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Suggested Books for Book Study
This page lists the suggested book titles for your book study. You may choose a book that is not on this list. However, the book must address at least one of the components or elements in the Teaching and Learning Framework (click here to see the framework). Once you have chosen your book, go back to the book study page and submit your selection through the Google Doc form (step ).
LIST OF BOOKS WITH LINKS TO AMAZON.COM REVIEWS Standard 1: Planning and Preparation
- Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
- Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching
- You Haven't Taught until They Have Learned
- Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
- Changing the Way You Teach, Improving the Way Students Learn
- Adolescents on the Edge: Stories and Lessons to Transform Learning
- Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap
- Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It
- Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World
- Teaching 21st Century Skills: An ASCD Action Tool
- Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice
- Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning: Classroom Practices for Student Success
- Pathways To Success in School: Culturally Responsive Teachinghe Purposeful Classroom: How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind
- Mastery Teaching: Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary and Secondary Schools, Colleges, and Universities (Madeline Hunter Collection Series)
Standard 2: Classroom Environment
- Conscious Classroom Management: Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teaching
- Defusing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom
- Fred Jones Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation
- Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom
- Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Standard 3: Instruction
- Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings
- Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
- Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
- Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning
- Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling: Skills for Better Reading, Writing, and Test Taking
- Teaching Adolescent Writers
- What a Writer Needs
- Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
- So What Do They Really Know?: Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning
- Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom
- How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom
- Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom
- Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner
- Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (2nd edition will be purchased)
- The Strategic Teacher: Selecting the Right Research-Based Strategy for Every Lesson
- Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners
Standard 5: Professional Growth
- Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: New Insights for Improving Schools
- The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community
- Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results
- Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement
- Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning
- What Works in Schools: Translating Research Into Action
- The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice
- Having Hard Conversations