Engaging Educators as Scholar-Practitioners

Block, Peter & Koestenbaum. Confronting Our Freedom: Leading a Culture of Chosen Accountability and Belonging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2023. This book is an extension of the ideas[...]

Furman, Cara E. & Traugh, Cecelia E. Descriptive Inquiry in Teacher Practice: Cultivating Practice Wisdom to Create Democratic Schools. New York: Teachers College Press, 2021. This book is must reading[...]

Golden, Daniel. The Price of Admission: How American's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006). The Price of[...]

Welcome to the Scholar-Practitioner Nexus. This website is an outgrowth of our book, On Being a Scholar-Practitioner: Wisdom in Action.  In the book, we stress the importance of Communities of[...]

Matousek, Mark. Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good. New York: Doubleday, 2011. Ethical Wisdom A great deal of attention is given to the skills that educators need to be competent[...]

Muller, Jerry Z. The Tyranny of Metrics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). This book offers a balanced and insightful analysis of how measurement criteria are used and misused in efforts[...]

Ravitch, Diane. Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools. New York: Alfred A. Knopp, 2020. Slaying Goliath This book is must reading for anyone[...]

Santoro, Doris A. Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2018). Demoralized  The author draws upon interviews with beginning and[...]

Santoro, Doris A. & Cain, Lizabeth. Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas. Harvard Education Press, 2018. This book is must reading for any teacher or administrator who is feeling beleaguered[...]

Schwartz, Barry & Sharpe, Kenneth. Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. (New York: Riverhead Books, 2010). Practical Wisdom Schwartz and Sharpe offer an insightful analysis of[...]

Tough, Paul. Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Helping Children Succeed In this follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, How Children Succeed, journalist[...]

Piantanida, Maria, McMahon, Patricia L., & Llewellyn, Marilyn. On Being a Scholar-Practitioner: Practical Wisdom in Action. (Pittsburgh: Learning Moments Press, 2019). On Being a Scholar-Practitioner: Practical Wisdom in Action On[...]