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Durham Tech Book Clubs & Reading Circles

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Durham Tech's Center for Learning Excellence
Formerly the Teaching-Learning Center or TLC, Durham Tech's Center for Learning Excellence facilitates professional development and growth opportunities for faculty and staff through presentations, workshops, and other collaborative and individual learning opportunities.

Leadership Selections

Fish: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, PhD, Harry Paul, and John Christensen

Radical Candor: How to Be a Great Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant

Teaching & Learning Selections

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang

Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments by Kevin Kelly and Todd Zakrajsek

Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges by Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz

The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with your Brain by Todd D. Zakrajsek

Self-Awareness & Well-being Selections

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

The Self-Care Prescription: Powerful Solutions to Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety and Increase Well-Being by Robyn L. Gobin, PhD

Learning Matters: The Journal of the Durham Tech Teaching-Learning Center

Explore prior issues of Learning Matters: The Journal of the Durham Tech Teaching-Learning Center available digitized through DigitalNC's North Carolina Collections.

8 issues total

Other College-Wide Reads

Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success by Tia Brown-McNair, Susan Albertine, Michelle Asha Cooper, Nicole McDonald, and Thomas Major Jr.

Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane