Extraordinary Learning For All
Aylon Samouha, Jeff Wetzler, Jenee Henry Wood
The essence of this book is about redefining schooling as we know it. Drawing on their vast experience as directors of Transcend Education in the US, the authors draw from […]
All the time, every time, all of us, everywhere!
Iain Taylor
I’m grateful to Iain Taylor who sent me a copy of this book to read – it contains a really great story of transformation a school that was not in […]
The Greatest Coaching Conversations
Jerry Connor and Karim Hirani
As educators we are frequently engaged in conversations (with parents, peers and students) that require us to be listening, asking the right questions and guiding towards possible solutions – in […]
What School Could Be
Ted Dintersmith
My copy of this book has been read by so many friends and colleagues it’s looking quite worn! In What School Could Be, Ted Dintersmith profiles dozens of schools across the […]
The Big Nine
Amy Webb
Possibly my favourite read for 2024 – amid the scramble to try and make sense of the escalating change being brought about by Artificial Intelligence, Amy Webb reveals how the […]
The Signals Are Talking
Amy Webb
Amy Webb is described as a is a quantative futurist, someone who takes a structured approach to envisioning what the future is going to look like, and this book provides a […]
Learning to Leave
Elliot Washor and Scott Boldt
This is the follow-up book to Leaving to Learn, looking back at what the authors learned over the past ten years and looking ahead at those new ways, forms, and […]
Imaginable
Jane McGonigal
In a world of unimaginable events and unthinkable change, McGonigal provides some really useful tools to help us to help us see the future coming and be ready for anything. […]
Cleverlands
Lucy Crehan
As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from ‘top-performing’ education systems. She resolved to find out […]
Education to Better Their World
Mark Prensky
The sub-title of this book resonates strongly with me – “Unleashing the power of 21st century kids.” This is a must-read book for any educator who cares about the future […]
Empowered at a Distance
John Spencer
If you’re looking for some really useful ideas and strategies for powering up your work in virtual or hybrid learning, then this book is a great place to start. It’s […]
The Future of Teaching and the Myths that Hold it Back
Guy Claxton
Without doubt my favourite book for 2021! Guy Claxton has been a significant voice in education for many years now, and this, his latest book, doesn’t disappoint! In his introduction […]
Lost Connections
Johan Hari
Subtitled “Uncovering the real causes of depression – and the unexpected outcomes”, this book has given me new perspectives on the world of depression and anxiety. Drawing from his own […]
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Zaretta Hammond
I listened to Zaretta Hammond speaking on an online conference earlier in the year. She impressed me so much that I ordered the book on the spot – and I […]
Our Secondary Schools Don’t Work Anymore
David Hood
An oldie but a goodie – David Hood’s analysis of the NZ Education System is insightful and clearly articulated. David is well placed to comment on secondary education as he […]
Dive Into Deep Learning
Joanne Quinn, Joanne McEachen, Michael Fullan, Mag Gardner and Max Drummy
The authors of this book are all part of the team that developed the global NPDL programme. This is is my go-to handbook for when I am working with the […]
Leaving To Learn
Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
I was given a copy of Leaving to Learn by Elliot Washor back in 2014 after he’d shown me around one of the Big Picture Schools in San Diego. Since […]
The Growth Delusion
David Pilling
This is one of those books you want to keep coming back to. Described as “a revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and […]
Coherence
Michael Fullan and Joanne Quinn
This has been one of my ‘go to’ books for the past couple of years now. It provides a compelling case for why we should be pursuing coherence in our […]
The Good Ancestor
Roman Krznaric
If you’re concerned about the impact of short term thinking in our modern world then this is the book for you. Roman Krznaric’s Good Ancestor is inspiring, revealing six profound […]
What School Could Be
Ted Dintersmith
The man behind the film Most Likely to Succeed, a feature-length documentary on education, Ted Dintersmith spent most of three 2016 school year visiting schools across the US, documenting what he […]
Human Kind: a hopeful history
Rutger Bregman
An excellent read – my top pick for 2020! It is thought provoking, informative and counter-intuitive. Bregman challenges our predisposition that as humans we are inherently wicked or inclined to […]
Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
Demant Taneja with Kevin Maney
A great read for the modern age – the author argues against the prevailing paradigm of ‘big is better’, and demonstrates how small, unscaled companies can pursue niche markets and successfully. The […]
Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialised world
David Epstein
An engrossing read for educators, parents, business people – anyone really! Full of well researched stories and examples that provide support for the argument that in most fields especially those that […]
Putting Students First
Marsha Jones, Laureen Avery, Joseph D'Martino
This book tells the story of a 20-year journey of transformation of schools in the Springdale School District in NW Arkansas. It is part memoir and part history, sharing the story […]
Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less
Greg McKeown
An excellent read for those who are feeling tied down by the burden of ‘too much to do’ and trying to cope with the increasing complexity of everyday life. This […]
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
Described by the NY Times as ‘a landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself’, this book explains in well-researched ways why you hold on to your moral beliefs and why […]
The Uninhabitable Earth: a story of the future
David Wallace-Wells
This book tells it as it is! Incredibly well researched and drawing on data from a wide range of sources, Wallace-Wells paints an incredibly grim picture of the future if […]
The End of Average
Todd Rose
Subtitled “how to succeed in a world of same-ness”, this book revolutionised my understanding of the problems we’ve created in our education system based on our use of the universally […]
What’s yours is mine: against the sharing economy
Tom Slee
This book is a challenging read for all of us who are embracing the disruptive power of social platforms that encourage the breakdown of the ?middle man? in our transactions. […]
Empower: What happens when students own their learning
John Spencer and A.J. Juliani
This is an easy to read and inspiring handbook for educators seeking ways to embrace the idea of learner agency in the classroom. The authors argue that we need to move […]
Factfulness
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
Subtitled “Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world and why things are better than you think”, this is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work […]
Thank You For Being Late
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who writes regular columns in the New York Times and is well known for his previous best seller ‘The Earth is Flat’. […]
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli academic who rose to fame with the publication of his book Sapiens, originally written in Hebrew as a history of humanity, translated into English in […]
The Fourth Age
Byron Reese
Byron Reese is the CEO and publisher of the technology research company Gigaom, and the founder of several high-tech companies. His previous book as also a best seller, titled ‘Infinite Progress: […]
