Are you gearing up for your summer reading? Don’t hit the beach with an empty Kindle or tote bag! If you’re looking for something to challenge, stimulate, or entertain you, we’ve got 20 suggestions for your summer reading list. Enjoy!
20 innovative books for your summer reading list
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Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn |
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Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative |
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Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education |
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What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media |
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Natural Learning for a Connected World: Education, Technology, and the Human Brain |
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Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning |
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Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education |
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Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools–Now and in the Future |
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain |
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Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? (Series on School Reform) (The Series on School Reform) |
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The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age |
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Net Smart: How to Thrive Online |
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Innovate! |
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Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P |
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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do about It |
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Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners |
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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms |
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The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (Multicultural Education) |
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Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World |
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The Hunger Games |
What are you reading?
Are you planning to read something that didn’t make our list? Tell us in the comments!
I’ve got 3: Shifting the Monkey by Todd Whitaker, Pathways to the Common Core by Calkins, Lehman, and Ehrenworth, and Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. Going to try to read the Teaching 2030 book & Wagner book, too!
Great list. Thanks!
I have a couple:
-Dancing about Architecture: A Little Book of Creativity by Phil Beadle
-A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
-Stop Stealing Dreams by Seth Godin (free PDF download)
If you don’t have time for Seth’s manifesto, I have an abridged version of my own making: http://sonyaterborg.com/imagine-a-school/
Totally adding Godin’s eBook to my list! How could I forget it??? Thanks for the reminder, Sonya.
No worries. I love it. I read it twice and then read it aloud to my husband (he LOVED that!) Imagine by Jonah Lehrer is awesome, as is Wagner’s Creating Innovators. This is an awesome list!
I love ‘Imagine A School’ !
Innovate is one of the easiest books to read, and packed with big ideas you can’t miss. The world is flat for schools is also brilliant and really makes you think.
This is excellent list. Thank you. Also I enjoy Hunger Games.
5 down and 15 more to go… Thanks for the list 🙂
I’d add Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown’s “A new culture of learning” to this already excellent list.
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Many thanks ,Felicia