Books for Educators

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Books about schools, teaching, learning, etc. Lots of people are "educators" so feel free to think about librarians and students and parents...
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The Rights of the Reader
by Daniel Pennac
1,799 members
55 reviews
3.8
2 Members
bluepiano, Haiksmith
3
The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain
by Terry Doyle
137 members
1 review
½ 3.5
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
4
Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
by Mary Rose O'Reilley
72 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
6
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
by Susan A. Ambrose
466 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
7
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by Myles Horton
288 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
8
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
by James M. Lang
400 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
9
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by Maryanne Wolf
2,044 members
53 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, Haiksmith
10
Design For How People Learn
by Julie Dirksen
171 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
saradenbo
12
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
by Lani Guinier
78 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
16
Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
by James M. Lang
101 members
1 review
4
Member
hipdeep
17
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
by Lois Hetland
52 members
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
18
Understanding By Design
by Grant Wiggins
1,068 members
8 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
20
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition
by John D. Bransford
558 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
Haiksmith
21
Care At The Core
by Sherri Spelic
7 members
4
Member
hipdeep
22
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks
1,896 members
20 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
26
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
by Robert D. Putnam
587 members
15 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
27
Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?)
by Seth Godin
26 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
hipdeep
28
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
by Bill Kovach
169 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
29
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
by Mark C. Carnes
55 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
30
What the Best College Teachers Do
by Ken Bain
1,194 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
31
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
by Michael S. Roth
131 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
33
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
by Anthony Abraham Jack
184 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
34
The Monsters of Education Technology
by Audrey Watters
18 members
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
35
Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College
by Lee Cuba
23 members
3.8
Member
hipdeep
37
The Peaceable Classroom
by Mary Rose O'Reilley
51 members
4.2
Member
hipdeep
38
Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
by Mark William Roche
41 members
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
39
Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
by Katherine S. Newman
33 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
40
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
218 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
41
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)
by Claude M. Steele
840 members
29 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
42
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
by Flower Darby
132 members
4 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
43
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
by James M. Lang
92 members
1 review
3.9
Member
hipdeep
44
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
by Kevin M. Gannon
99 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
54
Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the Curriculum
by Dave Cormier
8 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
56
Building Faculty Learning Communities
by Milton D. Cox
46 members
1 review
4
Member
hipdeep
58
Empowering Students With Technology
by Alan C. November
94 members
3 reviews
3
Member
hipdeep
59
Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education
by Bryan Alexander
26 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
60
The mapping primer: tools for reconstructing the college curriculum
by Ruth E Stiehl
2 members
3
Member
hipdeep
61
25 Years of Ed Tech (Issues in Distance Education)
by Martin Weller
7 members
1 review
4
Member
hipdeep
62
How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique
by Jon Dron
5 members
4
Member
hipdeep
63
The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media
by Bryan Alexander
59 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
65
Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
by John Warner
124 members
1 review
4.2
Member
hipdeep
66
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
by John Warner
60 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
67
America calling : a foreign student in a country of possibility
by Rajika Bhandari
8 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
68
Techniques and Strategies for Interpreting Student Evaluations
by Karron G. Lewis
21 members
3
Member
hipdeep
69
Scholarship Assessed : Evaluation of the Professoriate
by Charles E. Glassick
91 members
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
70
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
2,160 members
101 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
71
Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? (Kindle Single)
by Howard Rheingold
18 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
72
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker
1,244 members
30 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
73
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by Daniel Coyle
1,171 members
19 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
74
Hybrid teaching : pedagogy, people, politics
by Chris Friend
1 member
3
Member
hipdeep
75
Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis
by Bryan Alexander
9 members
Member
hipdeep
76
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
by Maggie Berg
216 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
78
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire
5,176 members
51 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
80
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
129 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
81
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
5,265 members
96 reviews
3.8
82
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by Jonathan Kozol
2,407 members
18 reviews
4.1
83
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander
1,836 members
33 reviews
3.9
84
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
by Parker J. Palmer
1,754 members
15 reviews
4.1
85
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
by Peter C. Brown
1,400 members
28 reviews
4.1
86
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Geoff Colvin
1,328 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
87
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
by Lisa Delpit
688 members
6 reviews
4.2
90
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
by Thomas A. Angelo
418 members
3 reviews
3.8
92
The Power of Mindful Learning
by Ellen J. Langer
329 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
95
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice
by Maryellen Weimer
265 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
96
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate
by Ernest L. Boyer
262 members
1 review
½ 4.4
98
Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning
by John Hattie
232 members
1 review
4
100
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
by Stephen D. Brookfield
224 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7