每年夏天, Eaglebrook faculty members read a book that will help them better understand boys in middle school and provide a common ground for discussion.
2023年夏天, the Eaglebrook faculty will read one of three books and discuss them during the school year.
青少年的情感生活:提高联系, 有能力, 《电子游戏平台网址大全》作者:Lisa Damour博士.D.在青少年中,强烈的情感伴随着领地而来. And with so many of today’s teens contending with academic pressure, 社交媒体压力, 对未来的担忧, 以及对自己心理健康的担忧, it’s easy for them—and their 父母 and teachers—to feel anxious and overwhelmed. 但这不是必须的.
读过这本书的人会学到:
- What to expect in the normal course of adolescent emotional development 当该担心的时候
- Why teens (and adults) need to understand that mental health isn’t about “feeling good” but about having feelings that fit the moment, even if those feelings are unwanted or painful.
- Strategies for supporting teens who feel at the mercy of their emotions so they can become psychologically aware and skilled at managing their feelings.
- 如何应对青春期面临的共同挑战, 比如家里的摩擦, 飙升的焦虑, 冒险的行为, 驾驭友谊和爱情, 社交媒体的吸引力, 还有更多.
- 与青少年保持联系的最佳方式 and how to provide the kind of relationship that adolescents need and want.
有明确的, 有研究依据的解释和启发性的, 现实生活中的例子, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers gives 父母 and teachers the concrete, practical information they need to steady their teens through the bumpy yet transformational journey into adulthood.
这是弗吉尼亚州蒙蒂塞洛种植园的故事, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. 这是惠特尼种植园的故事, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. 这是安哥拉的故事, a former plantation turned maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000英亩的土地几乎没有报酬. 这就是布兰福德公墓的故事, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.
A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, 像六月节这样的节日, 或者整个街区,比如曼哈顿市中心, 贩卖奴隶的残酷历史在哪里, 女性, 而孩子们已经深深地烙印了.
Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith's debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be.
语言的力量:我们如何用代码来思考, 说话, 以及维奥丽卡·玛丽安的《电子游戏平台网址大全》 博士. 玛丽安说, 虽然你可能认为你只会说一种语言, 事实上, 你的大脑可以容纳多种交流代码. 有些人说西班牙语,有些人说普通话. 有些人会吟诗,有些人精通数学. 人类的大脑生来就能使用多种语言, 使用更多的语言为创造力打开了大门, 大脑健康, 认知控制.
Every new language we speak shapes how we extract and interpret information. 它改变了我们的记忆, 我们如何看待自己和周围的世界, 我们的感受, 我们的见解, 我们所做的决定, 以及我们采取的行动. 语言是组织的宝贵工具, 处理, 构建信息, 从而释放出激进的进步.
学习 a new language has broad lifetime consequences, and Dr. 玛丽安的研究表明:
- Enhances executive function—our ability to focus on the things that matter and ignore the things that don’t.
- 在创造性思维任务中得分更高.
- 培养批判性推理能力.
- Delays Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia by four to six years.
- 改善在情绪胁迫下做出的决定.
- 改变我们看到的、注意的和回忆的东西.
历届教师暑期阅读书目:
父母压力不可思议的艺术,博士. 克里斯托弗·瑟伯和亨德利·魏辛格博士.D.
第三种文化的孩子:在世界中成长 作者:Ruth E. 范·雷肯,迈克尔·V. 波洛克和大卫C. 波洛克
Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success 作者:马克·布拉克特
坚持:成功学习的科学 彼得·布朗、亨利·罗迪格和马克·麦克丹尼尔著.
小教学:来自学习科学的日常课程 詹姆斯·朗.
驾驶青少年大脑的用户手册 作者:Joann Deak, Terrence Deak和Freya Harrison.
我可以向你学习:男孩作为关系学习者 作者:Michael Reichert和Richard Hawley.
We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial SchoolsThinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for 父母 of Children with 学习 Disabilities 作者:大卫·弗林克.
工作室思考2:视觉艺术教育的真正好处 作者:洛伊斯·赫特兰、艾伦·温纳和雪莉·维内马.
Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It 凯利·加拉格尔著.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American 历史 Textbook Got Wrong 詹姆斯·罗文著.
数学和它有什么关系? 乔·博阿勒.
Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music 特里西亚·汤斯顿著.
《万物简史 比尔·布莱森.
Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher 作者:Rick Wormeli.
一个兼职印度人的绝对真实日记 谢尔曼·阿列克谢.
乘数效应:挖掘学校里的天才 莉兹·怀斯曼、露易丝·N. 艾伦, & 伊莉斯培养.
很复杂:网络青少年的社会生活 丹娜·博伊德.
美国学校中的LGBTQ青年 作者:Jason Cianciotto和Sean Cahill.
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character 作者:Paul Tough.
想象:创造力是如何工作的,乔纳·莱勒著.
差异化:从计划到实践,6-12年级,作者:Rick Wormeli
男孩的目的 作者:Michael Gurlan.
如果霍尔顿·考尔菲德在我的教室 伯纳德·沙因.
这到底是谁的游戏? 作者:理查德·金斯伯格、斯蒂芬·杜兰特和艾米·巴尔泽尔.
森林里最后的孩子 作者:理查德·洛夫.
引爆点 马尔科姆·格拉德威尔.
提高该隐 博士. 迈克尔•汤普森.
家庭事务 作者:罗伯特·埃文斯.
他们为什么那样做? 博士. 戴维斯沃尔什.