The Sage Parents Association has created a bookclub that meets three times per year. Each band level sponsors a book club. While each meeting is open to all parents, this allows each band to focus in on readings relevant to that specific age. We gather to read and discuss books and ideas as they relate to adolescence. We have read books on adolescent development, brain science, mindfulness, gender, parenting, environmental education, non-graded assessment, creativity, and education theory, among other themes. We typically have someone create notes on each of the books for us to discuss, as a way to boil the books down to a few pages for easy digestion. Those notes are available by clicking on the images of the books below. The bookclub is open to all current parents, whether or not they have read the books. Our desire is to create a space to discuss important ideas about raising adolescents and find mutual support in each other.
Honoring Adolescence
Brainstorm By Dan Siegel
The Learning + The Brain Conference
Nurture Shock By Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
The Macho Paradox By Jackson Katz
The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine
Mindset: the new psychology of success By Carol Dweck
Primal Teen By Barbara Strauch
Sleep Research
Thriving, Challenging, & Authentic
Dewey’s “Child and the Curriculum”
Drive By Daniel Pink
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
The Schools Our Children Deserve By Alfie Kohn
Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
Human Ecology
Earth In Mind By David Orr
Last Child in the Woods By Richard Louv
Self Awareness
Play By Dr. Stuart Brown
The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel
The Mindful Child By Susan Kaiser Greenland
The App Generation
The Element By Sir Ken Robinson
Designing Your Life By Sir Ken Robinson
Parenting
Get out of my life, but first could you take me and Cheryl to the mall? by Anthony E. Wolf
Getting to Calm by Laura S. Kastner, Ph.D & Jennifer Wyatt, Ph.D.
I’d listen to my parents if they’d just shut up By Anthony Wolf
Raising Reslient Children By Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein
Teach Your Children Well by Madeline Levine
The Soul Of Discipline by Kim John Payne
Yes, Your Teen is Crazy by Michael J. Bradley
