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Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0
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Teaching Thinking
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The Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning.
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Charles Ames Fischer (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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4.45 avg rating — 12,427 ratings
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Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? (The Series on School Reform)
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3.90 avg rating — 828 ratings
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The School and Society/The Child and the Curriculum
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3.74 avg rating — 603 ratings
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Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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4.27 avg rating — 878 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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4.30 avg rating — 38,164 ratings
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A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
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3.77 avg rating — 810 ratings
score: 133,
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Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School
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Bob Moon (Editor)
3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Best Year Ever! Winning Strategies To Thrive In Today's Classroom
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain
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3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning
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3.92 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Distance Learning Secrets: Study Online Without Losing Your Mind!
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Fluent for Success: How to learn any language in 6 months or less!
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Steven Kupchan (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
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4.32 avg rating — 3,330 ratings
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Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There
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Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
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4.15 avg rating — 1,634 ratings
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Sandwich Spanish IS Painless Spanish: No Grammar-No Rules
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education)
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The Quotients Under the Ocean
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Using Evidence in Teaching Practice: Implications for Professional Learning
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Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
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Leading for Instructional Improvement: How Successful Leaders Develop Teaching and Learning Expertise
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4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 99,
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Making schools work: A reporter's journey through some of America's most remarkable classrooms
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 99,
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The Quality School Teacher: Specific Suggestions for Teachers Who Are Trying to Implement the Lead-Management Ideas of the Quality School in Their C
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3.75 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 98,
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How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
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4.12 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
score: 98,
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How Two Gerbils, Twenty Goldfish, Two Hundred Games, Two Thousand Books, and I Taught Them How to Read
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom
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4.39 avg rating — 261 ratings
score: 97,
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The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion
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3.83 avg rating — 418 ratings
score: 97,
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Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
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3.70 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work
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LouAnne Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 97,
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.14 avg rating — 11,823 ratings
score: 96,
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The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies
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Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 96,
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Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
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4.35 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need
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3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 96,
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The Essentials of School Leadership
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Brent Davies (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 95,
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
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4.28 avg rating — 1,531 ratings
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Schools That Work: America's Most Innovative Public Education Programs
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Practitioner Research for Educators: A Guide to Improving Classrooms and Schools
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 94,
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Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom
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3.84 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write
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4.21 avg rating — 72 ratings
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What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education
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4.12 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 93,
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On Being a Teacher
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3.81 avg rating — 260 ratings
score: 93,
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Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
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4.20 avg rating — 81 ratings
score: 93,
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Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It
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4.03 avg rating — 536 ratings
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The multi-racial school;: A professional perspective,
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 73,023 ratings
score: 92,
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Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
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4.02 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 92,
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Teaching Community
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4.34 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
score: 91,
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
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3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings
score: 91,
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Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom
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Linda Christensen (Editor)
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 90,
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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
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4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
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4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
score: 90,
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Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning
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4.04 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
score: 89,
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Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
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Bill Bigelow (Editor)
4.11 avg rating — 85 ratings
score: 89,
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Understanding by Design
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3.94 avg rating — 2,210 ratings
score: 89,
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Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement (Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, 1)
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Lorna M. Earl (Editor)
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 88,
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To Teach: The Journey, in Comics
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4.18 avg rating — 809 ratings
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We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
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4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters
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3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 87,
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On Education
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4.13 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 87,
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Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
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3.70 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Boys in Schools: Addressing the Real Issues: Behavior, Values and Relationships
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
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4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 86,
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Care at the Core
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4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach
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3.96 avg rating — 951 ratings
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Democracy and Education
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4.02 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
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Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
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4.10 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative)
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4.24 avg rating — 80 ratings
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What the Best College Teachers Do
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3.92 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge
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3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Arab Education in Israel
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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
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4.13 avg rating — 679 ratings
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Summerhill (Pelican books)
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4.12 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
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On MisEducation
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3.61 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms
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Stacey Roshan (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Assessment For Learning: Putting it into Practice
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3.95 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Revolution and Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on Educational Foundations
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E. Thomas Ewing (Editor)
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
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4.29 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Building Learning Power: Helping Young People Become Better Learners
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3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development
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3.83 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
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4.25 avg rating — 2,226 ratings
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
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3.89 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
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Education for Critical Consciousness
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4.28 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching
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Joshua R. Eyler (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Change Leader: Learning to Do What Matters Most
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3.77 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Empowering Students With Technology
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3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings
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A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Assessment: Understanding and Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning
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3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
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3.92 avg rating — 6,041 ratings
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Visible Learning
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4.14 avg rating — 627 ratings
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The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning (Language and Literacy Series)
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3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning
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3.90 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Culture, Literacy, and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind (Multicultural Education Series)
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3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning through Collaborative Inquiry
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Carol D. Lee (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 71,
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Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium
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4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings
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In the Middle: New Understandings about Reading, Writing, and Learning
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4.28 avg rating — 2,166 ratings
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
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4.07 avg rating — 19,360 ratings
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
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Paul Tough (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 24,553 ratings
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