Books That Made Me Smarter |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson |
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink |
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Contact by Carl Sagan |
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levit & Stephen Dubner |
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Good to Great by Jim Collins |
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Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan |
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Sixteen Trends: Implications for Students, Education, Communities, and the Whole of Society by Gary Marx |
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman |
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The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman |
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose |
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Teaching and Learning |
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A Handbook for the Art and Science of Teaching by Robert Marzano |
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Becoming a Great High School: 6 Strategies and 1 Attitude That Make a Difference by Tim Westerberg |
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Begin Write: An Instructional Method for Teaching Manuscript and Cursive Handwriting by Penelope Cypress & Rachel Knight |
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Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement by Robert Marzano |
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Classroom Assessment and Grading that Work by Robert Marzano |
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Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert Marzano |
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Classroom Management that Works: Reasearch-Based Strategies for Every Teacher by Robert Marzano |
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EdSpeak: a glossary of education terms, phrases, buzzwords, and jargon by Diane Ravitch |
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Executive Function in Education: from Theory to Practice by Lynn Meltzer |
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Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping by Heidi Hayes Jacobs |
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Making Standards Useful in the Classroom by Robert Marzano & Mark Haystead |
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Mosaic of Thought by Ellin Oliver Keene & Susan Zimmerman |
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Never Work Harder Than Your Students & Other Principles of Great Teaching by Robyn Jackson |
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Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction K-3 by Sharon Vaughn & Sylvia Linan-Thompson |
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Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning by Judy Willis |
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement by Steohanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis |
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Teaching Basic and Advanced Vocabulary by Robert Marzano |
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Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning by David Rose & Anne Meyer |
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Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom by Susan Winebrenner |
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The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert Marzano |
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The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners by Carol Ann Tomlinson |
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The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners by Carol Ann Tomlinson |
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The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher by Harry Wong |
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The Universally Designed Classroom: Accessible Curriculum and Digital Technologies by David Rose |
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Transforming Classroom Grading by Robert Marzano |
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Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe |
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PLCs |
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Learning by Doing by Richard DuFour |
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On Common Ground by Richard DuFour |
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Professional Learning Communities at Work by Richard Dufour |
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Whatever it Takes by Richard DuFour |
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Educational Leadership |
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Data Analysis for Comprehensive Schoolwide Improvement by Victoria Bernhardt |
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District Leadership that Works by Robert Marzano & Timothy Waters |
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Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning by Mike Schmoker |
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School Leadership that Works by Robert Marzano, Timothy Waters, & Brian McNulty |
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Strengthening the Heartbeat: Leading and Learning Together in Schools by Thomas Sergiovanni |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey |
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The Art of School Leadership by Thomas Hoerr |
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The Differentiated School: Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning by Carol Ann Tomlinson |
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The New Principal's Fieldbook: Strategies for Success by Pam Robbins & Harvey Alvy |
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The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson |
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The Principal as Assessment Leader by Thomas Guskey |
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The Principal fro the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler & Jared Lee |
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The Results Fieldbook: Practical Strategies from Dramatically Improved Schools by Mike Schmoker |
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The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through by Downey, Steffy, English, Frase & Poston |
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What Great Principals Do Differently by Todd Whitaker |
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What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action by Robert Marzano |
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