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My 2016 Summer Reading List<\/h1>\n

\"reflection<\/a>There are many thinks to look forward to as summer approaches. As an educator, I appreciate the calm I feel when school is out. You know that tense feeling thinking about what tomorrow’s class will be like. There is nothing like the first Sunday night when you realize you don’t have to be a teacher in the morning!!!!<\/p>\n

I also look forward to a slower pace of life where I can stop adding items to my TO-DO LIST and finally start checking a few off. One of those things for me is my summer reading list.<\/p>\n

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Over the course of the last year, I have been booking marking recommended reads from conferences I attended, \u00a0collecting post-its that contain those on-the-fly, must-read books. It’s a long list but you have to start somewhere. \u00a0I have some travel opportunities happening in July, so there’s no better time than now to create the list. So here goes:<\/p>\n

First up: Creative Schools, by Sir Ken Robinson<\/h2>\n

Last year I read\u00a0The Element\u00a0<\/em>by Ken Robinson and really enjoyed it so this summer I have decided to read another book by him called\u00a0Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution that’s Transforming Education.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Sir Ken Robinson argues that schools are good at killing creativity and still have an industrial drive. Here’s his 2006 Ted Talk.<\/p>\n