Best Books for Teaching and Learning

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Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0
Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0 3.63 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Teaching Thinking
Teaching Thinking really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning.
The Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning. 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom 4.45 avg rating — 12,301 ratings
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Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? (The Series on School Reform)
Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? (The Series on School Reform) 3.89 avg rating — 824 ratings
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The School and Society/The Child and the Curriculum
The School and Society/The Child and the Curriculum 3.74 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.27 avg rating — 873 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.30 avg rating — 37,856 ratings
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A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change 3.77 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School
Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School
by: Bob Moon
3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Best Year Ever! Winning Strategies To Thrive In Today's Classroom
Best Year Ever! Winning Strategies To Thrive In Today's Classroom 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain
The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain 3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning
Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning 3.92 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Distance Learning Secrets: Study Online Without Losing Your Mind!
Distance Learning Secrets: Study Online Without Losing Your Mind! 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Fluent for Success: How to learn any language in 6 months or less!
Fluent for Success: How to learn any language in 6 months or less! 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting 4.32 avg rating — 3,308 ratings
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Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There
Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College 4.15 avg rating — 1,622 ratings
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Sandwich Spanish IS Painless Spanish: No Grammar-No Rules
Sandwich Spanish IS Painless Spanish: No Grammar-No Rules 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education)
The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Quotients Under the Ocean
The Quotients Under the Ocean it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Using Evidence in Teaching Practice: Implications for Professional Learning
Using Evidence in Teaching Practice: Implications for Professional Learning liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Leading for Instructional Improvement: How Successful Leaders Develop Teaching and Learning Expertise
Leading for Instructional Improvement: How Successful Leaders Develop Teaching and Learning Expertise 4.02 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Making schools work: A reporter's journey through some of America's most remarkable classrooms
Making schools work: A reporter's journey through some of America's most remarkable classrooms it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Quality School Teacher: Specific Suggestions for Teachers Who Are Trying to Implement the Lead-Management Ideas of the Quality School in Their C
The Quality School Teacher: Specific Suggestions for Teachers Who Are Trying to Implement the Lead-Management Ideas of the Quality School in Their C 3.75 avg rating — 126 ratings
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How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching 4.12 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
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How Two Gerbils, Twenty Goldfish, Two Hundred Games, Two Thousand Books, and I Taught Them How to Read
How Two Gerbils, Twenty Goldfish, Two Hundred Games, Two Thousand Books, and I Taught Them How to Read 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom
Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom 4.39 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion
The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion 3.84 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning 3.70 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work
The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling 4.14 avg rating — 11,729 ratings
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The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies
The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice 4.36 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need
Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Essentials of School Leadership
The Essentials of School Leadership 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning 4.28 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
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Schools That Work: America's Most Innovative Public Education Programs
Schools That Work: America's Most Innovative Public Education Programs 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Practitioner Research for Educators: A Guide to Improving Classrooms and Schools
Practitioner Research for Educators: A Guide to Improving Classrooms and Schools 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom
Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom 3.84 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write
Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write 4.21 avg rating — 72 ratings
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What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education
What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education 4.12 avg rating — 160 ratings
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On Being a Teacher
On Being a Teacher 3.81 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education 4.20 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It 4.03 avg rating — 535 ratings
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The multi-racial school;: A professional perspective,
The multi-racial school;: A professional perspective, liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,721 ratings
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Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty 4.02 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Teaching Community
Teaching Community 4.34 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America 3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom
Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning
Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning 4.04 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World 4.11 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Understanding by Design
Understanding by Design 3.95 avg rating — 2,203 ratings
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Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement (Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, 1)
Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement (Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, 1) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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To Teach: The Journey, in Comics
To Teach: The Journey, in Comics 4.18 avg rating — 808 ratings
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We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change 4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters
Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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On Education
On Education 4.14 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload 3.70 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Boys in Schools: Addressing the Real Issues: Behavior, Values and Relationships
Boys in Schools: Addressing the Real Issues: Behavior, Values and Relationships 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Care at the Core
Care at the Core 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach 3.96 avg rating — 953 ratings
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Democracy and Education
Democracy and Education 4.02 avg rating — 2,141 ratings
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Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College 4.10 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative)
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative) 4.24 avg rating — 80 ratings
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What the Best College Teachers Do
What the Best College Teachers Do
by: Ken Bain
3.92 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel
Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge
Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Arab Education in Israel
Arab Education in Israel liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes 4.13 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Summerhill (Pelican books)
Summerhill (Pelican books) 4.12 avg rating — 2,261 ratings
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On MisEducation
On MisEducation 3.61 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms
Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms 4.25 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Assessment For Learning: Putting it into Practice
Assessment For Learning: Putting it into Practice 3.95 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Revolution and Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on Educational Foundations
Revolution and Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on Educational Foundations 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto 4.29 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Building Learning Power: Helping Young People Become Better Learners
Building Learning Power: Helping Young People Become Better Learners 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development
Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development 3.83 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 4.25 avg rating — 2,215 ratings
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy 3.89 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Education for Critical Consciousness
Education for Critical Consciousness 4.28 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching 4.03 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Change Leader: Learning to Do What Matters Most
Change Leader: Learning to Do What Matters Most 3.77 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Empowering Students With Technology
Empowering Students With Technology 3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings
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A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Assessment: Understanding and Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning
A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Assessment: Understanding and Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning 3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do 3.92 avg rating — 6,020 ratings
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Visible Learning
Visible Learning 4.14 avg rating — 623 ratings
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The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning (Language and Literacy Series)
The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning (Language and Literacy Series) 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning
Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning 3.90 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Culture, Literacy, and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind (Multicultural Education Series)
Culture, Literacy, and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind (Multicultural Education Series) 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning through Collaborative Inquiry
Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning through Collaborative Inquiry 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium
Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings
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In the Middle: New Understandings about Reading, Writing, and Learning
In the Middle: New Understandings about Reading, Writing, and Learning 4.28 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most 4.07 avg rating — 19,226 ratings
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character 3.89 avg rating — 24,500 ratings
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