Teacher Growth 2024-2025

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5 participants (13 books)

04 Jul 2024—01 Jun 2025

Overview

Read at least ten books written on educational topics (preferably targeting teachers), including but not limited to:
  • best practices 
  • instructional strategies
  • teacher leadership
  • reading and writing workshop 

Challenge Books

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Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn by Terrence J. Sejnowski, Beth Rogowsky, Barbara Oakley

Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn

Terrence J. Sejnowski, Beth Rogowsky, Barbara Oakley

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education psychology science informative reflective medium-paced
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

10 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

7 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System—And How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler

The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System—And How to Fix It

Natalie Wexler

9 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction education informative reflective slow-paced
Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning by Gholdy Muhammad

Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning

Gholdy Muhammad

224 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction education race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction education race challenging informative sad medium-paced
Rigor by Design, Not Chance: Deeper Thinking Through Actionable Instruction and Assessment by Karin Hess

Rigor by Design, Not Chance: Deeper Thinking Through Actionable Instruction and Assessment

Karin Hess

208 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction education
Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Robert E. Probst, G. Kylene Beers

Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

Robert E. Probst, G. Kylene Beers

274 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction education informative slow-paced
Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--And Life by Kate Roberts, Christopher Lehman

Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--And Life

Kate Roberts, Christopher Lehman

152 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction education informative slow-paced
A Novel Approach: Whole-Class Novels, Student-Centered Teaching, and Choice by Kate Roberts

A Novel Approach: Whole-Class Novels, Student-Centered Teaching, and Choice

Kate Roberts

184 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction education reflective slow-paced