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Thought-Provoking Books for Educators in 2022

Things are tough right now in education. The pandemic exposed and intensified the cracks in a system that has long been in need of an overhaul.

Our favorite books this year offer not only inspiration and hope, but also practical things education professionals can do to change the system. As we reviewed the books, we realized that reading them in a particular order offered a “macro” to “micro” path forward, starting with Steven C. Rockefeller’s Spiritual Democracy and Our Schools . This beautifully written book offers a vision of what the U.S. (and other democracies) can become, and education’s role in making that vision a reality.

We suggest that you next read Let Your Light Shine for a reality check of how far we still have to go. Sharing the powerful origin story of the Holistic Life Foundation, the authors hold nothing back as they talk about the impact of systemic racism and structural inequities on youth—and how yoga, mindfulness, and a lot of love can help heal.

With a vision and a reality check in place, the remaining three books are about rolling up our sleeves and digging into the work of redoing our educational system. The highly practical Reconnect focuses on how educators can create classrooms of belonging, centering on specific techniques, virtue development, and group engagement. Cultivating Kindness reminds us of the need for and power of kindness in schools—something that makes the path forward a little gentler. And, finally, Surviving Teacher Burnout gives educators research-based tools and insights for building their own inner resilience—so they can do the hard work that transforming education takes.

Education is on the cusp of dramatically shifting how we teach our students. We hope these books offer new ways of seeing and thinking about education, and the inspiration to keep going.

Spiritual Democracy and Our Schools: Renewing the American Spirit With Education for the Whole Child , by Steven C. Rockefeller

At the root of America’s disunity, argues scholar Steven Rockefeller, is “the erosion and weakening of America’s moral and spiritual foundation, reflecting estrangement from our better selves and one another and the larger community of life on Earth.” The issues we face stem from our failure “to respect and honor the inherent dignity and equal rights of the other.” In other words, “America is a nation in search of its soul.”

Rockefeller urges a renewed sense of shared values and common purpose of living out the ideals of democracy. Integrating these ideals into education with “relational spirituality” (foundational human values like respect, care, and gratitude) can help to solve the problems we face and lay a firm foundation for a more unified nation. That’s because it will set students “on the path to authentic freedom, responsible democratic citizenship, and caring, creative leadership of their own lives and their communities.”

Science-based educational initiatives such as social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and the burgeoning “spirituality in education” field play a key role in carrying out this work.

This free, downloadable book expands on the ideas expressed in the author’s keynote at the first Collaborative for Spirituality in Education conference in 2019, hosted by Teachers College at Columbia University.  For educators who are feeling demoralized, this book reminds us of the bigger “why” of what we do.

In this time of extreme challenge, educators can take heart that they are contributing to the excruciatingly difficult work of rebuilding the foundation of this country. As Rockefeller writes, they are helping to foster “an American democratic culture that cultivates reverence for the mystery of being, a sense of belonging in the universe, gratitude for the gift of life, a love of Earth, and an ethical commitment to respect and care for the greater community of life and to practice sustainable development.” —Vicki Zakrzewski

Let Your Light Shine: How Mindfulness Can Empower Children and Rebuild Communities , by Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez

In 2001, brothers Ali and Atman Smith and their friend Andres Gonzalez started the Holistic Life Foundation to enhance the well-being of low-income, underserved communities through yoga, mindfulness, self-care, and other programming. Let Your Light Shine is the extraordinary story of their journey, with research, practical exercises, and ancient Yogic science and philosophy woven throughout. Hands down, this is one of the best books on the mindfulness-in-education movement I have come across—because it is so honest and real.

The authors argue that “the best solutions are the home-grown solutions,” meaning that the people within a community are best suited to help heal the community. They began their program in the Baltimore neighborhood where Ali and Atman grew up, working with local students who were highly traumatized due to systemic racism, structural inequities, poverty, and many other challenges that no child should ever have to face.

They don’t hold back on how phenomenally challenging this work has been for them. They are adamant that educators must not only have a mindfulness practice of their own, but also have done “the personal work of working through [their] own triggers, traumas, resentments, and fear.” Why? Because “traumatized kids can trigger the *&^% out of you.” But, in the end, they argue that “love is the most powerful force in the universe” and that their work is “creating love zombies; we want to infect people with love and have them go around spreading it—minus all the eating people and stuff.”

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I also appreciated that the authors didn’t shy away from sharing aspects of their own spiritual path. They agree that the spiritual aspects of this work should be kept out of schools, but there is much to be learned from understanding the original wisdom out of which these practices grew. And as research on the importance of cultivating spirituality within students expands, this may be the next chapter in the field.

Overall, the authors’ story is grounded in wisdom, love, humility, vulnerability, and a powerful inner strength cultivated from years of balancing the external work with the internal. I hope you will laugh, cry, and ponder over this book—and then be inspired to do your own inner work so that you can better help others, too. —Vicki Zakrzewski

Reconnect: Building School Culture for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging , by Doug Lemov, Hilary Lewis, Darryl Williams, and Denarius Frazier

How can we cultivate a sense of belonging and connection at school? This is a question on the hearts of many educators as they face a sharp decline in post-pandemic student learning and well-being. In Reconnect , Doug Lemov (of Teach Like a Champion fame) and his coauthors focus on what belonging can look like and sound like— while students are learning.

Although the authors devote a portion of the book to problematizing cell phone usage, the meat of Reconnect features case studies, free videos, and classroom discussions that model concrete belonging “signals” to “rewire” classrooms and enhance group learning.

For example, some of the techniques they offer include snaps of appreciation, smiles, and “tracking” skills (showing interest through eye contact and body posture). They also emphasize the value of “talking to and not past someone” with discussion role scaffolds like “builder” (“Linking to that point, I think…”), “challenger” (“I disagree with you because…”), and “summarizer” (“The main ideas raised today were…”).

The book’s focus on “social engineering” and the repetition of call-and-response techniques may make some readers uncomfortable, yet Lemov and his team argue that these rituals can have a strong auditory and visual appeal—as a cultural outgrowth of communal chants and songs that create a sense of connectedness.

Lemov and his team also draw on Angela Duckworth’s definition of “virtues” (like gratitude and resilience) as “ways of thinking, feeling and acting that we [can] habitually do that are good for others and good for ourselves.” They prioritize virtue development as a way to enhance school-wide social and emotional learning, and they advise every school to choose five to seven virtues and belonging cues that reflect their own mission, values, and culture.

In Reconnect ’s most inspiring segments, however, the authors highlight examples of positive group synergy, active learning, and deep group engagement (or “ flow ”)—moments where students are jointly absorbed in rich discussions of mathematics. This book helps educators to see that belonging cues and learning techniques can complement and build on each other. —Amy L. Eva

Cultivating Kindness: An Educator’s Guide , by John-Tyler Binfet

The immense need for John-Tyler Binfet’s book Cultivating Kindness: An Educator’s Guide is found in the dedication. When asked by Binfet for a definition of kindness, one student wrote, “Kindness is making someone feel like s/he belongs or feels special. Like the world didn’t make a mistake.”

As human beings, we deeply crave kindness. So much so that kindness is the number-one quality we look for in romantic partners. And yet, in education, kindness often gets the short end of the stick, seen as irrelevant to academic success or too soft for the workplace. However, pointing to years of research—including some of his own—Binfet makes a strong case for cultivating kindness in schools and how it can contribute to student and educator well-being, positive peer relationships, and an inclusive school culture. He also shares examples of how students of all ages describe their experience of kindness, both giving and receiving it from peers and teachers alike. As he wryly points out, helping students to learn, rather than giving them fancy field trips and extra recess time, is how teachers can demonstrate kindness.

In addition to the research, Binfet also includes practical examples of how to foster kindness in students and schools, such as helping students create a “kindness action plan” for performing intentional acts of kindness over a specified amount of time. He notes most students will choose their close friends as recipients of these acts, potentially leaving out students who already feel excluded. Hence, to foster a sense of belonging, educators should encourage students to go beyond their peer group.

My favorite part of the book, however, is Binfet’s discovery of “quiet kindness”—those acts that go unseen and unacknowledged and, as he notes, require advanced social and emotional skills, but ones that students can learn. To me, helping students internalize kindness to such a degree that they don’t look for outer rewards is one of the most powerful ways we can create a kinder world—one in which no one feels like a mistake. —Vicki Zakrzewski

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Surviving Teacher Burnout: A Weekly Guide to Build Relationships, Deal with Emotional Exhaustion, and Stay Inspired in the Classroom by Greater Good ’s own Amy L. Eva

Pulling on her experience as both a classroom educator and teacher educator, Amy Eva masterfully weaves together the science and practice for how teachers can build a strong inner life—a life that can help them not just navigate the storms and trials of teaching, but also find renewal and hope in the darkest days. (Only those who have spent time in the classroom can truly understand how hard this work actually is.) Indeed, I wish I had this book when I was training to be a teacher. Not a single professor or master teacher ever mentioned the emotional toll that teaching takes—instead, like many teachers including the author, I learned it the hard way.

Eva provides 52 weeks of topics, from being with difficult emotions to learning to forgive to feeling empathic joy, that include practical exercises and the scientific “why” for each one. This book could and should be woven into teacher education classes—it’s the missing piece that may be the most important part of a preservice teacher’s preparation.

For in-service educators, Eva provides insight into why so many are feeling exhausted and demoralized, but also how to heal and move forward with stronger clarity and the resilience to change a system that no longer works. And for educators who are implementing social-emotional learning—you will have the added benefit of understanding even more the science behind it, helping to deepen your work with students. I have had the pleasure of working closely with the author for over half a decade and I can truly say that the best of her is in this book: Eva’s deep empathy and concern for educators, her ability to connect with her audience and to help them connect with each other, and her extensive and practical knowledge for strengthening the lives of teachers. “Hope doesn’t have to perch quietly in each of our souls,” she writes. “We can share it and live it, collectively. As an African proverb says, ‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’” —Vicki Zakrzewski

About the Authors

Vicki Zakrzewski

Vicki Zakrzewski, Ph.D. , is the education director of the Greater Good Science Center.

Amy L. Eva, Ph.D. , is the associate education director at the Greater Good Science Center. As an educational psychologist and teacher educator with over 25 years in classrooms, she currently writes, presents, and leads online courses focused on student and educator well-being, mindfulness, and courage. Her new book, Surviving Teacher Burnout: A Weekly Guide To Build Resilience, Deal with Emotional Exhaustion, and Stay Inspired in the Classroom, features 52 simple, low-lift strategies for enhancing educators’ social and emotional well-being.

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Positive Education Books: 18 Best Books for Teachers

This should be every educator’s goal — for their students to reach their full potential — but it is a big ask to expect these character traits to be developed within the already jam-packed school day.

However, with positive education, it is possible.

Positive education fosters decision-making, coping, problem-solving, relaxation, and creative brainstorming skills. It is the ticket to a happy, healthy classroom. To tell you more, we have compiled a list of positive education books to help you begin or continue this journey.

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3 best positive education books, 2 best books for teachers, 2 best classroom management books, top educational books for teachers, inspirational books for teachers, other books related to education, a selection of our positive psychology resources, a take-home message.

For over 10 years, there has been growing evidence that positive education’s school-based interventions result in students’ improved mental health (Waters & Johnstone, 2022).

