Looking to do some quality summer reading? HEP has you covered! We’ve compiled a list of books that are perfect to read as you relax and decompress during your summer break. Also, from 7/1 through 7/31, we’re offering 20% off all our titles when you use code SUMMER24 at checkout!
Educating for Purposeful Life
A New Conception of Schooling for the 21st Century
By S. David Brazer and Michael B. Matsuda
Educating for Purposeful Life is a visionary blueprint for educational reform that envisions school systems as opportunity engines, preparing young citizens for future workplace success, civic engagement, and fulfilling lives.
Dancing in the Rain
Leading with Compassion, Vitality, and Mindfulness in Education
By Jerome T. Murphy
Dancing in the Rain offers a lively and accessible guide aimed at helping education leaders thrive under pressure by developing the inner strengths of mindfulness and self-compassion, expressing emotions wisely, and maintaining a clear focus on the values that matter most.
Teaching from an Ethical Center
Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction
By Cara E. Furman
In Teaching from an Ethical Center, Cara E. Furman proposes a process for bringing philosophical inquiry into teacher education and adopting it as a centering tool to enrich teaching practice and help teachers act justly.
Deep in Thought
A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues
By Jason Baehr
Deep in Thought provides an introduction to intellectual virtues—the personal qualities and character strengths of good thinkers and learners—and outlines a pragmatic approach for teachers to reinforce them in the classroom.
The Open System
Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy
By Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran
The Open System is a call to action for school and community leaders to reframe educational institutions as open systems that are adaptable and responsive to the needs of students, families, and communities.
America’s Hidden Economic Engines
How Community Colleges Can Drive Shared Prosperity
Edited by Robert B. Schwartz and Rachel Lipton
America’s Hidden Economic Engines presents five in-depth case studies reveal the innovative practices that position U.S. community colleges as pathways to quality employment.
“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”
Resistance to Change in Higher Education
By Brian Rosenberg
PROSE Award Finalist
In “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It,” president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit meaningful postsecondary reform.
Teach for Climate Justice
A Vision for Transformation Education
By Tom Roderick
In Teach for Climate Justice, accomplished educator and social and emotional learning expert Tom Roderick proposes a visionary interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to PreK–12 climate education.
The Great School Rethink
By Frederick M. Hess
In The Great School Rethink, education policy sentinel Frederick M. Hess offers a pithy and perceptive appraisal of American schooling and finds, in the uncertain period following pandemic disruption, an ideal moment to reimagine US education.
Hope and Healing
Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy
By John Silvanus Wilson, Jr.
With significant lessons from the history and evolution of HBCUs, Hope and Healing serves a guide to the strategic conversations all higher education institutions must have to prepare students for a complex world.
Jim Crow’s Pink Slip
The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
By Leslie T. Fenwick
Winner of the 2023 AACTE Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award
Jim Crow’s Pink Slip exposes the decades-long repercussions of a too-little-known result of resistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision: the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.
Students First
Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education
By Paul LeBlanc
2022 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature, University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
In Students First, Paul LeBlanc advocates for an entire higher education ecosystem in which students have the flexibility to gain, assess, and certify their knowledge on their own terms and timelines.
Confessions of a School Reformer
By Larry Cuban
In Confessions of a School Reformer, eminent historian of education Larry Cuban reflects on nearly a century of education reforms and his experiences with them as a student, educator, and administrator.