Welcome to the Chenango Forks Professional Development Library. These summaries are available to anyone, but staff of the Chenango Forks Central School District can check out the books from the middle school library. You also may want to browse the shelves to find a book of interest.
Teaching Isn’t Rocket Science, It’s Way More Complex: What’s Wrong With Education and How to Fix Some of It by Doug Green – This one is currently not in the library, but it is available from Amazon.
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn by Oakley, Rogowsky, and Sejnowski
The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive by Ulcca Joshi Hansen
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer
Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students’ Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching by Jo Boaler
Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey
Test-and-Punish: How the Texas Education Model Gave America Accountability Without Equity by John Kuhn
Flip Your Classroom by Jonathan Bergmann and Arron Sams http://bit.ly/2hbNrPs
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
The Myths of Standardized Testing: Why They Don’t Tell You What You Think They Do by Phillip Harris, Bruce Smith, & Joan Harris
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World by Yong Zhao
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson
Better Than College by Blake Boles
QUIET: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Finnish: Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland by Pasi Sahlberg
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Arum & Roksa
- 50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education by David C. Berliner, Gene Glass, and Associates
- A Guide for Interprofessional Collaboration Edited by Aidyn Iachini, Laura Bronstein, and Elizabeth Mellin
- A New Culture Of Learning: What will define the 21st Century
- Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
- After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform by Andrea Gabor
- All Hands On Deck - Culture Trumps Strategy - Joe Thy
- Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other
- Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future and Locked Us In
- AP: A Critical Examination of the AP Program Harvard Ed. Press
- APE: How To Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welsh
- Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
- Bad at Math: Dismantling Harmful Beliefs That Hinder Equitable Mathematics Education by Lidia Gonzalez
- Ball or Bands: Football vs Music as an Educational and Community Investment by John Gerdy
- Be Excellent On Purpose: Intentional Strategies for Impactful Leadership by Sanée Bell
- Better By Mistake - Improve your life and performance by Alina Tugend
- Better Than College: How to Build a Better Life Without a Four-Year Degree by Blake Boles
- Beyond Cut-and-Paste - Jamie McKenzie
- Blink - Vintage Gladwell
- Blogging for Educators: Writing for Professional Learning by Starr SackStein
- Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein
- Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
- Brain-Powered Science Reform Your Science Program
- Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
- Bull Spotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation by Loren Collins
- Can You Learn to Be Lucky? Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others by Karla Staff
- Catching Up or Leading the Way Yong Zhao
- Class Rank Weighs Down True Learning by Thomas R. Guskey
- Code Breaker: Increase Creativity, Remix Assessment, and Develop a Class of Coder Ninjas! by Brian Aspinall
- Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Outcomes by Yong Zhao & Friends
- Creating A New Teacher Profession - edited by Goldhaber & Hannaway
- Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World - by Tony Wagner
- Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education by Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
- Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling: Curriculum, Teaching, and Socio-Political Realities by Kenneth Teitelbaum
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- Dear Math: Why Kids Hate Math and What Teachers Can Do About It by Sarah Strong & Gigi Butterfield
- Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, Heath Bros.
- Denialism - Irrational Thinking is Common - Michael Specter
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
- Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times by Eric Sheninger
- Discipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher - by Julia Thompson
- Ditch That Textbook by Matt Miller
- Do You Know Enough About Me to Teach Me? A Student’s Perspective by Stephen G. Peters
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink - Updated Summary
- Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves (the book can be found here)
- Everything I Know About Business I Learned From MONOPOLY: Successful Executives Reveal Strategic Lessons From the World's Greatest Board Game by Alan Axelrod
- Evolving Learner: Shifting from Professional Development to Professional Learning From Kids, Peers, and the World by Lainie Rowell, Kristy Andre, and Lauren Steinmann
- Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
- Failure of the Standards Movement - Research and Opinion by Larry Stedman
- Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling by Alfie Kohn
- Finnish Lessons - What We Can Learn
- Fixing Special Education: 12 Steps to Transform a Broken System by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman
- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too by Christopher Emdin
- Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner
- Free: The Future of a Radical Price - Chris Anderson
- From Teacher to Leader: Finding Your Way as a First-Time Leader—Without Losing Your Mind by Starr Sackstein
- Future Care - Book Summary
- Future Driven: Will Your Students Thrive In An Unpredictable World? by David Geurin
- Get It Done: The 21-day Mind Hack System to Double Your Productivity and Finish What You Start by Michael Mackintosh
- Girls and S*x: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
- Grading, Reporting, Graduating...and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman
- Grasp: The Science of Transforming How We Learn by Sanjay Sarma with Luke Yoquinto
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World - Book Summary
- Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways To Go Gradeless In a Traditional Grades School by Starr Sackstein
- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom by Shelly Sanchez Terrell
- Hacking Project-Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom by Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy
- Hacking Your Education by Dale J. Stephens
- Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning by Scott McLeod and Julie Graber
- Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why by Paul Tough
- How luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life by Janice Kaplan and Barnaby Marsh
- How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger, M.D. with Gene Stone
- How To Bake ∏: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
- How To Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World's Most Inspiring Presentations
- How to Tell Liars From Statisticians Robert Hooke
- How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey
- How well are you Connected? - Nicholas Christakis
- IEP & Section 504 Team Meetings...and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman
- Improving Your School One Week at a Time - Jeffrey Zoul
- Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning in the Age of Empowerment
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros with Katie Novak
- Innovation Killer: Are you a Zero-Gravity Thinker? - Cynthia Barton Rabe
- Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count by Richard Nisbett
- Invisible Gorilla Revised Summary
- Kindergarten: A book for teachers and parents
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
- Leading School Change: 9 Strategies to Bring Everybody on Board
- Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers by Jo Boaler
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
- Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries by Peter Sims
- Living Large - Is Bigger Really Better? by Sarah Wexler
- Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath & Karla Starr
- Managing the Millennials - Revised in my new format
- MATH-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics by Jo Boaler
- Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching by Jo Boaler
- Mindset by Carol Dweck - Revised Summary
- Moonshots In Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom by Esther Wojcicki and Lance Izumi
- Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes by Yong Zhao, Gaoming Zhang, Jing Lei, and Wei Qiu
- New Math - New Technology = Failure by Elizabeth Green
- Now You See It by Cathy Davidson
- Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children Revised
- On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting by Thomas R. Guskey
- Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative by Sir Ken Robinson
- Outliers: Gladwell's 3rd Mega Hit - Revised Summary
- Over Schooled But Under Educated - Why treat adolescence as a disease.
