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books for teachers
for teachers or those who want to be teachers (like me), what are some good books to read? especially for radical-minded folks.
Tags: anarchist, education, educators, learning, radical, teachers, and teaching

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire 6 people voted »
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I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers
I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension St...
by Cris Tovani 6 people voted »
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and...
by Rafe Esquith 6 people voted »
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After THE END: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision
After THE END: Teaching and Learning Creative R...
by Barry Lane 5 people voted »
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The 9 Rights of Every Writer: A Guide for Teachers
The 9 Rights of Every Writer: A Guide for Teachers
by Vicki Spandel 4 people voted »
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Among Schoolchildren
Among Schoolchildren
by Tracy Kidder 4 people voted »
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Walking On Water: Reading, Writing And Revolution
Walking On Water: Reading, Writing And Revolution
by Derrick Jensen 3 people voted »
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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How...
by Howard Gardner 3 people voted »
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Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Com...
by Cris Tovani 3 people voted »
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Secret of Childhood
Secret of Childhood
by Maria Montessori 2 people voted »
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The Montessori Method
The Montessori Method
by Maria Montessori 2 people voted »
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The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skill...
by Nancie Atwell 2 people voted »
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The Water is Wide
The Water is Wide
by Pat Conroy 2 people voted »
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Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well
Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to T...
by Regie Routman 2 people voted »
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In the Middle: New Understandings about Reading, Writing, and Learning
In the Middle: New Understandings about Reading...
by Nancie Atwell 2 people voted »
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The Way It Spozed to Be
The Way It Spozed to Be
by James Herndon 1 person voted »
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Talking Their Way into Science: Hearing Children's Questions and Theories, Responding With Curricula
Talking Their Way into Science: Hearing Childre...
by Karen Gallas 1 person voted »
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The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child
The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academicall...
by Richard Selznick (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Language Exploration and Awareness: A Resource Book for Teachers
Language Exploration and Awareness: A Resource ...
by Larry Andrews 1 person voted »
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Traveling Blind - Life Lessons from Unli
Traveling Blind - Life Lessons from Unli
by Laura Fogg 1 person voted »
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The Absorbent Mind
The Absorbent Mind
by Maria Montessori 1 person voted »
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Quantum Teaching: Orchestrating Student Success
Quantum Teaching: Orchestrating Student Success
by Bobbi DePorter 1 person voted »
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The Ecology of Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life
The Ecology of Learning: Sustainability, Lifelo...
by John Blewitt 1 person voted »
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How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining Schools That Work
How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining S...
by Chris Mercogliano 1 person voted »
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How to Survive in Your Native Land
How to Survive in Your Native Land
by James Herndon 1 person voted »
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Reading Is Seeing
Reading Is Seeing
by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm 1 person voted »
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To Educate the Human Potential
To Educate the Human Potential
by Maria Montessori 1 person voted »
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Notes from a Schoolteacher
Notes from a Schoolteacher
by James Herndon 1 person voted »
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Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World
Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World
by Joan Wink 1 person voted »
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Discovery of the Child
Discovery of the Child
by Maria Montessori 1 person voted »
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The Thread That Runs So True: A Mountain School Teacher Tells His Story
The Thread That Runs So True: A Mountain School...
by Jesse Stuart 1 person voted »
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Nothing's Impossible: Leadership Lessons from Inside and Outside the Classroom
Nothing's Impossible: Leadership Lessons from I...
by Lorraine Monroe 1 person voted »
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Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning
Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating C...
by John P. Miller 1 person voted »
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Up the Down Staircase
Up the Down Staircase
by Bel Kaufman 1 person voted »
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Education And Peace
Education And Peace
by Maria Montessori 1 person voted »
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The Dialectic of Freedom
The Dialectic of Freedom
by Maxine Greene 1 person voted »
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Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children
Learning While Black: Creating Educational Exce...
by Janice E. Hale 1 person voted »
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When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12
When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A G...
by G. Kylene Beers 1 person voted »
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Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time : Grades 4-12
Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right ...
by Teri S. Lesesne 1 person voted »
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The Psychology of the Child
The Psychology of the Child
by Jean Piaget 1 person voted »
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The miseducation of the Negro
The miseducation of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson 1 person voted »
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The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business
The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business
by Dennis Littky 1 person voted »
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A Mind at a Time
A Mind at a Time
by Melvin D. Levine 1 person voted »
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Language and Thought of the Child
Language and Thought of the Child
by Jean Piaget 1 person voted »
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Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head
Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head
by Carla Hannaford 1 person voted »
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36 Children
36 Children
by Herbert R. Kohl 1 person voted »
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Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner's Potential
Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Lear...
by Eric Jensen 1 person voted »
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Pissy
Pissy
by Rita A. Clark 1 person voted »
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A Place Called School : Twentieth Anniversary Edition
A Place Called School : Twentieth Anniversary E...
by John I. Goodlad 1 person voted »
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Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in...
by John I. Goodlad 1 person voted »
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Romances with Schools : A Life of Education
Romances with Schools : A Life of Education
by John I. Goodlad 1 person voted »
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Why Do We Gotta Do This Stuff, Mr. Nehring?: Notes from a Teacher's Day in School
Why Do We Gotta Do This Stuff, Mr. Nehring?: No...
by James Nehring 1 person voted »
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The School Within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School
The School Within Us: The Creation of an Innova...
by James Nehring 1 person voted »
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Dangerous Minds: They Were Problem Kids With One Last Chance . . . Her
Dangerous Minds: They Were Problem Kids With On...
by LouAnne Johnson 1 person voted »
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My Posse Don't Do Homework
My Posse Don't Do Homework
by LouAnne Johnson 1 person voted »
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The Girls In the Back of the Class: They're High School Girls With Secrets, Trouble, And Two Choices-Dropping Out...Or Trusting Her.
The Girls In the Back of the Class: They're Hig...
by LouAnne Johnson 1 person voted »
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Marva Collins' Way: Updated
Marva Collins' Way: Updated
by Marva Collins 1 person voted »
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message 1: by Erin (new)

Nophoto-f-25x33 I have a deep interest in radical/alternative education. I hadn't heard of Walking On Water though, and now I definitely want to check it out! I just returned from the AERO Conference on alternative education, which is where I got some of the books I just added to this list.


message 2: by Steven (new)

1283483 I've added a few books to the list that I urge anyone interested in radical/alternative education to check out, especially Paulo Friere and James Herndon. Great idea for a list by the way! I'm adding some of these that I hadn't heard of to my list to check out.


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