Recommended Book Picks
from Janet Thomson

Classics

                  Cotton, Kathleen. (2001). Research You Can Use to Improve Results. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

                  Fogel. (November, 1999). The Fourth Great Awakening. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

                  Goldberg, Eichonon. (2003). The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. New York.

                  Fullan, Michael, with Suzanne Stiegelbauer. 2nd Ed. The New Meaning of Educational

Change. New York:  Teachers College Press, 1991.

                  Gardner, Howard. (1999). Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century. New York, NY: Basic Books.

                  Gould, Stephen Jay. (1981). The Mismeasure of Man. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

                 Hord, Shirley, et al.  Taking Charge of Change. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1987.

                 James, Jennifer. Thinking in the Future Tense: A Workout For the Mind. NewYork:

Simon & Schuster, 1997.

                  Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. (2005). Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything.  New York: William Morrow.

                  Kriegel, Robert, and David Brandt. Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers: Paradigm-

Busting Strategies For Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations. New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1996.

                  Marzano, Robert et al. (2003).  Transforming Classroom Grading. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

                  National Research Council. (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. Available free online.

                  **Olson, Steve. (2002). Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins.  Boston: Mariner Books.

                  Shaywitz, Sally. (2003).  Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program For Reading Problems At Any Level.  New York:

                  Strauss, William, and Neil Howe. The Fourth Turning:  An American Prophecy. New

York: Broadway Books.  (Also see related Web Site:<www.thefourthturning.com>). 1997.

                  Taulbert, Clifton. (1997). Eight Habits of the Heart. New York: Penguin Books.

                 Truss, Lynne. (2004). Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. New York: Gotham Books.

                  Utley, Robert M. (1993).  The Lance And The Shield: The Life And Times of Sitting Bull.  New York: Henry Holt and Company.

                  Wilson, Edward O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Recommended Books For
Educators & Students!

                  Ayers, Rick and Amy Crawford. ( ). Great Books for High School Kids: A Teachers’ Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

                  Bauer, Joan. (2001). Hope Was Here.    New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

                  Creech, Sharon. Walks Two Moons. New York: HarperTrophy, 1994. (1995 Newbery Medal)

                  Creech, Sharon. (2001 Newbery Honor Book). The Wanderer. New York: HarperCollins.

                  Fischer, David Hackett. ((1994). Paul Revere’s Ride. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

                   Fischer, David Hackett. (2003). Washington’s Crossing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

                  Macauley, David. (1999). The New Way Things Work.

                  Meltzer, Milton. (). Brother Can You Spare A Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1933.

                  Mrazek, Robert J. (1999). Stonewall’s Gold: A Novel. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Griffin.

                  Shorto, Russell. (2004). The Island at the Center of the World. New York: Doubleday.  “The epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America.”

                 Stevens, Janet.Tops & Bottoms.  San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995