Teaching
The art and science of education comes alive through expert insights, classroom stories, and evidence-based strategies for helping students thrive. These books explore both timeless teaching wisdom and cutting-edge research, offering practical guidance for educators, parents, and anyone passionate about nurturing young minds.
Teaching Book Summaries
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
Race predicts who gets suspended, tracked, and left behind. The best schools don't ignore it.
Education
Teaching
Academia
Social Justice
Race
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
Race predicts who gets suspended, tracked, and left behind. The best schools don't ignore it.
Education
Teaching
Academia
Social Justice
Race
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education
Four lenses for education's hardest calls, so you look past the rulebook to the student.
Education
Leadership
School
Teaching
Philosophy
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education
Four lenses for education's hardest calls, so you look past the rulebook to the student.
Education
Leadership
School
Teaching
Philosophy
Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook
Middle school science, rewritten like the notes of the kid who aced the class.
Science
Education
Reference
School
Teaching
Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook
Middle school science, rewritten like the notes of the kid who aced the class.
Science
Education
Reference
School
Teaching
Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies
Teach English abroad from scratch: lesson planning, classroom control, and grammar that clicks.
Reference
Language
Teaching
Education
Grammar
Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies
Teach English abroad from scratch: lesson planning, classroom control, and grammar that clicks.
Reference
Language
Teaching
Education
Grammar
The Accidental Instructional Designer
Never meant to be an instructional designer? A framework for digital learning that works.
Education
Design
Business
Teaching
Technology
The Accidental Instructional Designer
Never meant to be an instructional designer? A framework for digital learning that works.
Education
Design
Business
Teaching
Technology
Better Together
A daily gathering for reading aloud and memory work: anchor your homeschool, deepen your family.
Education
Parenting
Christian
Family
Self Help
Better Together
A daily gathering for reading aloud and memory work: anchor your homeschool, deepen your family.
Education
Parenting
Christian
Family
Self Help
Creating Innovators
The young people changing the world followed a developmental path that schools rarely provide.
Education
Parenting
Business
Teaching
Creativity
Creating Innovators
The young people changing the world followed a developmental path that schools rarely provide.
Education
Parenting
Business
Teaching
Creativity
Qualitative Research in Practice
Qualitative research, taught through real human stories that reveal what methods chapters leave out.
Education
Sociology
Academia
Reference
Teaching
Qualitative Research in Practice
Qualitative research, taught through real human stories that reveal what methods chapters leave out.
Education
Sociology
Academia
Reference
Teaching
Failure to Disrupt
Every new classroom technology gets absorbed into old routines. The real barrier was never the tech.
Education
Technology
Teaching
Sociology
Science
Failure to Disrupt
Every new classroom technology gets absorbed into old routines. The real barrier was never the tech.
Education
Technology
Teaching
Sociology
Science
Soccer Brain
The 1% rule meets soccer psychology: small mental nudges that compound into unstoppable teams.
Sports
Football
Psychology
Self Help
Leadership
Soccer Brain
The 1% rule meets soccer psychology: small mental nudges that compound into unstoppable teams.
Sports
Football
Psychology
Self Help
Leadership
Young, Gifted, and Black
Forget the white-Black comparison. The real gap is between African American students and excellence.
Education
African American
Social Justice
Teaching
Sociology
Young, Gifted, and Black
Forget the white-Black comparison. The real gap is between African American students and excellence.
Education
African American
Social Justice
Teaching
Sociology
Qualitative Research Methods
From first interview to final write-up, the methods, ethics, and craft of research that matters.
Writing
Reference
Education
Sociology
Anthropology
Qualitative Research Methods
From first interview to final write-up, the methods, ethics, and craft of research that matters.
Writing
Reference
Education
Sociology
Anthropology
The One World Schoolhouse
One cousin's math lesson, a cheap tablet, and a classroom where every student masters every concept.
Education
Teaching
Technology
Psychology
Business
The One World Schoolhouse
One cousin's math lesson, a cheap tablet, and a classroom where every student masters every concept.
Education
Teaching
Technology
Psychology
Business
Fact Vs. Fiction
Phones deliver news, not teachers. Strategies for turning feeds into critical thinking.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Journalism
Technology
Fact Vs. Fiction
Phones deliver news, not teachers. Strategies for turning feeds into critical thinking.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Journalism
Technology
CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents
Two hundred CBT worksheets, one book, six conditions: the photocopy-and-go clinical toolkit.
Psychology
Self Help
Parenting
Mental Health
Education
CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents
Two hundred CBT worksheets, one book, six conditions: the photocopy-and-go clinical toolkit.
Psychology
Self Help
Parenting
Mental Health
Education
Never Work Harder Than Your Students & Other Principles of Great Teaching
Eight principles for putting the cognitive load back on students, where it belongs.
Education
Teaching
Teachers
School
Leadership
Never Work Harder Than Your Students & Other Principles of Great Teaching
Eight principles for putting the cognitive load back on students, where it belongs.
Education
Teaching
Teachers
School
Leadership
How to Educate a Citizen
Shared knowledge once held America together. Schools abandoned it. Evidence shows it's reversible.