Factors such as students’ hope, subjective wellbeing, life satisfaction, prosocial behavior, school engagement, and academic grades “have strengthened after receiving positive education interventions” (Waters & Johnstone, 2022, p. 60).

Current research shows the importance of this educational movement (e.g., Safiye et al., 2023; Waters & Johnstone, 2022).

Waters and Johnstone (2022) conducted a case study concerning the use of the SEARCH positive education framework at the Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney, Australia. This positive education program was recognized as being a cohesive and systematic approach in positive education. This is just one example of a successful positive education implementation.

In a study comprising 823 teachers who completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey, Safiye et al. (2023) concluded that a high capacity for mentalizing, or understanding your own or others’ mental state, may lessen teachers’ chances of burnout. This self-awareness , which is an element of positive education, could be enhanced by reviewing some of our suggested books.

Below you will find a short list of positive education books that will provide you with actionable strategies for your classroom or school and leave you inspired.

For a quick refresher on what positive education is, please refer to our article What Is Positive Education, and How Can We Apply It?

1. Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings – Kenneth Ginsburg & Martha Jablow

This book offers important insights for parents and educators to support children in developing resilience.

It is particularly suitable for those dealing with children who have experienced adverse life events or trauma.

With useful topics, including coping, managing stress, and strength-based relationships, this book offers powerful advice for educators wishing to understand the factors that can support or stifle a child’s development of resilience.

Find the book on Amazon .

2. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character – Paul Tough

This book draws on research and inspiring stories to answer some of the most fundamental questions about child development and education.

In addition to helping teachers understand why some children succeed while others lose their way, it provides a number of tools to help teachers steer disenfranchised children back on the path to success.

3. Positive Learning Environments: Creating and Maintaining Productive Classrooms – John De Nobile, Gordon Lyons, & Michael Arthur-Kelly

Positive Learning Environments draws on positive education principles to help teachers craft learning environments that minimize classroom disruption while encouraging appropriate behaviors.

Each chapter draws on the latest findings in positive education and includes advice on topics like classroom communication, physical spaces, and cognitive-behavioral approaches to addressing disruptive behavior.

Find the book on Amazon or read the e-book for free on Google Books .

Parents yearn for their children to be happy, balanced, kind, healthy, confident, and satisfied.

Teachers are pressured to produce students who achieve, use thinking skills, have self-discipline, and develop literacy and math skills. To have the best of both worlds, positive education is necessary (Seligman et al., 2009).

The following books encourage positive psychology practices in the classroom and could greatly benefit educators.

1. Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education – Thich Nhat Hanh & Katherine Weare

Cowritten by global spiritual leader Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, this book is an authoritative guide to mindfulness in education, spanning the entire range of schools and grade levels.

This book begins by giving educators the essential tools to develop their own mindfulness practice. Working from this base, the guide then walks teachers through step-by-step techniques to apply with students and inspirational stories of mindfulness education used in practice.

2. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything – Deborah Schoeberlein & Suki Sheth

This book offers practical approaches to help educators of all kinds tune in to what is happening both inside and around themselves through the practice of mindfulness.

Drawing on the science of mindfulness, this book applies hands-on tools and exercises to empower teachers to deliver education that is attentive, warm, and compassionate to the needs of their students.

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Classroom management is one of the most critical components of creating effective learning environments (Bozkuş, 2021).

With proficient classroom management, student participation, safety, and overall wellbeing are preserved. We hope the following books will help you fine-tune your classroom management skills that contribute to positive education.

1. Individualized Supports for Students with Problem Behaviors: Designing Positive Behavior Plans – Linda Bambara & Lee Kern (Editors)

Individualized Supports for Students provides all the information a teacher needs to develop an individualized positive behavior support (PBS) plan for students with persistent behavioral challenges.

The chapters of the book build sequentially on one another, starting with the conceptual underpinnings of the PBS process and ending with steps for evaluating the efficacy of a PBS intervention.

2. Positive Strategies for Students with Behavior Problems – Daniel Crimmins, Anne Farrell, Philip Smith, & Alison Bailey

Positive Strategies introduces teachers to the positive strategies method, which helps teachers of K–12 students understand the roots of behavioral problems and encourages students to replace such behaviors with better alternatives.

This book and the strategies explored within may be particularly helpful for students for whom the previous book’s PBS techniques have not worked.

With up to 40% of students having an adverse childhood experience, it is imperative for teachers to be aware of and practice trauma-informed pedagogies (Brunzell et al., 2019).

This is where positive education comes into play. Perhaps the following books could be used in professional development or a schoolwide book study.

1. Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference – Jeffrey Buller

Positive Academic Leadership includes practical guidelines targeted at academic leaders, such as principals, deans, and faculty members.

The advice in this book is drawn from findings in neuroscience, psychology, management, organizational behavior, and a host of other fields.

Its focus is to help academic leaders improve faculty, staff, and students’ morale through changes to their communication, strategic orientation, and perspective.

2. Positive Education: The Geelong Grammar School Journey – Jacolyn Norrish

This book follows the inspiring story of an Australian school that radically applied the science of positive psychology to prioritize the welfare and health of its students in the cultivation of a groundbreaking positive education program.

With a foreword from the father of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, the book tells the story of Geelong Grammar School, a hallmark example of positive psychology’s power for bettering the wellbeing of students, teachers, and the broader community.

3. Playful Learning: Develop Your Child’s Sense of Joy and Wonder – Mariah Bruehl

Mariah Bruehl gives teachers and parents ideas to design thoughtfully planned learning experiences that tap into children’s natural inclination to play and discover.

All the activities explored throughout the book are hands-on, fun, and easy to implement and draw on positive psychology principles to support the development of cognitive and creative skills for children aged 4–8.

Teaching is hard, and teacher burnout is a genuine problem for many professionals. Burnout is described as psychosocial stress experienced by individuals in high-risk professions.

Believe it or not, teaching is considered a high-risk profession because of the “high impact of occupational risk factors on educators’ mental health” (Safiye et al., 2023, p. 2). We hope the following books will help reignite your passion for teaching.

1. Teaching That Changes Lives: 12 Mindset Tools for Igniting the Love of Learning – Marilee Adams

Marilee Adams created a practical guide for teachers to ignite a “learner mindset” among their students, enabling them to make an authentic difference in their lives.

Following the story of Emma, a sixth-grade teacher on the verge of resigning, this innovative and practical guide applies the principles of positive psychology to help teachers transform their classrooms and inspire their students’ love for learning.

2. A Moment for Teachers: Self-Care for Busy Teachers – Alice Langholt

Teachers give their all to their profession and often have very little time for anything else.

This resource is helpful because it could be used as a 30-second daily ritual. If practiced regularly, the strategies in this book could help you gain more presence, patience, confidence, and happiness. You could also share many of these techniques with your students.

If you aren’t already convinced, positive education promotes students’ happiness, wellbeing, and academic achievement (Alam, 2022).

As part of the positive education movement, positive discipline, positive reinforcement , and behavior management are critical elements in the classroom. Please enjoy the following list of books to help you get started with these components.

Positive discipline

Positive discipline is a modern approach that encourages individuals to become mannerly and responsible in their societies (Somayeh et al., 2013). Further, it supports encouragement and mutual respect, which lend themselves well to the positive education movement.

1. Assertive Discipline: Positive Behavior Management for Today’s Classroom – Lee Canter

Lee Canter’s book contains field-tested strategies to support teachers looking to manage classroom behavior better.

Applying a real-time coaching framework, this book will guide teachers to become effective classroom managers, develop a motivating classroom discipline plan, and support challenging students.

2. Positive Discipline in the Classroom: Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom – Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott

This book draws on time-tested research in the field of positive discipline to improve children’s academic outcomes and strengthen trust between students and their educators.

Among the topics explored are respectful communication, solution-oriented approaches to bullying , and strategies to encourage students’ efforts (other than praise or reward).

The fourth edition of this book also has advice to help teachers navigate the new digital distractions that battle for students’ attention in the classroom.

You can buy the book online from Amazon , and if you’re interested, check out the other titles in the Positive Discipline series.

Positive reinforcement

Positive reinforcement is more than just a tangible reward. It could include verbal praise, speaking highly of a child to another adult, extra privileges, fist bumps, or high fives.

Contrary to reactive responses, which could cause teachers to lose hundreds of hours of instruction each year, positive reinforcement is proactive (Wills et al., 2019).

1. How to Raise Disciplined and Happy Children: Mastering the Power of Positive Reinforcement – Jerry Adams

Developed as a quick reference from child psychologist Jerry Adams’s class, this text describes his comprehensive strategy for guiding children to meet expectations and develop the age-appropriate self-discipline necessary for building solid self-esteem, an internal sense of security, and overall happiness.

Although this book is intended for parents, educators could also benefit from these strategies.

2. Motivate the Unmotivated –  Rob Plevin

If you are finding traditional rewards of stickers, certificates, and reward charts ineffective, you may want to pick up this book.

Also developed from a training program, this book lays out a step-by-step plan to motivate those who are difficult to motivate.

Included in this book are hundreds of actionable strategies you could implement tomorrow, downloadable bonus training materials, and printable resources.

Behavior management

Behavior management is critical upon stepping into the classroom. Effective classroom management results in a safe, productive, and effective learning environment and may positively influence teacher retention (Stevenson et al., 2020).

Please refer to these books to accrue additional tools for your behavior management tool belt.

1. Building Positive Behavior Support Systems in Schools: Functional Behavioral Assessment – Deanne Crone, Leanne Hawken, & Robert Horner

This book is a useful blueprint for meeting the challenges of the 1% to 5% of children pre-K–8 who display severe behavioral problems.

Using clearly outlined, step-by-step procedures, this book walks teachers through a functional behavioral assessment.

The process identifies students who need additional support, shows how to design the implementation of behavior support plans, and evaluates these plans’ efficacy.

2. Mindfulness in the Classroom: An Evidence-Based Program to Reduce Disruptive Behavior and Increase Academic Engagement – Joshua Felver & Nirbhay Singh

This book provides evidence-based strategies rooted in mindfulness to help educators teach students how to manage emotions and stay on task.

Containing useful supplementary worksheets and handouts, this book does more than reduce disruptive behavior in the classroom. It also seeks to improve the long-term outcomes of students, helping them to reach their potential and thrive well into their adult years.

In addition to the excellent selection of books, you might want to delve into a few quick reads to boost your career as an educator.

• A Look at Educational Coaching in the Classroom
• Building Intrinsic Motivation in Students: 29 Classroom Tools
• Applying Positive Psychology in Schools & Education: Your Ultimate Guide
• How to Practice Self-Care: 10+ Worksheets and 12 Ideas

Here is a worksheet that can assist you in your classroom. It guides you in understanding how best to get your classroom’s attention: Classical Conditioning & Your Classroom .

Learning From My Work is another great worksheet that encourages children to evaluate their own performance on homework and projects and thereby learn from their mistakes.

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Through the application of positive psychology interventions, positive education has resulted in significant progress toward fostering student wellbeing (Allison et al., 2021; Safiye et al., 2023).

Positive education is so effective because it is not a reactionary approach; it is a preventative approach. Positive education is changing the way we teach and resulting in more positive outcomes. It comes as no surprise how critical positive education is for our children.

Do you have additional positive education resources you’d like to share? Any favorite inspirational teaching books? Feel free to include them in the comments below!

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Help remind the educator in your life why they entered the ' noble profession ' of teaching. This book is loaded with inspirational and humorous stories that highlight the joys and rewards of teaching without ignoring the realities of the job.

