Superintendent's Reading List
Below are some of my favorite books that have taught me lessons on teaching, learning and leadership:
Leadership
100-Day Leaders: Turning Short-term Wins Into Long-Term Success in Schools, Douglas Reeves
Leading with Soul, by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
Good to Great, by Jim Collins
Leading Change in Schools, Douglas Reeves
Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy, Paul Bloomberg and Barb Pitchford
10 Mindframes for Leaders: The Visible Learning Approach for School Success, John Hattie
The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Instruction
Visible Learning (and all related Visible Learning books), John Hattie
Quality Implementation: Leveraging Collective Efficacy to Make "What Works" Actually Work
The Learning Power Approach: Teaching Learners to Teach Themselves, Guy Claxtton
Classroom Instruction that Works, by Robert Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock
Results Now, by Mike Schmoker
What Works in Schools: Translating Research Into Action, Robert J. Marzano
The Distance Learning Playbook, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
Equity
Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity: The Keys to Successful Equity Implementation, Floyd Cobb
Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices: Building a Culture of Equity, Connection and Healing, Marisol Quevedo Rerucha
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, Heather McGee
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity: A Leader's Guide to Using Data to Change Hearts and Minds, Edward A. Fergus
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, Zaretta L. Hammond
Latest Reads: I am an eclectic reader...fiction, non-fiction, science fiction and historical fiction : )
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Courting Mr. Lincoln. Louis Bayard
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates
1984, George Orwelll
Spooky Little Girl, Laurie Notaro
The Less People Know About Us, Axton Betz-Hamilton
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, Robert Kolker
Radium Girls, Kate Moore
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Educated, Tara Westover
How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot