The End of Your Career Book Club, Part III: Influence, Inspiration and Instruction
Thanks to all those who read through my list and Claudia Swisher's list of books that shaped our beliefs and careers--and commented or shared their own seminal works. It's good to see overlap; we are not alone!
This third and final blog is our dialogue about favorite books. If you haven't read the previous two blogs, they're right below, here and here. Once again, we invite you to jump right in with your own selections, or perhaps critiques of recommended books.
Nancy says:
Great list, Claudia! The first thing I noticed was that most of your books were practice-based, a great collection for someone who teaches in the secondary language arts field, and many of mine were about the bigger education stage, where practice meets policy, leadership and power. I have only a small collection of books that deal with teaching music; there aren't that many music education books out there, and most are cookbooks full of techniques for tuning the french horns or conducting 20th century literature. Useful, but not inspiring or influential.
I was pleased to see Nancie Atwell's In the Middle on your list--I loved it when I read it, even though I never taught anything remotely close to a reading workshop. She understood the