Books

Powered by Girl
Lyn Mikel Brown
In her new book, Powered by Girl, Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D.’89, a writer and education professor at Colby College, explores how young women have embraced activism and how adult women have supported them and need to continue to support them in their movements. As she writes, “This field guide is not so much a how-to, as it is a how-to-be: how to be in relationship with girls — how to hear them, learn from them, en-able and support their ideas, join them in their activism.”

Safe Is Not Enough
Michael Sadowski
There has been a sea change in public attitudes around gender and sexuality, yet progress on LGBTQ issues in schools has moved slowly, writes Michael Sadowski, Ed.M.’95, Ed.D.’05. Although more schools have worked hard to make school a safer place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students, Sadowski says this deficit model isn’t enough — schools have to also support students academically and create more inclusive environments so that students feel not only safe, but also welcome. (Harvard Education Press)

Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom
Edward Clapp
Edward Clapp, Ed.M.’07, Ed.D.’14, writes that with Participatory Creativity, he wanted to broaden what we mean when we think of creativity. This struggle was something Clapp had to grapple with when he was a student at the Ed School and later at Project Zero, where he works. He also wanted to figure out ways to break down barriers to participating in creativity, whether in the classroom or the community, and to think about creative ideas less as something only individuals come up with and more as something that emerges socially.

Student Success in Higher Education
Elaine Brzycki and Henry Brzycki
The goal of their new book, writes Elaine Brzycki, Ed.M.’90, and her husband, Henry Brzycki, is to have readers rethink what they mean by student success and student well-being, and re-evaluate what systems are currently in place to help students live happy, healthy lives. Starting with a chapter called “Higher Education and the Decline of Well-Being,” Student Success includes examples of promising practices that colleges and universities can use to help students succeed and eventually define achievement for themselves.

Become the Primary Teacher Everyone Wants to Have
Seán Delaney
After teaching for nearly a dozen years, Seán Delaney, Ed.M.’99, knows that teaching is tough and no matter how hard you work, there’s always more to do. In this career guide primarily for new teachers (although experienced teachers will also find it useful), Delaney describes what teaching is really like and offers tips and strategies for creating a fulfilling teaching career, with chapters focused on relating to colleagues, work–life balance, and communicating better with parents.

More books by the HGSE community:

Harvard Educational Review, fall 2016

Harvard Educational Review, summer 2016

Dancing in the Rain, Jerome Murphy, Ed.D.’73, former dean

Pineapple Sugar, C. Punch Brown, Ed.M.’08

Perfect Memory, Scott Ruescher, program coordinator

The Gift of Water: A Marma Story from the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Maung Nyeu, Ed.M.’13, Ed.D.’20 (edited)

Teaching in Themes, Deborah Meir, Matthew Knoester, Ed.M.’01, and Katherine Clunis D’Andrea (editors)

Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, Assistant Professor Roberto Gonzales

Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation, Seana Moran, Ed.M.’01, Ed.D.’06