11 Top social justice books like Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman

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Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

By: Joe Feldman

4.21

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Joe Feldman shows us how we can use grading to help students become the leaders of their own learn…

If you liked the social justice plot in Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Understanding by Design

By: Jay McTighe , Grant P. Wiggins

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas wor… read more

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  • teaching
  • school
  • education
Cover of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond

2. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more

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  • race
  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education

3. Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education

By: None , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Teachers are brain changers. Thus it would seem obvious that an understanding of the brain - the or… read more

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4. Help for Billy

By: Heather T. Forbes

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for both parents and educators, Help for Billy addresses the real issues going on behind a … read more

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5. The Thank You Book (Elephant & Piggie, #25)

By: Mo Willems

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Pi… read more

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6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Cover of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

7. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
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8. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more

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  • school
  • teaching
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Cover of Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo

9. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman

10. Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

By: Joe Feldman

4.21

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Joe Feldman shows us how we can use grading to help students become the leaders of their own learn… read more

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  • race
  • parenting
  • school
  • theory
  • teaching
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
Cover of Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

11. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
Cover of Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation by Shane Safir

12. Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

By: Shane Safir

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we erad… read more

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  • race
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
Cover of 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Penny Kittle

13. 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

By: Penny Kittle

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who… read more

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  • teaching
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad

14. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

By: Gholdy Muhammad

4.45

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is … read more

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  • teaching
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
"As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"Perhaps the people who need criticality the most become those who share identities with the greatest oppressors of the world."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"We live in a period where there's no time for "urgent-free pedagogy." Our instructional pursuits must be honest, bold, raw, unapologetic, and responsive to the social times."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"The need to agitate for criticality historically spoke to the social unrest at the time, and I argue that the need to agitate is still necessary and pressing in classrooms today."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

Cover of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series) by Peter Liljedahl

15. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

By: Peter Liljedahl

4.57

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in de… read more

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  • parenting
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  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades by Judith C. Hochman

16. The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades

By: Judith C. Hochman

4.39

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Why you need a writing revolution in your classroom and how to lead it The Writing Revolution (TWR… read more

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  • teaching
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  • education
Cover of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Alfie Kohn

17. Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Alfie Kohn

4.10

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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Cover of Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline by Lori L Desautels

18. Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline

By: Lori L Desautels

4.41

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

The developing brains of our children need to “feel” safe. Children who carry chronic behavioral ch… read more

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  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of Grading From the Inside Out: Bringing Accuracy to Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset (How to Give Students Full Credit for Their Knowledge) by Tom Schimmer

19. Grading From the Inside Out: Bringing Accuracy to Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset (How to Give Students Full Credit for Their Knowledge)

By: Tom Schimmer

3.94

Format: 216 pages, Perfect Paperback

The time for grading reform is now. While the transition to standards-based practices may be challe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice by Elena Aguilar

20. Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

By: Elena Aguilar

4.48

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Your Guide to Creating Equitable Schools If we hope to interrupt educational inequities and create … read more

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  • social justice
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  • teaching
  • education
"Why can't there be more white people coaching each other on their racism?"

-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

"Remember: It's not your fault that things are the way they are, but it is your responsibility to do something about them."

-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

"Resources are limited in many schools--however, if we prioritize dismantling systemic oppression, if we prioritize the needs of our most marginalized students, we can find the time, support, money, a…"

-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

"You can strive to make every conversation one that dismantles white supremacy and systems of oppression. Every conversation can contribute to building a more just and equitable world, a world in whic…"

-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

Cover of UDL Now!: A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning by Katie Novak

21. UDL Now!: A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning

By: Katie Novak

3.97

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

In this revised and expanded edition of UDL Now! Katie Novak provides practical insights and savvy … read more

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  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices by Lorena Escoto German

22. Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

By: Lorena Escoto German

4.46

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Be prepared to be embraced with words, images, stories, examples, experiences, and a love for teac… read more

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Cover of Point-Less: An English Teacher’s Guide to More Meaningful Grading by Cris Tovani

23. Point-Less: An English Teacher’s Guide to More Meaningful Grading

By: Cris Tovani

4.49

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the Foreword by Cris "Sarah Zerwin has written the book I desperately needed to help my belie… read more

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Cover of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby

24. Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

By: Flower Darby

4.14

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: … read more

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  • education
Cover of Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction by Gholdy Muhammad

25. Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction

By: Gholdy Muhammad

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her ground… read more

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  • school
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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
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26. Ambitious Science Teaching

By: Mark Windschitl

4.31

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework f… read more

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Cover of Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students by Ken Williams

27. Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students

By: Ken Williams

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you imagine being empowered with the knowledge work with super-charged confidence because you… read more

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Cover of Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving From Theory to Practice (A Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Grading, Instruction, and Learning) by Tom Schimmer

28. Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving From Theory to Practice (A Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Grading, Instruction, and Learning)

By: Tom Schimmer

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Get past the knowing-doing gap and confidently implement standards-based learning. This book offers… read more

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Cover of Equity by Design: Delivering on the Power and Promise of UDL by Mirko Chardin

29. Equity by Design: Delivering on the Power and Promise of UDL

By: Mirko Chardin

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

"Our calling is to drop our egos, commit to removing barri­ers, and treat our learners with the une… read more

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Cover of We the People!: Big Ideas that Changed the World #4 by Don  Brown

30. We the People!: Big Ideas that Changed the World #4

By: Don Brown

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Don Brown explores the history of democracy in the United States in this installment of the Big Ide… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The ABCs of Educational Testing: Demystifying the Tools That Shape Our Schools by W. James Popham

31. The ABCs of Educational Testing: Demystifying the Tools That Shape Our Schools

By: W. James Popham

3.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Amplify your assessment literacy. Formative, data-driven, high-stakes―we all know the buzzwords su… read more

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13 Top school books like Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman

Transform Your Habits

Understanding by Design

Jay McTighe , Grant P. Wiggins

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Zaretta Lynn Hammond

4.27

Transform Your Habits

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Bettina L. Love

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

Joe Feldman

4.21

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4.64

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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