The people who run the schools are reading:
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World (2012)
By Tony Wagner (Amazon or library)
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need–and What We Can Do About It (2010)
By Tony Wagner (Amazon or library)
Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement (2012)
By Lucy Calkins (Amazon)
We’re reading:
A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children
By our beloved James Webb (Amazon)
(more James Webb books at Amazon & library, including his new book Searching for Meaning: Idealism, Bright Minds, Disillusionment, and Hope)
Academic Advocacy for Gifted Children: A Parent’s Complete Guide
By Barbara Jackson Gilman (Amazon or library via LINK+)
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
By Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom (Amazon or library)
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
By Peter Gray (Amazon or library)
Kids are reading:
The House of the Scorpion (for the seventh meeting of the Book Club, Jan 21)
by Nancy Farmer (Amazon or library)
Ship Breaker (for the sixth meeting of the Book Club, Oct 15)
by Paolo Bacigalupi (Amazon or library)
The Hero and the Crown (for the second meeting of the Book Club, Nov 6)
by Robin McKinley (Amazon or library)
Half Brother (from the first meeting of the Book Club, Jul 19)
by Kenneth Oppel (Amazon or library)
Buy ’em through our links and MVGATE gets a kick-back! (Actually we get a kick-back for everything you buy from Amazon when you follow our links.)
Don’t forget to get your child (grades 4-8) a Personalized Reading List at the Mill Valley Public Library!
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