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Recommended Reading - Prior Book Study Selections

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
Last Updated:  24 January, 2024

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