Summer Reading

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• Faculty Summer Reading

  Each summer, Eaglebrook faculty members read a book that will help them better understand boys in middle school and provide a common ground for discussion.
  
  In the summer of 2024, the Eaglebrook faculty will read one of two books and discuss them during the school year.
  
  

  The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

   

  "In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the 'play-based childhood' began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the 'phone-based childhood' in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this 'great rewiring of childhood' has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the 'collective action problems' that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood." (Anxious Generation)

  
  Learning to Depolarize by Kent Lenci

  "How can schools shoulder some responsibility for depolarizing our fractured American society? In this provocative new book, Kent Lenci describes how educators can tackle the challenge of preparing students to communicate and collaborate across lines of deep disagreement - to face the political and ideological 'other' - despite the conventional wisdom that schools should be apolitical. Topics covered include the causes and consequences of political polarization in our society, why schools must address the challenge head-on, bridge-building in the classroom, media literacy and social emotional learning as tools for depolarization, and partnering with parents across the divide. Each chapter offers current research as well as practical strategies and classroom anecdotes. Appropriate for teachers of all grade levels and subject areas, the book will help you reconsider your classroom and school’s role in forging a more depolarized future." (Routledge)

   

  Past Faculty Summer Reading Titles:
  The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents, by Lisa Damour Ph.D.
  How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith  
  The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds, by Viorica Marian 
  The Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure, by Dr. Christopher Thurber and Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D.
  Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds by Ruth E. Van Reken, Michael V. Pollock, and David C. Pollock
  Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success by Marc Brackett
  Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel.
  Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang.
  The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain by Joann Deak, Terrence Deak, and Freya Harrison.
  I Can Learn from You: Boys as Relational Learners by Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley.
  We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools
  Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities by David Flink.
  Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education by Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, and Shirley Veenema.
  Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher.
  Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen.
  What Does Math Have to do With It? by Jo Boaler.
  Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music by Tricia Tunstall.
  A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
  Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher by Rick Wormeli.
  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
  The Multiplier Effect: Tapping Genius Inside Our Schools by Liz Wiseman, Lois N. Allen, & Elise Foster. 
  It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd.
  LGBTQ Youth in American Schools by Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill.
  How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough.
  Imagine: How Creativity Works, by Jonah Lehrer.
  Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12, by Rick Wormeli
  The Purpose of Boys by Michael Gurlan.
  If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom by Bernard Schein.
  Whose Game is it, Anyway? by Richard Ginsburg, Stephen Durant, and Amy Baltzell.
  The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv.
  The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
  Raising Cain by Dr. Michael Thompson.
  Family Matters by Robert Evans.
  Why Do They Act That Way? by Dr. Davis Walsh.