Recommended Reading
Executive Director's Picks
Creating Caring & Capable Boards: Reclaiming the Passion for Active Trusteeship
by Katherine Tyler Scott
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don’t
by Jim Collins
Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement
by Linda Lambert, ASCD
Leadership for the Schoolhouse
by Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Jossey Bass
Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leadership
by Martin Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz
Lincoln on Leadership:Executive Strategies for Tough Times
by Donald T. Phillips
Shaking up the Schoolhouse: How to Support and Sustain Education
by Phil Schlechty, Jossey Bass
Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement
by Anthony S. Bryk, Barbara L. Schneider
Summer Conference Presenters
10 Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Coach, and Mentor Successful Teachers
by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
Discipline Without Stress Punishments or Rewards : How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning
by Marvin L. Marshall
Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership
by Richard Farson, Michael Crichton
The Leader as Coach: How to Coach A Winning Team
by Dr. Richard Huseman
Instructional Leader Authors
Caring Classrooms/Intelligent Schools: The Social Emotional Education of Young Children (Social Emotional Learning, 2)
by Jonathan Cohen (Editor), James P. Comer
First Look at What We Can Learn from High-Performing School Districts: An Analysis of Timss Data from the First in the World Consortium
by Paul Kimmelman (Editor)
The Principal’s Role in Retaining Novice Teachers
by Rosanne Stripling, Ed.D.
Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years (Early Childhood Education)
by Judith Helm, Lillian G. Katz
Stepping Up: Leading the Charge to Improve Our Schools
by Dr. Larry Lezotte and Kathleen McKee
Reading Allowed - Professional
Good to Great
by Jim Collins
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
by Jim Collins
How to Ride Thunder and Catch Lightning-Success Principles from Father to Daughter
by Bernice J. Washington
Jesus, CEO, Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership
by Laurie Beth Jones
Living, Laughing and Loving Life
by Dan Miller
Raving Fans
by Ken Blanchard
Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future
by Larry K. Brendtro, et al
Reframing the Path to School Leadership, A Guide for Teachers and Principals
by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners
by Carol Ann Tomlinson
The Four Agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Heart of a Leader
by Kenneth H. Blanchard
The Heart of An Executive: Lessons on Leadership from the Life of King David
Richard D. Phillips
The Intuitive Principal: A Guide to Leadership
by Karen M. Dyer, Jacqueline Carothers
What Every Principal Should Know About Teaching Reading
by Marie Carbo
Reading Allowed - Children's
Beware of the Bears!
by Alan MacDonald, Gwyneth Williamson (Illustrator)
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
Paper Bag Princess
by Michael Martchenko (Illustrator), Robert N. Munsch
The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
The Other Side
by Jacqueline Woodson
The Three Questions
by John Muth
The Water Hole
by Graeme Base
When Lightning Comes in a Jar
Patricia Polacco
NAESP's National Principals Resource Center Bookstore
Bargain Books Half-Price Sale
K-12 Principal`s Guide to No Child Left Behind
by NAESP, Educational Research Service and National Association of Secondary School Principals