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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…
Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education is a well-written critical synthesis of…
The Art of Insubordination by Todd Kashdan
The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively, a provocative title in a…
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…
Rationality by Steven Pinker
Over the last couple of years, we have often felt like the world is losing…
The Goldilocks Map by Andrew Watson
The Goldilocks Map: A Classroom Teacher’s Quest to Evaluate ‘Brain-Based’ Teaching Advice is an entertaining…
The Benefits of Direct Instruction: Balancing Theory with Practice
When teachers hear that “research shows we should do X,” we have at least two…
Learning Science for Instructional Designers by Clark Quinn
Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application is a wonderful synthesis of the…
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…
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…