Books for Teachers/Educators

1.
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child 4.50 avg rating — 18,463 ratings
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The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher [with CD]
The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher [with CD] 3.99 avg rating — 9,723 ratings
3.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.30 avg rating — 37,856 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings
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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year 3.91 avg rating — 6,536 ratings
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 3.93 avg rating — 5,853 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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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,689 ratings
9.
The Read-Aloud Handbook
The Read-Aloud Handbook 4.40 avg rating — 7,541 ratings
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Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It 4.29 avg rating — 6,103 ratings
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Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College 4.01 avg rating — 5,491 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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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition 4.13 avg rating — 4,592 ratings
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life 3.96 avg rating — 4,455 ratings
15.
The Daily Five
The Daily Five 4.33 avg rating — 5,017 ratings
16.
The Freedom Writers Diary
The Freedom Writers Diary 4.15 avg rating — 18,484 ratings
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The First Six Weeks of School
The First Six Weeks of School 4.26 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
18.
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 ratings
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement 4.23 avg rating — 2,130 ratings
20.
I Read It, but I Don't Get It
I Read It, but I Don't Get It 4.16 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
21.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us 3.95 avg rating — 123,660 ratings
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In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning
In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning 4.28 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
23.
Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
by: Jim Fay
4.13 avg rating — 3,193 ratings
24.
The Essential 55
The Essential 55
by: Ron Clark
3.91 avg rating — 5,692 ratings
25.
Among Schoolchildren
Among Schoolchildren 3.96 avg rating — 2,684 ratings
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Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades 4.38 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
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Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 39,641 ratings
28.
After "The End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision
After "The End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision 4.22 avg rating — 279 ratings
28.
The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction
The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction 4.31 avg rating — 2,505 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time 3.66 avg rating — 358,687 ratings
31.
Reading in the Wild
Reading in the Wild 4.46 avg rating — 5,565 ratings
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The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers 4.32 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
33.
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing 4.12 avg rating — 2,261 ratings
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading 3.98 avg rating — 27,056 ratings
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Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 4.08 avg rating — 807 ratings
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The Art of Teaching Reading
The Art of Teaching Reading 4.22 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences
Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
38.
The Shame of the Nation
The Shame of the Nation 4.14 avg rating — 5,065 ratings
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Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching, Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy
Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching, Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy 4.30 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
40.
What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs
What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs 4.23 avg rating — 795 ratings
41.
Up the Down Staircase
Up the Down Staircase 3.96 avg rating — 10,349 ratings
42.
The Montessori Method
The Montessori Method 4.03 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
43.
When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12
When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 4.34 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
44.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success 4.10 avg rating — 169,806 ratings
45.
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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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education 4.05 avg rating — 5,662 ratings
47.
The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research
The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research 4.16 avg rating — 630 ratings
48.
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest 3.97 avg rating — 667 ratings
49.
Work Hard. Be Nice.
Work Hard. Be Nice. 3.83 avg rating — 2,274 ratings
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Teaching Outside The Box: How To Grab Your Students By Their Brains
Teaching Outside The Box: How To Grab Your Students By Their Brains 4.04 avg rating — 859 ratings
51.
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
52.
Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles
Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles 4.13 avg rating — 559 ratings
53.
There Are No Shortcuts
There Are No Shortcuts 3.93 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk 4.27 avg rating — 37,559 ratings
55.
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home 4.33 avg rating — 7,428 ratings
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Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution 4.17 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
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36 Children
36 Children 3.92 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul: Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Educators
Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul: Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Educators 3.95 avg rating — 726 ratings
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The Secret of Childhood
The Secret of Childhood 4.17 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
60.
Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well
Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well 4.26 avg rating — 462 ratings
61.
Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning
Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning 4.14 avg rating — 2,589 ratings
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life 3.88 avg rating — 6,971 ratings
63.
The Water Is Wide
The Water Is Wide 4.17 avg rating — 26,375 ratings
64.
Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1)
Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 109,375 ratings
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Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions 4.03 avg rating — 797 ratings
66.
The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time
The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time 3.86 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,339 ratings
68.
How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
How to Get Your Child to Love Reading 4.24 avg rating — 570 ratings
69.
Teaching with Intention: Defining Beliefs, Aligning Practice, Taking Action, K-5
Teaching with Intention: Defining Beliefs, Aligning Practice, Taking Action, K-5 4.33 avg rating — 518 ratings
70.
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding 4.30 avg rating — 782 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
72.
Marva Collins' Way: Updated
Marva Collins' Way: Updated 4.47 avg rating — 522 ratings
73.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) 4.58 avg rating — 3,563,325 ratings
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Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers
Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers 4.39 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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What Great Teachers Do Differently: 14 Things That Matter Most
What Great Teachers Do Differently: 14 Things That Matter Most 3.84 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
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Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men
Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men 3.78 avg rating — 333 ratings
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A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century 4.21 avg rating — 3,818 ratings
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Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14
Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14
by: Chip Wood
4.14 avg rating — 946 ratings
79.
Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership
Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership 4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
80.
The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom 4.27 avg rating — 821 ratings
81.
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything 3.86 avg rating — 18,707 ratings
82.
What the Best College Teachers Do
What the Best College Teachers Do
by: Ken Bain
3.92 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
83.
The Morning Meeting Book: K-8
The Morning Meeting Book: K-8 4.27 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
84.
Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds 3.93 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
85.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) 4.62 avg rating — 4,009,379 ratings
86.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) 4.47 avg rating — 11,064,067 ratings
87.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) 4.50 avg rating — 3,690,984 ratings
88.
The 9 Rights of Every Writer: A Guide for Teachers
The 9 Rights of Every Writer: A Guide for Teachers 3.87 avg rating — 150 ratings
89.
The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing 3.96 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
90.
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
91.
Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice 4.36 avg rating — 101 ratings
92.
Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers
Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers 4.57 avg rating — 2,902 ratings
93.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating — 465,717 ratings
94.
The Absorbent Mind
The Absorbent Mind 4.17 avg rating — 2,933 ratings
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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education 4.22 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students
Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students 3.74 avg rating — 881 ratings
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Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School 3.87 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement
Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement 3.90 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) 4.57 avg rating — 4,069,398 ratings
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction 4.24 avg rating — 30,210 ratings
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