"Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries, Affluenza uses the metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done– to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment– by the obsessive quest for material gain.”

Answers to Distraction - Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D. (1996)

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron (1992)

This self- or group- paced manual links creativity to spirituality by showing in nondenominational terms how to tap into the higher power that connects human creativity with the creative energies of the universe. It’s a book to reconnect the artist in the teacher.

A Call of the Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination - Robert Coles (1990)

Cole proposes that we can move directly from stories to our lives. This book makes clear his belief in the “call of stories” and their usefulness and their moral support.

A Call to Character - edited by Colin Greer & Herbert Kohl (1997)

A Choice of Heroes: The Changing Faces of American Manhood - Mark Gerzon (1999)

A pioneering look (before Bly and Keen) at the images of masculinity and heroism.

Connect: 12 vital ties that open your heart, lengthen your life, and deepen your soul - Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (1999)

The Courage to Raise Good Men – Olga Silverstein & Beth Rashbaum (1995)

Silverstein questions our traditional notions of manhood and calls for mothers and fathers alike to refuse to sanction the emotional shutdown we traditionally demand of boys, thus enabling sons to grow up to not only be strong men but whole people.

The Courage to Teach, Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life - Parker J. Palmer (1998)

“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad – and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life.”

The Courage to Teach: A Guide for Reflexion and Renewal – Parker J. Palmer & Rachel Livsey

“Written to accompany the book, The Courage to Teach, this study guide provides tools to enable individuals and groups to reflect upon key issues raised in the book and apply their learnings to their own teaching practice.”

Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students – Denise Clark Pope (2001)

Pope gives a penetrating view of how students cope with pressures of schooling. “Highly successful students describe today’s educational boot camps for college filled with anxiety, physical exhaustion, cheating, and a disregard for learning.”

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood - Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey (1996)

This book addresses the issue of recognizing and coping with ADD from childhood to adulthood.

Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture - edited by Katharine Washburn & John F. Thornton (1996)

“Dumbing Down is a melancholy but savagely witty survey of the increasingly rapid collapse of American culture. In it one distinguished writer after another sounds Taps over the death of excellence, even of adequacy, in the educational system, arts and sciences, the media and in public life.”

Dumbing Down our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can’t Read, Write, or Add – Charles J. Sykes (1996)

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility - Thomas Lickona (1992)

Emotional Intelligence - Daniel P. Goleman (1997)

This much-talked-about theory is a “winner” says The New York Times. Through new research in neuroscience and vivid examples, Goleman shows IQ is less important than we think and how emotional intelligence is equally if not more significant.

Emotion: The On/Off Switch for Learning - Priscilla Vail (1994)

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School - Neil Postman (1996)

Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don’t Think - Jane Healey (1991)

Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls - Myra & David Sadker (1995)

A book that outlines twenty years of research by the authors and shows that gender bias in our school makes it impossible for girls to received an education equal to boys.

Finding the Heart of the Child, Essays on Children, Families, and Schools - Edward Hallowell & Michael Thompson (1993)

“This collection of essays is comforting and authentic. A reading for anyone who cares about children, families, schools and society.”

The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values – Bowen and Shulman (2002)

“Bowen and Shulman examine the relationship between college athletics and later achievement among males and female student athletes at 30 colleges and universities in this well-researched, impressively broad and thorough study. The authors identify a set of character traits common to most athletes no matter what sport they play, and present a great deal of data countering conventional myths about college sports.”

Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in Our Homes and Schools  - William Damon (1996)

Habits of Mind: Struggling Over Values in America’s Classrooms - Melinda Fine (1995)

The Heart of Learning: Spirituality in Education - edited by Steven Glazer (1999)

“This extraordinary collection of essays draws together the most important and spiritual figures of our time to help students, teachers, parents, and lifelong learners understand more about why we learn and teach. This book shows how learning can be a force more than an intellectual process- that it can be a way to connect with the mysteries and wonders both in ourselves and in the world.”

Horace’s Hope - Theodore R. Sizer (1996)

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk - Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish ((1999)

“An excellent communication tool kit based on a series of workshop developed by Faber & Mazlish. The ‘Reminder’ pages, cartoons, and exercises will improve your ability as a parent to talk and problem-solve with your children.”

The Kindness of Children – Vivian Gussin Paley (1995)

To Know As We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey – Parker J. Palmer (1993)

Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher’s Story – Vivian Gussin Paley (1995)

This book explores the successes and failures of the integrated classroom from the voices of black teachers and minority parents, immigrant families, a Native American educator, and children themselves whose story mingle with the author’s.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation – Parker J. Palmer (1999)

“With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose.”

A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned - Jane Thompkins (1997)

Millennials Rising: The Next Generation – Niel Howe & William Strauss (2000)

“According to Howe and Strauss, this new generation of kids is poised to become the next great generation, one that will provide a more positive, group-oriented, can-do ethos. Huge in size as well as future impact, they’re making a sharp break from Generation X trends and a direct reversal of boomer youth behavior. It’s hard to resist this hopeful vision for our children and the future.”

The Moral Intelligence of Children - Robert Coles (1998)

The Moral Life of Children - Robert Coles

The third volumn in Cole’s trilogy of “The Inner Lives of Children” which shows how children struggle with questions of Moral Choice in the United States, Brazil, and elsewhere, as revealed in their reactions to movies and stories, in their moral conduct, their conversation, their family lives, and their anxiety about themselves and the world.

A Passion for Teaching - edited by Sarah L. Levine (1999)

“This book celebrates teachers and teaching. Through their stories, poems, plays and artwork, 42 experienced teachers describe the deep connections they have forged with students and the profession. These teachers are still excited, intrigued and in love with teaching.”

