Books That Influence 1. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman 2. In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms by Brooks & Brooks 3. The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards” by Alfie Kohn 4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell 5. A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age by Daniel Pink 6. The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons from America from a Small School in Harlem by Deborah Meier 7. College Knowledge: What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready by David Conley 8. Horace’s Compromise/Horace’s School/Horace’s Hope by Theodore Sizer 9. Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools by Meier and Sizer 10. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School by National Research Council 11. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil 12. Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 by Cris Tovani 13. I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani 14. Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares about Education by Peter Senge 15. Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn 16. Following the Brush by John Elder 17. Thinking Visually . . . by Oliver Caviglioli 18. A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools by David Hyerle 19. Cognitive Coaching by Arthur L. Costa 20. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt 21. Learning Along the Way by Diane Sweeney