Life gets crazy for me whenever school is in session, so that’s why I try my best to fill much of my summer with reading that never gets done August to May. This summer is no different. I did not get as much read as I had liked, but quality over quantity always.
Along with these summer reads, a post from Amy on her use of Stand and Talks from Sara led back to this Global Math from Sara. It is a great resource and introduction if you are not familiar with the structure. It would be a perfect PLC video. S&T will definitely be in the lineup on a regular basis this school year! I constantly find myself looking at graphs, questions and asking – how could this be tweaked into a stand and talk?
I have a couple of more titles – I’d hoped to finish before school started, but I think they’ll have to be the “keep in the car to read while waiting to pick up at band rehearsals” books – Five Practices into Practice and Routines for Reasoning.
Its been a productive and good break this summer. I’ll share more in later posts about specific take a ways from my reading.
So what’s been on your reading list and what were your take a ways?
the radical rational... 
What did you think of Powerful Teaching? I read Make it Stick last year and ended up using a few different retrieval strategies during the 18-19 school year. I’m thinking of possibly having a book club discuss Powerful Teaching at my school.
I am just finishing it up. Very good follow up to make it stick. Very much focused on the how to implement and offers different grade level/viewpoints for implementation. It be a great book study.
Good to know! I’ll check out the book.