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| 1 | Changing Our Minds: How children can take control of their own learning by 
          
                 4.31 avg rating — 367 ratings
          
         
            
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| 1 | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by 
          
                 3.97 avg rating — 73,338 ratings
          
         
            
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| 1 | How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America by 
Laura C. Chavez-Moreno (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
          
         
            
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| 4 | Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by 
Francine Prose (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.77 avg rating — 11,748 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 99,
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| 5 | Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School (Hack Learning #3) by 
Starr Sackstein (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.01 avg rating — 460 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 98,
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| 6 | Teaching as a Subversive Activity by 
          
                 4.21 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 97,
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| 7 | Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy by 
          
                 3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 96,
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| 8 | Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences by 
          
                 4.47 avg rating — 488 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 95,
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| 9 | The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" by 
          
                 4.23 avg rating — 618 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 94,
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| 10 | Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools by 
          
                 4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 93,
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| 11 | What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking by 
          
                 4.08 avg rating — 432 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 92,
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| 12 | Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School by 
          
                 4.24 avg rating — 2,428 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 91,
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| 13 | Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by 
          
                 4.45 avg rating — 12,581 ratings
          
         
            
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| 14 | Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners by 
Ron Ritchhart (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.23 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 89,
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| 15 | The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners by 
Ron Ritchhart (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.22 avg rating — 168 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 88,
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| 16 | Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools by 
Ron Ritchhart (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.25 avg rating — 550 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 87,
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| 17 | An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students by 
          
                 4.22 avg rating — 687 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 86,
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| 18 | Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment by 
          
                 4.08 avg rating — 213 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 85,
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| 19 | The Power of Inquiry: Teaching and Learning with Curiosity, Creativity, and Purpose in the Contemporary Classroom by 
          
                 4.47 avg rating — 109 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 84,
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| 20 | Beautiful Questions in the Classroom: Transforming Classrooms Into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry by 
Warren Berger (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 83,
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| 21 | Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century by 
          
                 3.84 avg rating — 98 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 82,
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| 22 | Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice by 
          
                 4.07 avg rating — 414 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 81,
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| 23 | Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor by 
          
                 4.39 avg rating — 3,408 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 80,
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| 24 | The Book of Learning and Forgetting by 
          
                 4.09 avg rating — 351 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 79,
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| 25 | Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by 
          
                 4.17 avg rating — 4,699 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 78,
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| 26 | The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness - Not Money - Would Transform Our Schools by 
          
                 4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 77,
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| 27 | 17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong: Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement by 
          
                 3.96 avg rating — 130 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 76,
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| 28 | Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers by 
          
                 4.41 avg rating — 161 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 75,
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| 29 | Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by 
          
                 4.25 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 74,
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| 30 | Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation by 
          
                 3.96 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 73,
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| 31 | Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It by 
Joshua R. Eyler (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 72,
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| 32 | How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching by 
Joshua R. Eyler (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.03 avg rating — 281 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 71,
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| 33 | The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better by 
          
                 4.03 avg rating — 602 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 70,
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| 34 | The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students―and You by 
          
                 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 69,
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