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Recent Books I've Read

The Interpretation of Dreams
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A Confederacy of Dunces
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
The World Without Us
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Embedded Formative Assessment
The Ethics of Excellence
Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere
The Control of Nature
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship--and What We Can Do About It
Leading Change [with a New Preface]
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine
The Old Man and the Sea
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
The 20Time Project: How educators can launch Google's formula for future-ready innovation


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Books I'm Reading

And What Do You Mean by Learning?
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator
Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization


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Books I Need to Read

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
From Master Teacher to Master Learner
The Metamorphosis
Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected
Running with Scissors
Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings
Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms: Essential Practices for Developing Academic Language and Disciplinary Literacy
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Make Lemonade
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Making Thinking Visible
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Third Teacher
The Wisdom of Crowds
Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea


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