Best & Most Inspiring Teacher Books
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The Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning. 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator
by:
Dave Burgess
3.99 avg rating — 7,050 ratings 
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
by:
Rafe Esquith
3.93 avg rating — 5,853 ratings 5. 
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
by:
Paul Tough
3.89 avg rating — 24,501 ratings 
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating — 72,729 ratings 
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To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
by:
Robert Uttaro
4.03 avg rating — 184 ratings 9. 
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education
by:
Scott L. Newstok
3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings 9. 
The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education)
by:
Jack Herndon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings 9. 
55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike
by:
Elizabeth Catte
4.51 avg rating — 39 ratings 9. 
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
by:
Benjamin Herold
3.87 avg rating — 956 ratings 15. 
Making schools work: A reporter's journey through some of America's most remarkable classrooms
by:
Robert Benjamin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 15. 
Teachers: There is No Such Thing as As a Hot Coffee & Other Teacher Truths
by:
Bored Teachers
4.10 avg rating — 52 ratings 17. 
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
by:
James W. Loewen
4.24 avg rating — 576 ratings 17.
How Two Gerbils, Twenty Goldfish, Two Hundred Games, Two Thousand Books, and I Taught Them How to Read
by:
Steven Daniels
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 19. 
The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck--101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers
by:
Ron Clark
4.18 avg rating — 1,693 ratings 
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The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work
by:
LouAnne Johnson
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings 22. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating — 465,763 ratings 22. 
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
by:
Bettina L. Love
4.53 avg rating — 6,312 ratings 22. 
Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need
by:
William G. Ouchi
3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings 25. 
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
by:
Doug Lemov
4.01 avg rating — 5,493 ratings 25. 
Teaching When the World Is on Fire: Authentic Classroom Advice, from Climate Justice to Black Lives Matter
by:
Lisa D. Delpit
3.95 avg rating — 611 ratings 
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If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom: Inspiring Love, Creativity, and Intelligence in Middle School Kids
by:
Bernie Schein
3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings 28. 
Schools That Work: America's Most Innovative Public Education Programs
by:
George H. Wood
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings 30. 
Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege
by:
Antoinette Tuff
4.19 avg rating — 299 ratings 30. 
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It
by:
Jane M. Healy
4.03 avg rating — 535 ratings 
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Schoolgirls; Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
by:
Peggy Orenstein
4.05 avg rating — 1,296 ratings 34. 
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
by:
Lisa D. Delpit
4.13 avg rating — 4,592 ratings 36. 
Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators 3.46 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art
by:
Cathy James
4.05 avg rating — 96 ratings 
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Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives
by:
Rachel Simmons
4.11 avg rating — 1,009 ratings 42. 
The Power of a Plant: A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools
by:
Stephen Ritz
4.39 avg rating — 151 ratings 
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Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings 3.92 avg rating — 830 ratings
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The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond
by:
Donna Goldberg
3.81 avg rating — 339 ratings 
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Economics In Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide To A Political World
by:
Robert B. Reich
3.75 avg rating — 150 ratings 52. 
The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans: How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult
by:
Josh Shipp
4.22 avg rating — 790 ratings 53. 
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Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-Regulation
by:
Adam Winsler
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 55. 
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder 4.22 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age
by:
James P. Steyer
3.59 avg rating — 187 ratings 57. 
Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities (64) (For Kids series) 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 Activities
by:
Jerome Pohlen
4.01 avg rating — 153 ratings 59. 
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Teaching Learning: Helping Your Kids Gain the Learning Skills They Won't Get Taught in School
by:
Sid Jacobson
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 61. 
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Africa for Kids: Exploring a Vibrant Continent, 19 Activities (For Kids series)
by:
Harvey Croze
3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 63. 
Archaeology for Kids: Uncovering the Mysteries of Our Past, 25 Activities (Volume 13) (For Kids series)
by:
Richard Panchyk
3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings 64. 
American Folk Art for Kids: With 21 Activities (Volume 12) (For Kids series)
by:
Richard Panchyk
3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings 65. 
The Natural Laws of Children: Why Children Thrive When We Understand How Their Brains Are Wired
by:
Céline Alvarez
4.36 avg rating — 541 ratings 66. 
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children
by:
Kenneth Koch
4.20 avg rating — 327 ratings 
68. 
A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn
by:
Peter Perret
4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings 69. 
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Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
by:
Beth Pickens
3.86 avg rating — 1,193 ratings 71. 
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Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
by:
David W. Orr
4.18 avg rating — 669 ratings 
77. 
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings
78. 
Get Started in Jazz: A Teach Yourself Guide with Audio CD
by:
Rodney Dale
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
83. 
The Heart of Sustainability: Restoring Ecological Balance from the Inside Out 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
84. 
Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
by:
Bill Ivey
3.88 avg rating — 93 ratings 85. 
You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
by:
George Anders
3.49 avg rating — 485 ratings 
87. 
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court 4.38 avg rating — 2,755 ratings
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Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education 3.60 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Everyone's a Genius: Unleashing Creativity for the Sake of the World by Alan Briggs
by:
Alan C. Briggs
4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings 91. 
A Book Teacher for Every School: Featuring Mount Kenya Academy
by:
Kemie Nix
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 92. 
Banjo Camp!: Learning, Picking & Jamming With Bluegrass and Old-time Greats 2.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
by:
Emily Bazelon
3.87 avg rating — 1,439 ratings 94. 
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
by:
Michael Oher
4.13 avg rating — 8,684 ratings 
96. 
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
by:
David Denby
3.86 avg rating — 1,077 ratings 97. 
The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills
by:
Jim Grant
4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings 98. 
Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.
by:
David Denby
3.59 avg rating — 801 ratings 99. 