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When people ask me what I do for a living, it is interesting to hear their reaction to my answer. In fact, many people pity teachers for their 'low-reward' jobs. Worse, some even blame teachers for all the ills in society. This book reveals the extraordinary effects that teachers have.

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Summer is a time for recharging, but it can also be a time for professional development. The following is a list of books with the lifelong learner in mind. There’s a little something for everyone – books on classroom management, talking about race, improving literacy, teaching during the digital age, and more. Most professional development books are written with all grade levels and subject areas in mind, but the more targeted books have been noted in the descriptions. 

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1. The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity

by George Couros

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Couros posits that students first enter schools curious and full of wonder. He suggests that traditional models of education, with scripted and scheduled curriculum, kill this natural innovative mindset students bring to school. Instead of valuing compliance, Couros writes, students should be taught to cultivate an innovative mind. In order to do this, educators must also become innovative thinkers – and this book shows you how. 

2. Teaching with Intention: Defining Beliefs, Aligning Practice, Taking Action, K-5 

by Debbie Miller

Author and teacher Debbie Miller believes that intentional, effective teaching can only occur when an educator has a strong set of intentional beliefs that outlines their education philosophy. In Teaching with Intention , the author shows readers how to deliberately define these beliefs and then how to align those beliefs with classroom instruction. 

3. Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers

by Tom Romano

Tom Romano is passionate about using multigenre papers, in which students demonstrate their knowledge of a subject by writing in multiple genres. He breaks down the process of writing such a paper with concrete instructions and examples that span from upper elementary to high school. The multigenre format is ideal for any teacher who assigns essays or research papers. 

4. Teaching When the World is on Fire

by Lisa Delpit

Delpit knows that tackling difficult topics in the classroom is, well, difficult. But, an effective educator can’t shy away from politics, current events such as Black Lives Matter, issues of sexual assault in the media, and more. These are part of the world we live in, and Delpit believes that an effective educator knows how to address these delicate topics in the classroom in a constructive way. She brings together the voices of experts and writes a book that can be used K-12.

5. An Urgency of Teachers: The Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy

by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris

This is a collection of essays in which the authors explore the world of online learning. Sometimes, it’s a critique of a system that turns a teacher into nothing more than a proctor. Sometimes, it’s an exploration into ways in which digital technologies can enhance our practices. 

6. Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

by John Warner

College writing teacher John Warner notes that, bluntly, today’s college kids cannot write. They can apply a formula like the five-paragraph essay but gone from their writing is the vigor and creativity and verve that should indicate a student grappling to communicate new knowledge. He includes a blueprint for fixing what he believes ails the system. 

7. Digital Citizenship in Action: Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities

by Kristen Mattson

In Digital Citizenship , Mattson writes that the most powerful aspect of digital learning of often overlooked – that of the community it can help build. She encourages educators to leverage today’s modern technology to teach social justice and work toward equity.

8. unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

While this is not strictly a professional development book for teachers, unSpun is nevertheless essential reading. In it, the creators of FactCheck.org teach readers how to separate out fact from fiction, how to identify misinformation on the internet. In an era when we will be returning to school amidst a presidential election and a pandemic, unSpun is a helpful classroom tool.

9. Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator

by Dave Burgess

While there isn’t the swashbuckling that could be expected from the title (PIRATE is an acronym), Burgess walks readers through his teaching methods. Burgess, who was a high school social studies teacher before becoming a full-time education speaker, writes his book like a motivational speech. There are lots to “pump you up,” along with some ideas for teaching hooks, and brainstorming ideas to help boost your creativity. Secondary ELA, social studies, and foreign language teachers will get the most out of this book. 

10. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood … and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

by Christopher Emdin

Christopher Emdin writes first about his experience growing up as a young person of color. He writes about how he felt invisible in his schools. Then, he applies this perspective plus decades of award-winning teaching and gives readers practical advice about how to teach in urban schools. 

11. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

by Zaretta Hammond

In Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain , author Zaretta Hammond applies neuroscientific research to the concept of culturally responsive teaching. She includes ten “key moves” for teachers to make to help students in today’s culturally diverse classrooms. 

12. Vintage Innovation: Leveraging Retro Tools and Classic Ideas to Design Deeper Learning Experiences

by John Spencer

This book defines innovation as “better as different” as opposed to “new and flashy.” The author makes a clear case that teachers should compose their toolkits from teaching strategies that work, whether those strategies are vintage or cutting-edge. He shows teachers how to field test new strategies, too. 

13. An Educators Guide to STEAM

by Cassie Quigley and Danielle Herro

This book is geared toward K-8 classrooms and examines the world of STEAM (as opposed to STEM ). The authors include ample examples of STEAM at work in the classroom and include the perspective of many experts in the field. 

14. 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

by Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher

Gallagher and Kittle are both award-winning, veteran language arts teachers, but they teach in dramatically different schools. Gallagher teaches in California; Kittle in New Hampshire. They collaborate for a year to find the best literacy practices that work for all students. This book is the result of the year of collaboration. 

15. Cultivating Genius

by Gholdy Muhammad

Muhammad approaches literacy from an equity lens, applying a framework she calls Historically Responsive Literacy. She writes about the ways in which an equitable education benefits all students, not just those who are marginalized. It spans grade levels and is ideal for any teacher interested in equity. 

16. Fostering Resilient Learners: A Trauma-Sensitive Classroom

by Kristin Souers and Pete Hall

New research has emerged this decade showing the profound impact trauma has on both social-emotional well-being and learning. The authors of this book show teachers – across grade levels and content areas – how to foster a trauma-sensitive learning environment. 

17. If You Don’t Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students

by Neila A. Connors

If you’re an administrator or school leader, this is the book for you. It’s certainly on the lighter side of professional development, but it offers school principals suggestions for making sure their teachers feel appreciated.

18. Not Light But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

by Mathew R. Kay

After this summer’s sweeping cultural change brought about by Black Lives Matter activists, conversations about race will (and should) come up in classrooms of all levels. Mathew R. Kay guides educators through these sometimes-tough conversations.

19. Make or Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time

by Emily Krone Phillips

Phillips writes that more than one F during freshmen year dramatically increases a student’s chances of dropping out. In this book, the author looks at how one school in Chicago – Hancock High School – restructured itself to help freshmen navigate the oft-tumultuous first year of high school. The school saw major decreases in dropouts and influenced school structure around the country. 

20. Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management

by Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey

Research supports the effectiveness of classroom management that teaches students to recognize and correct their behavior, a practice known as restorative classroom management. In this book, the authors examine the research and demonstrate how it is more effective over time than the usual positive/negative reinforcement model most teachers learned to employ. 

21. The First Days of School

by Harry Wong and Rosemary T. Wong

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The First Days of School is a classic that could be worth revisiting this summer in preparation for the fall. In this book, the authors make an argument that good classroom management depends not on discipline but on teaching structure and routine at the beginning of the year. Due to COVID-19, many of our routines will change and students will need to be taught new expectations. The First Days of School can help. 

22. I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids

by Kyle Schwartz

Third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz stumbled across one question that changed the way she teaches – she asked her students to fill in the blank: “I wish my teacher knew __________.” She was shocked at the insight she gained, and immediately the hashtag #IWishMyTeacherKnew was born. 

23. Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education

by Thich Nhat Hanh and Katherine Weare

Basic practices taught by Thich Nhat Hanh are enumerated here and applied to classrooms. This book spans the gamut from preschool to higher education. It starts with the idea that teachers must first establish their own mindfulness practice to then cultivate mindfulness in their students. 

24. The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

by Donalyn Miller

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Donalyn Miller writes a handbook to help middle school teachers turn their students into voracious readers. She offers practical tips and many examples from her own experience. Her follow-up book Reading in the Wild is equally worth picking up.

25. Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

by Penny Kittle 

Penny Kittle breaks down how she teaches, assigns, and grades writing using a portfolio model. The backbone of her teaching practice is the fact that she writes with her students, using her own writing to model the revision process. 

26. Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters

by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst

In Disrupting Thinking , the authors examine why students often check out of reading assignments. They suggest this has to do with the fact that educators have misrepresented the way we use reading in our own lives. They present hands-on ideas that can be used to increase student engagement in literacy across grade levels and subject areas. 

27. The New Art and Science of Teaching

by Robert Marzano

Teachers may be familiar with Marzano’s The Art and Science of Teaching , which focuses on teacher outcomes. This new version contains 50 “new strategies for instructional success” designed to improve student outcomes in the classroom. He defines three instructional principles to optimize student learning: first, students must have their basic needs met. Then, students must receive meaningful feedback that follows masterful content instruction. 

28. Raising the Rigor

by Eileen Depka

This is a book about questioning techniques. The author shows teachers how to use questioning to differentiate instruction in order to respond to the diverse needs of our students. She uses many examples to illustrate her main ideas and includes checklists, surveys, and templates for immediate classroom use. 

29. How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms

by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Differentiated instruction recognizes that students learn in different ways at different rates. As today’s classrooms become more diverse, differentiated instruction is more important than ever. This book is a practical guide to how to implement this philosophy in the classroom. 

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What you do matters.

You may not hear it often (or ever), but if you’re an educator, you’re making a difference in the lives of learners. And that impact has a domino effect.

In Because of a Teacher , more than fifteen of today’s leading educators remember the teachers and administrators who inspired and supported their careers. Through a series of heartfelt and uplifting stories, they reflect on their early years teaching, offering advice and strategies suited to first-year teachers and longtime educators alike.

These personal stories offer hope for new teachers, encouragement for educators tiptoeing into burnout, and reassurance that the work you’re doing right now will inspire generations to come.

Because of a Teacher will inspire you to

• remember those who encouraged your love of learning;
• honor and thank educators who have advocated for you, championed your career, and equipped you with the skills necessary to lead;
• reflect on how far you’ve come since you entered the profession.

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“Whether you are in your first year of teaching or nearing your last, Because of a Teacher will remind you why you went into education in the first place and help us all focus on what is really important: the legacy we will leave with the students and staff we are blessed to work with.”

—Allyson Apsey, principal and author of The Path to Serendipity

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—Morgane Michael, educational consultant and author of From Burnt Out to Fired Up!

“ Because of a Teacher is filled with voices from the field who remind us of the impact we can make with all students, even on our toughest days. If you are looking for an inspiring read to remind you why you went into the profession, this book is it.”

—Jimmy Casas, educator, author, speaker, and leadership coach

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Thomas c. murray.

Thomas C. Murray serves as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education, located in Washington, DC. He has testified before the United States Congress and works alongside that body and the US Senate, the White House, the US Department of Education and state departments of education, corporations, and school districts throughout the country to implement student-centered, personalized learning while helping to lead Future Ready and Digital Learning Day. Murray serves as a regular conference keynote, was named one of “20 to Watch” by NSBA, the “Education Policy Person of the Year” by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and “Education Thought Leader of the Year” in 2017. His ASCD best-selling book, Learning Transformed, was released in 2017, and his latest book, Personal & Authentic, was released in October 2019. Connect with him at thomascmurray.com or @thomascmurray.

George Couros

George Couros is a leading educator in the area of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning. He has worked with all levels of school, from K-12 as a teacher, technology facilitator and as a school and district administrator. He is a sought after speaker on the topic of innovative student learning and engagement and has worked with schools and organizations around the globe.