- Paying Attention: Great Communication Tips
- Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to be the Experts by Starr Sackstein
- Personality Poker: Driving High-Performane Teamwork and Innovation by Stephen Shapiro
- Plays Well With Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
- Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All - Vital Book
- Practically Radical - Not-So-Crazy ways to transform your organization
- Preparing Students for a Project-Based World by Bonnie Lathram, Bob Lenz, and Tom Vander Ark
- Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques by Laura DeSena
- Preventing Polarization: 50 Strategies for Teaching Kids About Empathy, Politics, and Civic Responsibilty by Michelle Blanchet & Brian Deters
- Propaganda and Persuasion - Book Summary Learn how to avoid being manipulated
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can’t Stop Talking
- Reach - Building Communities & Networks for Professional Development
- Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children by Yong Zhao
- Readicide - How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher
- Reframing Organizations - Lee Bolman & Terrance Deal
- Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
- Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley - Making AI Serve Us All by Kevin Scott
- Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education: Critical Perspective on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
- School-Linked Services: Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities by Laura Bronstein and Susan Mason
- Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent by Amy Adele Hasinoff
- Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
- SMART Strengths: Building Character, Resilience, and Relationships in Youth
- Social Pollination - Manage your social media effort - Monica O'Brien
- Special Education 2.0: Breaking Taboos to Build a NEW Education Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman
- Standing and Delivering - The Principal's Story
- Staying Sharp: 9 Keys for a Youthful Brain Through Modern Science and Ageless Wisdom by Henry Emmons and David Alter
- STEM by Design: Strategies and Activities for Grades 4-8 by Anne Jolly
- Student Voice: Student Engagement Tips from Students: Free eBook
- Student-Led Assessment
- SuperFreakonomics Levitt & Dubner
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath
- Take Control of the Noisy Class: From Chaos to Calm in 15 Seconds by Rob Pelvin
- Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy by Domingo Morel
- Talent is Overrated - Try hard work - Geoff Colvin
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms by Timothy D. Walker
- Teaching Isn't Rocket Science, It's Way More Complex: What's Wrong With Education and How to Fix Some of It by Doug Green
- Teaching Outside the Lines: Developing Creativity in Every Learner by Doug Johnson
- Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It by Eric Jensen
- Test-and-Punish: How the Texas Education Model Gave America Accountability Without Equity by John Kuhn
- Thank You for Listening by Marc Wong
- That's Special: A Survival Guide to Teaching by Dan Henderson
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood I Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
- The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life by Anya Kamenetz
- The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
- The Classroom Teacher's Technology Survival Guide
- The Click Moment by Frans Johansson
- The Connected Educator - Book Summary
- The Diffusion of Innovation, 5th ed by Everett Rogers
- The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith
- The Educator And The Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges The Gates Foundation by Anthony Cody
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson
- The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási
- The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive by Ulcca Joshi Hansen
- The Gamer Generation by Jennifer Wagner
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation: Eight Phases of Growth to Instructional Rigor by Amy M. Dujon
- The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today by Kevin Horsley and Louis Fourie
- The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
- The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
- The Knowledge GAP: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System and How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler
- The Leadership Mind Switch: Rethinking How We Lead In the New World of Work by D. A. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford
- The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
- The Man's Guide to Corporate Culture: A Practical Guide to the New Normal and Relating to Female Co-Workers in the Modern Workplace by Heather Zumarraga
- The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
- The Myths of Standardized Testing - Short Summary
- The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
- The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton
- The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip and Dan Heath
- The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel Pink
- The Principal as Instructional Leader: A Practical Handbook by Sally Zepeda
- The Progress Principle: Breakthrough Leadership Ideas
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- The Reading Workout: A 30-Day Plan That Turns Teenagers into Readers by Chris Beatty
- The School Mission Statement - My 70th Book Summary
- the smartest kids in the world: and how they got that way by Amanda Ripley
- The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
- The Teachers: a Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins
- The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing - But You Don't Have to Be by Anya Kamenetz
- The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better by Daniel Koretz
- The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
- The World Is Flat Release 3.0 Summary
- The World Is Open - Curtis Bonk
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
- Think Like a Freak by Levitt & Dubner
- Thinking Fast and Slow How Your Brain Thinks
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel Pink
- Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
- Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division - Anthony Muhammed
- Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel
- Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer
- Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath
- Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College by Becky Munsterer Sabky
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