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title: "The Teaching & Learning Centre's Hot Summer Reading List"
type: "blog"
space: "The Teaching & Learning Centre"
author: "Ashley Ribbel"
created: 2025-06-25T21:21:13Z
updated: 2025-08-12T15:16:11Z
tags: ["course-design", "spark-plug", "teaching", "teaching-and-learning", "teaching-and-learning-centre", "teaching-ideas"]
url: "https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/39/the-teaching-learning-centre/blogs/updates/23169/the-teaching-learning-centre-s-hot-summer-reading-list"
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# The Teaching & Learning Centre's Hot Summer Reading List

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**by Linda Facchini, Professor in the Teaching & Learning Centre**

Summer is officially here! A chance for us to enjoy time away with family and friends… and relax with a good book.

Did you know? The Teaching & Learning Centre has a lending library with a variety of books on curriculum integration themes, teaching, learning, assessments, and more. Drop by K2037 to peruse our collection and sign out a book for the summer. One of our team members will be happy to help check-out/check-in your selection.

Looking for ideas? From AI to CI, here are a few of our reading recommendations guaranteed to inspire and inform:

1. **AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders.** By Tony Frontier
2. \***Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI.** By Ethan Mollick
3. \***Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning.** By John Spencer and A.J. Juliani
4. \***Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices that Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education.** By David Clark and Robert Talbert
5. **Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics.** By Jo Boaler
6. **Niizh.** By Joelle Peters
7. **Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.** By Katharine Hayhoe
8. \***The Alignment Problem.** By Brian Christian
9. **The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI.** By Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger
10. \***Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation.** By Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson

\*Available from the Teaching & Learning Centre lending library

And for those long road trips… check out these podcasts:

[Beyond the Classroom](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/39/the-teaching-learning-centre/podcasts) with Seneca's Teaching & Learning Centre

[Teaching in Higher Ed](https://teachinginhighered.com/) with Bonni Stachowiak

Our Spark Plug articles will return in August 2025. Have a safe and spectacular summer!

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