Although George is a leader in the area of innovation, his focus is always the development of leadership and people and what is best for learners. His belief that meaningful change happens when you first connect to people's hearts is modeled in his writing and speaking. You can connect with George on his blog, "The Principal of Change" (located at georgecouros.ca) or through Twitter and Instagram (@gcouros).

Amber Teamann

Amber Teamann is the proud principal of Whitt Elementary in Wylie ISD in Wylie, Texas. During her educational career, Amber’s comprehensive understanding of student learning has resulted in a successful blend of technology and teaching. From a 4th grade teacher at a public school technology center, to her role as a Title I Technology Facilitator responsible for 17 campuses, Amber has helped students and staff navigate their digital abilities and responsibilities. She transformed the way information is shared in one of the largest school districts in Texas by piloting a communication initiative that launched Twitter, and led to 100-percent campus participation. Through her campus level leadership, she has helped initiate classroom change district wide, empowering teachers at all levels through digital initiatives.

Amber has received numerous awards, including Regional Assistant Principal of the Year and a “Principal of the Year” engagement award. She recently was recognized as the Dallas Down Syndrome Educator of the Year for her work with inclusivity on her campus. TCEA honored her as a state finalist for “Administrator of the Year”. She also partnered with George Couros to develop and curate leadership with the “School Admin Virtual Mentoring Project”, which connected over 400 educators worldwide in a digital space that nurtured and cultivated leadership. She was a contributing author for “Education Write Now“, on changing the way you think about leadership. Through her state organization, TEPSA, she has shared in numerous webinars, articles, and conferences with administrators at all levels.

Amber has also co-created a space on Facebook, for principals, by principals that shares staff appreciation and motivation ideas, tips and tricks to ensure the well being of a campus staff. With over 5000 members, it has become a collaborative space where administrators are able to connect, be renewed and feel as if taking care of their people is a FUN and easy thing to do. A second group focuses on Principal Productivity.

Having keynoted several events, she is passionate about inspiring innovation through her experiences and impetus for student success in a digitally full world. Amber speaks nationally at educational conferences, including Digital Learning Day in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education in Washington DC. She also developed and led the inaugural Region X Digital Fluency Academy for Administrators, supporting her favorite quote, “The smartest person in the room IS the room.” Amber knows we can all be better together and strives to make every day the very best it can be for each member of her staff and students.

In addition to blogging for Connected Principals, she is a firm believer in modeling a digital footprint. Her educational philosophy and digital portfolio can be found at “TECHnically yours, Teamann” or on twitter, @8amber8. She also showcases #allthethings on Instagram.

Dr. Katie Martin

Katie Martin is Chief Impact Officer at Learner-Centered Collaborative. She works with a growing network of districts and schools to support the shift from school-centered to learner-centered models of education that enable all students to reach their potential. She has also served as a middle school English language arts teacher, instructional coach, and led the district's new teacher mentoring program.

Katie has a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in middle school education and her Ph.D. specialized in new teacher induction and ongoing support to impact teacher efficacy and effectiveness. As a leader, teacher, and speaker, Katie’s experience in research and practice continues to guide her belief that if we want to change how students learn, we must change how educators learn. As a mom, she wants her kids to have learning experiences in school that build on their strengths and interests, and as an educator; she is passionate about making sure we do the same for all kids.

Mary Hemphill

Mary Hemphill, Ph.D. is a leadership expert and coach, K-12 educator and administrator, and inspirational speaker. She is the Director of Academic Standards at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Dr. Hemphill holds a Ph.D. in leadership studies from North Carolina A&T State University and a master’s degree in school administration from Western Carolina University. She is the CEO of The Limitless Lady, LLC and founder of The Limitless Leader, a company that helps individuals ignite the leader within so they can better serve their community, company, and personal career.

Jody Carrington

Dr. Jody Carrington is a clinical psychologist, speaker, author, and gamechanger. As a child psychologist, she has assessed, treated, educated, and empowered some of the most vulnerable and precious souls on the planet: our kids. After 15 years, she believes to her core that the ones who hold our kids - our educators and parents - are our biggest game changers. Her mission is to shift the way educators think and feel about the hold work they do, and to refocus all of us on supporting them in that work.

Lainie Rowell

Lainie Rowell is a bestselling author, award-winning educator, and TEDx speaker. She is dedicated to human flourishing focusing on community building, social emotional learning, and honoring what makes each of us unique and dynamic through learner-driven design. She earned her degree in psychology and went on to earn postgraduate degrees in education. As an international keynoter and a consultant, Lainie’s client list ranges from Fortune 100 companies like Apple and Google to school districts and independent schools.

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During her more than 25 years in education, Lainie has taught elementary, secondary, and higher education. She also served in a district-level leadership position supporting 22,000 students and 1,200 teachers at 33 schools.

She is the author of Evolving with Gratitude, the lead author of Evolving Learner, and a contributing-author of Because of a Teacher. Her latest, Bold Gratitude: The Journal Designed for You & By You, is an innovative and interactive gratitude journal that empowers individuals of all ages to embrace their unique preferences and express gratitude in their own way.

As a keynoter and TEDx Speaker, she has more than 15 years experience presenting at local, regional, and international conferences including Learning and the Brain, Learning Forward, the CISC Leadership Symposium, the California MTSS Professional Learning Institute, IDEAcon, and the Digital Learning Annual Conference (DLAC).

Lainie’s work has been highlighted in many publications, including Edutopia, ASCD K-12 Leadership SmartBrief, Getting Smart, and PBS NewsHour.

Learn more about Lainie at LainierRowell.com and see highlights of her work at Linktr.ee/LainieRowell. You can also subscribe to her newsletter at LainieRowell.com/subscribe.

Deidre Roemer

Deidre Roemer has served as the Director of Leadership and Learning for the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District since 2016. She has been with WAWM since 2005 as a teacher, instructional coach, and the Coordinator of Special Education. Prior to WAWM, Deidre worked in Lakeville, MN, Des Moines, IA, Milwaukee, WI, Kapolei, HI, and Waukegan, IL as a teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree from UW Madison, her Master’s from Aurora University, and endorsements for the Director of Pupil Services, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and Superintendent from Cardinal Stritch University. She serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and is also the proud mother of three amazing children and a great dog.

Livia Chan is an author and educator passionate about community, teaching, leading with her heart, and lifelong daily learning. She truly believes in the power of connection and thoroughly enjoys building relationships by reaching out with kindness and gratitude. Livia lives by the belief that it is through every interaction that we have the opportunity to intentionally uplift others with kindness and gratitude; we can make a difference in their lives by brightening their day.

For over 20 years, Livia has continued to experience the joy of teaching in the Greater Vancouver area in BC, Canada and loves her dual role as a Head Teacher and classroom teacher. Previously, she served on the District Staff Development Team in Learning Technologies supporting K-12 educators. Currently, Livia is honored to be the Digital Content Coordinator for the Teach Better Team and loves being a part of this family. Her motto is “Working together to better ourselves, each other, and the world around us.”

Meghan Lawson

Meghan Lawson is a thought leader who studies and implements the conditions and systems needed for transformational change. She is a lover of learning who believes in the goodness of people. Meghan promotes storytelling, the exchange of ideas, and risk-taking. She is passionate about disrupting the status quo and creating kinder, forward-thinking communities of action. Meghan is also intensely curious about how to enhance the customer experience in schools. Meghan began her career in the English Language Arts classroom. So, inevitably, her mantra is Words Matter. Meghan has worked in all levels of K-12 education as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, district administrator, and educational consultant.

Lauren Kaufman

Lauren Kaufman is a district leader, currently serving as the Director of Literacy K-12 for a school district in Long Island, New York. With nearly two decades in education, she has served as an assistant principal, elementary instructional coach, an elementary and middle school reading specialist, new teacher mentor coordinator K-12, creativity camp enrichment program supervisor, and a 2nd and 5th-grade classroom teacher.

Lauren is a lifelong learner whose professional passion is to empower teachers to lead so they can share their gifts with others and develop lifelong literacy practices in all learners. She has led teams developing 73 Units of Study in reading and writing K-5, has provided educators with job-embedded professional learning that supported a comprehensive approach to literacy and guided new teachers with acclimating to the culture and climate of a school system. She has organized Long Beach Literacy Day and has presented at local and national conferences including, ASCD, NCTE, #LBLit, LIASCD, Long Island Technology Summit, Reading Specialists Council of Suffolk, Long Island Language Arts Council, #NerdcampLI, and Literacy Matters Conferences.

Lauren enjoys sharing her learning through blogging on her own platform, is a contributing author in George Couros' book Because of a Teacher, Lainie Rowell's book Evolving With Gratitude, IGI Global's Designing Effective Distance and Blended Learning Environments K-12, is an author for Edutopia, and a guest blogger for the Teach Better Team, Future Ready Schools, and Defined. Lauren appreciates sharing best literacy practices with colleagues, and wholeheartedly believes in developing powerful professional learning communities and networks that cultivate meaningful, relevant learning and growth.

Dwight Carter

Dwight Carter is a nationally recognized school leader from Central OH and has been an educator for 27 years. Because of his collaborative and innovative leadership, in 2010, he was inducted into the Jostens Renaissance Educator Hall of Fame. He was also named a 2013 National Association of Secondary School Principals Digital Principal of the Year, the 2014 Academy of Arts and Science Education High School Principal of the Year, the 2015 Ohio Alliance of Black School Educators Principal of the Year, and a 2021 Columbus Afrocentric Early College Sankofa Emerging Leader Award winner. He is currently the Director of Student Support Systems for the Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools District.

He is the co-author of three books: What’s In Your Space? Five Steps to Better School and Classroom Design (Corwin, 2015), Leading Schools in Disruptive Times: How to Survive Hyper-change (Corwin 2017), and the second edition of Leading Schools in Disruptive Times (Corwin, 2021. Additionally, he has contributed to several educational books and articles.

Stephanie Rothstein

Stephanie Rothstein is an Educational Leader focused on making education more collaborative and less competitive. She advocates for modeling the risks we expect of our students and shared about this in her TedX Talk “My Year of Yes to Me” published on Ted.com. She currently serves at the EdTech TOSA for the Santa Clara Unified School District (K-12).

Her continuous love of learning led her to become a Google Innovator, Trainer, and Coach. She is the co-founder of GlobalGEG, creator of CanWeTalkEDU, and author of numerous articles published on Edutopia and her own blog. She speaks at educational conferences around the world and was named CUE’s Teacher of the Year for 2021.

Please connect on Twitter and Instagram @StephRothEDU, or her website www.stephrothedu.com.

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The 50 great books on education

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I have often argued that I would not let any teacher into a school unless – as a minimum – they had read, carefully and well, the three great books on education: Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Émile and Dewey’s Democracy and Education. There would be no instrumental purpose in this, but the struggle to understand these books and the thinking involved in understanding them would change teachers and ultimately teaching.

These are the three great books because each is sociologically whole. They each present a description and arguments for an education for a particular and better society. You do not have to agree with these authors. Plato’s tripartite education for a just society ruled over by philosopher kings; Rousseau’s education through nature to establish the social contract and Dewey’s relevant, problem-solving democratic education for a democratic society can all be criticised. That is not the point. The point is to understand these great works. They constitute the intellectual background to any informed discussion of education.

