Below are some of our favorite books about schools and teaching, youth development, resiliency, leadership, team building, community engagement and other related fields.

Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
T. Armstrong
ASCD, Alexandria, VA © 1994.

Love That Dog
Sharon Creech
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY © 2001.

Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child
Maurice Elias, Steven Tobias, and Brian Friedlander
Harmony Books, © 1999

Raising a Thinking Preteen
Myrna Shure
Henry Holt, © 2000

Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Kevin Rathunde and Samuel Whalen
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA © 1993.

Rediscovering Hope: Our Greatest Teaching Strategy
Richard L. Curwin
National Education Service, Bloomington, IN © 1992.

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
Basic Books, New York, NY © 1993.

Every Student Can Succeed (Black Forrest Book Productions ©2001)
The Quality School (Harper & Row, New York, NY © 1998)
Control Theory in the Classroom (Harper & Row, New York, NY © 1996).
William Glasser

Seven Strategies for Developing Capable* Students(*Responsible, Respectful and Resourceful)
Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA © 1998.
H. Stephen Glenn and Michael L. Brock

Disposable Children: America’s Welfare System
Renny Golden
Wadsworth Publishing Company, New York, NY © 1997.

Emotional Intelligence Bantam Books, New York, NY © 1995
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child Bantam Books, New York, NY © 1998
Daniel Goleman

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis
Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA © 2003

The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Erin Gruwell
The Tolerance Education Foundation and Broadway Books, New York, NY © 1999.

The Heart of Parenting: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
John Gottman
Simon & Schuster, © 1997

The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School
Rachel Kessler
ASCD Publications, Alexandria, VA © 2000.

Partners in Learning: From Conflict to Collaboration in Secondary Classrooms
Carol Miller Lieber
Educators for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA © 2002.

Connecting With Students ASCD Publications, Alexandria, VA © 2001
What Do I Do When…? How to Achieve Discipline With Dignity in the Classroom National Education Service, Bloomington, IN © 1992.
Allen N. Mendler

The Walled Garden: The Story of a School
Charles Merrill
Rowan Tree Press, Boston, MA © 1982.

The Tao of Teaching: The Special Meaning of the Tao Te Ching as Related to the Art and Pleasures of Teaching
Greta Nagel
Penguin Putnam, Inc, New York, NY © 1994.

Positive Discipline in the Classroom
J. Nelson, L. Lott, and H.S. Glenn
Revised and Expanded Second Edition, Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA © 1997.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life
Parker J. Palmer
Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, CA © 1998.

The Beethoven Factor: The New Positive Psychology of Hardiness, Happiness, Healing and Hope
Paul Pearsall, Ph. D
Hampton Roads Publishing Co © 2003.

Shopping Mall High School: Winners and Losers in the Educational Marketplace
Farrar and Cohen Powell
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA © 1985.

Results: The Key To Continuous Improvement
Mike Schmoker
ASCD Publications, Alexandria, VA © 1999.

The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression and Build Lifelong Resistance Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, NY © 1996
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, NY © 1990
Seligman, Martin E.

Moral Questions in the Classroom: How to Get Kids to Think Deeply About Real Life and Their Schoolwork
Katherine Simon and Nancy Faust Sizer
Yale University Press © 2003.

The Students are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract
Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer
Beacon Press, Boston, MA © 1999.

Horace’s School Mariner Books © 1997
Horace’s Compromise Mariner Books © 1997
Theodore Sizer

Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values That Build Strong Families and Communities
Clifton L. Taulbert
Penguin Books, Ltd. © 1999.

Journeys from Childhood to Midlife: Risk, Resilience and Recovery Cornell University Press, New York, NY © 2001,
Overcoming the Odds: High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood
Adams Bannister Cox Publications © 1992
Vulnerable but Invincible: A Longitudinal Study of Resilient Children and Youth Adams Bannister Cox Publications © 1989.
Emmy Werner and Ruth Smith