Enrichment & Application

BOOKS

These books represent essential reads in the field of Pedagogy of Leadership®

Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything
The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower by Morra Aarons-Mele
Leaders eat last
The Leadership Challenge
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
The City of Ember
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
Everything I know about love
Atomic Habits
The body keeps the score
The Anxious Generation
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving by Angela C. Santomero
The War For Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
The World Is Flat
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Just Happy to Be Here
Community of Leaders: What It Takes to Drive Strategy, Culture, and Change
Lead It Like Lasso
An Unfinished Love Story
Lead It Like Lasso
Be the Unicorn
The Wind in the Willows
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
The Secret Garden
East To The Dawn
My Own Words
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams
Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
The book of Joy
The Right Call
The Gift of Influence
Mind Your Mindset
The Courage Playbook by Gus Lee
The Art of Quiet Influence
The Gratitude Diaries
Leading from the Roots
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet
The Giving Tree
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough by Thomas Curran
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids
Would You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree?
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
River Spirit
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Release 2.0
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
The Wake Up
Glimmer of Hope
The Mindful Leader
Leaders Eat Last
Carmen Jones
My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
The Good Life
The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
The Book of Wilding
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
I Am Malala
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizen
Letter to My Daughter
Northern Lights
Kindness in Leadership
Compassionate Leadership
Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
Leadership and Self-Deception, by the Arbinger Institute
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankel
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
Carrying a Flag From Pain to Passion
Primal Leadership
The New Leadership Literacies
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader
Leadership Rights of Passage
Keeping the Wonder
The Truth about Leadership
Think Again
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Finding Me: A Memoir
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
LGBTQ Leadership in Higher Education
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
What Is Yellow Peril?
Brown Girls: A Novel
Broken (in the best possible way)
We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Women in the Classical World: A History
My Life on the Road
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World
Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World
I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Apeirogon: A Novel
We Are Water Protectors
Firenze's Light: A Children's Book about Gratitude, Compassion and Self-Appreciation
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night: 10 Scary Stories to Give You Nightmares!
The Essential Edgar Allan Poe Collection: His Best-Loved Tales and His Complete Poems
Change Your World: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make A Difference
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
The Undocumented Americans
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
Everything You Need is Within You: Life-Changing Insights of a Village Teacher
All In: An Autobiography
Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Deep in Thought: A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues
Leaders Eat Last
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your KIDS: Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Children Safe
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Untamed
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement: Creating a Thinking Culture in the Classroom
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
100 Poems to Break Your Heart
I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine
The Greta Thunberg Story: Being Different is a Superpower
Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Student Voice: 100 Argument Essays by Teens on Issues That Matter to Them
The Tale of the Mandarin Duck: A Modern Fable
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
1984
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Profiles in Courage
The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching and Learning Paperback
Slow Teaching: On finding calm, clarity and impact in the classroom
Learner-Centered Leadership: A Blueprint for Transformational Change in Learning Communities
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Developing Growth Mindsets: Principles and Practices for Maximizing Students’ Potential
The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Kindness and Respect: An Experiential Approach to Social-Emotional Learning
Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen
The Headmaster
Discover Your True North
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination
It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
So You Want to Talk About Race
Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
Raising White Kids
Ghost (1) (Track)
White Kids (Critical Perspectives on Youth)
Black Ice
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Between the World and Me
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha)
Fiction By Contemporary Black Authors About Navigating White Supremacy
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
This America: The Case for the Nation
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
The End of October: A novel
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools (Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity)
Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School
The Introverted Actor: Practical Approaches
Beautiful Oops! By Barney Saltzberg
Ender's Game
Untamed
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Better with Books
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
'The Day the Crayons Quit' by Drew Daywalt
Lord of the Flies
Taking People with You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
King COVID and the Kids Who Cared
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives
The Road to Character
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good)
Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
Culture Code
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Where Good Ideas Come From
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
Summary: The Culture Code | The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
Your Miracle Brain: How You Can Use Food and Supplements
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference
The Human Brain Book
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It
Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness Paperback – February 5, 2008
Strength Finders 2.0 : Travis Badberry
Discover your True North : Bill George
Fierce Conversations : Susan Scott
Culture Code : Daniel Coyle
Deak, JoAnn. Chapter 3: “Self Esteem is Green”
Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
The Owner's Manual For Driving Your Adolescent Brain
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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