Open Planner Book Club

Welcome! This team was started as a way for Open Planner users to get to know one another and to summarize and discuss books relevant to the curriculum development process. Our hope is that we can create a set of "quick reference" resources to ground our site's collaborative planning work in a larger set of conversations about education research, educational philosophies, and the recommendations of published master educators.

Current book being summarized (help us out!):

How People Learn, by the National Research Council

Suggested collaborative goal:

Our present project is to create a teacher-friendly summary of "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School" by the National Research Council, and to host conversations around its implications for instruction.

Here's where I think we need help with this project:

• I'm creating a book structure in the "Project Pages" section that follows the same outline as the book itself. The pages will initially be empty "stubs" where team members can create a summary of that section ...please find a stub that appeals to you and create a user-friendly summary of that section of the book.
• If someone has already created (or started) a summary, please add to it as needed and provide your rationale in the revision log. If you have comments or see an interesting discussion point, create a comment under the post or start a forum thread!

• Tough Choices or Tough Times, A report of The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (see the team forum to follow and/or join our discussions on this book)
• Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction, by H.L. Erickson. (Note: Documents for this book were merged from a team originally formed as a collaboration between Todd Newby, Patricia Neuhaus, and Andrew Stillman as an assignment for a course in curriculum development for aspiring school leaders at Baruch School for Public Affairs.)