Book Circles - Cumulative list

This is the list of books that CTLT has provided through our popular Book Circles, which offer new titles every quarter. The most recent selections are at the top and more will be added over time. This list may be of interest to those seeking relevant and informative resources related to education.

We offer book circles on several themes, which provides opportunities for participants to explore a topic more deeply over time. The themes include:

Mindful Educators
These book selections explore mindfulness, emotional intelligence, neuroscience and affect in education. Usually one per quarter.
Mastery Teaching
These book selections explore a broad variety of research-grounded methods and approaches to instruction. Usually one per quarter.
Inclusive Educators
These book selections explore principles and practices for creating inclusive educational experiences in support of a more diverse campus community consistent with the campus Diversity Learning Objectives. Usually one per quarter, often with the Office of University Diversity and Inclusion as partners.
Navigating Academia
These book selections address higher-level questions, issues and challenges facing higher education and faculty life. Occasional.
Sustainability Educators
These titles are for educators interested in infusing sustainability into their teaching, part of the campus support for the Sustainability Learning Objectives. Newly launched.
Writing Educators
These titles are for educators interested in developing their knowledge and skills teaching writing across the curriculum and within their disciplines. Newly launched.

ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-21

Title	Author	Quarter	Theme
Cheating Lessons: Learning From Academic Dishonesty	James M. Lang	Spring 2021	Mastery Teaching
Resilent : How to Grow an Unshakeable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness	Rick Hanson	Spring 2021	Mindful Educators
Engaging Imagination: Helping Students Become Creative and Reflective Thinkers	Alison James & Stephen Brooks	Spring 2021	Mastery Teaching
Cheating Lessons: Learning From Academic Dishonesty	James M. Lang	Winter 2021	Mastery Teaching
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life	Susan David	Winter 2021	Mindful Educators

ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-20

Title

Author

Quarter

Theme

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Fall 2019

Inclusive Educators

RANGE: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Fall 2019

Mindful Educators

White Fragility

Robin DiAngelo

Winter 2020

Inclusive Educators

Why are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Winter 2020

Inclusive Educators

Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a complex World

Paul Hanstedt

Winter 2020

Mastery Teaching

The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing for a Multicultural World

Dena R. Samuels

Winter 2020

Inclusive Educators

If I Understood You

Alan Alda

Winter 2020

Mastering Teaching

**ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-19**
Title	Author	Quarter	Theme
Our Underachiving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More	Derek Bok	Summer 2019	Mindful Educators
Teaching with Compassion: an Educators Oath to Teach from the Heart	Peter Kaufman	Summer 2019	Inclusive Educators
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability	Andrew Hoffman	Spring 2019	Sustainability Educators
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone	Brene Brown	Spring 2019	Writing Educators
Classroom Assesment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers	Thomas Angelo	Spring 2019	Mastery Teaching
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism	Robin Diangelo	Spring 2019	Inclusive Educators
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of a Differently Wired Brain	Thomas Armstrong	Spring 2019	Mindful Educators
Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia	Rachel Connelly	Winter 2019	Navigating Academia
From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation	Keeanga-Yamatta Taylor	Winter 2019	Inclusive Educators
The Cultrally Inclusive Educator: Preparing for a Multicultural World	Dena R Samuels	Winter 2019	Inclusive Educators
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of a Differently Wired Brain	Thomas Armstrong	Winter 2019	Mindful Educators
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism	Robin Diangelo	Winter 2019	Inclusive Educators
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism	Robin Diangelo	Fall 2018	Inclusive Educators
Out Of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative	Ken Robinson	Fall 2018	Mastery Teaching
Reframing The Curriculum: Design for Social Justice and Sustainability	Susan Santone	Fall 2018	Sustainability Educators
Black Prophetic Fire	Cornell West	Fall 2018	Inclusive Educators

ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-18

Title	Author	Quarter	Theme
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us And What We Can Do	Claude M. Steele	Summer 2018	Inclusive Educators
I Love Learning, I Hate School: An Anthropology of College	Susan D. Blum	Summer 2018	Mastery Teaching
Sustainability in Higher Education: Stories and Strategies for Transformation	Peggy Bartlett and Geoffrey Chase	Summer 2018	Sustainability Educators
The Spark of Learning: Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain	J. Ratey	Spring 2018	Mindful Educators
The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing Students for a Multicultural World	Dena R. Samuels	Spring 2018	Inclusive Educators
Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank	Robert W. Fuller	Spring 2018	Navigating Academia
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains In A High-Tech World	Adam Gazzaley and Larry Rosen	Winter 2018	Mindful Educators
The New Education: How To Revolutionize The University To Prepare Students for a World In Flux	Cathy Davidson	Winter 2018	Navigating Academia
The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing For A Multicultural World	Dena R Samuels	Winter 2018	Inclusive Educators
The Meaningful Writing Project: Learning, Teaching, and Writing in Higher Education	Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller & Neil Lerner	Winter 2018	Writing Educators
The Sympathizer	Viet Thanh Nguyen	Winter 2018	Inclusive Educators
Being Wrong: Adventures on the Margins of Error	Kathryn Schultz	Fall 2017	Mindful Educators
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning	James Lang	Fall 2017	Mastery Teaching
Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom	Katie Kissinger	Fall 2017	Inclusive Educators

**ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-17**
Title	Author	Quarter	Theme
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being	Martin Seligman	Summer 2017	Mindful Educators
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy	Maggie Berg & Barbara K. Seeber	Summer 2017	Navigating Academia
Cheating Lessons: Learning From Academic Dishonesty	James Lang	Summer 2017	Mastery Teaching
The Upside of Stress	Kelly McGonigal	Spring 2017	Mindful Educators
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion	Sara Rose Cavanaugh	Spring 2017	Mastery Teaching
Recovering The Sacred	Winona LaDuke	Spring 2017	Inclusive Educators
The Winona LaDuke Chronicles	Winona LaDuke	Spring 2017	Inclusive Educators
Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can’t Stop Talking	Susan Cain	Winter 2017	Mindful Educators
Teach Students How To Learn : : Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation	Saundra McGuire	Winter 2017	Mastery Teaching
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	Winter 2017	Inclusive Educators
The Militarization of Indian Country	Winona LaDuke	Winter 2017	Inclusive Educators
Underground Undergrads	UCLA undergrads	Winter 2017	Inclusive Educators
10% Happier	Dan Harris	Fall 2016	Mindful Educators
Teaching With Your Mouth Shut	Donald Finkel	Fall 2016	Mastery Teaching
Tyranny of the Meritocracy	Lani Guinier	Fall 2016	Navigating Academia

**ACADEMIC YEAR 2015-16**
Title	Author	Quarter	Theme
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation	Dan Siegel	Summer 2016	Mindful Educators
Make It Stick: Science of Successful Learning	Brown, Roediger & McDaniel	Summer 2016	Mastery Teaching
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation	Dan Siegel	Spring 2016	Mindful Educators
Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts and Writing Studies	Adler-Kassner & Wardle	Spring 2016	Mastery Teaching
Colorblind	Tim Wise	Spring 2016	Inclusive Educators
Dear White America	Tim Wise	Spring 2016	Inclusive Educators
White Like Me	Tim Wise	Spring 2016	Inclusive Educators
Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science & Engineering	Nancy Kober	Spring 2016	Mastery Teaching
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do	Claude Steele	Winter 2016	Inclusive Educators
Internationalizing The Curriculum	Betty Leask	Winter 2016	Inclusive Educators
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Winter 2016	Inclusive Educators
Rising Strong	Brene Brown	Fall 2015	Mindful Educators
How College Works	Chambliss & Takach	Fall 2015	Navigating Academia
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage	Paolo Freire	Fall 2015	Inclusive Educators
What Blood Won’t Tell: A History Of Race On Trial in America	Ariela Gross	Fall 2015	Inclusive Educators

**ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-15**
Title	Author	Quarter	Theme
Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success	Carol Dweck	Summer 2015	Mindful Educators
The Courage To Teach	Parker Palmer	Summer 2015	Mastery Teaching
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life	William Deresiewicz	Summer 2015	Navigating Academia
Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies To Strengthen Students’ Self-Awareness and Learning Skills	Linda Nilson	Summer 2015	Mastery Teaching
The Missing Professor: An Academic Mystery	Thomas Jones	Summer 2015	Navigating Academia
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope	bell hooks	Spring 2015	Inclusive Educators
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom	bell hooks	Spring 2015	Inclusive Educators
Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory & Practice	bell hooks	Spring 2015	Inclusive Educators
Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success	Carol Dweck	Summer 2014	Mindful Educators
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate	Ernest Boyer	Summer 2014	Navigating Academia
Cheating Lessons: Learning From Academic Dishonesty	James Lang	Summer 2014	Mastery Teaching

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