So here’s the personal challenge of my last post. I’m going to take some beach time to be a little more analog in my education reading this summer, and I’m going to take on some books I’ve read before to see what they hold for me now, and I’m going to take on some books that I’ve never read and have meant to. Here’s a short list of what I want to (re-)read:

• Child and Curriculum — Dewey. It’s been too long since I’ve sat down and read Dewey cover-to-cover. I also might take on Democracy and Education for the first time as well.
• The Courage to Teach — Parker Palmer.
• Curriculum & Consequence: Herbert M. Kliebard and the Promise of Schooling — just had this recommended to me recently as a great "context" book for education reform. Looking forward to it.
• Teaching to Transgress — bell hooks. It was powerful for me twelve years ago. It was the book that changed the way I thought about teaching. Time to re-read.
• Understanding by Design — Wiggins and McTigue. I read it during our planning year. I need to re-read it this year to think about how we used it and how we want to keep using it.
• Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach — Nel Noddings — I’ve loved the Noddings I’ve read, and her "Ethic of Care" informs SLA in powerful ways, and I want to read more of her work.
• Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms — Diane Ravitch — I disagree with a lot of what Ravitch writes, but I think she’s important. I "half-read" this one in graduate school. Time for a full read.
• Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform — Cuban and Tyack — another "half-read" from grad school. Time for a full-read. Cuban brings a lot of negativity to the table, but that’s an important perspective because some of today’s outlook is a result of the public perception (and reality) of the reforms of the past.
• Horace’s Compromise — Ted Sizer — I’m embarrased to admit, I’ve never read it. I’ve read about it. I’ve read a dozen or more writers who reference it, but I’ve never read it.

  What’s missing? And better yet, what’s on your summer professional reading list?