The Passionate Teacher – Robert Fried (1995)

“This book bridges the rift that so often developes between the deeply felt ideals that all teachers start out with and the numbing frustrations of school life. [The author] shows us that passionate teaching is not a mysterious trait of personality, but is learnable by any dedicated teacher.”

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys – Daniel J. Kindlon (1999)

Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People - H. Stephen Glenn & Jane Nelsen, Ed. D. (1999)

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood - William S. Pollack, Ph.D. (1999)

Real Boys’ Vocies – William S. Pollack, Ph.D. (2000)

This book “takes us into the daily worlds of boys not only to show how society’s outdated expectations force them to mask many of their true emotions, but also to let us hear how boys themselves describe their isolation, depression, longing, love, and hope.”

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - Mary Pipher, Ph.D. (1995)

A look at the everyday dangers of being young and female, and how adults can help.

The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager – Thomas Hine (1999)

“Hine has done an admirable job cataloging that ever-changing creature we know as the American teenager. The evolution of modern education is closely examined and will provide a wealth of interesting insights for today's educators."

Saving our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World - Marita Golden (1996)

Through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, Golden confronts the causes of violence that surrounds African-American men and reassesses the legacy of her own generation’s struggle for civil rights.

Schools of Hope: Developing Mind and Character in Today’s Youth - Douglas Health (1

Heath argues that the development of honesty, compassion, integrity and other traditional interpersonal and ethical values should be the primary goal of education.

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond the Traditional Classroom and “Tougher” Standards– Alfie Kohn (1999)

The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills – Jon Saphier & Robert R. Gower (1997)

This hefty teaching manual explores various aspects of the craft of teaching to help teachers make conscious decisions as they develop and perfect classroom habits that can enhance a positive learning environment.

Stories of The Courage to Teach: Honoring the Teacher’s Heart – Sam M. Intrator (2002)

This sequel to Parker Palmer’s book contains “teachers’ stories told in elegant prose and with passion. They serve to remind us of two things: the remarkable gifts present in our public educators and what constitutes the heart of true teaching.”

To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children’s Lives – William Ayers, editor (1995)

A book filled with practical, concrete advice for new teachers (and experienced teachers who are rethinking their practices). As the author notes, “When teaching is done well, it satisfies the soul.”

Too Much of a Good Thing – Dan Kindlon (2001)

“This eye-opening book sends a wake-up call for parents struggling to raise kids in a self-indulgent world.” “It offers concrete advice to help parents steer away from the dangers of a life of indulgence.”

Smart Schools: Better Thinking and Learning for Every Child - David Perkins (1995)

The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families - Mary Pipher, Ph.D. (1997)

“We are just beginning to grasp the implications for families of our electronic village. Parents have no real community to back up the values that they try to teach their children. Family members may be in the same house, but they are no longer truly interacting.”

The Soul of Education – Rachael Kessler (2000)

“Kessler celebrates the diversity of beliefs in our free country…But she wisely understands the spiritual emptiness of our times and knows that we ignore the souls of our children at their peril, and ours. Children need encouragement and guidance in struggling with the deeper meaning and purpose of life in a society that glorifies the material over the spiritual.”

7 Strategies for Developing Capable Students - H. Stephen Glenn, Ph.D. & Michael L. Brock, M.A. (1998)

The authors show you how to help children become capable adults. The nationally acclaimed authors are educators who explain how adults and teachers can help students become more confident, motivated, respectful, and emotionally stable.

The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract – Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer (1999)

Teaching With Fire, Poetry that sustains the Courage to Teach – Sam M. Intrator & Megan Scribner, editors (2003)

Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance- David Elkind (1995)

A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence- Patricia Hersch (1999)

“A remarkable fly-on-the-wall chronicle of teenage life today that invites adults (parents and teachers) to start paying attention to what’s going on in young people’s lives.”

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach  - Howard Gardner (1993)

An examination of how our minds and natural patterns of learning are not suiterd to current educational materials, practices, and institutions.

When You Worry About the Child You Love: Emotional Learning Problems in Children - Edward Hallowell, M.D. (1997)

White Teacher - Vivian Gussin Paley (1989)

This is Paley’s (a kindergarten teacher at the Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago) first book describing her progress in learning to deal more openly with her pupil’s and her own perceptions of race.

With Love and Prayers: A Headmaster Speaks to the Next Generation - F. Washington Jarvis & Peter J. Gomes (2000)

“His social criticisms are sharp and opinionated, his expectations firm and unwavering, his hope unlimited. At the core of his ideology is the belief that there is more to human life than the self.”

Periodicals

Classroom Connect

A K-12 educator’s practical guide to using the Internet in the classroom

Education Weekly

A weekly periodical dedicated to issues about education in the United States. The editorials are often quite insightful and provocative. Although we teach in a private school, the educational culture of the public sector impacts on our students and parents. We need to know what’s going on in education.

Independent School

Published three times a year this periodical is an open forum for exchange of information about elementary and secondary education in general, and independent schools in particular. Shipley is a member school of NAIS, the National Association of Independent Schools, the organization whose publishes this magazine.

Phi Delta Kappan

A sophisticated and sometimes overly intellectual periodical that includes some of the best cartoons related to educational issues of the day.

Teachers Magazine

Published eight times a year, this periodical explores all kinds of issues related to education. There’s a down-to-earth quality to this review. It features main articles, current event issues, research, book reviews and advertisement. Given its large format, there are plenty of photos included.