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Books Library


How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
2019
Read: 2020
Non-Fiction
I can’t remember how I came across this book, but I’m glad I did. This is a very intellectual book […] View Post →

How to Raise an Adult
Julie Lythcott-Haims
2015
Read: 2019
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
How to Raise an Adult, by Julie Lythcott-Haims (2015) I had the chance to hear Julia L-H speak near Stanford […] View Post →

How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clay Christensen
2012
Read: 2012
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
I had all of our administrators read this book this summer, and they loved it. He asks and advises on […] View Post →

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides
2015
Read: 2018
Non-Fiction
My wife recommended this book to me. It is a nonfiction story of an ill-fated journey to the north pole […] View Post →

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
2014
Read: 2021
Non-Fiction, Reading Now
I don’t know why I have not read this book until now. But Bryan Stevenson has been someone who’s been […] View Post →

Kitchen Confidential, by (2000)
Anthony Bourdain
2000
Read: 2018
Cooking, Non-Fiction
After the untimely death of Anthony Bourdain, I began to learn a lot about this TV celebrity that so many […] View Post →

Know How
Ram Charan
2007
Read: 2016
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
I actually did not find a lot of application for this book for the public education sector. If I were […] View Post →

Leading with Focus
Michael J. Schmoker
2016
Read: 2017
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
Schmoker’s original book, simply called Focus, remains one of my favorite educational books of all time. Schmoker’s point remains the […] View Post →

Less: A Novel
Andrew Sean Greer
2018
Read: 2019
Fiction
This is a book my wife read with her book club. It’s not my typical read. It’s a Pulitzer Prize […] View Post →

Leverage Leadership
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
2012
Read: 2015
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
This book tells the story of the power of data in transforming schools and helping all students to achieve. I […] View Post →

Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy
2016
Read: 2018
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
I am a big goal-setter. I find that I am much more focused and driven when I write down my […] View Post →

Make Your Bed: Little Things that Can Change Your Life … and Maybe the World
Admiral William H. McRaven
2017
Read: 2021
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction, Reading Now
I’ll get to the title of the book later. This is written about the trials and travails of life. It’s […] View Post →

Master of the Grill
America's Test Kitchen
2016
Read: 2017
Cooking, Non-Fiction
This is another book from the good people at America’s Test Kitchen/Cooks Illustrated. So I do a heck of a […] View Post →

Media Moms and Digital Dads
Yalda Uhls
2015
Read: 2016
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
Our Education Foundation brought in Yalda Uhls to speak to our parents about students and technology. I introduced her and […] View Post →

Montana, 1948
Larry Watson
1993
Read: 2011
Fiction
This is another book on the Mira Costa reading list that I had not yet read. It deals with difficult […] View Post →

Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job
Yong Zhao
2015
Read: 2016
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
This is a thoughtful book about how technology should be used in education and learning. In spite of increasing amounts […] View Post →

News of the World
Paulette Jiles
2016
Read: 2018
Fiction
This was recommended to me by my father. It is a story of a 70+-year-old cowboy and war veteran whose […] View Post →

Nova Scotia
David Orkin
2009
Read: 2017
Non-Fiction
Our summer trip this year will be a bicycling trip to Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. We take big biking […] View Post →

Overloaded and Underprepared
Denise Pope
2015
Read: 2015
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
This book has become a very important book in our district. Written by a group of Stanford University School of […] View Post →

Pathways to the Common Core
Lucy Calkins
2012
Read: 2014
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
We have trained almost all of our elementary teachers in writing the way Lucy Calkins and Columbia University teach writing. […] View Post →

Quiet Strength
Tony Dungy
2007
Read: 2010 or before
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
I listened to Mr. Dungy read his books while driving back and forth to work. Again, www.audible.com for great downloads […] View Post →

Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Richard Kiyosaki
2000
Read: 2010 or before
Non-Fiction, Recommended for Young Adults
It’s been on the best seller list since it came out. It’s corny and very simply written. But as a […] View Post →

Rookie Smarts
Liz Wiseman
2014
Read: 2014
Education/Leadership, Non-Fiction
Liz Wiseman is a great author and an even better speaker. I heard her at an ACSA Conference in San […] View Post →