Great on Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective
By Airick Journey Crabill, National Director of Governance at the Council of the Great City Schools in Washington, DC, Senior Coach at Effective School Boards, and Education Faculty at the Leadership Institute of Nevada. Crabill has a track record of helping school systems improve student literacy, numeracy, and career- and college-readiness rates while simultaneously strengthening the school’s financial and operational standing. Great on Their Behalf is your practical guide to igniting the transformation of your school board and enabling it to create the conditions for improving what students know and are able to do.
➜ effectiveschoolboards.com

Our Tools They Deserve: Why Adults Choose Retribution, How Students Can Practice Restoration
Where Airick Journey Crabill’s first book, Great On Their Behalf was about school systems becoming responsive to the needs of students, Our Tools Students Deserve is about the tools that allow students to thrive even when systems are not responsive. www.StudentLedRP.org
➜ studentledrp.org

Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities
By Dr. Ann Ishimaru, Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Organizations, and Leadership at the University of Washington College of Education. Just Schools examines the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among nondominant families, communities, and schools.
➜ familydesigncollab.org

You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen
By Eric Liu, co-founder and CEO of Citizen’s University and the founding director of the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship & American Identity Program. Here's a YouTube video of the Author discussing his book. 
➜ citizenuniversity.us

Asian American Racialization and the Politics of U.S. Education
By Wayne Au, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell, and an editor for the social justice teaching magazine, Rethinking Schools. This book explores issues surrounding Asian American education in the United States, and how they relate to educational theory, policy, and practice. Au challenges stereotypes and assumptions that pervade U.S. education, restores absent histories of Asian American people in this context, and provides concrete examples of educational actions and policies that enable anti-racist educational work to go on.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By Richard Rothstein, Senior Fellow at the Othering & Belonging Institute, a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute where he works on policy issues regarding education and race, and a senior fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In this book Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.

Human Restoration Project Podcast
Hosts Nick Covington and Chris McNutt, founders of Human Restoration Project, a nonprofit organization focused on human-centered learning, host guests and share ideas on restoring humanity to education through changing systems rather than focusing on the day-to-day practices of school.
➜ humanrestorationproject.org

National PTA Notes from the Backpack Podcast
Notes from the Backpack is a PTA podcast designed for millions of parents and the decision makers they influence. Through the unique combination of expert, parent and educator guests, each episode features engaging conversations that offer real-life advice and ideas on how to support children’s learning and development—all in parent-friendly language.
➜ pta.org