Suggested Readings

These books will assist you in understanding why we stand as firmly as we do on the Garden of Angels School Vision and Philosophy.

  • A Different Kind of Teacher – John Taylor Gatto
  • Endangered Minds (Why Kids Can’t Think and How We Can Help Them) – Jane Healy
  • Punished by Rewards – Alfie Kohn
  • The Schools Our Children Deserve – Alfie Kohn
  • Waking Up In Time – Peter Russell
  • Jefferson’s Children – Leon Botstein
  • I Am Right, You Are Wrong – Edward De Bono
  • Teach Your Child How To Think – Edward De Bono
  • Global Mind Change – Willis Harman
  • The Hundred Languages of Children – Reggio Emilio
  • Total Leadership – Bill Spady
  • My Ishmael and Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families – Stephen R. Covey
  • The Optimistic Child – Martin E. P. Seligman
  • Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain – Betty Edwards
  • Raising Cain (Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys) – Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
  • Summer Hill – A. S. Neill
  • Chomsky on MisEducation – Noam Chomsky
  • Raising Your Emotional Intelligence – Jeanne Segal
  • The End of Homework – Etta Kralovec and John Buell
  • Freedom and Beyond – John Holt
  • How Children Fail – John Holt
  • Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Top 10 Myths in Education – Larry E. Frase and William Streshly
  • Stealing Innocence, Corporate Culture’s War on Children – Henry A. Giroux
  • The Compassionate Classroom – Sura Har
  • Loving Your Child on Purpose – Danny Silk