational Effectiveness

• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving With Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
• School Scheduling Associates by Robert Lynn Canady and Michael D. Rettig
• The Marzano Research Laboratory by Robert Marzano

Systems/Strategy

• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen
• Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter
• Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Leadership

• Leadership is an Art by Max De Pree
• The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
• Catching Up or Leading the Way by Yong Zhao
• Lead and Learn by Larry Ainsworth
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell
• The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
• In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
• Management by Peter Drucker
• A Force For Change by John P. Kotter
• John Adams by David McCullough
• Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

Globalization

• The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
• That Used to be Us by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• The World Is Open by Curt Bonk
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink
• Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
• Development as a Freedom by Amartya Sen
• Which World by Allen Hammond
• Culture Matters by Lawrence Harrington and Samuel Huntington
• Fourth Turning & Millennials by William Strauss and Neil Howe
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree & Longitudes and Latitudes by Thomas L. Friedman

Poetry

• Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
• The Heart Aroused by David Whyte
• Early Morning by William Stafford
• New and Collected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
• Poems New and Collected  by Wislawa Szymborska
• The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence 
• Teaching With Fire by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner

Science

• Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
• Art & Physics by Leonard Shlain
• The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra
• The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand
• Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
• For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
• The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
• The Elegant Universe by David Greene
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

You

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaley Csikszentmihalyi
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
• Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner
• Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet by Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikzentmihaly and William Damon
• Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
• The Reinvention of Work by Matthew Fox

Motivation

• Drive by Daniel Pink
• Mindset by Carol Dweck