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The Absorbent Mind: Book Review The Absorbent Mind Maria Montessori Published by: The Theosophical Publishing House, India, 1959 Dr. Maria Montessori’s The Absorbent Mind is a culminating statement of her educational research, discovery and practice based on a series of lectures presented during her internment in India as an enemy alien during the Second World War. A lifelong scholar, Dr. [...] |
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Culture and Imperialism: Book Review Culture and Imperialism Edward Said Published by: Random House, 1993 In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said questions how ideologies and beliefs are formed and put forward for acceptance and adherence. There is no doubt that imperialism and colonialism are inherently bound up in ideological and philosophical notions about cultural or, as Said suggests in this [...] |
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Your Energy Effectively If you are a traditional boarding school master, juggling teaching, coaching, dorm duty, formal dinners and your own family, you know that your free time is in short supply. In the book The Power of Full Engagement, veteran sports psychologists Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz focus on effective management of our most precious resource: our energy. |
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Poke the Box: Transforming and Innovating Schools Through Action Find out why Poke the Box will soon become “hot” in education conversations and a must-read for schools. |
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession By Daniel J. Levitin 336 pp, Penguin Group, New York, New York, 2007 What if there was a free drug, with no threat of addiction, that could make students learn to read and write faster? What if the drug’s side effects were an [...] |
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21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times By Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel 240 pp, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, 2009 One of the best summaries so far of 21st-century skills for educators and parents is in Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel’s new book, 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. As [...] |
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The Case Against Homework The Case Against Homework Author: Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish Published by: Three Rivers, New York, 2007 Does assigning 50 math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas? [...] |
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The Grammar School: Striving for Excellence for 50 Years in a Public School World The Grammar School by Paul W. Bennett Published by: Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2009) After 50 years of ups and downs, Nova Scotia’s Halifax Grammar School seems to remain steadfast in its mission to “inspire the individual student to flourish, to learn, and to serve.” Written by former headmaster Paul W. Bennett, The Grammar School [...] |
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Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto Strategy for Sustainability By Adam Werbach Published by: Harvard Business Press, 2009 I expected Adam Werbach’s Strategy for Sustainability to have an adversarial tone; indeed, it is subtitled A Business Manifesto. After all, Werbach was an activist with Greenpeace, and is a former president of the Sierra Club. So you can imagine my surprise to [...] |
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain Author: John J. Ratey, MD Published by: Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Learning, stress, anxiety, depression, attention deficit disorder and addiction—these are all terms educators are familiar with. Providing parents and educators with tools to effectively deal with these challenges will help sustain the private [...] |
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A Manager’s Guide To Coaching: simple and effective ways to get the best out of your employees A Manager’s Guide To Coaching: simple and effective ways to get the best out of your employees Author: Brian Emerson and Anne Loehr Published by: AMACOM, New York, 2008 Not every one of us has an inner coach desperate to get out and help a stumbling colleague or show a new employee the way. We [...] |
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Under Pressure: rescuing childhood from the culture of hyper-parenting Under Pressure: rescuing childhood from the culture of hyper-parenting Author: Carl Honoré Published by: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 Helicopter parenting, hothouse parenting, death-grip parenting—these terms are all recent additions to the fashionable lexicon of modern-day child rearing. In his new book, Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood From the Culture of Hyper-Parenting, Carl Honoré adds yet another [...] |
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Teach My Kid, I Dare You! Teach My Kid, I Dare You! Author: Sherrel Bergnann, Judith Brough and David Shepard Published by: Eye on Education, 2008 The title of this book, a challenge, is taken from one of the many anecdotes the authors use to engage their readers. Educators often meet with parents who overtly or subtly deliver this challenge. The [...] |
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder Author: Richard Louv Published by: Workman Publishing, 2007 For those of my generation and neighbourhood, tree forts, bicycles, toboggans, shinny ponds and the steadfast, imploring chant “go outside and play” thread through our—albeit, rose-tinted—recollections of childhood. Indeed, those of my era will recall [...] |
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Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature Susan Clayton and Susan Opotow, editors Published by: MIT Press, 2003 From the moment of their birth, babies start exploring in an attempt to learn where they end and the rest of the world begins. We all are aware of the “terrible twos,” when children [...] |
