21st Century Teaching and Learning:
Reading List
Amazing Grace: The Lives of
Children and the Conscience of
a Nation | Jonathan Kozol, Crown
Publishers, 1995
Experimental Learning: Experience
as the Source of Learning and
Development | David Kolb, Prentice
Hall, 1984
Becoming a “Wiz” at Brain-Based
Teaching: How to Make Every Year
Your Best Year | Marilee Sprenger,
Corwin Press Inc., 2002
The Global Achievement Gap: Why
Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach
the New Survival Skills Our Children
Need—And What We Can Do About
It | Tony Wagner, Basic Books, 2008
Boys and Girls Learn Differently
Michael Gurian, Wiley & Sons, 2002
Breaking the Mold of School
Instruction and Organization:
Innovative and Successful
Practices for the Twenty-First
Century | Edited by Andrea Honigsfeld
and Audrey Cohan, Rowman & Littlefield
Education, 2010
Brain Gym, Simple Activities for
Whole Brain Learning | Paul & Gail
Dennison, Edu-Kinesthetics, Inc., 1992
The Death and Life of the Great
American School System:
How Testing and Choice are
Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch, Basic Books, 2010
Differentiated Assessment: How
to Assess the Learning Potential
of Every Student (Grades 6-12)
Evangeline Harris Stefanakis, John Wiley
and Sons, Inc., 2010
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive
Innovation Will Change the Way the
World Learns | Clayton Christensen,
Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn,
McGraw-Hill, 2008
Evidence-Based Design of
Elementary and Secondary
Schools: A Responsive Approach to
Creating Learning Environments
Peter C. Lippman, John Wiley and Sons,
Inc., 2010
Exceeding Expectations: A
Users Guide to Implementing
Brain Research in the Classroom
Susan Kovalik & Karen D. Olsen, 2002
Harnessing America’s Wasted
Talent: A New Ecology of Learning
Peter Smith, Jossey-Bass, 2010
Wellesley High School
Tewksbury High School
Here Comes Everybody: The Power
of Organizing Without Organization
Clay Shirky, The Penguin Press, 2008
Improving Schools through Action
Research: A Comprehensive Guide
for Educators | Cher C. Hendricks,
Allyn & Bacon, 2008
Parker Elementary, Billerica
Inside Urban Charter Schools:
Promising Practices and Strategies
in Five High Performing Schools
Katherine K. Merseth, Harvard
Education Press, 2009
Last Child in the Woods: Saving
Our Children from Nature-Deficit
Disorder | Richard Louv, Algonquin
Books, 2008
The Center School, Stow
21st
Leading
Century Schools:
Harnessing Technology for
Engagement and Achievement,
Lynne M. Schrum | Barbara B. Levin,
Corwin, a Sage Company, 2009
Mind Set: The New Psychology
of Success | Carol Dweck, Random
House, 2006
Multiple Intelligences: New
Horizons | Howard Gardner, Basic
Books, 2006
Music and Emotion, Theory and
Research | Patrik Justin & John
Sloboda, Oxford U. Press, 2001
Rewired: Understanding the
iGeneration and the Way They
Learn | Larry Rosen, Ph.D., Palgrave
MacMillan, 2010
Grafton High School
The Shame of a Nation: The
Restoration of Apartheid Schooling
in America | Jonathan Kozol, Three
Rivers Press, 2005
Shift: How to Reinvent Your
Business, Your Career, and Your
Personal Brand | Peter Arnell,
Broadway Books, 2010
Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering
for Real Learning | Marc R. Prensky,
Corwin Press Inc, 2010,
Creating Innovators: The Making of
Young People Who Will Change the
World | Tony Wagner, Scribner, 2012
Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not
All in Your Head | Carla Hannaford,
Ph.D., Great River Books, 2005
Strategy in Action: How School
Systems Can Support Powerful
Learning and Teaching | Rachel
E. Curtis, Elizabeth A. City, Harvard
Education Press, 2009
Space and Learning: Lessons in
Architecture3 | Herman Hertzberger
010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be
Creative | Ken Robinson, Capstone
Publishing Ltd., 2001, 2011
Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda
for Ameriacn Education, Build on
the Worlds’ Learning Systems |
Editor, Mark S. Tucker, Forward, Linda
Darling Hammond, Harvard Education
Press, 2011
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg:
What You Really Need to Know
about the Internet | John Naughton,
Quercus, 2012
A Teacher’s Window into the Child’s
Mind | Sally Goddard, Fern Ridge Press,
1996
Teaching for Tomorrow: Teaching
Content and Problem-Solving Skills
Ted McCain, Corwin Press, 2005
Teaching the Digital Generation: No
More Cookie-Cutter High Schools
Frank Kelly, Ian Jukes, Ted McCain,
Corwin Press, 2008
The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can
Use Design to Transform Teaching
and Learning | A collaborative project:
OWP/P ARchitects + VS Furniture +
Bruce Mau Design, Abrams, 2010
21st Century Skills: Learning for
Life in Our Times | Bernie Trilling &
Charles Fadel, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2009
A Whole New Mind: Why RightBrainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel Pink, Riverhead Trade, 2006
Window on the Future: Education
in the Age of Technology | Ian Jukes,
Corwin Press, 2000
The Young and the Digital: What the
Migration to Social Network Sites,
Games and Anytime, Anywhere
Media Means for Our Future
S. Craig Watkins, Beacon Press, 2009
Swampscott High School
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson, Riverhead, 2010
Marblehead High School
Argenziano School, Somerville
Good to Great: Why Some
Companies Make the Leap...
and Others Don’t | Jim Collins,
HarperBusiness, 2001
Innovation Nation: How America Is
Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It
Matters, and What We Can Do to
Get It Back | John Kao, Free Press,
2007
Quincy High School
The Medici Effect: What Elephants
and Epidemics Can Teach Us About
Innovation | Frans Johansson, Harvard
Business School Publishing, 2006
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry
into the Value of Work | Matthew B.
Crawford, The Penguin Press, 2009
Normal Is Just a Setting on Your
Dryer Paperback– August 10, 1998
Patsy Clairmont, Tyndale House
Publishers, Inc., 1998
Teaching 2030: What We Must Do
for Our Students and Our Public
Schools—Now and in the Future
Barnett Berry Teachers College Press,
2011
A New Culture of Learning:
Cultivating the Imagination for a
World of Constant Change
Douglas Thomas & John Seely Brown,
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform, 2011
Getting Smart: How Digital Learning
is Changing the World | Tom Vander
Ark, Jossey-Bass, 2011
Drive: The Surprising Truth About
What Motivates Us | Daniel H. Pink,
Riverhead Books, 2011
Learning Spaces | Diana G. Oblinger,
Editor, EDUCAUSE e-Book, 2006. This
is available as an e-book for free, go to:
www.educause.edu/learningspaces