Recommended Books:
- High Impact Instruction by Jim Knight
- Leaders of Their Own Learning by Burger, et. al
- Reflective Practice to Improve Schools by York-Barr, et. al
- Making Classroom Assessment Work by Anne Davies
- Leading Through Quality Questions by Walsh & Sattes
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Thinking Through Quality Questioning: Deepening Student Engagement by Walsh & Sattes
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Quality Questioning: Research-Based Practice to Engage Every Learner by Walsh & Sattes
- Finding Time-Valerie VonFrank
- To Sell is Human-Daniel Pink
- Teachers Working Together by Judith Warren Little
Our Blogulty Lounge: Who Informs Our Practice AES list
The 100 Best Children’s and YA Mysteries of the Past 10 Years
21 Books From the Last Five Years That Every Woman Should Read Huffington Post
30 of the Best Books to Teach Children Empathy
51 Books Every Child Should Read (not your mother’s book list)
7 Books That Teach Kids About Social Justice and Activism
Teaching Social Justice: 25 Books to Encourage Students to Change the World
100 Books Every Teacher Should Read
What your teacher book club should read
PTCnet List of Books from survey: The title of my favorite book on leadership – (educational leadership or leadership in general).
The Principal by Michael Fullan
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Solving Tough Problems by Adam Kahane
Creating Innovators – Tony Wagner
‘South’- Ernest Shackleton
The Contemporary Servant as Leader – Kent M Keith
James MacGregor Burns – LEADERSHIP
Dare to Serve by Cheryl Bachelder
Rethinking educational leadership: From improvement to transformation by John West Burnham
Start With Why – Simon Sinek
Sustainable Leadership – Andy Hargreaves & Dean Fink
Adaptive Schools Handbook 3rd edition
Multipliers – Liz Wiseman
Coaching With The Brain In Mind: Foundations for Practice – David Rock and Linda J. Page, PhD.
If you don’t feed the teachers- they eat the students, guide to success for administrators and teachers by Neila A. Conors
The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
Legacy: What the All Blacks can teach us about the business of life. 15 Lessons in Leadership. By James Kerr.
Beyond Measure by Margaret Heffernan
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Shifting the Monkey
What’s Worth Fighting For in the Principalship? by Fullan
Michael Fullan – Leading in a Culture of Cahnge
Title: Leadership Tripod: A New Model for Effective Leadership Author: Dr. Al Long
What Great Principals Do Differently: Eighteen Things That Matter Most by Todd Whitaker
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t (Robert I. Sutton)
My favorite leadership book always seems to be the one that I’m currently reading! Doesn’t that always seem to be the case? If I had to choose, Grit by Angela Duckworth
The Art of Coaching Leaders of Learning
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Patrick Lencioni
From Good to Great by Jim Collins
Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Leadership matters (Andy Buck)
Believer by David Axelrod
Reframing Organisations – Bolman and Deal An academic book, but very powerful. They have written a less intense book, Academic Leadership, also worth checking out.
Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders by Pete Hall & Alisa Simeral
Creating Cultures of Thinking
Good to Great; Emotional Intelligence
5 levels of leadership from John Maxwell
From Good to Great
Learning by Doing, Richard Dufour et al.
Ken O’Connors -15 Fixes for broken grades.
The Art of School Leadership by Thomas Hoerr
Leading in a culture of change – Michael Fullan