What of more modern works? I used to recommend the “blistering indictment” of the flight from traditional liberal education that is Melanie Phillips’s All Must Have Prizes, to be read alongside Tom Bentley’s Learning Beyond the Classroom: Education for a Changing World, which is a defence of a wider view of learning for the “learning age”. These two books defined the debate in the 1990s between traditional education by authoritative teachers and its rejection in favour of a new learning in partnership with students.

Much time and money is spent on teacher training and continuing professional development and much of it is wasted. A cheaper and better way of giving student teachers and in-service teachers an understanding of education would be to get them to read the 50 great works on education.

The books I have identified, with the help of members of the Institute of Ideas’ Education Forum, teachers and colleagues at several universities, constitute an attempt at an education “canon”.

What are “out” of my list are textbooks and guides to classroom practice. What are also “out” are novels and plays. But there are some great literary works that should be read by every teacher: Charles Dicken’s Hard Times – for Gradgrind’s now much-needed celebration of facts; D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow – for Ursula Brangwen’s struggle against her early child-centred idealism in the reality of St Philips School; and Alan Bennett’s The History Boys – for Hector’s role as the subversive teacher committed to knowledge.

I hope I have produced a list of books, displayed here in alphabetical order, that are held to be important by today’s teachers. I make no apology for including the book I wrote with Kathryn Ecclestone, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education because it is an influential critical work that has produced considerable controversy. If you disagree with this, or any other of my choices, please add your alternative “canonical” books on education.

Michael W. Apple – Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (1993)

Hannah Arendt – Between Past and Future (1961), for the essay “The Crisis in Education” (1958)

Matthew Arnold – Culture and Anarchy (1867-9)

Robin Barrow – Giving Teaching Back to the Teachers (1984)

Tom Bentley – Learning Beyond The Classroom: Education for a Changing World (1998)

Allan Bloom – The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987)

Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron – Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1977)

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis – Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life (1976)

Jerome Bruner – The Process of Education (1960)

John Dewey – Democracy and Education (1916)

Margaret Donaldson – Children’s Minds (1978)

JWB Douglas – The Home and the School (1964)

Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes – The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (2008)

Harold Entwistle – Antonio Gramsci: Conservative Schooling for Radical Politics (1979).

Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968/1970)

Frank Furedi – Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating (2009)

Helene Guldberg – Reclaiming Childhood (2009)

ED Hirsch Jnr. – The Schools We Need And Why We Don’t Have Them (1999)

Paul H Hirst – Knowledge and the Curriculum (1974) For the essay which appears as Chapter 3 ‘Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge’ (1965)

John Holt – How Children Fail (1964)

Eric Hoyle – The Role of the Teacher (1969)

James Davison Hunter – The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age without Good or Evil (2000)

Ivan Illich – Deschooling Society (1971)

Nell Keddie (Ed.) – Tinker, Taylor: The Myth of Cultural Deprivation (1973)

John Locke – Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1692)

John Stuart Mill – Autobiography (1873)

Sybil Marshall – An Experiment in Education (1963)

Alexander Sutherland Neil – Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (1960)

John Henry Newman – The Idea of a University (1873)

Michael Oakeshott – The Voice of Liberal Learning (1989) In particular for the essay “Education: The Engagement and Its Frustration” (1972)

Anthony O’ Hear – Education, Society and Human Nature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1981)

Richard Stanley Peters – Ethics and Education (1966)

Melanie Phillips – All Must Have Prizes (1996)

Plato – The Republic (366BC?)

Plato – Protagoras (390BC?) and Meno (387BC?)

Neil Postman – The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995)

Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner – Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)

Herbert Read – Education Through Art (1943)

Carl Rogers – Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become (1969)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Émile or “on education” (1762)

Bertrand Russell – On Education (1926)

Israel Scheffler – The Language of Education (1960)

Brian Simon – Does Education Matter? (1985) Particularly for the paper “Why No Pedagogy in England?” (1981)

JW Tibble (Ed.) – The Study of Education (1966)

Lev Vygotsky – Thought and Language (1934/1962)

Alfred North Whitehead – The Aims of Education and other essays (1929)

Paul E. Willis – Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (1977)

Alison Wolf – Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth (2002)

Michael FD Young (Ed) – Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education (1971)

Michael FD Young – Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education (2007)

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Table of Contents

1. the innovator’s mindset: empower learning, unleash talent, and learn a culture of creativity – george couros.

• 2. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good Habits And Break Bad Ones – James Clear

3. So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence Of Failure In Urban Schools – Charles M Payne 

4. vintage innovation: leveraging retro tools and classic ideas to design deeper learning experiences – john spencer.

• 5. An Educator’s Guide To STEAM: Engaging Students Using Real-World Problems – Cassie F Quigley, Danielle Herro, Deborah Hanuscin
• 6. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brene Brown
• 7. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
• 8. The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change – Adam Braun
• 9. Epiphany: True Stories of Sudden Insight to Inspire, Encourage and Transform, – Elise Ballard

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10. the coddling of the amerian mind: how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure – greg lukianoff, jonathan haidt, 11. the whole-brain child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind – daniel j. siegel, tina payne bryson, 12. the power of place: authentic learning through place-based education – tom vander ark, emily leibtag, nate mcclennen.

• 13. The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life – Chris Guillebeau
• 14. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson
• 15. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are – Brene Brown
• 16. Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution – Derrick Jensen
• 17. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink
• 18. The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact – Michael Fullan

19. Flipping Leadership Doesn’t Mean Reinventing the Wheel – Peter M DeWitt

• 20. Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator – Dave Burgess
• 21. Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools – Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
• 22. Shifting the Monkey: The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers – Todd Whitaker
• 23. The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools – Multiple Authors
• 24. What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most – Todd Whitaker
• 25. The Tech-Savvy Administrator: How do I use technology to be a better school leader? – Steven W. Anderson
• 26. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character – Paul Tough
• 27. Mindsets in the Classroom: Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools – Mary Cay Ricci
• 28. The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students – Daniel Rechtschaffen
• 29. The Way They Learn – Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
• 30. Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom – Daniel T Willingham
• 31. The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child – Richard Lavoie
• 32. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning – Peter C Brown
• 33. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching – Multiple Authors
• 34. Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning – John Hattie
• 35. Design For How People Learn (Voices That Matter) – Julie Dirksen
• 36. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools – Michael B Horn, Heather Staker
• 37. The Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning – Tom D Whitby, Steven W. Anderson
• 38. Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success – Carol Dweck
• 39. School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It – Steve Gruenert, Todd Whitaker
• 40. Shaping School Culture: Pitfalls, Paradoxes, and Promises – Terrence E Deal, Kent D Peterson
• 41. Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School – Andy Hargreaves, Michael Fullan
• 42. Cultures Built to Last – DuFour Richard, Fullan Michael
• 43. The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive And Thrive – Michael Fullan
• 44. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World – Tony Wagner
• 45. Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day – Jonathan Bergmann, Aaron Sams
• 46. Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School – Laura Fleming
• 47. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners – Multiple Authors
• 48. Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner – Persida & William Himmele
• 49. Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns – Multiple Authors
• 50. Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding – Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins
• 51. The Understanding by Design Guide Set (2 Books)– Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe
• 52. Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty – Elizabeth F Barkley
• 53. Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools That Are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever – Vicki Davis
• 54. Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom – Sylvia Libow Martinez, Gary S Stager

More Professional Development Books and Educator Books For Teachers Reading List

There are a LOT of great books for teachers out there. Picking just fifty is no easy feat, but we’ve done our best to cover the best books for teachers from five different angles .

All of these are exceptional reads for teachers. They are in no particular order ; number one’s content is just as significant a teacher resource as number fifty. So, take a browse through the list or jump directly to your area of interest as a teacher, whether it’s inspiration, mindfulness, leadership ways, classroom management, improved student outcomes, teaching, learning culture, or educational psychology.

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One of our favorite professional development books for teachers, The Innovator’s Mindset, contains numerous practical examples of innovative leadership. George Couros encourages any school teacher and administrator to shape students’ natural curiosity by empowering them to question and explore. Innovation starts at the top; this book shows educators how to become innovative thinkers. 

2. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good Habits And Break Bad Ones –  James Clear

While not strictly a professional development book, it is one of my favorite books for teachers. In Atomic Habits, world-renowned habits expert James Clear explains how small changes can transform a teacher’s life and impact student learning and student behavior. This practical book reveals simple life hacks and explains why they form good habits and break bad ones.  

In this book, Charles M Payne vividly portrays the weakness of the social infrastructure and daily realities in today’s urban schools. However, the last decade has brought hope with insights into the causes of school failure and how some schools succeeded in improving.

John Spencer’s professional development books answer questions real teachers have about being innovative in the classroom without the best technology, spark creativity within constraints, and how to use vintage tools and approaches in new ways. Vintage Innovation shows the relevance for teachers to look back and forward, using timeless skills and strategies in new ways. 

5. An Educator’s Guide To STEAM: Engaging Students Using Real-World Problems –  Cassie F Quigley, Danielle Herro, Deborah Hanuscin

An Educator’s Guide to STEAM is a practical book to help K-8 grade teachers understand STEAM. The conceptual model illustrates key STEAM teaching aspects like integrating STEAM content and the correct teaching environment. One of the best STEAM-related professional development books for teachers, this book also offers strategies and elements of connected learning to help learners connect STEAM to real-world issues. 

6. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brene Brown

In Daring Greatly, Dr. Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability. Based on twelve years of research, she argues that vulnerability is not weakness but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection. Understanding these concepts can help a teacher in teaching learners and classroom management.

7. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica

The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve their highest levels. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility.

8. The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change – Adam Braun

The riveting New York Times bestseller is about a young man who built more than 250 schools worldwide—and the steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The Promise of a Pencil chronicles Braun’s journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn their most significant ambitions into reality. An inspiring book to add to the reading list of professional development books for teachers.

9. Epiphany: True Stories of Sudden Insight to Inspire, Encourage and Transform, – Elise Ballard

Have you ever experienced an epiphany, a life-changing moment, or a realization? Elise Ballard has, and she was so stunned by its effect on her life that she started asking others if they had ever experienced these kinds of breakthroughs.

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First Amendment expert Greg Lukianhoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt make a case for how three terrible ideas in childhood education are the origins of new problem trends on college campuses. The three untruths are: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker, Always trust your feelings, and Life is a battle between good people and evil people. Embracing these untruths has a negative influence on the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children, hence poor school discipline and relationships. According to them, cognitive behavioral psychology (CBT) has tools to evaluate and rectify these situations. Excellent reading material for teachers, parents, and mainstream society concerned about a generation setup for trauma and failure. 

Teachers are lifelong learners, and this book is a great practical book on how to develop healthy brain development in children. New York Times bestsellers, the authors, offer a revolutionary approach to rearing children. Based on the latest neuroscience research on how young children’s right brain emotions rule over their logical left brain, they offer 12 key age-appropriate strategies to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development. According to the authors, the brain is “under construction” until a child is in their mid-twenties. This is a recommended reading not just for parents and new teachers in elementary education but for all teachers with a passion for teaching; an excellent.

Placed-based education (PBE) is adaptable learning anytime and anywhere where learning leverages the power of place for personalized learning. Since birth, children learn from their surroundings, and history shows that before industrialized education, the community was the classroom. Instead of the American classroom becoming an aspect of learning, it became the place where parents send their children to learn. This book provides teacher educators with ideas on how to enhance the benefits of place-based learning in the teaching profession. Another good read to add to parents’ and teachers’ bookshelves.

