Book, Books, Books

This post contains a list of books CGT particpants brought with them to the retreat.  We made sure to spend time discussing the books and their importance to those that brought them. If you have any others you would like to add, please add a new post.  Please feel free to comment about the books listed below.

Judy Hubble

• Six weeks to a Brain - Compatible Classroom (Zandina)
  
• Born to Learn (Smilkstein)

Tom Stege

• Chemical Systems (Chemical Bond Approach)

Patrick Schmidt

• How to Read Literature Like a College Professor (Thomas Foster)

Vernon Reed

• The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)

Jane Thorne

• Stephen Crane's Poetry - any title
• Harbrace Handbook - early editions

Gloria Diaz

• Tongue Fu (Sam Horn)

Wendy Lym

• The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan)

Lynn Raridon

• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• Through Animal Eyes (Lynn Cuny)

Angela Niedermyer

• Fish Sticks (Stephen Lundin)
• Tools for Teaching (Barbara Davis)
• Classroom Assessment Techniques (Angelo & Cross)

Bernadeta Kaminska

• What the Best College Teachers Do (Ken Bain)

Aldo Maldonado

• Proofs and Refutations (Lakatos)

Chris Thron

• The Bible (4 Gospels)

Christine Bloemsma

• Grammar with a Giggle (Jane Kiester)
• Lapsing Into a Comma (Bill Walsh)
• The Elephants of Style (Bill Walsh)

Marco Hanson

• The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks, translator)
• The Annie Dillard Reader (Annie Dillard)

Rosa Davila

• Teaching Language in Context (Alice Omaggio)

David Lydic

• The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
• Bastard Out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison)
• Errors and Expectations (Mina Shaugnessy)

Lara Niles

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking (eds))
• Democracy and Education (John Dewey)
• Diffusion of Innovations (Everett Rogers)

Gail Goodman

• The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupery)

Other books

• Heart of the Mind
• Zen in the Art of Archery
• Getting to Yes