Resources that provoke and sustain my thinking (and that I would recommend others to explore as well)

*Note - adding to this on an ongoing basis as I compile the long list of texts, podcasts, videos, and other resources that have influenced my thinking. This will always be an incomplete list.

Pedagogy

Books

The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik

From Children’s Interests to Children’s Thinking : Using a Cycle of Inquiry to Plan Curriculum by Jane Tingle Broderick and Seong Bock Hong

Working in the Reggio Way by Julianne P. Wurm

More Working in the Reggio Way by Julianne P. Wurm

We are All Explorers by Daniel R. Scheinfeld, Karen M. Haigh, and Sandra J.P. Scheinfeld

Making Learning Visible by Project Zero and Reggio Children

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

From Teaching to Thinking by Ann Pelo and Margie Carter

Non-Violent Communication

Books

Say what you Mean by Oren Sofer

Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication by Meenadchi

Contemplative Practice

Books

The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

Organizational Re-imaginings

Books

Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

Holding Change by adrienne maree brown

Somatics

Books

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

The Wakeful Body by Willa Blythe Baker

Education History

Books

We Are an African People by Russell Rickford

Slaying Goliath by Diane Ravitch

Confessions of a School Reformer by Larry Cuban

Anti-Oppressive Resources

Books

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Raciolinguistics : How Language Shapes our Ideas about Race edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, and Arnetha F. Ball

Podcasts

The Gray Area (Vox) : Imagine a future with no police