13. The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life – Chris Guillebeau

A remarkable book, the content, like his other books, will guide and inspire the teacher and students in the classroom. The Happiness of Pursuit reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest. When he set out to visit all of the planet’s countries by age thirty-five, compulsive goal seeker, Chris Guillebeau never imagined that his journey’s biggest revelation would be how many people like himself exist – each pursuing a challenging quest.

14. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson

“It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can turn in two directions. Turn it one way, and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way, and you release resources and give people back to themselves.” Learning to be Creative is one of the best books for teachers to inspire learners and educators to think and act differently toward each other.

15. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are – Brene Brown

In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, a leading expert on shame, authenticity, and belonging, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.

16. Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution – Derrick Jensen

Remember the days of longing for the hands-on classroom clock to move faster? Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hate school. Why is that? This book addresses what happens to creativity and individuality as we pass through the educational system. How can we change our lesson planning to help students retain their love for learning?

17. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction at work, at school, and home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

18. The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact  –  Michael Fullan

One of the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan, explains why the answer isn’t in micro-managing instruction nor autonomous entrepreneurialism. He systematically shows how the principal’s role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in short order, at scale.

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20. Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator  –  Dave Burgess

Based on Dave Burgess’s popular “Outrageous Teaching” and “Teach Like a PIRATE” seminars, this development book offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help the teacher increase student engagement, boost your creativity and transform your life as an educator.

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21. Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools  –  Paul Bambrick-Santoyo

One of the best professional development books for teachers on leadership, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools), shows leaders how to raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or “levers,” allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With an intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment.

22. Shifting the Monkey: The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers  –  Todd Whitaker

Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first and help them shift these monkeys back to the under-performers.

23. The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools  –  Multiple Authors

Why do some leaders double their team’s effectiveness while others seem to drain the energy right out of the room? Using insights from more than 100 interviews with school leaders, this development book pinpoints the five disciplines that define how Multipliers bring out the best across their schools and classroom.

24. What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most  –  Todd Whitaker

In the third edition of this renowned book, you will find pearls of wisdom, heartfelt advice, and inspiration from one of the nation’s leading authorities on staff motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness. With wit and understanding, Todd Whitaker describes the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and interactions of great teachers and explains what they do differently.

25. The Tech-Savvy Administrator: How do I use technology to be a better school leader?  –  Steven W. Anderson

How can school leaders use technology to be more effective? In this professional development book, award-winning blogger and educational technology expert Steven W. Anderson explain how and why leaders should use technology and outlines what should be in every leader’s digital toolkit.

26. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character  –  Paul Tough

How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories—and the stories of the children they are trying to help—Tough reveals how this new knowledge can transform young people’s lives inside and outside the classroom.

27. Mindsets in the Classroom: Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools  –  Mary Cay Ricci

When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they grow to become resilient, successful students. Inspired by the popular mindset idea that hard work and effort can lead to student success, Mindsets in the Classroom provides educators with ideas for building a growth mindset school culture. Learners are challenged to change their thinking about their abilities and potential.

28. The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students  –  Daniel Rechtschaffen

With attention spans waning and stress on the rise, many teachers are looking for new ways to help students concentrate, learn, and thrive. The Way of Mindful Education is a practical guide for cultivating attention, compassion, and well-being in these students and mindfulness in teachers themselves.

29. The Way They Learn  –  Cynthia Ulrich Tobias

Draw out the best in your children—by understanding the way they learn. If you’re frustrated that your child isn’t learning the way you did, chances are they are too! In this practical resource, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias explains that understanding how you learn can make all the difference.

30. Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom  –  Daniel T Willingham

Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom. Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His professional development books will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn.

31. The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child  –  Richard Lavoie

The Motivation Breakthrough explores proven techniques and strategies—based on six possible motivational styles—that will revolutionize the way teachers and parents inspire kids with learning disabilities to succeed and achieve. Backed by decades of experience in the classroom, educator and acclaimed author Rick Lavoie explodes common myths and gives specific advice for motivating children with learning disabilities.

32. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning  –  Peter C Brown

Drawing on cognitive psychology and other fields, Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners and cautions against study habits and practice routines that turn out to be counterproductive. It’s one of those professional development books that speak to students, teachers, trainers, athletes, and all those interested in lifelong learning and self-improvement.

33. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching  –  Multiple Authors

Distilling the research literature and translating the scientific approach into language relevant to college or university, this book for teachers introduces seven general principles of how students learn. The authors have drawn on research from a breadth of perspectives to identify a set of fundamental principles underlying learning, from how effective organization enhances retrieval and use of information to what impacts motivation.

34. Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning  –  John Hattie

Visible Learning for Teachers brings the results of more than fifteen years of research to an entirely new audience. Written for students, pre-service, and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world.

35. Design For How People Learn (Voices That Matter)  –  Julie Dirksen

Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learning. Many of us are also teaching, even when it’s not in our job descriptions. Whether it’s giving a presentation, writing documentation, or creating a website or blog, we need and want to share our knowledge with other people.

36. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools  –  Michael B Horn, Heather Staker

Blended is the practical field guide for implementing blended learning techniques in K-12 classrooms. Readers will find a step-by-step framework to build a more student-centered system, along with essential advice that provides the expertise necessary to make the next generation of K-12 learning environments.

37. The Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning  –  Tom D Whitby, Steven W. Anderson

This information-packed resource from digital experts Anderson and Whitby makes it easy to build a thriving professional network using social media. Easy-to-implement ideas, essential tools, and real-life vignettes help a teacher learn to: Find and choose the best social media tools, products, and communities. Start and grow a collaborative, high-quality PLN using Twitter, blogging, LinkedIn, and more.

38. Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success  –  Carol Dweck

In decades of research on achievement and success, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea of the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success – but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset.

39. School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It  –  Steve Gruenert, Todd Whitaker

Your school is a lot more than a center of student learning–it also represents a self-contained culture with traditions and expectations that reflect its unique mission and demographics. In this groundbreaking book for teachers, education experts Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker offer tools, strategies, and advice for defining, assessing, and ultimately transforming your school’s culture into one that is positive, forward-looking, and actively working to enrich students’ lives.

40. Shaping School Culture: Pitfalls, Paradoxes, and Promises  –  Terrence E Deal, Kent D Peterson

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of their classic book, Shaping School Culture, Terrence Deal and Kent Peterson address the latest thinking on organizational culture and change. They offer new ideas and strategies on how stories, rituals, traditions, and cultural practices create positive, caring, and purposeful schools.

41. Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School  –  Andy Hargreaves, Michael Fullan

Winner of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education! In this latest and most important collaboration, renowned educators Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education.

42. Cultures Built to Last  –  DuFour Richard, Fullan Michael

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students—the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change.

43. The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive And Thrive  –  Michael Fullan

Successful organizations adjust quickly and intelligently to shifts in consumer tastes, political climate, and economic opportunity. How do they do it? The Six Secrets of Change explores essential lessons for business and public sector leaders to thrive in today’s complex environment.

44. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World  –  Tony Wagner

In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators.

45. Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day  –  Jonathan Bergmann, Aaron Sams

It started with a simple observation: students need their teachers present to answer questions or provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don’t need their teachers to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, authors Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom – one of the best professional development books for a modern classroom.

46. Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School  –  Laura Fleming

Get the nuts and bolts on imagining, planning, creating, and managing a cutting-edge Makerspace for your school community. Nationally recognized expert Laura Fleming provides all the answers. From inception through implementation, you’ll find invaluable guidance for creating a vibrant Makerspace on any budget.

47. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners  –  Multiple Authors

Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, a proven program for enhancing students’ thinking and comprehension abilities. Begun at Harvard’s Project Zero, the teaching way develops students’ thinking dispositions while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.

48. Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner  –  Persida & William Himmele

Total Participation Techniques presents dozens of ways to engage K 12 students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and understanding. The book provides easy-to-use alternatives to the stand-and-deliver approach to teaching that causes many students to tune out–or even drop out.

49. Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns  –  Multiple Authors

Filled with fascinating case studies, scientific findings, and unprecedented insights on how innovation must be managed, Disrupting Class will open your eyes to new possibilities, unlock hidden potential, and get you to think differently. Professor Christensen and his coauthors provide a bold new lesson in innovation that will help you make the grade for years to come.

50. Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding  –  Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins

What are essential questions, and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What’s so great about them? Why should a teacher design and use essential questions in your classroom? Essential questions help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful learning.

51. The Understanding by Design Guide Set (2 Books) –  Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe

Unit creation and planning made easy for Understanding by Design novices and veterans alike! Introduction to version 2.0 of the UbD Template is one of the most practical professional development books for teachers. It allows you to download fillable electronic forms to help you more easily incorporate standards, advance your understanding of backward design, and improve student learning.

52. Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty  –  Elizabeth F Barkley

Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students. It includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques proven to help teachers from various disciplines and institutions motivate and connects with their students.

53. Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools That Are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever  –  Vicki Davis

In this much-anticipated book from acclaimed blogger Vicki Davis (Cool Cat Teacher), you’ll learn the key shifts in writing instruction necessary to move students forward in today’s world. Vicki’s book describes how the elements of traditional writing are being reinvented with cloud-based tools.

54. Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom  –  Sylvia Libow Martinez, Gary S Stager

There’s a technological and creative revolution underway. Excellent new tools, materials, and skills turn us all into makers. Using technology to make, repair or customize the things we need brings engineering, design, and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing.

• The Teacher’s Guide To Self-Care: Build Resilience, Avoid Burnout, And Being A Happier And Healthier You To The Classroom – Sarah Frost
• I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything For Our Kids –  Kyle Schwartz
• Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Succes – John C Maxwell and other Professional Development and Leadership Books by John C Maxwell
• Teach Like A Champion 3.0: Techniques That Put Students On The Path To College – Doug Lemov
• Educated: A Memoir –  Tara Westover
• Whole Brain Teaching: 122 Amazing Games!: Challenging Kids, Classroom Management, Writing, Reading, Math, Common Core/State Test s – Chris Biffle
• What School Could Be: Insights And Inspiration From Teachers Across America – Ted Dintersmith
• The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher – Harry Wong
• Disruptive Thinking: Why How We Read Matters – Kylene Beers, Robert E. Probst

What are your best books for teachers? Leave your favorites in the comments below.

The founder of Fractus Learning, Nick is a pizza-loving Aussie living and working in Dublin, Ireland. With a background in education, engineering and digital product development, Nick launched Fractus to connect people with a shared passion for technology and how it can bring education to life.

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This is a great list, and very current. I would add Debbie Silver’s Fall Down 7 Times, Get up 8: Teaching Kids to Succeed. It’s a wonderful blend of theory, practice and narrative.

Thanks Susie! Appreciate the recommendation and it’s now on the Amazon Wish List ;)

Excellent List! Thanks very much for creating and sharing it!

Another great book that was recently published and is a real self-training manual for language teachers is the book ‘Optimise your Teaching Competences: New Teaching Methodologies and CLIL Applications in Foreign Languages’. It contains innovative teaching methodologies and approaches as well as a wealth of teaching ideas for pair-work and group-work activities.

Thanks Eugenia, sounds great! Who is the author?

