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How to Teach Kids Anything

by Peter Hollins • 2021

What the research says: let kids struggle, target 85% accuracy, hand them the red pen.

3.82

📚 Pedagogy 🧠 Learning Science 🤔 Metacognition 🧗 Productive Struggle 🔍 Critical Thinking

How to Teach Kids Anything

What the research says: let kids struggle, target 85% accuracy, hand them the red pen.

by Peter Hollins 2021 203 pages

3.82

28 ratings

📚 Pedagogy 🧠 Learning Science 🤔 Metacognition 🧗 Productive Struggle 🔍 Critical Thinking

Using Graphic Novels in the STEM Classroom

by William Boerman-Cornell • 2023

How graphic novels make STEM concepts click, and which ones to use in your classroom.

5.00

🧪 Stem Education 📚 Comics In The Classroom 👁️ Visual Literacy 📖 Multimodal Literacy 🎓 Educational Comics

Using Graphic Novels in the STEM Classroom

How graphic novels make STEM concepts click, and which ones to use in your classroom.

by William Boerman-Cornell 2023 168 pages

5.00

1 ratings

🧪 Stem Education 📚 Comics In The Classroom 👁️ Visual Literacy 📖 Multimodal Literacy 🎓 Educational Comics

Slaying Goliath

by Diane Ravitch • 2020

Billionaires spent billions to privatize public schools. Teachers and parents fought back and won.

3.81

425

🏫 Public Education 💼 School Privatization 📝 High-Stakes Testing ✊ Teacher Unions 💰 Billionaire Philanthropy

Slaying Goliath

Billionaires spent billions to privatize public schools. Teachers and parents fought back and won.

by Diane Ravitch 2020 352 pages

3.81

425 ratings

🏫 Public Education 💼 School Privatization 📝 High-Stakes Testing ✊ Teacher Unions 💰 Billionaire Philanthropy

Teach Me

by Olivia Dade • 2019

Forced to share a classroom with the teacher she resents, a guarded woman starts to fall.

3.65

10k+

🏫 Workplace Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👧 Single Dad 💪 Plus Size Heroine 🏠 Found Family

Teach Me

Forced to share a classroom with the teacher she resents, a guarded woman starts to fall.

by Olivia Dade 2019 276 pages

3.65

10k+ ratings

🏫 Workplace Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👧 Single Dad 💪 Plus Size Heroine 🏠 Found Family

Quiet Beautiful Things

by Samantha Christy • 2024

A playboy gains a deaf daughter and falls for her teacher, who doesn't date hearing men.

4.43

10k+

🦻 Deaf Representation 👨‍👧 Single Dad Romance 🏠 Found Family 🏡 Forced Proximity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Quiet Beautiful Things

A playboy gains a deaf daughter and falls for her teacher, who doesn't date hearing men.

by Samantha Christy 2024 434 pages

4.43

10k+ ratings

🦻 Deaf Representation 👨‍👧 Single Dad Romance 🏠 Found Family 🏡 Forced Proximity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Best Teacher in You

by Robert E. Quinn • 2014

Forget scripted lessons. The best teaching balances order, care, rigor, and creativity. Learn how.

4.29

🧑‍🏫 Classroom Teachers 🪞 Reflective Practice 🤝 Co-Creative Learning 💪 Student Empowerment 🔥 Intrinsic Motivation

The Best Teacher in You

Forget scripted lessons. The best teaching balances order, care, rigor, and creativity. Learn how.

by Robert E. Quinn 2014 240 pages

4.29

31 ratings

🧑‍🏫 Classroom Teachers 🪞 Reflective Practice 🤝 Co-Creative Learning 💪 Student Empowerment 🔥 Intrinsic Motivation

The Art of Vulture Investing

by George Schultze • 2012

Bullies respond least to punishment. A guide to interventions that actually change behavior.

