9.12.2010

Previous Professional Learning Conversations

School Year 2009 - 2010
The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner, 21st century survival skills

Making Learning Whole by David Perkins, teaching for understanding: "It's about the learning!"

Blooms 3.0, technology is an essential tool.


Disrupting Class:  How Disruptive Innovation Will Change How the World Learns by Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and Curtis Johnson:  Learning as we know it, is obsolete.


Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, why we don't do what we say is needed.


Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink, understanding motivation.

School Year 2008 - 2009 
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, and the changed world is changing education

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule The Future by Daniel Pink; is a whole new school needed?

Out of Our Minds by Sir Ken Robinson:  are schools killing creativity?

Five Minds for the Future by Dr. Howard Gardner: varied learners and strengths focus

"Digital Native, Digital Immigrants" by Marc Prensky

What is Your Learning Story? -- setting a path forward that helps us stay ahead

School Year 2007 - 2008
The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating A Generation of Unhappy and Disconnected Children by Madeline Levine

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

Totally Wired: What Tweens and Teens Are Really Doing Online by Anastasia Goodstein

The Path to Purpose Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life by William Damon


Your Child's Strength: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them by Jenifer Fox

Other:
Not Much Just Chillin':  The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers by Linda Perlstein

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