Great list, but I would have liked to see some more critical works that can incite discussion about the systems and conditions of learning. For example, Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy of Freedom, McLaren’s Life in Schools, hooks Teaching to Transgress, Kumashiro’s Bad Teacher and Against Common Sense. As teachers we need to engage in theory and practice to make our reflections more than just a practitioner’s work.

Thanks for the comment and recommendations Chris!

Now many self help books are in the markets. But I couldnot understand why the readers are decrasing . I can’t say why the majority peoples hate books.

Great list. Some of your books are now on my order list. Thank you.

I suggest to add “Clean Language in the Classroom” by Julie McCracken. It has been published a few days ago. I do like it very much and I think it has the power to change the methods of teaching in grammar schools. It is a book not only for teachers, but also a great source for inspiration to all kind of educators and to parents. I got a lot of ideas from it as a coach and trainer.

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25 Motivational Books for Students That’ll Change Your Life

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A list of the best inspirational books for students that will change your outlook on life

If you’re interested in motivational books for students, keep reading.

We frequently find ourselves in the grip of confusion and exhaustion, our minds racing with questions like, “Where to go next? What to do? Where to get inspiration? Am I heading in the right direction? Is my personal life thriving?”

It’s possible that if we take a break and do some research, we’ll find the answers within ourselves.

My favorite thing to do for that is to read inspiring books and success stories and then practice new techniques.

Reading motivational books can provide students with valuable insight and perspective on how to pursue their goals, develop their strengths, and overcome obstacles.

Motivational books can give students the tools and strategies they need to stay focused and inspired while working toward academic and personal goals.

Also, reading these books can help students cultivate a positive mindset , a strong sense of self-belief, and the attitude and determination required for success.

Besides, reading motivational books can help students develop the skills and attitudes they need to achieve their goals and succeed.

Now it’s time to share my favorite books to inspire students.

This post may contain affiliate links. That means that if you click on a link and purchase something I recommend, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.

Here are the books to motivate students:

1. the daily stoic.

The Daily Stoic offers you a daily dose of inspiration and wisdom.

With 366 meditations on Stoicism, you’ll learn how to cultivate inner peace, deal with adversity, and live a virtuous life.

Whether you’re a seasoned Stoic or new to the philosophy, this book is a great way to start each day.

Want to live a long and happy life? Ikigai shares the secret of the Japanese concept of Ikigai.

Ikigai means finding the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.

This is one of the best motivational books to read in English because it’s a practical guide to help you find your own path to a fulfilling life.

Are you curious about human behavior? Then this book is for you! Behave delves into the science behind why we do what we do, covering topics from decision-making to addiction.

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of human nature and come away with practical insights that you can use in your own life.

4. Shoot Your Shot

Shoot Your Shot is like a sports coach for your life!

The author draws on lessons from the world of sports to help you set and achieve your goals, overcome obstacles, and live your best life.

Whether you’re a fan of sports or just looking for some practical tips, this book is a game-changer.

5. The Mamba Mentality

Want to play like a champion? Look no further than this book by basketball legend Kobe Bryant!

Kobe Bryant shares his winning mindset and his secrets to success in The Mamba Mentality, which is one of my favorite motivational books for students.

He also talks about the lessons he learned over his 20-year career.

6. Ego Is the Enemy

Ego Is the Enemy highlights the ways in which our own ego can hold us back and offers strategies for overcoming it.

This book provides a system for organizing your tasks and thoughts to help you achieve greater productivity and reduce stress.

7. Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done teaches you to get more done in less time and with less stress. It offers a step-by-step approach to getting organized, setting priorities, and getting things done.

8. The Courage to Be Disliked

The Courage to Be Disliked provides a philosophical approach to life.

It explores the idea that true happiness comes from within and that we should embrace being disliked to live our lives authentically.

9. Life Force

Life Force explores how precision medicine is revolutionizing healthcare, offering the promise of more personalized and effective treatments.

10. Daily Rituals

Daily Rituals is a collection of daily affirmations and meditations to help you attract love, happiness, and peace into your life.

11. Find Your People

Find Your People encourages you to look beyond your immediate circles and find new communities where you can connect with like-minded people.

Besides, science confirms that regular, meaningful connection with others has a significant impact on our well-being . We were created to be known and loved.

12. Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich is a classic self-motivational book that shares principles for wealth and success. It encourages you to think positively and focus on your goals.

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13. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself provides an in-depth look at how our beliefs and thoughts shape our reality. It teaches you how to change your negative patterns to create a better life.

14. Unfu*k Yourself

Unfu*k Yourself encourages you to take control of your life by becoming more aware of your thoughts and patterns. It helps you overcome self-imposed limitations.

15. The Four Agreements

The Four Agreements offers four simple agreements for living a better life. Be impeccable with your word; don’t take things personally; don’t make assumptions; and always do your best.

By following these agreements, you can improve your relationships and find greater happiness.

This book is my favorite motivational book for students because it’s been a New York Times bestseller for more than a decade and it’s been translated into 46 languages. How crazy is that?

16. Whatever It Takes

Whatever It Takes will help you take control of your life by showing you how to cultivate powerful habits that can lead to success in all areas of your life.

17. Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits will teach you how to build good habits and break bad ones in a step-by-step manner. It’s an easy-to-follow guide that will help you achieve your goals and improve your life.

18. Good Vibes, Good Life

Good Vibes, Good Life will inspire you to love yourself more and take care of your well-being. By doing so, you will unlock your full potential and live a life filled with positive energy and good vibes.

19. Stay Positive

Stay Positive is filled with positive quotes and messages to help you stay motivated and energized.

It’s the perfect way to start each day on a positive note and keep your spirits up throughout the day.

20. The Gifts of Imperfection

The Gifts of Imperfection is all about embracing your imperfections and becoming comfortable in your own skin.

It will help you develop a sense of self-acceptance. You’ll learn to live a more fulfilling life, free from the constraints of self-doubt and insecurity.

It’s one of the best motivational books for students and has sold over two million copies in thirty-five different languages around the world.

21. The Highly Sensitive

The Highly Sensitive is all about helping highly sensitive people take control of their emotions and build resilience. It provides tools to reduce anxiety and stress and promote positive energy.

22. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is a classic guide to personal and professional success.

It lays out seven habits that lead to effectiveness, including being proactive, setting goals, and prioritizing time.

23. The Obstacle Is the Way

The Obstacle is the Way explores the philosophy of stoicism and how it can be used to turn challenges into opportunities.

It teaches you to embrace adversity and see it as a chance to grow and become stronger.

24. The Hard Hat

The Hard Hat is a guide to teamwork, providing 21 ways to be a great teammate. It focuses on building relationships, showing respect, and working together to achieve success.

25. Life Makeover

Life Makeover is about embracing who you are and becoming your best self. It encourages you to celebrate your unique qualities and work towards living a bold, beautiful, and blessed life.

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Mathematical discoveries and achievements have shaped and improved our way of life. These books will introduce you to some of the inspiring people and works that have contributed along the way - from GPS devices to understanding gravity and launching rockets into space - these things wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for maths!

Hidden Figures (Young Readers' Edition)

Written by Margot Lee Shetterly.

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, four incredible mathematicians at NASA used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate how to launch a rocket and put astronauts into space. This true story tells the amazing and awe-inspiring tale of how mathematics, and mathematicians, came to the rescue of a very special mission!

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

Written by Paul Hoffman.

Introduce your teen to the amazing Paul Erdos, a prolific mathematician and world-wandering numerical nomad. Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, “My brain is open.” What a guy… and what a mindset! This book shares the story of his curious mind, tenacity for problem solving and the way he helped guide some of the last century’s most startling mathematical discoveries.

Seventeen Equations That Changed The World

Written by Ian Stewart and edited by John Davey.

From Newton’s Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers, equations have contributed to many innovations in the modern world! The book explores how Pythagoras' Theorem led to the development of GPS, how logarithms are applied in architecture and why imaginary numbers were important in the development of the digital camera. This book might help your teen wonder… how will maths be used to change the world next?

Infinite Powers

Written by Steven Stogartz.

Calculus has given us mobile phones, TV, GPS and ultrasound. It’s also helped us unravel DNA, discover Neptune and figure out how to put 5000 songs in your pocket. Neat, huh? Learn the interesting history of calculus and its purpose – before your teen has the option to study this fascinating branch of mathematics more deeply in Years 11 and 12. This book might help build positive perceptions about the power of mathematics to change the world.

Ada Lovelace Cracks The Code

Written by Rebel Girls, illustrated by Marina Muun and edited by Jestine Ware.

Ada Lovelace was the inventor of the first programming language and used her incredible imagination and endless curiosity to dream up technology that jump-started the digital age nearly 200 years ago. Introduce your teen to this remarkable mathematician and let her achievements spark their curiosity.

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Audiobooks for Long-Haul Listening

Some books sprint; others take the scenic route. The heady, highly absorbing titles here earn their marathon run times.

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Alexander Nazaryan writes about politics, culture and science.

Hear me out: Summer, with its hikes and bikes trips, is the perfect season for long audiobooks. I mean, the sound of birds is nice and all. Just not for three hours.

Conventional wisdom suggests you should settle for a beach read — or beach listen, in this case. And believe me, I love a fun, sexy mystery like Emma Rosenblum’s “Bad Summer People .” But I save those for winter, when the shores of Fire Island (where Rosenblum’s novel is set) seem impossibly distant.

Use summer for more ambitious projects. I’ve found long audiobooks to be perfect companions for those 10 weeks or so when the kids go off to camp and the pace of life generally slows.

Below, a few of my favorite supersized listens.

THE DYING GRASS, by William T. Vollmann

Vollmann is not known for accessibility ( his first novel was about insects and electricity), but “The Dying Grass” is a remarkably readable account of the 1877 Nez Perce War, made even more so by Henry Strozier’s sensitive narration. As Brig. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard hounds his Native adversaries across Montana and Idaho, the story soars above the awesome landscape, then peers into the hearts of people below. Believe me, time will fly.

Also try: “The Anatomy of Melancholy,” by Robert Burton; “War and Peace,” by Leo Tolstoy

ON HIS OWN TERMS: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller, by Richard Norton Smith

Here is a storied American family in its third generation, with the Rockefeller brothers taking on newfound civic responsibilities. Nelson was the most ambitious of them and maybe the most tragic, his bid for the presidency undone by a divorce . Paul Michael (“The Da Vinci Code”) narrates with stately confidence.

“Ducks, Newburyport,” by Lucy Ellmann

A woman in Ohio thinks about life. About illness, marriage and Laura Ingalls Wilder. She frets about the pies she bakes for a living. Also, there’s a mountain lion. Written as a single sentence stretching more than 1,000 pages, this remarkable 2019 novel thrums with life, a quality highlighted by Stephanie Ellyne’s energetic narration.

Also try: “1Q84,” by Haruki Murakami; “Hitler,” by Ian Kershaw

THE PASSAGE OF POWER, by Robert Caro

The fourth volume of Caro’s encyclopedic biography of L.B.J. begins with the gruff Texan becoming vice president to John F. Kennedy, an odd man out in an administration of Ivy Leaguers. But then comes a shattering Dallas afternoon. Our most esteemed historian , Caro thrillingly tells the story of how Johnson prods Congress and transforms a grieving nation with his civil rights and Great Society legislation.

