“True kindness—the kind that communicates with compassion, leads with honesty (not ego), holds people accountable, and creates cultures that build self-esteem—is anything but weak. It is strong. And in school leadership, I promise that it is transformative.” (p.1) When did kindness become confused with weakness? Some of the strongest school leaders I have worked with…
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“Through literacy, we can interpret the lives of those who came before us, fold them into our own, and strengthen our roots.” (p.120) You would be interested in this book if: (1) You’re ready to rethink literacy for the age of AI—not as a narrow skill, but as a rich, evolving framework for navigating human…
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“Why didn’t people all along see the obvious moral truths—and how could today’s young generation be blind to them anew?” (p.170) As leaders, we are tasked with moral decisions daily—decisions on inclusion, fairness, and evolving cultural norms. Audun Dahl’s Between Fixed and Fickle reminds us that what seems like moral certainty today was often debated…
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“Your strength is not measured by how well you fight back; it’s measured by how much you can endure while continuing to move forward.” ~ p.43 I first met Glenn through the podcast I co-host with Jason Rogers. We were interviewing him and his co-author Danny Bauer about their book “Calm in the Chaos“. Glenn’s contributions…
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“The CAP method helps students to move beyond themselves, engage with others, learn at their own pace, and show what they can do, rather than obsess over what they can’t.”— p.19 You would be interested in this book if… You are designing or leading programming that blends academic depth with student agency, purpose, and connection…
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“Deep down I knew that I was meant to be with him — I wasn’t meant to be a guide dog” Ike ~ p. 127 Some books make you think. Others make you feel. Jason Dorland’s Ike: The Dog that Saved a Human does both — while also offering a deeply vulnerable invitation into the…
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“Meaningful exploration, I will argue, involves making an active choice to pursue a course that requires effort and carries the risk of failure—what the mythologist Joseph Campbell called ‘a bold beginning of an uncertain outcome.’” (p.10) You would be interested in this book if: You’re an educator or leader who believes curiosity is a muscle…
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What Could Possibly Go Right?! “Even among AI developers, some believe that future instances of superintelligent AIs could represent an extinction level threat to humanity… As hard as it may be to accurately predict the future, it’s even harder to stop it… That’s because as much as collaboration defines us, competition does too… and that…
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“The argument over whether Elon Musk is a genius is really an argument about what our society values and what it is prepared to tolerate. A suite of behaviors that would otherwise be inexcusable are forgiven when they are the price of greatness.”— Helen Lewis, p.3 Helen Lewis opens The Genius Myth not with a…
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“Abundance, as we define it, is a state in which there is enough of what we need to create lives better than what we have had.” — Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance is a forward-looking, hopeful and optimistic exploration of the future for those who believe the future is…
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