Welcome Back to School!!!! I hope that everyone has had an amazing summer. We are looking forward to a productive school year working with each and every one of you!! I have attached a list of great "teacher" books for your own personal interest reading. Please feel free to send me the titles of your favourite MUST READS for educators- whether they are brand new teachers or seasoned veterans, we all need a little reading in our lives!
Educating Esme – Esme Raji Codell
Teacher Man – Frank McCourt
The Promise of a Pencil- Adam Braun
Freedom Writers Diary – Zlata Filipovic
Finding Mrs. Warneke – Cindi Rigsby
Tomorrow is School- Don Sawyer
The Teacher Who Couldn’t Read – John Corcoron
The Accidental Teacher – Eric Mandel
I become a teacher – Cratis Williams
Losing My Faculties – Brendan Halpin
The Emergency Teacher – Christina Asquith
There are no shortcuts Rafe Esquith
Teach like your hair is on fire – Rafe Esquith
Letters to a Young Teacher – Jonathan Kozol Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative- Ken Robinson
Cries from the corridors – Peter McLaren
The Students Are Watching – Theodore Sizer
Ms Hempel Chronicles – Sarah Shun-Lien
Among Schoolchildren – Tracy Kidder
The Passionate Teacher – Robert Fried
The Courage to teach – Parker Palmer
Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key – Jack Gantos
Creating Innovators- Tony Wagner
Why He Leads the way He Leads- Chris Lowney
Teach Like a Champion- Doug Lemov