GRAVITY’S RAINBOW, by Thomas Pynchon

George Guidall is one of the great audiobook narrators , and his rendition of Pynchon’s masterpiece quickly makes clear why as he captures Tyrone Slothrop’s madcap journey across Europe, which involves orgies and Nazis, a Malcolm X set piece and a good deal about ballistics. I can’t imagine a harder book to narrate — or anyone who could do the job as well as Guidall.

THE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE READER

The immensity of Wallace’s achievement can be daunting, but the “Reader” is a perfect distillation of his fiction and nonfiction alike. While most selections are performed by professionals, there are cameos from the Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale; Wallace’s mother, Sally; and Wallace himself, who died in 2008 .

Also try: “The Covenant of Water,” by Abraham Verghese; “Daniel Deronda,” by George Eliot; “And the Band Played On,” by Randy Shilts

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS, by Marlon James

It is only appropriate that a panoply of narrators (seven in all) take on this kaleidoscopic novel, which is nominally about the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley but is in reality the story of Jamaica. “Brief History” was James’s breakout novel, winning the Man Booker Prize in 2015 . The narration matches the intensity of the prose; it’s as close as you can get to cinema without a screen.

THE SECRET HISTORY, by Donna Tartt

One of the smartest mysteries in the modern American canon, set at a bucolic New Hampshire college. Tartt herself narrates; though she may be a Mississippi native, her voice is neither Deep South nor New England. Like the novel itself, it is entirely her own.

WOLF HALL, by Hilary Mantel

Yes, you may need to consult the printed novel to keep track of the characters, but the effort is well worth it as Mantel pulls you ever deeper into 16th-century England and the life of her indefatigable protagonist, Thomas Cromwell. The narrator, Simon Slater, a noted British actor and composer, only enhances that journey.

RANDOM FAMILY, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

LeBlanc spent more than a decade as a virtual member of a South Bronx family as it struggled with drugs and crime, early pregnancy and poverty. Though the tone of Roxana Ortega’s narration is not always entirely in sync with the text, LeBlanc’s reportage is sensitive but not preachy, an unvarnished portrait of New York’s most neglected borough.

Also try: “Watergate,” by Garrett M. Graff; “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver; “Lenin’s Tomb,” by David Remnick

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Inspiring new generation of foresters: Weyerhaeuser's Brad Moehlmann volunteers with students

Having grown up in a small logging town near Lincoln City, Brad Moehlmann had a passion for the outdoors from an early age. Now, he's working to share that enthusiasm with young students in Lane County.

Moehlmann, now a southern Oregon region forester for Weyerhaeuser, volunteers with career technical education programs at Sheldon High School and Thurston High School, guest speaking and coordinating field trips. His efforts to educate the next generation of foresters were recognized by Weyerhaeuser, which named him Volunteer of the Year in 2023.

Moehlmann said he was immersed in the lumber world from a young age, as his father owned a department store that sold gear to lumber workers.

"I was on the logging crew right after I graduated high school. I worked in one of the local mills," Moehlmann said. "I wanted to work outdoors, but I didn't really envision myself being in the timber industry. But forestry was something that just kind of drew me in."

Moehlmann said it was a natural fit. He earned his degree from Oregon State University and has worked as a forester in other parts of Oregon and Montana.

In April, Moehlmann brought a group of Sheldon High students to the Weyerhaeuser-engineered wood products mill in Eugene to tour the facility.

Finding a career in forestry

After trying different career paths within logging and forestry at OSU, Moehlmann got his first job as a forester with Georgia Pacific in 1995, where he planted about 2 million trees a year for the first five years.

In his 30-year career in forestry, Moehlmann estimated he's planted 12 million trees directly and over 35 million trees indirectly in his management position.

Moehlmann has now been with Weyerhaeuser for eight years and has been the southern Oregon region forester for the past three.

"A big part of my job is mentoring, younger foresters," Moehlmann said. "I've been doing this for 30 years. So I've seen quite a few things. My favorite part of the job, honestly, is mentoring and teaching. I'd like to say that, almost every day, I have a teaching moment with a forester. It just warms my heart. It's what I love to do."

Working with students

Before working with Lane County students, Moehlmann explored educational volunteering in other states.

While in Corvallis in the early 2000s, Moehlmann was involved in Camp Tadmor's middle school outdoor program, for several years.

In Montana, he also helped organize a student exposition, which Moehlmann compared to a big outdoor school, for fifth graders. The expo had different stations such as fish and wildlife, forest management, and fire prevention. In 2015, Moehlmann was the chair of the forestry expo, so he coordinated about 20 foresters to come as Instructors and made sure everything ran smoothly.

"That's where I think I really fell in love with working with kids and teaching them about forestry," Moehlmann said.

Moehlmann has now been in the Eugene-Springfield area for eight years. He started getting involved with local high schools in 2022. After previous experience working with younger students, this was a change.

Elsa Arias Ninan, instructor and creator of the Forestry & Natural Resource Management CTE pathway at Sheldon High, reached out to Moehlmann shortly after creating the program in the fall of 2022. He has been involved with the program ever since.

Arias Ninan said the program has continued to grow, in part thanks to the support of Moehlmann and other community partners who volunteer to work with the students. In fall 2023, Arias Ninan said they had 60 students in the program. Under the CTE pathway, there are courses like forest management, conservation & restoration, and watershed, fisheries & wildlife.

Arias Ninan, who is a forest engineer by trade and worked in the Peruvian Forest Service for many years, knew she wanted to start a CTE course on forestry when she came to the U.S.

"Last spring we visited the mill in Cottage Grove, and (Moehlmann) came to my classes as a guest speaker," Arias Ninan said. "Now we have other different partners that support the program. CTE is work-based learning, so the students can learn how to use some skills."

Arias Ninan said having professionals visit her classes and give demonstrations shows the students their options.

At Thurston High, Moehlmann said he helped coordinate getting logs to their forestry program to use and donated seeds for their greenhouse that grows Douglas firs. Moehlmann has been working with Thurston since 2023.

"Another employee in our office has gone in twice now to give a presentation on harvest planning," Moehlmann said. "(I do) the classroom coordinating, getting different people involved with Weyerhaeuser in the schools, and it's getting more and more interest. Some of the younger employees are like, 'I want to be involved with high schoolers too.'"

Moehlmann added that working with students can have ups and downs. One group of students might be engaged and asking questions, while the next is silent, but Moehlmann said he's gotten better at making his presentations more engaging over the years.

"(Their engagement) fuels me to want to come back because of the interest," Moehlmann said. "I've gotten better at it just like showing cool videos or trying to adapt.

"Anytime I get those teaching moments or time to educate kids, it makes me feel good."

Showing students the pathway to a career

Moehlmann said there's a great need for more young people in the timber industry. He likes to show students all the places he's worked as a forester, Newport, Corvallis, Coos Bay and Montana, explaining that there's work in forestry across the country, or even outside the U.S.

"The CTE programs have really helped get kids interested, but in 2022 and 2023, we had to recruit hard for people and positions," Moehlmann said. "I think a lot of is just (people) not knowing what a career in forestry is."

Moehlmann said he wished the public was more aware of the replanting process that follows harvests. He said they plant twice as many trees as they harvest.

He added that there are common misconceptions that loggers run logging equipment through streams and cut hundreds of acres at a time, which are false. There are strict laws about how, when and where logging can happen, according to Moehlmann.

"We plant twice as many (trees) than we harvest," Moehlmann said. "We just don't plant trees and leave them. The law also requires that we have 200 trees per acre, free to grow by age six. So we have to continue to monitor our plantations to make sure they're following the law. We (at Weyerhaeuser) are targeting 250 trees per acre by age six, so we're always kind of going above and beyond what the rules require.

"We're always trying to stay ahead of the curve on sustainability and environmental."

Mario Reyes, plant manager at the Eugene Weyerhaeuser products mill, explained some common pathways for young people to get into a career in forestry and logging.

Reyes said there are a range of apprenticeships including maintenance apprenticeships, where they can learn about equipment breakdowns, computer programming, electrical maintenance and more.

He said there are programs through Lane Community Colleges, but there are no prerequisites to join.

"We've had a huge generation of team members that are here that are at we're approaching retirement," Reyes said. "We're really looking for young, new talent ... We're looking for people that want to have a place to grow with from a career, not a job."

Reyes said the COVID-19 pandemic took a significant hit on the industry and there has been a deficit of applicants.

"(These field trips) give people that community exposure to what we do just for who Weyerhaeuser is," Reyes said. "It gives young people an idea of 'What do I want to do when I get done at school? What are some things that I might be interested in?' That hopefully helps spark some thoughts."

Miranda Cyr reports on education for The Register-Guard. You can contact her at  [email protected]  or find her on Twitter  @mirandabcyr .

Here's How to Get Free Kids' Books from Barnes & Noble's Summer Reading Program

Can get a free book for reading and reacting to others — I see no downsides here.

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• Book retailer Barnes & Noble has announced the details of its 2024 Summer Reading Program.
• Kids can receive a free book, from a list of selected titles, if they participate.
• The program runs from July 1, 2024 to August 31, 2024.

That's why I'm grateful to events like Barnes & Noble's Summer Reading Program , which will at least give our family a little reward for all that work. In this case, a free book.

The details of the program are simple. The program is open to kids who are in grades 1 through 6. Kids who fall into that age range just have to follow three easy steps to reap their reward. The first is that kids have to read a total of eight books. There's no specific list, it can be any gripping yarns of their choosing. If you have a reader like mine at home, that should be the easy part.

In addition to finishing the books, kids also have to fill out a reading log with the titles of their books, and what their favorite parts were. You can find the reading logs on the Barnes & Noble corporate website , both in English and in Spanish . Adults can download them and print as many as they need, and hand them over to kids to fill in. In the journal, the blank space where kids have to describe their favorite part looks like it can accommodate one sentence, so they're not writing huge book reports or anything.

Then, the fun part: Between July 1, 2024 and August 31, they can turn in their reading logs at any Barnes & Noble store to receive their free book. Sadly, they don't get their pick of anything in the store. There's a pre-selected list, with a little more than 10 titles for grades 1 and 2, grades 3 and 4 and grades 5 and 6. There are more options for the older kids, but the lists are diverse enough that there should be something to appeal to every reader.

The best part: The eight books that the kids read don't have to be from Barnes & Noble. They can be books that have been lying around in your home, books from the library, even books from other bookstores. Everything counts!

The free books include classics that parents might remember like The Boxcar Children or A Wrinkle in Time , new hits like The Princess in Black and Dog Man , books for Minecraft fans and beloved authors like Rick Riordan and Kate DiCamillo. Who knows — maybe they'll walk away with a new (non- Wings of Fire ) obsession. (Please? The next one doesn't come out until December!) And if they're looking for inspiration for what to read to count toward their eight-book requirement? They can always check out the Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Award winners.

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Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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KUALA LUMPUR: Over 100,000 book vouchers have been redeemed in the three-day period since redemptions began on May 31, says Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek ( Pic ).

She added that 56,466 book vouchers were redeemed by Year Four pupils and above as well as secondary school students, while the remaining 50,000 were redeemed at the Higher Education Ministry level.

"Currently (over) 122,000 books have been purchased with sales of over RM600,000,” she said after the close of the 2024 Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair here on Sunday (May 2)

She said the ministry would study this year’s response and the cost involved in its implementation before deciding if it would repeat the programme next year.

"I don’t think it should be stopped, but we need to look at how we can continue it,” she added.

The book voucher initiative was announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday (May 30)

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