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Superintendent's Book List

Title

Author

School Year Added

Accountability in Action

Reeves, Douglas B.

00-01

Apples and Chalkdust: Inspirational stories and encouragement for teachers

Vicki Caruana

98-99

Authentic Assessment: a collection

Burke, Kay, ed.

98-99

Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform

Sizer, Theodore

03-04

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Collins, Jim & Jerry Porras

04-05

Change Forces, The Sequel

Fullan, Michael

00-01

Classroom Instruction that Works

Marzano, Robert J., et al.

02-03

Classroom Management that Works

Marzano, Robert J., et al.

03-04

Conspiracy of Ignorance

Gross, Martin

00-01

Crossing over to Canaan

Ladson-Billings, Gloria

01-02

Culture Shift

Pritchett, Price

99-00

Discipline with Dignity

Curwin, Richard L.

02-03

Disciplined Mind

Gardner, Howard

99-00

Dreamkeepers

Billings, Gloria Ladson

98-99

Educating Everybody's Children, diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners

Cole, Robert, ed.

99-00

Eight Habits of the Heart: embracing the values that build strong families and communities

Taulbert, Clifton

01-02

Employee Handbook for Organizational Change

Pritchett, Price & Ron Pound

99-00

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

Blanchard, Ken , et al.

01-02

Evaluating Professional Development

Guskeys, Thomas

00-01

Execution: the Discipline of Getting Things Done

Bossidy, Larry, et al.

02-03

Extraordinary Minds

Gardner, Howard

99-00

Firing Up Commitment During Organizational Change

Pritchett, Price

99-00

First Days of School

Wong, Harry K. and Rosemary T. Wong

98-99

First Year of Teaching: real world stories of America’s teachers

Rock-Kane, Pearl, ed.

99-00

Fish

Lundin, Stephen, Harry Paul & John Christensen

00-01

From Rage to Hope

Kuykendall, Crystal

98-99

Good to great

Collins, Jim

02-03

High Five! the Magic of Working Together

Blanchard, Ken & Sheldon Bowles

01-02

High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education

Toch, Thomas

 

High-Velocity Culture Change

Pritchett, Price & Ron Pound

99-00

How Full is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life

Rath, Tom & Donal O. Clifton

05-06

Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action

Pfeffer, Jeffrey & Robert I. Sutton

04-05

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: How to be a more effective leader

Ramsey, Robert D.

00-01

Leader’s Guide to Standards: A Blueprint for Educational Equity and Excellence

Reeves, Douglas B.

03-04

Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

Blanchard, Ken

07-08

Leading with Soul

Gross, Martin L.

00-01

Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

Linsky, Martin & Ronald A. Heifitz

06-07

Leadership Without Easy Answers

Heifitz, Ronald A.

07-08

Literacy with an Attitude

Finn, Patrick J.

02-03

Live Your Dreams

Brown, Les

98-99

Lost Boys

Gabarino, James

99-00

Making Standards Work

Reeves, Douglas B.

00-01

Manufactured Crisis

Berliner & Bruce J. Biddle

98-99

Mentor, Masters, and Mrs. MacGregor- Stories of teachers making a difference

Bluestein, Jane

98-99

Mozart Effect

Campbell, Don

99-00

No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

Thernstrom, Stephan

03-04

Nothing's Impossible: Leadership lessons from inside and outside the classroom

Monroe, Lorraine

98-99

Ordinary Resurrections

Kozol, Jonathan

00-01

Other People's Children

Delpit, Lisa

98-99

Pennywinkle

Capaci, Christine & Judy Gulledge

99-00

Power of Their Ideas

Meier, Deborah

99-00

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

Snow, C.E., M.S. Burns and P. Griffin

98-99

Productive High School, The: Creating Personalized Academic Communities

Murphy, Joseph (et al)

03-04

QBQ! The Question Behind the Question

Miller, John G.

02-03

Quantum Leap Strategy

Pritchett, Price

99-00

Raising Cain

Kindlon, Dan & Michael Thomspon

99-00

Raising Resilient Children

Brooks, Robert and Sam Goldstein

01-02

Reclaiming our Prodigal Sons & Daughters: a practical approach for connecting with youth in conflict

Larson, Scott & Larry Brendto

00-01

Results: the key to continuous school improvement

Schmoker, Mike

98-99

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Covey, Stephen

98-99

Shades of Black: a Celebration of Our Children

Pinkney, Sandra L.

00-01

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors

Lencioni, Patrick M.

05-06

Skin that We Speak, The: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Delpit, Lisa (editor)

02-03

Smart Schools, Smart Kids

Fiske, Edward B.

98-99

Tell Them We are Rising

Hayre, Ruth Wright & Alexis Moore

99-00

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Lencioni, Patrick M.

05-06

The Secret: What Great Leaders Know - And Do

Blanchard, Ken, Mark Miller & John C. Maxwell

07-08

Through the Cracks

Emmons, Barbara , Judith Paoli & Carolyn Sollman

99-00

Tipping Point: little things make the difference

Gladwell, Malcolm

01-02

Understanding by Design

Wiggins, Gran & Jay McTigue

99-00

Valuing diversity in the School System (Facilitator's Manual)

Rodriguez, Eleanor Renee

98-99

Valuing Diversity in the School System (Participant's Manual)

Rodriguez, Eleanor Renee

98-99

Watsons go to Birminham, The

Curtis, Christopher Paul

01-02

What is it About Me You Can't Teach?

Rodriguez, Eleanor Renee

98-99

Whatever it Takes

Moawad, Bob

99-00

Who Moved My Cheese? An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life

Johnson, Spencer

00-01

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Tatum, Beverly Daniel

98-99


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