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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Fault in Our Stars by John Green Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Maze Runner by James Dashner The Leading Indicators:  A Short History of the Numbers that Rule Our World by Zachary Karabell The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Jack Reacher Series by Lee Childs Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind by Osagie Obasogie    American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Dangerous Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle,  Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by M...

--> Open Space Technology is an educational learning experience that allows groups to choose an area of interest, explore that area, and report out.  The very nature of the experience makes it very useable within the classroom environment, but it has also been used in community, corporate, and leadership settings.  It can be a completely open process, with no thematic commonality between the areas of interest, or it can be more focused.   Though it is not a literacy strategy per se, it is quite fitting for our school building push towards engagement and inquiry. So for this month’s newsletter, I will write a little about how Open Space Technology works and why it might be a unique experience for your classroom. I first came to Open Space Technology in a leadership conference.  There were about forty of us from a wide variety of fields:  architecture, public health, food sciences, politics etc.  We were told, as a -->...