Professional Development Resource Recommendations

[flamingeaux]

Harry Wong's First Days of School.  It had a lot of great information on how to establish yourself in the classroom at the start of the year. Too bad I didn't hear about until halfway through my first year, lol.  I'm about to start The end of Molassess classes by Ron Clark.

[janetplanet20]

I'm currently reading Better Than Carrots or Sticks. It's about using restorative practices in the classroom. It's an easy read and has so much great information on how and why to move away from rewards and punishments.

[katfco]

The First Six Weeks of School. It was recommended on the ML board some time ago, and I love it. It takes Wong's ideas and ramps them up, in my opinion.

[teacherjulie]

I am currently reading
Whole brain teaching
Reading Strategies
Rigid is NOT a 4 letter word

[applev]

Currently reading Pose, Wobble, Flow: A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction.

[nsl]

My district is big on discourse right now, and I've learned the most from Academic Conversations by Jeff Zwiers.

[cats]

I'm reading "Never Work Harder Than Your Students" now and it's been a great summer read.

[W.T.Faulkner]

For the humanities, I really recommend the resources of Facing History And Ourselves: www.facinghistory.org/.

[georgeglass]

Jun 26, 2017 8:32:49 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

For the humanities, I really recommend the resources of Facing History And Ourselves: www.facinghistory.org/.

Glad to see this. I have been a fan of their work for a long time.

[imimahoney]

Jun 26, 2017 8:32:49 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

For the humanities, I really recommend the resources of Facing History And Ourselves: www.facinghistory.org/.

Along with this:
Teaching Tolerance - tolerance.org
&
Primary Source - primarysource.org

[erbear]

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
Colorblind by Tim Wise
Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum
Whistling Vivaldi

[5thofjuly]

The Faculty Focus emails can be hit or miss, but when they're good, they spark tons of great ideas!

[mae141]

I find tons of great ideas here: www.freetech4teachers.com/

I know I'm probably late to the game on this one, but I've recently discovered Twitter. There are a couple of teachers I follow from all over, and I can spend hours digging through all the resources they share and hashtags they use.

[katfco]

I just finished "Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom" and loved it.
I'm about to start "Using children's literature to enhance content area instruction" I've read it before, but need a refresher.

[chw57]

Ditto Twitter! I've found so many great people to follow. I have a separate teacher account where I just tweet and follow education-related accounts.