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WHAT WE ARE READING
The following is a list of works we have found interesting and recommend to you either professionally or personally.
For Your Professional Interests
- Making Questions Work: a guide to how and what to ask for facilitators, consultants, managers, coaches, and educators - Dorothy Strachan
This book provides a road map for group processes by building facilitators' and managers' capacity to ask the right questions in any situation. With over 1700 questions, you can find one to borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills. It also provides clear frameworks that identify when, where and why particular questions are most useful.
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Bridges Out of Poverty - Ruby K. Payne, Philip DeVol;
Terie Dreussi Smith
The book offers many other insights such as the language register, the hidden rules among classes and the matriarch role in generational poverty. So with the wisdom of colleagues - Carol and Mary - I recommend an easy day of reading. You will learn about strategies to work with people in poverty and as well as be reminded of the importance of relationships.
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Break Your Own Rules- Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath and Mary Davis Holt
Using a well-organized and direct approach, this book coaches women to aim high and bust through traditional patterns of thinking that typically hold them back professionally. The authors illustrate their main points with a concise "executive summary." We all have something to learn from the authors' research findings and clear advice.
Online Resources
- Harvard University - Center on the Developing Child Website
Drawing on the full breadth of intellectual resources available across Harvard University’s schools and affiliated hospitals, the Center on the Developing Child generates, translates, and applies knowledge in the service of improving life outcomes for children in the United States and throughout the world.
We look to the Center on the Developing Child for current, informative videos and articles regarding cutting edge research on early childhood development.
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The Frameworks Institute
The Frameworks Institute makes available its research and recommendations for framing public conversations and building public will regarding a wide range of social issues - including education, race, early childhood development, health, budgets & taxes, and more.
For Your Personal Interest
- Nine Lives: death and life in New Orleans - Dan Baum
This book is a wonderful example of people with passion for their neighborhood and heritage building their community. It explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, through the rich and colorful lives of the nine people it follows.
WHAT WE ARE WRITING
We have also created some interesting works of our own. Check them out!
NEWSLETTERS
The Lee Institute publishes a quarterly newsletter; here are our prior issues.
- 2010 Newsletters
- 2009 Newsletters
- 2008 Newsletters
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