Summer Reading for Educators: Recommendations
Summer is a great time to catch up on all of that reading you can’t get to during the school year, but where to begin? Compiled here are book recommendations made by students and educators who have been featured in Sight Line over the last few years, as well as a few additional titles written by Covenant Award recipients that we think you will find interesting.
Click on the name of the recommender to catch a Sight Line article or two that you may have missed and let us know in the comments if you have books you’d like to add; we’ll post another list next month.
Recommended by Beth Steinberg
- Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Recommended by Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi
- Spiritual Direction for Children by Leslie Schotz
Recommended by Ilana Gleicher-Bloom
- Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education by Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
Recommended by Sarah Wilensky
- The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups by Erika Christakis
- Jewish Spiritual Parenting by Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Michelle November
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
Recommended by Lev Meirowitz Nelson
- Going Public, by Mike Decan
Recommended by Dove Kent
- We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer
Recommended by Karla Goldman
Recommended by David Behrman
- Leadership: Thinking, Being, Doing by Lee Thayer
Recommended by Emily Zussman
Recommended by Covenant Foundation staff
- Spirit in Nature: Teaching Judaism and Ecology on the Trail by Deborah Newbrun
- I Have a Question About Death: A Book for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Other Special Needs by Meredith Englander Polsky
- Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, by Liz Lerman
- Divinity School (poems) by Alicia Jo Rabins
- Take Your Soul to Work, by Erica Brown
- The Heart of Torah, Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion by Rabbi Shai Held
