Recommended Reading

2024 Summer

• Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine
• The NEW Conscious Discipline Book: Building Resilient Classrooms - Expanded & Updated
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (3rd Ed.)
• Shakespeare Save My Life - Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

2024 Spring

• Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators
• Streamlining the Curriculum: Using the Storyboard Approach to Frame Compelling Learning Journeys
• Everybody's Classroom: Differentiating for the Shared and Unique Needs of Diverse Students
• Teach for Authentic Engagement

2023 Fall

• Teaching with Empathy: How to transform your practice by understanding your learners
• Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory in Action
• Building Equity: Policies and practices to empower all learners
• Haben: The deafblind woman who concurred Harvard Law

2023 Spring

• Girls and Autism: Education, Family, & Personal Perspectives
• From Behaving to Belonging: The inclusive art of supporting students who challenge us.
• Educator Bandwidth: How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, and Time
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

2022 Fall

• Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
• Upgrade Your Teaching: Understanding by Design meets Neuroscience
• Decoding Autism and Leading the Way to Successful Inclusion
• Your Students, My Students, Our Students: Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms  

2022 Summer

• The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog
• Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
• Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success
• Social Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive

2022 Spring

•  Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered
• Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole Staff Approach
• These Kids Are Out of Control: Why We Must Reimagine "Classroom Management" for Equity
• When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do

2021 Fall

• Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers (3rd Edition)
• Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students 
• Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners 
• Happy Kids Don't Punch You in the Face: A Guide to Eliminating Aggressive Behavior in School

2021 Summer

• Girls and Autism: Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives
• Conscious Discipline: Building Resilient Classrooms
• Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety: Skills for Academic and Social Success 
• Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma Sensitive Classroom

2021 Spring

• Social Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive
• Supporting Students with Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Prevention & Intervention Strategies
• The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color 
• Your Students, My Students, Our Students: Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms

2020 Fall

• Lost at School
• Helping Your Anxious Child
• Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When the Stakes
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

2020 Summer

• Born for Love
• The Rosie Project
• Happy Kids Don’t Punch You in the Face
• Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners

2020 Spring

• Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators
• Conscious Discipline: Building Resilient Classrooms
• Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety: Skills for Academic and Social Success
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

2019 Fall

• Managing the Cycle of Meltdowns for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in K-12 School Settings: A Practitioner's Toolkit
• The RTI Approach to Evaluating Learning Disabilities

2019 Summer

• House Rules
• Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding & Spelling Instruction, 2nd Ed.
• Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered

2019 Spring

• Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators
• When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do
• Uniquely Human A Different Way of Seeing Autism

2018 Fall

• Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
• Do-Watch-Listen-Say: Social and Communication Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder (2nd Ed)
• Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction (2nd Ed)

2018 Summer

• Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
• When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do bu Kyleen Beers
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio

2018 Spring

• Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom by Kristin Souers with Pete Hall
• The Autistic Brain Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed by Temple Grandin
• Beyond Co-Teaching Basics: A Data-Driven, No-Fail Model for Continuous Improvement by by Wendy Murawski and Wendy Lochner

2017 Fall

• Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention (2nd edition) by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
• Defusing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom By Geoff Colvin
• Uniquely Human: A Difference Way of Seeing Autism by Barry Prizant

2017 Summer

• Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
• Helping Your Anxious Child by Ronald Rapee et.al.
• Managing the Cycle of Meltdowns by Geoffrey Colvin and Martin R. Sheehan

2017 Spring

• Uniquely Human: A Difference Way of Seeing Autism by Barry Prizant
• Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction by Marcia K. Henry Ph.D. and Maryanne Wolf

• Managing Challenging Behaviors in School: Research Based Strategies that Work by Kathleen Lynne Lane, Holly Mariah Menzies, Allison L. Bruhn, Mary Crnobori

2016 Fall 

• Managing the Cycle of Acting Out Behavior in the Classroom by Geoff Colvin and Terry Scott 
• Thinking About You Thinking About Me by Michele Garcia Winner
• Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare

2016 Spring

• Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
• UDL NOW! A Teacher's Monday Morning Guide to Implementing the Common Core Standards Using Universal Design for Learning by Katie Novak

2015 Fall

• Friendship 101:  Helping Students Build Social Competence by Juliet E Hart Barnett & Kelly J Whalon
• Defusing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom by Geoff Colvin

2013 Spring

• Thinking About You Thinking About Me  by Michele Garcia Winner

2012 Fall

• Thinking About You Thinking About Me  by Michele Garcia Winner