Recommended Books for Teaching, Learning, Leadership
Books recommended by Milken Educators. This list is updated regularly, and each item notes the Milken Educator who shared or authored it.
- Culturally Responsive Teaching by Geneva Gay | Tonya Breland (NJ '06)
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond | Tonya Breland (NJ '06)
- All Students Must Thrive: Transforming Schools to Combat Toxic Stressors and Cultivate Critical Wellness by Tyrone C. Howard | Tonya Breland (NJ '06)
- Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving | Tonya Breland (NJ '06)
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi | Tonya Breland (NJ '06)
- The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings | Tonya Breland (NJ '06)
- African American History: A Journey of Liberation by Molefi Kete Asante | Baruti K. Kafele (NJ '09)
- Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. | Baruti K. Kafele (NJ '09)
- From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin | Baruti K. Kafele (NJ '09)
- Introduction to African Civilizations by John G. Jackson | Baruti K. Kafele (NJ '09)
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson | Baruti K. Kafele (NJ '09)
- The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh | Theresa Knipstein Meyer (IN '00)
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo | Deanna M. Nadeau (ME '04)
- We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor | Deanna M. Nadeau (ME '04)