“Ellyn Lyle models reflexive inquiry as a deeply personal textual practice. Her prose is crisply succinct, speaking directly to educators in a refreshingly resonant voice. One hears a scholar who understands the challenges of student engagement that teachers face in schools and university classrooms. Answers are not necessarily to be found in curriculum plans and instructional designs but in the capacity of educators to know themselves more fully and bring their best selves to class each day. Of Books, Barns, and Boardrooms will inspire teachers to dig deeply into their own stories of teacher formation. The reflexivity shining through this text is narratively evocative of the very manner in which educators at all levels may cultivate supple resiliency while responding to the call to re/centre our humanness in teaching and learning.” – Stephen Smith, Ph.D., Professor, Simon Fraser University