Tam District Reads!

Administrators in the Tamalpais Union High School District have read some great books recently. 

Superintendent Laurie Kimbrel is currently reading Fire in the Ashes: 25 Years Among the Poorest Children in America, by Jonathan Kozol. How about you?  Have you read any great books recently?

Here's a partial list of what they've been reading: 

Books about Education and Leadership:

• Leaders of Learning - Richard DuFour & Robert Marzano

• Visible Learning - John Hattie

• The Death & Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education - Diane Ravitch

• Assessing Educational Leaders - Douglas Reeves

• Finding Your Leadership Focus: What Matters Most for Student Results - Douglas Reeves

• Leading Change in Your School - Douglas Reeves

• Student Centered Leadership - Viviane Robinson

• Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning - Mike Schmoker

• Creating Innovators:  The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World - Tony Wagner

Other Non-Fiction

• One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, & a Magical Baseball Season - Chris Ballard

• Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives - Dean Buonomano

• The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us - Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons

• The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World - Wade Davis

• The Essays - Michel de Montaigne

• The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators - Jeff Dyer, et al

• The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War - Peter Englund

• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick

• The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine - Thomas Goetz

• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt

• Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway

• Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son - Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott

• As I Walked out one Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee

• Mastering VMware vSphere 5 - Scott Lowe

• Exchange Server 2010: Unleashed - Rand Morimoto, et al

• Truman - David G. McCullough

• Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life -eredith the Origins of Human Life  Martin Meredith

• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship - Ann Patchett

• Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League - Aaron Pribble

• Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff

Fiction

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

• The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh

• Fall of Giants - Ken Follett

• Crooked Little Heart - Anne Lamott

• Gone, Baby, Gone - Dennis Lehane

• The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka

• La Disparition - Georges Perec

• Swamplandia - Karen Russell

• Stolen Prey - John Sandford

• Homecoming - Bernhard Schlink