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The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World Author: John Ralston Saul Published by: Penguin, 2005 Blame it on Cuba! Hurricane Dennis had left my daughter and me stranded in Havana. Our stay was now extended and I had nothing to read. Desperate, and confined to the hotel, I scoured the little gift [...] |
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National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling Author: David P. Baker and Gerald K. LeTendre Published by: Stanford University Press, 2005 Thomas L. Friedman’s recent book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century reminds us that we increasingly live in a world without walls. In a similar [...] |
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Kurt Hahn’s Schools & Legacy Kurt Hahn’s Schools & Legacy: To Discover You Can be More and Do More Than You Believed Author: Martin Flavin Published by: Middle Atlantic Press, 1996 Independent educators likely will have heard of Kurt Hahn and may know at least some particulars of the man through various snippets of his thinking—“learning by doing,” “training through [...] |
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What We Know About Successful School Leadership What We Know About Successful School Leadership Author: Kenneth A. Leithwood and Carolyn Riehl Published by: American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2003 This American Educational Research Association (AERA) concludes five major principals about successful school leadership. This research-based document can be sued to guide leadership practice, policy and research. Leadership has significant effects on student [...] |
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The Ethical Teacher The Ethical Teacher Author: Elizabeth Campbell Published by: Open University Press, 2003 Elizabeth Campbell brings experience as a researcher and teacher to her work in The Ethical Teacher. Currently, she is an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her opinions are deeply rooted in both her [...] |
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Teach With Your Heart Teach With Your Heart Author: Erin Gruwell Published by: Broadway, 2008 Picking up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the hit movie The Freedom Writers) left off, this moving, passionate, and genuinely personal memoir brings the reader up to date on the current status of that remarkable group of students from Long Beach, California. This [...] |
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Ethical Leadership Ethical Leadership Author: Robert J. Starratt Published by: Jossey-Bass, 2004 In Ethical Leadership, Robert J. Starratt — professor of education at Boston College and consultant to schools around the globe — writes about three virtues all educational leaders should strive to have. Whether as a classroom teacher or school leader, you will find yourself challenged [...] |
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Character Matters: How to Help Our Children
Develop Good Judgment, Integrity,
and Other Essential Virtues Character Matters Author: Thomas Lickona Published by: Simon and Schuster, 2004 One of the foremost authorities in the character education movement has made another important contribution. Thomas Lickona, author of the best-selling Educating for Character, addresses the erosion of moral precepts in families and communities as the ultimate reason for the dearth of character in [...] |
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50 Activities for Teaching Emotional Intelligence 50 Activities for Teaching Emotional Intelligence By Diane Schilling 144 pages, Network Continuum Education (March 1, 2001) Research indicates that IQ contributes only about 20 percent to the factors that determine success. The other 80 percent of the factors are related to EQ — emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence impacts every area of life—health, learning, behavior [...] |
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The Technology Fix: The Promise and Reality of Computers in Our Schools The Technology Fix Author: William D. Pflaum Published by: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004 The majority of schools, boards and parents in Canada have embraced technology and computers as a key element in the education of our children in the 21st century. Many schools have spent thousands of dollars acquiring computers, software and [...] |
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The Moral Imperative of School Leadership The Moral Imperative of School Leadership Author: Michael Fullan Published by: Corwin Press, 2003 “People only call me a guru because they can’t spell charlatan,” says Michael Fullan in a May 1, 2004 Globe and Mail article. And yet, only one week earlier, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Education Minister Gerard Kennedy had appointed Fullan [...] |
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Education and Technology: Reflections On Computing in Classrooms Education and Technology: Reflections On Computing in Classrooms Author: Charles Fisher, David C. Dwyer, Keith Yocam Published by: Jossey-Bass, 1996 “A blueprint for those communities who are attempting change within existing educational structures. . . . Parents, teachers and school administrators, business and community leaders, and policy makers will find this book instructive. . .well [...] |
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Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy Author: James Raffan Published by: HarperCollins, 2002 “On the morning of June 11, 1978, 27 boys and four leaders from St. John’s School in Ontario set out on a canoeing expedition from the wharf at Timiskaming, Quebec, headed for James Bay along an old voyageurs’ [...] |
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