In Command! by Robin T. Williams & David V. Loertscher

Loved this book!  I found the directives, instructions, insights, and relentless turn-around perspective both approachable and inspiring.  Some specifics as I read:

1. p. 3 - Very important insight:  our attention is the "major currency of this generation," and everyone wants a piece of it.
2. p. 4 - I'm very concerned in my own school about how the time will be spent in the classroom vs. out of the classroom.  Are the kids going to work online in class?  Even having read the whole book, I'm still quite confused about how the traditional teacher's role either remains or completely morphs in the Learning Commons/In Command model.  Confused and therefore kinds of panicky, actually.  
3. p. 23 - I'm very concerned about the number of RSS feeds suggested.  I find that filling widgits with RSS feeds from so many authorities is just as overwhelming and confusing as receiving too many emails.
4. p. 24 - Again, I feel confused about how to organize the teachers, the specialists, and myself in such a way that we're all available and dialed in enough to add the kinds of comments, directions, and encouragement suggested.
5. p. 24 - But I love "...turning adults from dictators to coaches."
6. p. 25 - I am SO doing the action research unit on introducing info. mngment. to learners.  Love the petri dish approach.  This is exactly what the kids are so good at--trying new things and telling you honestly what works and what doesn't.
7. p. 28 - Note to self on iGoogle pg. notepad--check out Pageflakes.
8. p. 30 - Also Google Notebook.
9. p. 34 - Ditto Google Librarian Central.
10. p. 36 - "In a perfect world every teacher would add your assignments to a Google calendar...."  Ok, could I actually convince the tech ppl, teachers, and administrators to abandon that stupid, useless Whipple Hill account and Outlook with its calendars and email, etc., and replace them with a suite of Google apps?  I mean, I think they'd actually object because it's free.  Strange irony of working at an independent school.  The COO would love it.  If it's free, some would surely say, it must be lower quality and full of perverts.  Well, the lesson throughout all these readings is that I will be misunderstood, but I persevere not because everyone loves me all the time, but because I'm that committed to the kids' learning process and outcomes.
11. pp. 60-61 - The Big Think is exactly what one of our teachers, educated at St. Johns College not surprisingly, is all about--meta cognition.  I agree with him wholeheartedly that we need to keep that in mind.   Our school actually already does so many neat projects, but what's missing is this leap to the next level where individual and/or group lessons learned are challenged to become patterns for solving completely unexpected problems.