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Changing Our Minds: How children can take control of their own learning
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
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Laura C. Chavez-Moreno (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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Francine Prose (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 11,815 ratings
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Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School (Hack Learning #3)
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Starr Sackstein (Goodreads Author)
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Teaching as a Subversive Activity
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Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
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Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
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The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" – A Research-Based Argument for Child-Centered Learning
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Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools
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What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking
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Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
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Ron Ritchhart (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
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The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners
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Ron Ritchhart (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 169 ratings
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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
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Ron Ritchhart (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 553 ratings
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An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students
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Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment
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The Power of Inquiry: Teaching and Learning with Curiosity, Creativity, and Purpose in the Contemporary Classroom
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Beautiful Questions in the Classroom: Transforming Classrooms Into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry
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Warren Berger (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century
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Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice
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Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor
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The Book of Learning and Forgetting
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
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4.17 avg rating — 4,722 ratings
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The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness - Not Money - Would Transform Our Schools
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4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings
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17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong: Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement
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3.97 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers
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4.41 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
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4.25 avg rating — 4,173 ratings
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Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
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3.96 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It
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Joshua R. Eyler (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 38 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)
4.01 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better
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4.03 avg rating — 684 ratings
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The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students―and You
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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