As we get come to the end of the year, this is a good time to reflect back on all that we have accomplished in the past 10 months and consider what we can do to improve for next year. To that end, I have decided to assemble a list of all the books recommended in Bits and Bytes over the past three years. I have also added a couple of new titles that are worth exploring. Most of these books are available in the Greenhill Library and are available for summer checkout starting June 2, 2008. I encourage you to look through the list and find a title to read this summer. There is nothing like a great book to challenge you to grow over the summer. Feel free to contact me if you need more information about any of these titles or would like suggestions that fit your particular interests and goals. Read on through this issue of Bits and Bytes and you may find a way to win your personal copy of any one of the titles below.

A GOOD READ

• Langer, E. The Power of Mindful Learning
• McCourt, F. Teacher Man
• Reynolds, P. The North Star
• Reynolds, P. He was Me
• Gardner, H. The Disciplined Mind
• Gardner, H. Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham and Gandhi
• Doidge, N. The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Science.
• McCain, T. Teaching for Tomorrow: Teaching Content and Problem Solving Skills
• Tapscott, D and Williams, A. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
• Sarason, S. And What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
• Surowiecki, J. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Societies and Nations
• Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M. Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Implications of Expertise
• Pink, D. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future

OTHER GREAT READS...

• Meier, D. (2002). The Power of their Ideas
• Bransford, J. (2000). How People Learn
• Wiske, M. (1998). Teaching for Understanding
• Gladwell, M. (2002). The tipping point