What's new at NYSAIS?
About 200 teachers, presenters and NEIT (NYSAIS Education Information Technology) Committee members spent Friday, May 1 teaching and learning with technology at Packer Collegiate Institute. Many resources from the conference are available for everyone on the
conference wiki . If you were unable to attend, you can still take a look at many of the presentations, resources, notes and photos from the day.
2008
These Best Practices are offered by the Board of Trustees of NYSAIS for highly practical reasons; experience
indicates that when they are followed schools benefit and when they are
not followed it is to the detriment of the individuals and institutions
involved. Open and forthright communication is critical within the
context of appropriate and thoughtful expectations of all involved.
We (NYSAIS staff and teachers and administrators of member schools) are reading....
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn,
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Hardcover - Nov 18, 2008)
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
I Don't Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges (Hardcover - Mar 4, 2008)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges (Paperback - Jan 8, 2008)
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, and Michael B. Horn (Hardcover - May 14, 2008)
Predictably Irrational : The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Hardcover - Feb 19, 2008)
A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting by Hara Estroff Marano (Hardcover - April 15, 2008)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (Paperback - Dec 26, 2007)
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (Paperback - Jul 24, 2007)
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski (Hardcover - Nov 12, 2007)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)
I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio by Jean Feraca (Hardcover - Aug 6, 2007)
Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global by Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel (Paperback - Jan 25, 2004)
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink (Paperback - Mar 7, 2006)
Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Paperback - Aug 10, 2004)
The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract by Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer (Paperback - Jul 15, 2000)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback - Jan 7, 2002)
Horace's Compromise: the Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer (Paperback - 1992)
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination (Edition 001) by Robert Coles (Paperback - Jan 5, 1990)
Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori (Mass Market Paperback - Jan 12, 1982)
Fiction:
American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld (Hardcover - Sep 2, 2008)
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson and Anne Born (Paperback - April 29, 2008)
On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan (Paperback - Jun 10, 2008)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IRVING (1989)
What are you reading? Please contribute to this list by writing to Barbara Swanson
Professional Development Update
Registration is now open for winter and spring events. A list of upcoming events is listed on the banner to the right. For a complete list go to the Conferences and Workshops Calendar. The calendar opens to 2008, so you need to click the year arrow to view 2009 events. Email barbara@nysais.org should you have questions.
Credit card payment is now accepted for all online registrations.
