If you are new to Dr. Doug Green, here are the books I recommend you check out first. If you have been here for a while, be sure to read these summaries if you haven’t.

Finnish: Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland by Pasi Sahlberg summary

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink summary

Catching Up or Leading the Way by Yong Zhau summary .

Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman summary.

The Myths of Standardized Testing: Why They Don’t Tell You What You Think They Do by Phillip Harris, Bruce Smith, and Joan Harris  summary.

How to Manage a Millennial: Discover The Core Competencies for Managing Today’s Workforce by Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja, & Craig Rusch summary.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck summary.

• A New Culture Of Learning: What will define the 21st Century
• Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other
• Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future and Locked Us In
• Better By Mistake - Improve your life and performance
• Brain-Powered Science Reform Your Science Program
• Catching Up or Leading the Way Yong Zhao-Must read!
• Discipline Survival Guide - Get One For Your School
• Drive by Daniel Pink
• Failure of the Standards Movement - Research and Opinion by Larry Stedman
• Feel-Bad Education - Alfie Kohn On What Schools Do Wrong
• Finnish Lessons - What We Can Learn
• Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning in the Age of Empowerment
• Invisible Gorilla Revised Summary
• Leading School Change: 9 Strategies to Bring Everybody on Board
• Living Large - Is Bigger Really Better?
• Managing the Millennials - Revised in my new format
• Mindset by Carol Dweck - Revised Summary
• Now You See It Must Read Book Summary
• Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children Revised
• Outliers: Gladwell's 3rd Mega Hit - Revised Summary
• Over Schooled But Under Educated - Why treat adolescence as a disease.
• Paying Attention: Great Communication Tips
• Practically Radical - Not-So-Crazy ways to transform your organization
• Reach - Building Communities & Networks for Professional Development
• Standing and Delivering - The Principal's Story
• The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
• The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
• The Progress Principle: Breakthrough Leadership Ideas
• The World Is Open - Curtis Bonk
• Thinking Fast and Slow How Your Brain Thinks
• Where Good Ideas Come From - Great read on innovation
• Zig Zag Principle - A Revolution in Goal Setting
• All Hands On Deck - Culture Trumps Strategy
• Basic Black - Book Summary of Cathie Black's (NYC Chancellor Appointee) Leadership Book
• Beyond Cut-and-Paste by Jamie McKenzie
• Blink - Vintage Gladwell
• Creating A New Teacher Profession
• Denialism - Irrational Thinking is Common
• Freakonomics - Teachers Cheat!
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price
• How to Tell Liars From Statisticians - Book Summary
• How well are you Connected
• Improving Your School One Week at a Time
• Innovation Killer: Are you a Zero-Gravity Thinker?
• Kindergarten: A book for teachers and parents
• Mindset: Leading the league in citations
• Personality Poker - Learn How to Play With a Full Deck
• Propaganda and Persuasion - Book Summary Learn how to avoid being manipulated
• Readicide - How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
• Reframing Organizations - Book Summary with Activities
• Social Pollination - Great tips for managing your social media effort
• SuperFreakonomics: More Cool Data
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
• Talent is Overrated - Try hard work.
• The Dragonfly Effect - Book Summary on how to use social media to drive social change.
• The Tipping Point - Still a best seller
• The Wisdom of Yogi Berra: Great for Educators & Parents
• The World is Flat (2006)
• Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division
• What the Internet does to your brain
• What’s Wrong With the AP Program!
• Wounded by School - Put joy back in learning.
• You Just Don't Understand - Improve Communication

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