Summer 2024 Book List

Leadership & Governance

• Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth Nikolas Badminton
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Oliver Burkeman
• Governing the Small School: Strategies for Boards E. Brooke Carroll
• Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization Lahey and Kegan
• Leading Through Strategy Tom Olverson
• Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today Jane McGonigal
• Managing Transitions: Make the Most of Change Bridges and Bridges
• Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems Barry Johnson
• Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity, and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations Margaret Wheatley
• School Leadership from A to Z: How to Lead Well Without Losing Your Way Bradley James Davies (2024 Annual Conference Speaker)
• Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout Cal Newport
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever Paperback Michael Stanier
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being Rick Rubin
• The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead Straw, Davis, et al.
• Thrive: How Schools Will Win the Education Revolution Grant Lichtman (2024 Annual Conference Speaker)

Teaching & Learning

• Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Ethan Mollick
• Connecting Through Conversation: A Playbook for Talking with Students
  Bare and Burns
• From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)Creating School for Every Child Michael Horn (2023 Annual Conference Speaker)
• Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset George Couros
• Opening Minds: Using Language to Change Lives Peter Johnston
• Small Teaching K-8: Igniting the Teaching Spark with the Science of Learning Sanders and Lang
• Streamlining the Curriculum: Using the Storyboard Approach to Frame Compelling Learning Journeys Jacobs and Zmuda
• The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity George Couros
• The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students Thomas Armstrong

Community & Connection

• 8 Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success Michelle Icard (2024 Annual Conference Speaker)
• Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing) Weinstein and James
• Breaking the Barriers to Belonging: United by Our Biology and Shared Humanity Pascal Losambe
• Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier Arthur Brooks
• Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities Susie Wise
• Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future Jean Twenge
• Habits of Resilient Educators: Strategies for Thriving During Times of Anxiety, Doubt, and Constant Change Prendergast and Lee
• Hopes and Fears: Strengthening the Relationship with Today’s Independent School Parents (Revised and Expanded) Robert Evans and Michael Thompson
• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David Brooks
• Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It Jennifer Wallace (2023 Annual Conference Speaker)
• The Age of Identity Shirley and Hargreaves
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Don Miguel Ruiz
• We’re All in This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging Mike Robbins

Brand & Communication

• Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team Alina Wheeler
• Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind Ries and Trout
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters Priya Parker
• The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World Steve Pemberton
• Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect Will Guidara

2023 Summer Reading List for Faculty and School Leaders SAIS

• Education, Teaching, and Learning
• Leadership
• Culture, Change, and Communication