The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factor…
Shelve Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an ave…
Shelve The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Teaching students to become lifelong readers A companion to the bestselling The Book Whisperer, Reading in the Wild explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our stude…
"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, andI've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to read…
Shelve Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers
"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year's students." -Kelly Gallagher and Pe…
Shelve 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents
Check out The Better Conversations "I thought I knew how to have a conversation; I’ve had millions of them. Some were good, others not so much so. But I want to have GREAT conversations, and Jim Kn…
Shelve Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected
What reading experiences have entertained you, provoked you, taught you, inspired you, helped you to see your own life more clearly, or connected you with others? As teachers, librarians, school admin…
Essay. Poetry. Book Clubs. Digital Composition. Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher extend their work in 180 Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by taking a deep dive into four e…
Shelve 4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency
The best way to teach is to learn together with the students. One of the rare breed of teachers who do know this is Nancie Atwell. - The New York TimesReading this book can be revolutionary. . . . Atw…
Shelve In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning
From linguist Adam Aleksic, known as @etymologynerd on social media, comes a captivating exploration of how internet algorithms are transforming language and communication in unprecedented ways.
“Packe…
Shelve Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names, H…
Shelve Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
Based on Dave Burgess's popular "Teach Like a PIRATE" seminars, this book offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you to increase student engagement, boost your c…
Shelve Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator
In partnership with We Need Diverse Books, thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors come together in this remarkable YA anthology featuring ten short stories, a graphic short story, and a on…
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s “great books,” Other People’s Chi…
Shelve Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to havi…
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars.One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones…
Shelve That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
A hilarious YA contemporary realistic novel about a witty Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the joys, clichés, and awkward …
Shelve The Field Guide to the North American Teenager