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Featured Reading: TNTP Publications
Featured Reading: TNTP Publications
TNTP_The-Opportunity-Myth_Web.pdfThe Opportunity Myth
The Opportunity Myth
(2018)
We’ve been telling students that doing well in school creates opportunities—that showing up, doing the work, and meeting teachers’ expectations will prepare them for their futures. Unfortunately, that’s a myth.
Far too many students graduate from high school still unprepared for the lives they want to lead. They enroll in college and land in remedial courses, or start jobs and discover they’re missing skills they need. We wanted to understand why.
The Opportunity Makers Final Report 10-29-24.pdfThe Opportunity Makers
The Opportunity Makers
(2024)
In schools across the country, far too many students fall behind academically, and most who fall behind stay behind. If we don’t accelerate learning at scale, millions of students may never catch up. This has far-reaching implications for students’ futures:
Our research has shown that a strong academic foundation is one of five factors of social and economic mobility. Without strong academic foundations, they will be less equipped to pursue chosen careers, achieve financial security, and thrive in life.
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
Author: Elena Aguilar
A 25-year veteran of the education field, Elena Aguilar has learned that "there's just no way to address teaching, learning, and school improvement without also talking about feelings." Onward "details how to uncover your true self and use your energy where it counts." READ MORE
(cited from onwardthebook.com)
For Further Reading
Our team has gathered a list of the most important texts we've read over the years in becoming the best educators we can be for students. These are all suggestions, but we strongly encourage you to check a few of them out before PST begins. If you're short on time, prioritize our PST Core Texts as you will use them throughout the summer.
Non-Fiction
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee, One World, 2021
A Place Called School (Rev ed.) by John Goodlad, McGraw-Hill Education, 2004
Amazing Grace: The lives of children and the conscience of a nation (2nd ed) by Jonathan Kozol, Broadway Books, 2012
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, 2015
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Delacorte Press, 2013
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown, Avery, 2015
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin, Beacon Press, 2016
I Am Malala: The girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Little, Brown, and Company, 2013
In the Deep Heart’s Core by Michael Johnston, Grove Press (New York), 2002
Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, 2015
Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose, Penguin Books (New York), 1989
Moving Diversity Forward: How to Go From Well-Meaning to Well-Doing by Verna A Myers, American Bar Association, 2012
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, Monthly Review Press, 1997
Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit, The New Press (New York), 1995
Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life by Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, Hilary Beard, Spiegel & Grau, 2014
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol, Broadway Books, 2012
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, 2018
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Father Gregory Boyle, Free Press, 2011
Teach Like A Champion 2.0 by Lemov, Doug, Jossey-Bass, 2010 (A Free PDF of this book can be found HERE.)
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks, Routledge, 1994
The First Days of School by Harry Wong, Harry K Wong Publications (Mountain View, CA), 2004
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, The New Press, 2012
The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol, Broadway Books, 2006
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler, Vintage, 2005
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz, Doubleday (New York), 1991
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele, W. W. Norton Company, 2010
White Teacher by Vivian Paley, Harvard University Press, 2000
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum, Basic Books (New York), 1997
Waking Up White by Debby Irving, Elephant Room Press, 2014
Fiction
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Vintage, 1991
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, Da Capo Press, 2006
Publications by TNTP
Our national organization has published several important studies that have impacted public education. We encourage you to read through any you find interesting, particularly the publication Leap Year.
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