The Differentiator
For Middle School Staff May 2016 Issue
In This Issue:
- "3 Tips to Make Any Lesson More Culturally Responsive (and it’s not what you think!)"
- Summer Reading Titles Grouped Around 4 Topics
- 12 Thing I Love About the Summer Holidays

Summer Reading Titles Around Literacy in the Content Areas
Well Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students by Erik Palmer | Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies by Kylene Beers and Robert E Probst | Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher |
Summer Reading Titles Around Student Engagement
Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom by Matt Miller | Explore Like a PIRATE: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich and Elevate Your Learners by Michael Matera | Play Like a PIRATE: Engage Students with Toys, Games, and Comics by Quinn Rollins |
Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom by Matt Miller
Explore Like a PIRATE: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich and Elevate Your Learners by Michael Matera
Play Like a PIRATE: Engage Students with Toys, Games, and Comics by Quinn Rollins
Summer Reading Titles For Your Equity Journey
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander | Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Summer Reading Titles Around Current Educational Topics
The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros | Empowered Schools, Empowered Students: Creating Connected and Invested Learners (Corwin Connected Educators Series) by Pernille S. Ripp | Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-in World by Julie Smith |
The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros
Empowered Schools, Empowered Students: Creating Connected and Invested Learners (Corwin Connected Educators Series) by Pernille S. Ripp
Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-in World by Julie Smith
