Great Books...

Watch out Oprah!
If I had a book club, these would be at the top of the list...

Conscious Discipline (Dr. Becky Bailey)
There's Gotta Be a Better Way-Discipline That Works (Dr. Becky Bailey)
Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline (Dr. Becky Bailey)
I Love You Rituals (Dr. Becky Bailey)
Teaching in the Key of Life (Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld) & anything else by Mimi!)
Joyful Learning (Bobbi Fisher)
Thinking and Learning Together (Bobbi Fisher)
Invitations (Regie Routman)
Literacy at the Crossroads (Regie Routman)
Conversations (Regie Routman)
Mosaic of Thought (Ellin Oliver Keene & Susan Zimmerman)
Phonics They Use (Patricia Cunningham)
Building Blocks Resources (Patricia Cunningham & Dorothy Hall)
Classrooms That Work, They Can All Read and Write (Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington)
Teaching Young Children in Violent Times (Diane E, Levin, Ph.D.)
And With a Light Touch... (Carol Avery)
Kidwriting (Eileen G. Feldgus & Isabell Cardonick)
Guided Reading:  Good First Teaching for All Children (Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell)
Together We're Better  (Bev Bos)
Schools With Spirit (Edited by Linda Lantieri)
Creating Emotionally Safe Schools (Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.)
Teaching With the Brain in Mind (Eric Jensen)
Smart Moves (Carla Hannaford)
Awakening the Child Heart (Carla Hannaford)
Radical Reflections (Mem Fox)
Punished By Rewards (Alfie Kohn)
No Contest:  The Case Against Competition (Alfie Kohn)j
Early Childhood Adventures in Peacemaking (William J. Kreidler & Sandy T. Whittall)
The Hurried Child (David Elkind)
Endangered:  Your Child in a Hostile World (Johann Cristoph Arnold) *You can download this free!
Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
The Laughing Classroom (Diane Loomans & Karen Kolberg)
Developmental Education in an Era of High Standards (Jim Grant)*Why Isn't This Man President?!
If You're Riding a Horse and it Dies, Get Off (Jim Grant)
More Than Counting.../More Than Magnets/More Than...series  (Sally Moomaw & Brenda Hieronymus)
Linking Up!  (Sarah Pirtle)  *This is one of the best resources I have-check it out on the ESR site!
The Morning Meeting Book (Roxann Kriete) *This is a great resource for ideas for your Brainsmart Start-Morning Meeting and Brainsmart Start are very similar-available through Responsive Classroom
Starting Small  (Teaching Tolerance Project)
Resisting Reading Mandates: How To Triumph With The Truth (Elaine M. Garan)
Testing Is Not Teaching (Donald Graves)
What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?  (Susan Ohanian)
Creating Schools That Heal  (Lesley Koplow)
"I Won't Learn From You" and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment  (Herbert Kohl)
Reading Essentials (Regie Routman)
Savage Inequalities (Jonathan Kozol)
Amazing Grace (Jonathan Kozol)
Surprising Destinations: A Guide to Essential Learning in Early Childhood (Mary Kenner Glover & Beth Giacalone)
*Reading With Meaning (Debbie Miller)-she is amazing!
*Ordinary Resurrections (Jonathan Kozol)
Silent No More:  Voices of Courage in American Schools (Edited by ReLeah Cossett Lent & Gloria Pipkin)
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Ruby Payne, Ph.D)
Habits of Goodness:  Case Studies in the Social Curriculum  (Ruth Sidney Charney)

Books In Process...
These are the professional books I'm in the process of reading.  There are so many good ones out there, I wish there was more time in the day to get through them faster...  I'd love to hear your reflections on any of these-you can also join the Professional Reading Chatboard at Teachers.net to find out about more great titles and discussion groups.


Project Based Learning with Young Children  (Deborah Diffily & Charlotte Sassman)
(I heard Deborah Diffily at this year's IRA Conference and was blown away by her work!!!!!)
When Reading Begins  (Ardith Davis Cole)
Literacy Through Play  (Gretchen Owocki)
The Lively Kindergarten:  Emergent Curriculum in Action  (Elizabeth Jones, Kathleen Evans, & Kay Stritzel Rencken)

 

Books Just Finished...
These are books I just put down-the starred ones come with the highest recommendation!
*About the Authors  (Katie Wood Ray with Lisa B. Cleaveland)
*Units of Study for Primary Writing (Lucy Calkins)