Dear colleagues,
A few reading/watching/listening recommendations for your holiday. I assume that all of these listed below are somewhat familiar or known by many of you, but I thought I share what I have been reading and learning about lately. I apologize in advance that these are all non-fiction and heavily related to professional growth and science. I hope you will find some of them interesting and perhaps something to explore when you have a moment to spear.
Heikki
A great book for understanding some of the fundamental challenges we face when trying to cater to diversity and variability in our school community and life in general.
Shelley Moore about the topic (6 mins) video
TEDx Todd Rose - Myth of Average (18 mins) video
Todd Rose - Variability Matters 10 minutes video
Google Talks - The End of Average 1-hour video
A great (short read) book about the recent neuroscientific findings of the brain. When I say recent, these have been out there for the past 20 years, but we often understand, describe, and talk about the brain in antiquated and misunderstood ways.
The brain is just guessing and doesn't know anything - Tom Bilyeu interview 112 minutes video
The surprising truth about the Brain 90 minutes podcast
Everything I knew about the Brain was wrong - 60-minute podcast
In Fear Less, Pippa Grange shows all of us how, by starting to live with less fear, we can find our real passions and deeper fulfillment. Her simple manifesto enables us to replace stress with courage, and connect with the people around us on a far deeper level. She has been recently working with top soccer and rugby teams in the world to help them to win their fear of failure.
How to Fear Less interview - 20 minutes video
How to manage fear and find fulfillment - 49 minutes video
Fearing Less - Interview with Brene Brown 75 minutes podcast
Great book about sleep and why we need it so much. It makes us wonder why we even bother to be awake as it seems so damaging to us and our brains?
Google talk - Why Sleep Matters by Matthew Walker 56 minutes
Learn, Lead, and Live without BarriersStanford University professor, bestselling author, and acclaimed educator Jo Boaler has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education. In Limitless Mind, she explodes these myths and reveals the six keys to unlocking our boundless learning potential. Her research proves that those who achieve at the highest levels do not do so because of a genetic inclination toward any one skill but because of the keys that she reveals in the book. Our brains are not “fixed,” but entirely capable of change, growth, adaptability, and rewiring.
This book summons us to be leaders for this time of profound disruption, to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil by creating Islands of Sanity.Margaret Wheatley's speech (not always as easy to be inspired) 75 minutes
Equity by Design is intended to serve as a blueprint for teachers to alter the all-too-predictable outcomes for our historically under-served students. A first of its kind resource, the book makes the critical link between social justice and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) so that we can equip students (and teachers, too) with the will, skill, and collective capacity to enact positive change.Equity by Design Webinar by Dr. Katie Novak 62 minutes
Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing inclusive learning environments, offers co-teachers structure and guidance in pursuing their goal to create successful learning environments for all students. In this book, veteran co-teacher and UDL expert Elizabeth Stein shows how to apply the UDL principles and guidelines to the practice of co-teaching. How does UDL inform the lesson-planning process? What does UDL look like in the classroom? What role does formative assessment play?
Elevating Co-Teaching through UDL - Webinar by Elizabeth Stein
