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MIKE SIMPSON

"Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Dr. Martin Luther King

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A selection of books that have influenced my thinking:

5000-1 The Leicester City Story

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Four Dimensional Education

The Happiness Hypothesis

Developing Assessment Capable Learners

The Talent Code

Service Learning and Social Justice

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

The Art of Thinking Clearly

When

All Blacks Don't Cry

Soccernomics

The Barcelona Way

It All Adds Up

The Culture Code

David and Goliath

Homo Deus

A Repair Kit For Grading

Make it Stick

First, Break All The Rules

Quiet

Grit

Making Thinking Visible

Teacher Man

Start With Why

The Courage To Be Disliked

Black Box Thinking

Grading From The Inside Out

Legacy

Good to Great

Bounce

Predictably Irrational

Freakonomics

How To Grade For Learning

The Art of War

Creative Schools

Think Like a Freak

Out of Our Minds

Brain Rules

The 8th Habit

The Element

Leading

Peak

Thinking Fast and Slow

The Speed of Trust

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck

The Advantage

Will It Make The Boat Go Faster

Never Get Angry Again

Ikigai

Self Compassion

Selfie

Against Empathy

Spark

Braving The Wilderness

Nonviolent Communication

Talking to Strangers

How To Be An Antiracist

Dare To Lead

What Does This Button Do?

The Compassionate Instinct

The Tao of Pooh

The Power Paradox

The Te of Piglet

A Sense of Urgency

Innovate Inside the Box

In the Early World

Leadership On The Line

Perform Under Pressure

Leaders Eat Last

Surrounded by Idiots

White Fragility

Creativity

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

A First-Rate Madness

The Sports Gene

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

Life Lessons From A Brain Surgeon

Status Anxiety

How We Learn

The 5am Club

Innovation for the Faitgued

Helping

Humility is the New Smart

Out of Character

Free Will

Onward

A Force for Good

Start Where You Are

Range

Why Don't Students Like School

The Silo Effect

The Myths of Innovation

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World

UnSelfie

Too Fast To Think

This Is Your Brain on Sports

Antifragile

The Mindful Athlete

Tuesdays with Morrie

Utopia for Realists

Human Kind

Fantasyland

Mythos

Everest 1953

How We Learn

The Unschooled Mind

Shackleton's Way

Philosophy for Polar Explorers

What The Dog Saw

The First 90 Days

Learning Online

The Innovator's Mindset

Balanced Leadership for Powerful Learning

The School Leaders Our Children Deserve

The One World School House

Second Language Acquisition

The Personal MBA

Microaggressions In Everyday Life

Leading For Instructional Improvement

The If Odyssey

Learning And Learning With The Habits Of Mind

Approaches And Methods In Language Teaching

Data Wise

The Hundred Languages Of Children

What If Everything You Know About Education Is Wrong?

Reframing Organizations

Sway

Teacher Self-Supervision

The Culture Engine

Working In The Reggio Way

Becoming An Emotionally Intelligent Teacher

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria

The Leadership Challenge

The OIQ Factor: Raising Your School's Organizational Intelligence

Growth Mindset

Drive

The Adaptive School

Born To Run

School Culture Rewired

A New Earth

You Are Not Your Brain

Thinking in New Boxes

Outliers

Happiness

The Tipping Point

Flow

Find Your Why

Diffusion if Innovations

Antifragile

A Whole New Mind

12 Rules For Life

Stratosphere

How Children Succeed

The Basic School

Billy Connelly - Windswept & Interesting

Notes From An Apocalypse

The Stoic Guide To A Happy Life

Dave Grohl - The Storyteller

Steve Hansen - The Legacy

Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

What Cancer Taught Me

Belonging

The Ladybird Book Of The Meeting

Don'ts For Cricketers

The Stoic Challenge

How To Be A Stoic

Religion For Atheists

Being Happy

9780099554851

A Brief History Of Thought

A Handbook For New Stoics

A Little History Of Philosophy

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Beginners

Enlightenment Now

Helping

How To Be An Epicurean

How To Live A Good Life

How To Think Like A Roman Emperor

Late Bloomers

Letters From A Stoic

Life Lessons From A Brain Surgeon

Lives Of The Stoics

Lost Connections

Meditations

Noise

On The Shortness Of Life

Psychobabble

Quiet Power

That One Should Disdain Hardships

The Antidote

The Daily Stoic

The Happiest Man On Earth

The Narcissist You Know

The Power Of Showing Up

The Science Of Storytelling

Getting Naked

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team

The Ideal Team Player

Daring Greatly

I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't)

The Gifts Of Imperfection

Rising Strong

Buddhism Plain And Simple

Success and Luck

Buddhism

The Smartest Kids In The World

Altruism

The Black Swan

Accidental Genius

What To Do When You're New

Boost

The History of Philosophy

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

Deep Work

The Obstacle is the Way

McMindfulness

God - A Human History of Religion

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