10 must-read teaching books like Grading for Growth by David Clark

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Grading for Growth

By: David Clark

4.46

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system? Does it accurately reflect your…

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1. All the Birds in the Sky

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.59

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways un… read more

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"What was worse, being crazy or being evil?"

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

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2. All New Square Foot Gardening

By: Mel Bartholomew

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening? Sure, there are ten new feat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Dear Committee Members

By: Julie Schumacher

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

5. On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting

By: None

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Create and sustain a learning environment where students thrive and stakeholders are accurately inf… read more

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6. Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

By: Gill Rapley , Tracey Murkett

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Contrary to popular belief, there is no research that supports the current mainstream view that bab… read more

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7. Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1)

By: Quentin Bates , Ragnar Jónasson

3.55

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their do… read more

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8. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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9. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

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10. How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

By: Katy Milkman

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Wall Street Journal bestseller "A welcome revelation." --The Financial Times Award-winning W… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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12. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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13. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

By: Michaeleen Doucleff

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother, she examines the studies behind modern parenting gui… read more

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

16. 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
  • teaching
  • education
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17. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

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18. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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19. Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

By: José Antonio Bowen

4.22

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

How AI is revolutionizing the future of learning and how educators can adapt to this new era of hum… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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20. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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21. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By: David Graeber

3.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more

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  • nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

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22. One of the Good Guys

By: Araminta Hall

3.52

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more

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

24. 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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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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25. 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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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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26. The New College Classroom

By: Cathy N. Davidson

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What the latest science of learning tells us about inspiring, effective, and inclusive teaching at … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop by Jesse Stommel

27. Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

By: Jesse Stommel

4.07

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Grades and assessment are elephants in almost every room where discussions of education are underwa… read more

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  • education
Cover of Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Kelly A. Hogan

28. Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Kelly A. Hogan

4.53

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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29. Grading for Growth

By: David Clark

4.46

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system? Does it accurately reflect your… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Mind over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge by Sarah Rose Cavanagh

30. Mind over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge

By: Sarah Rose Cavanagh

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An investigation into the mental health crisis affecting young adults today, and an impassioned arg… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education by Brian Rosenberg

31. “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education

By: Brian Rosenberg

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An invigorating work that identifies obstructions to transformative change in higher education and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education

19 must-read nonfiction books like Grading for Growth by David Clark

Transform Your Habits

All New Square Foot Gardening

Mel Bartholomew

4.15

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

How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Katy Milkman

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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21 Top fiction books like Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Transform Your Habits

Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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