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The Ultimate Summer 69传媒 (and Listening) List for Principals

By Lesli A. Maxwell 鈥 July 14, 2021 1 min read
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Dear Principals,

Before your summer downtime starts to vanish, take time to recharge your brains, find inspiration, and generate ideas for the fall. Feed your minds with interesting books, articles, and audio while you aren鈥檛 so busy and get psyched for the school year ahead. (Obviously, many of you are running summer school, but hopefully, the pace is not as hectic.)

EdWeek鈥檚 bibliophiles and audiophiles put together some recommendations to spare you the arduous job of figuring out what to listen to and what to read among the flood of podcasts, books, and articles.

Here鈥檚 our short list:

Podcasts:

  • with Muriel Wilkins from Harvard Business Review;
  • with Robyn Jackson;
  • , a student-produced podcast on the school鈥檚 maintenance crew that .

One for pure fun: , from two witty women who select a different self-help book to live by鈥攆ollow it to the letter for two weeks鈥攁nd discuss if it鈥檚 actually worthwhile.

鈥淚t鈥檚 generally lighthearted and also informative in a fun way,鈥 says EdWeek鈥檚 Melissa Heyeck. (*Warning: some adult topics and salty language)

Books:

  • by Kate Barker, Kourtney Ferrua, and Rachael George;
  • by Lori L. Desautels;
  • by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One to get lost in: by Jess Walter, a 鈥済reat, adventurous novel about labor unions, hoboes, and the West,鈥 says EdWeek鈥檚 Daarel Burnette II.

Articles:

One for sheer delight: A wanna-be bat girl for the Yankees whose request to join the dugout was turned down, , 60 years later.

Deep tracks:

If you鈥檝e got extra bandwidth and want more reading to sink into, explore the vast collection of articles, opinion pieces, and videos we鈥檝e got on leadership and teaching and learning.

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