If you’ve been listening to the Highest Aspirations podcast all season, you probably have a precariously tall stack of books in your “to read” pile that have come recommended by our guests. Summer can be an excellent time to tackle the list - so we are giving you our top recommended reads from this season. Let us know your favorite from our Summer 2022 Reading List!

• Title: Breaking the Sound Barrier by Gianfranco Conti and Steve Smith
• Recommended by: Natalia Heckman, Educational Consultant
• Episode: S8/E2: Internalizing Academic Vocabulary and Increasing Student Engagement

• Title: The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor*
• Recommended by: Dr. Wesley Sever, Superintendent 
• Episode: S8/E3: Using Guided Reading Strategies to Support English Learners

*Also recommended by John Seidlitz during his episode

• Title: Advancing Equity in Dual Language Programs: A Guide for Education
• Recommended by: Authors Mariana Castro and Silvia Romero-Johnson
• Episode: S8/E1: Advancing Equity in Professional Learning for Educators of Multilingual Learners

• Title: 7 Steps to a Language Rich Classroom by John Seidlitz and Bill Perryman
• Recommended by: Marcy Voss
• Episode: S8/E5: Identifying and Supporting Gifted and Talented ELs

• Title: The Leavers by Lisa Ko
• Recommended by: Dr. Joanna Dreby, Ph.D. and Professor of Sociology
• Episode: S8/E6: Sociologist’s Perspective: Challenges that US Born Children of Immigrants Face

• Title: Tongue Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education by Otto Santa Ana
• Recommended by: Dr. Kathy Escamilla, Professor of Education
• Episode: S8/E8: Why Decoding Isn’t Enough for Literacy - The Path Toward Comprehension

• Title: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Recommended by: John Seidlitz, Author and Founder of Seidlitz Education
• Episode: S8/E9: An Inside Look into the 7 Steps of a Language Rich Classroom

• Title: Galileo: A Life by James Jr. Reston
• Recommended by: Dr. Jack Naglieri, Ph.D, Senior Research Scientist
• Episode: S8/E12: Redesigning Intelligence Tests for Equity

• Title: No BS (Bad Stats) by Ivory Toldson
• Recommended by: Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D., Director of P-12 Policy and Practice at Ed Trust
• Episode: S8/E10: The Role of Teacher Identity in Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Title: Supermarket by Bobby Hall, AKA Logic
• Recommended by: Shreya Rohatgi, Student and former EL
• Episode: Meet 2021 Scholarship Recipient Shreya Rohatgi

If you have a favorite book that you want to add to this list, tweet us your recommendation at @EllevationEd and we will share it with our community of multilingual educators. We hope everyone has a restful and safe summer!