Favorite Books

1. Education and 21st Century Learning

2. Global Economics

3. Special Needs Research and Education

4. Health and wellness

5. Share your Book Recommendations

Education and 21st Century Learning:

• Grown Up Digital-how the net generation is changing your world by Don Tapscott.
• Raising Lifelong Learners by Lucy Calkins
• Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley's The Fourth Way - The Inspiring Future for Educational Change. Corwin Press.
• Rethinking How Students Learn. Edited by James Bellanca and Ron Brandt
• Drive-The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
• Video on the Surprising Science of Motivation
• Validictorian Speech that will make you think about educational reform.
• YouTube video on 21st Century Skills; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ehGLqzBVM
• Principles for 21st Century Learning; http://www.gopetition.com/petition/35101.htm
• You Tube video on the proposed developments in New Brunswick:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjJg9NfTXos
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Global Economics:

• The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

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Special Needs Research and Education:

• Published in 2009 through Clinician's View, TREADMILL for Students with AUTISM and APRAXIA PROTOCOL
• The Autism Acceptance Book - Being a Friend to Someone with Autism by Ellen Sabin
• Asperger's...What Does It Mean to Me? by Catherine Faherty
• Inside Out: What Makes a Person With Cognitive Deficits Tick? by Marcia Garcia Winner
• Ten Things Your Student With Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm
• What To Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck - A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD by Dawn Huebner
• How the Special Need Brain Learns by David Sousa
• Views From Our Shoes: Growing Up with A Brother or Sister with Special Needs by D. Meyer
• Last Child In The Woods - Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

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Health and Wellness:

• Published in 2009 through Clinician's View, TREADMILL for Students with AUTISM and APRAXIA PROTOCOL
• What To Do When You Grumble Too Much - A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Negativity by Dawn Huebner
• Physical Fitness and Wellness-3rd Edition Changing the Way You Look and Preform by Jerrold Greenberg, George Dintiman, Barbee Myers Oakes
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers- An updated guide to stress-related disease and coping by Robert M Sapolsky
• How to Achieve the Physical, Mental and Spiritual Victories of Running by George Sheehan
• Running and being: The Total Experience by George Sheehan
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