In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
By: Jal Mehta
4.33
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
“The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read.”―Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-…
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1. When You Reach Me
By: Rebecca Stead
4.08
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody w… read more
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"What's the burn scale?"-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"We have lunch at ten-forty-five,"-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice."-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school."-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
2. Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
By: Doug Lemov
4.01
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
***PLEASE NOTE, THIS EDITION IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. THERE IS A NEW EDITION AVAILABLE, TEACH L… read more
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"One of the problems with teaching is that there's a temptation to evaluate what we do in the classroom based on how clever it aligns with a larger philosophy , or even how gratifying it is to use not…"-Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
"...we spend a lot of time defining behavior by the negative "that was inappropriate." These commands are vague and inefficient...Telling students what to do in a way that is specific, concrete, seque…"-Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
3. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
By: Tony Wagner
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard's Change Leadership Group comes a provoca… read more
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4. Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century
By: Monica Martinez , Dennis McGrath
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For centuries societies--and the policy-makers, teachers, and parents that inhabit them--have grapp… read more
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5. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By: Tracy Kidder
4.19
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned… read more
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"Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies. They tend to develop hypochondria in medical school and, once they get over it, if they do, tend to think they're invulnerable."-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separate…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"The parents of some fellow students in the gifted and talented class owned a bookstore, and when he was about eleven they gave him a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. He read i…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
6. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
By: Kim Malone Scott
4.00
Format: None pages,
From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more
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7. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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8. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By: Chip Heath , Dan Heath
3.97
Format: 12 pages,
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources an… read more
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9. Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
By: Robert J. Marzano , Debra J. Pickering , Jane E. Pollock
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This is a perfect resource for all educators seeking research on the best strategies for raising st… read more
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10. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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- nonfiction
- education
11. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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12. 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
- 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
13. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
14. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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- nonfiction
"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
15. Fascism: A Warning
By: Madeleine K. Albright
4.25
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod… read more
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- nonfiction
"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
16. 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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- education
17. How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
By: Catherine Price
3.92
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide f… read more
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"In short, if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to look at your phone."-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"Flow is a term coined by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe the feeling you get when you’re completely and totally engaged in an experience. People can experience flow when they’re …"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"If you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memorie…"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"Every moment of attention we spend scrolling through social media is attention spent making money for someone else. The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as of 20414, …"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
18. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
By: Felicia Rose Chavez
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innov… read more
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- teaching
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"Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self."-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in tears, because I couldn't yet differentiate …"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in teachers because I couldn't yet differentiat…"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"Membership necessitates mutual participation. How can we possibly achieve membership when our presence-the feat of occupying space in brown skin-is deemed illegitimate? We're non-people, exploited fo…"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
19. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By: Bettina L. Love
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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- teaching
- education
20. 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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- teaching
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21. The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
By: Natalie Wexler
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle o… read more
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22. What About Will
By: Ellen Hopkins
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle … 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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- teaching
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24. 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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25. 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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- teaching
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26. Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
By: Susan Linn
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a… read more
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27. Jackpot
By: Nic Stone
3.99
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin-comes a pitch-perfect romance that exa… read more
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28. Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making
By: Jay McTighe
4.17
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them… read more
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29. Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success
By: Christopher Emdin
4.46
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new educational model that encourages educators to provide spaces for students to d… read more
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30. In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
By: Jal Mehta
4.33
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
“The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read.”―Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-… read more
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31. Teaching with Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More
By: Tony Frontier
3.61
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Feeling overwhelmed—constantly, on a daily basis—has unfortunately become the status quo among educ… read more
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