Recommended Reading
These books have been chosen to offer tools, ideas and new perspectives. All of the authors have in some way been part of the Expeditionary Learning network as staff members, consultants, conference presenters or board members.
The books are available through the publisher or you can click on the title to order on-line through Amazon.com.
Instruction
 Starting From Scratch: One Classroom Builds Its Own Curriculum by Steven Levy (1996) Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Steven Levy, presently a school designer with Expeditonary Learning, invites us into the world of his 4th grade students and their exploration of the world through inspiring projects and real life learning. (205 pages/ $23.50)
Click here for a review of this book.
Videos also available: The Voyage of Pilgrims '92 and The Bike Path. These can be purchased directly from Steven Levy.
 Why Fly That Way: Linking Community and Academic Achievement by Kathy Greeley (2000) New York: Teachers College Press.
Teacher Kathy Greeley chronicles an extraordinary year in her public middle school classroom, showing how essential a strong and supportive community is in helping students reach their potential (133 pages/ $18.95).
For a review of this book in the Expeditionary Learning newsletter Fieldwork, click here.
"The Having of Wonderful Ideas": and Other Essays on teaching and
Learning by Eleanor Duckworth (1996) New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
This is Eleanor Duckworth's classic on Piaget and teaching, beginning with
the story of her thoughtful EL design principle, "The Having of Wonderful
Ideas." (179 pages/ $23.50)
Click here for a excerpt of this book from Fieldwork.
 A Culture of Quality by Ron Berger (1996) Providence, RI: Annenberg
Institute for School Reform.
A complex meditation on the features of an educational community that has conscientiously developed a culture of quality in an ordinary but far-from-typical American school.
(51 pages / $8.00)
An Ethic of Excellence by Ron Berger (2003) Portsmouth, NH: Heinnemann.
Drawing from his own remarkable experience as a veteran classroom teacher, Ron Berger gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies. (160 pages / $17.50)
Assessment
Looking Together at Student Work - A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning by Tina Blythe, et. al. (1999) New York, NY: Teacher's College Press (54 pages/$11.95)
This very practical guide explains how to set up a structure for looking at student work in a school. Chapters include developing the process at a school, two techniques (the Tuning Protocol and the Collaborative Assessment Process) and examples of two schools that created their own reflection processes. This slim volume is an invaluable resource for really digging into the Expeditionary Learning practice of reflection on student work.
Click here for a review from the back of the book.
Literacy
Mosaic of Thought - Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop by Ellin Keene and Susan Zimmermann (1997) Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Authors Ellin Keene and Susan Zimmermann explore the use of reading comprehension strategies in their own and children's reading. This very readable book is also a guide of how to bring these practices into your classroom and your own reading. A nice companion to Expeditionary Learning's literacy summits.
For more on Mosaic of Thought, click here.
School Reform
Leadership Lessons from Comprehensive School Reforms ed. by Joseph Murphy and Amanda Datnow (2003) Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Joseph Murphy and Amanda Datnow have edited a volume that speaks to a critical and often overlooked part of Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) -- leadership. With reflections from many of the leaders of New American School designs as well as some others, this volume is a nice review of many CSR models. Expeditionary Learning President, Greg Farrell begins Chapter 2 with a superb description of Expeditionary Learning including how it started and how critical good leadership is in implementing the design. (289 pages/ $34.95)
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Thinking About Our Kids - An Agenda for American Education by Harold Howe (1993) New York, NY: The Free Press.
Harold Howe, former teacher, principal, superintendent, US Commissioner of Education, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of education and longtime friend and ally of Expeditionary Learning, writes about the future of education with all the wisdom of his 40 plus years in the business.
Click here for a review by Jonathan Kozol.
Outward Bound
Outward Bound USA: Crew not Passengers by Joshua L. Miner, et. al. (2002) Seattle, WA: The
Mountaineers Books
This is the definitive history of Outward Bound in the United States
reissued with additional chapters for OBUSA's fourtieth anniversary. (416
pages/ $24.95).
For a review of this book, click here.
Kurt Hahn's School & Legacy- To Discover You Can be More and Do More Than You Believed by Martin Flavin (1996) Wilmington, DE: Middle Atlantic Press
Author Martin Flavin, once a student at a Hahn school himself, chronicles the beginning, growth and spread of the Outward Bound philosophy. Hahn's life, values and principles will be a great foundation for understanding Outward Bound and Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound. (163 pages/ $15.00)
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