3.83

🏫 School Bullying ❤️‍🩹 Restorative Justice 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🌱 Non-Punitive Discipline 💞 Empathy Building

The Art of Vulture Investing

Bullies respond least to punishment. A guide to interventions that actually change behavior.

by George Schultze 2012 224 pages

3.83

64 ratings

🏫 School Bullying ❤️‍🩹 Restorative Justice 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🌱 Non-Punitive Discipline 💞 Empathy Building

Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children

by Ashley McCabe-Mowat • 2011

Challenges to push gifted students past recall into investigating, designing, and inventing.

🎓 Gifted Education 🧠 Higher-Order Thinking 💡 Creative Problem-Solving 🔍 Curiosity And Inquiry 🌊 Divergent Thinking

Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children

Challenges to push gifted students past recall into investigating, designing, and inventing.

by Ashley McCabe-Mowat 2011 52 pages

🎓 Gifted Education 🧠 Higher-Order Thinking 💡 Creative Problem-Solving 🔍 Curiosity And Inquiry 🌊 Divergent Thinking

Rock Bottom Girl

by Lucy Score • 2019

Broke and jobless, Marley returns to her town, coaches soccer, and fake-dates her high school crush.

4.25

73k+

🌾 Small Town Romance ⚽ Sports Romance 🎭 Fake Dating 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏡 Small Town Return

Rock Bottom Girl

Broke and jobless, Marley returns to her town, coaches soccer, and fake-dates her high school crush.

by Lucy Score 2019 532 pages

4.25

73k+ ratings

🌾 Small Town Romance ⚽ Sports Romance 🎭 Fake Dating 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏡 Small Town Return

High-Five Teaching, K-5

by Rich Allen • 2010

The elementary classroom where everyone participates, nobody zones out, and silence is not the goal.

🏫 Elementary Education 📋 Classroom Management 🧠 Brain-Based Learning 🏃 Active Learning 🤸 Movement In Learning

High-Five Teaching, K-5

The elementary classroom where everyone participates, nobody zones out, and silence is not the goal.

by Rich Allen 2010 208 pages

🏫 Elementary Education 📋 Classroom Management 🧠 Brain-Based Learning 🏃 Active Learning 🤸 Movement In Learning

Don't Leave the Story in the Book

by Mary Hynes-Berry • 2011

Stop just reading stories. Start using them to drive math, science, and inquiry in preschool.

4.00

🏫 Early Childhood Education 📚 Teaching With Stories 🔍 Classroom Inquiry 🧩 Play-Based Learning 🔗 Integrated Curriculum

Don't Leave the Story in the Book

Stop just reading stories. Start using them to drive math, science, and inquiry in preschool.

by Mary Hynes-Berry 2011 216 pages

4.00

1 ratings

🏫 Early Childhood Education 📚 Teaching With Stories 🔍 Classroom Inquiry 🧩 Play-Based Learning 🔗 Integrated Curriculum

High-Impact Instruction

by Jim Knight • 2012

Turn chaotic standards into clear daily targets, and fragile coaching into lasting classroom change.

4.16

334

📋 Instructional Design 📊 Formative Assessment 👥 Cooperative Learning 🎯 Learning Targets 🌍 Authentic Learning

High-Impact Instruction

Turn chaotic standards into clear daily targets, and fragile coaching into lasting classroom change.

by Jim Knight 2012 371 pages

4.16

334 ratings

📋 Instructional Design 📊 Formative Assessment 👥 Cooperative Learning 🎯 Learning Targets 🌍 Authentic Learning

The Teaching for Understanding Guide

by Tina Blythe • 1997

Understanding is performance. A practical framework for designing curriculum that proves it.

3.79

🏫 Project Zero 📐 Curriculum Design 📝 Formative Assessment 👩‍🏫 Teacher Development 🧱 Constructivism

The Teaching for Understanding Guide

Understanding is performance. A practical framework for designing curriculum that proves it.

by Tina Blythe 1997 144 pages

3.79

76 ratings

🏫 Project Zero 📐 Curriculum Design 📝 Formative Assessment 👩‍🏫 Teacher Development 🧱 Constructivism

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