Mike Matthews

I don’t know why I have not read this book until now. But Bryan Stevenson has been someone who’s been   […]   View Post →

After the untimely death of Anthony Bourdain, I began to learn a lot about this TV celebrity that so many   […]   View Post →

I actually did not find a lot of application for this book for the public education sector. If I were   […]   View Post →

Schmoker’s original book, simply called Focus, remains one of my favorite educational books of all time. Schmoker’s point remains the   […]   View Post →

This is a book my wife read with her book club. It’s not my typical read. It’s a Pulitzer Prize   […]   View Post →

This book tells the story of the power of data in transforming schools and helping all students to achieve. I   […]   View Post →

I am a big goal-setter. I find that I am much more focused and driven when I write down my   […]   View Post →

I’ll get to the title of the book later. This is written about the trials and travails of life. It’s   […]   View Post →

This is another book from the good people at America’s Test Kitchen/Cooks Illustrated. So I do a heck of a   […]   View Post →

Our Education Foundation brought in Yalda Uhls to speak to our parents about students and technology. I introduced her and   […]   View Post →

This is another book on the Mira Costa reading list that I had not yet read. It deals with difficult   […]   View Post →

This is a thoughtful book about how technology should be used in education and learning. In spite of increasing amounts   […]   View Post →

This was recommended to me by my father. It is a story of a 70+-year-old cowboy and war veteran whose   […]   View Post →

Our summer trip this year will be a bicycling trip to Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. We take big biking   […]   View Post →

This book has become a very important book in our district.  Written by a group of Stanford University School of   […]   View Post →

We have trained almost all of our elementary teachers in writing the way Lucy Calkins and Columbia University teach writing.   […]   View Post →

I listened to Mr. Dungy read his books while driving back and forth to work. Again, www.audible.com for great downloads   […]   View Post →

It’s been on the best seller list since it came out. It’s corny and very simply written. But as a   […]   View Post →

Liz Wiseman is a great author and an even better speaker. I heard her at an ACSA Conference in San   […]   View Post →

I saw this book in the airport bookstore, and bought it for my Kindle. I love reading on my Kindle,   […]   View Post →

My dad recommended this one to me. I don’t think I liked it as much as he did. Mr. Harari   […]   View Post →

I read this book at the recommendation of some friends in the District. It’s a book of fiction about the   […]   View Post →

From rural living to the search for Buddhist meaning in India. If you have read the Power of Now and you liked it,   […]   View Post →

Continuing my “summer of satire.” This is a book on MBUSD reading lists that I had never read, but had always   […]   View Post →