Welcome to summer! Hopefully a summer of much needed rest and renewal.
This month's newsletter highlights a few suggested additions to your summer reading list:
Teaching Life, by Todd Shy. A beautifully written book that describes great teaching as the art form it is "determined to inspire and wake students up, because vitality is the first thing, and, until it fills a school maybe the only thing that matters." - and goes on to describe the "how to" in anti-checklist, evocative prose. Inspiration and non-panglossian guidance grounded in over two decades of practice.
Speaking of checklists, be sure to check out Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte, the best book I have read in 15 years on time management - although time management is a very poor descriptor, it's 'Personal Knowledge Management' mastery - a new term I learned reading the book. Tiago describes how to master the current day overwhelm of input and to-do's - additional resources here.
Finally, I have been learning first hand "the crucial role that the vagus nerve plays in determining our psychological and emotional states" as I start to take better care of my health. As I read, Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve, by Stanley Rosenberg, I couldn't help but think about the implications for the education system and the potential of a system of learning grounded in the wellbeing and resilience of everyone with it.
