Rethinking the Classroom
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Changing Our Minds: How children can take control of their own learning
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Naomi Fisher
4.32 avg rating — 346 ratings 1. 
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating — 72,726 ratings 
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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Francine Prose
3.77 avg rating — 11,631 ratings 5. 
Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School (Hack Learning #3)
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Starr Sackstein
4.02 avg rating — 457 ratings 
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Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
by:
Kenneth E. Foote
3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings 8. 
Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
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Tynan Sylvester
4.46 avg rating — 454 ratings 9. 
The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"
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Alfie Kohn
4.23 avg rating — 619 ratings 10. 
Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools
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Ira Socol
4.05 avg rating — 58 ratings 11. 
What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking
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Jim Burke
4.08 avg rating — 432 ratings 12. 
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
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Carla Shalaby
4.25 avg rating — 2,379 ratings 13. 
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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bell hooks
4.45 avg rating — 12,303 ratings 14. 
Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
by:
Ron Ritchhart
4.23 avg rating — 1,821 ratings 15. 
The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners
by:
Ron Ritchhart
4.22 avg rating — 167 ratings 16. 
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An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students
by:
Ron Berger
4.23 avg rating — 684 ratings 18. 
Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment
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Ron Berger
4.09 avg rating — 213 ratings 19. 
The Power of Inquiry: Teaching and Learning with Curiosity, Creativity, and Purpose in the Contemporary Classroom
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Kath Murdoch
4.46 avg rating — 107 ratings 20. 
Beautiful Questions in the Classroom: Transforming Classrooms Into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry
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Warren Berger
3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice
by:
Trevor MacKenzie
4.08 avg rating — 409 ratings 
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
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Alfie Kohn
4.17 avg rating — 4,646 ratings 26. 
The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness - Not Money - Would Transform Our Schools
by:
Susan Engel
4.03 avg rating — 76 ratings 27. 
17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong: Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement 3.96 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
by:
Peter O. Gray
4.26 avg rating — 4,065 ratings 30. 
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
by:
Edward L. Deci
3.97 avg rating — 1,662 ratings 31. 
Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It
by:
Joshua R. Eyler
3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings 32. 
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching
by:
Joshua R. Eyler
4.03 avg rating — 279 ratings 33. 
The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better
by:
Jenny Anderson
4.06 avg rating — 398 ratings 34. 
The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students―and You 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings