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The Power of Us by Dominic Packer and Jay Van...
The broad use of social media, internet search engines, personalized news feeds, and other emerging…
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Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education is a well-written critical synthesis of…
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The Art of Insubordination by Todd Kashdan
The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively, a provocative title in a…
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Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 by Peter Liljedahl
Initially, I looked at this title and thought “not another best practice book” the bookstores…
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Rationality by Steven Pinker
Over the last couple of years, we have often felt like the world is losing…
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The Goldilocks Map by Andrew Watson
The Goldilocks Map: A Classroom Teacher’s Quest to Evaluate ‘Brain-Based’ Teaching Advice is an entertaining…
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The Benefits of Direct Instruction: Balancing Theory with Practice
When teachers hear that “research shows we should do X,” we have at least two…
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Learning Science for Instructional Designers by Clark Quinn
Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application is a wonderful synthesis of the…
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Learning Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for all Students by...
In Learning Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for all Students, Yong Zhao outlines an ongoing…
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Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion...
Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion takes a refreshing look at…