Education
Politics
Sociology
Teaching
History
How to Educate a Citizen
Shared knowledge once held America together. Schools abandoned it. Evidence shows it's reversible.
Education
Politics
Sociology
Teaching
History
The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.
Writing
Reference
Education
Essays
Books About Books
The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.
Writing
Reference
Education
Essays
Books About Books
The Power of Vedic Maths
Sixteen ancient formulas that turn mental math into a reflex, even for squares and roots.
Mathematics
Education
Self Help
Teaching
Instructional
The Power of Vedic Maths
Sixteen ancient formulas that turn mental math into a reflex, even for squares and roots.
Mathematics
Education
Self Help
Teaching
Instructional
The Real World of College
Half want a degree, not an education. The other half are too anxious to think.
Education
University
Psychology
Mental Health
Sociology
The Real World of College
Half want a degree, not an education. The other half are too anxious to think.
Education
University
Psychology
Mental Health
Sociology
The Multiplayer Classroom
Your syllabus is a game design document. Here is how to write it, no computers required.
Education
Teaching
Games
Design
Reference
The Multiplayer Classroom
Your syllabus is a game design document. Here is how to write it, no computers required.
Education
Teaching
Games
Design
Reference
Motivating Students Who Don't Care
What to do when a student shrugs at every lesson: five classroom-tested moves that work.
Teaching
Education
Psychology
Self Help
Academics
Motivating Students Who Don't Care
What to do when a student shrugs at every lesson: five classroom-tested moves that work.
Teaching
Education
Psychology
Self Help
Academics
Grading Smarter, Not Harder
Zeros punish the struggling. The grading strategies that measure learning instead.
Education
Teaching
School
Instructional
Learning
Grading Smarter, Not Harder
Zeros punish the struggling. The grading strategies that measure learning instead.
Education
Teaching
School
Instructional
Learning
32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny
A hamster loose, a testing letter unsent, and the silent signal that controls 32 third graders.
Memoir
Education
Teaching
Humor
School
32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny
A hamster loose, a testing letter unsent, and the silent signal that controls 32 third graders.
Memoir
Education
Teaching
Humor
School
Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation
Replace useless annual evaluations with five-minute visits that actually close achievement gaps.
Education
Leadership
Teaching
School
Management
Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation
Replace useless annual evaluations with five-minute visits that actually close achievement gaps.
Education
Leadership
Teaching
School
Management
Happy Teachers Change the World
A Zen master's guide to the classroom: why the teacher's own breath is the first lesson.
Education
Teaching
Buddhism
Spirituality
Self Help
Happy Teachers Change the World
A Zen master's guide to the classroom: why the teacher's own breath is the first lesson.
Education
Teaching
Buddhism
Spirituality
Self Help
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
The cafeteria self-sorting isn't a problem to fix. It's a mirror of how racial identity forms.
Race
Social Justice
Psychology
Sociology
Education
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
The cafeteria self-sorting isn't a problem to fix. It's a mirror of how racial identity forms.
Race
Social Justice
Psychology
Sociology
Education
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Three ancient virtues, dismantled by the digital age, reconstructed for it.
Education
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Three ancient virtues, dismantled by the digital age, reconstructed for it.
Education
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Discipline with Dignity
Why punishing students backfires, and how to build a classroom on responsibility instead.
Education
Teaching
Teachers
Psychology
Management
Discipline with Dignity
Why punishing students backfires, and how to build a classroom on responsibility instead.
Education
Teaching
Teachers
Psychology
Management
Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind
The classroom moves that overcome poverty's grip on learning, even when motivation is scarce.
Education
Teaching
Poverty
School
Psychology
Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind
The classroom moves that overcome poverty's grip on learning, even when motivation is scarce.
Education
Teaching
Poverty
School
Psychology
Teach Like A Champion 3.0
Concrete teaching moves from the nation's best classrooms, each one ready for your next period.
Education
Teaching
Reference
School
Leadership
Teach Like A Champion 3.0
Concrete teaching moves from the nation's best classrooms, each one ready for your next period.
Education
Teaching
Reference
School
Leadership
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
Learning isn't about effort, it's about belonging. Factory schools were built on the wrong theory.
Education
Psychology
Teaching
School
Sociology
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
Learning isn't about effort, it's about belonging. Factory schools were built on the wrong theory.
Education
Psychology
Teaching
School
Sociology
After The Adults Change
The behavior secret schools overlook: change the adults first, and the students follow.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Self Help
Leadership
After The Adults Change
The behavior secret schools overlook: change the adults first, and the students follow.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Self Help
Leadership
Mindsets in the Classroom
Teach kids their brains are like muscles, and effort replaces helplessness. A school-wide blueprint.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
School
Learning
Mindsets in the Classroom
Teach kids their brains are like muscles, and effort replaces helplessness. A school-wide blueprint.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
School
Learning
A Writer's Notebook
A notebook habit turns raw noticing into finished writing. Everything starts with what you catch.
Writing
Language
Reference
Creativity
Books About Books
A Writer's Notebook
A notebook habit turns raw noticing into finished writing. Everything starts with what you catch.
Writing
Language
Reference
Creativity
Books About Books
Teaching Excellence
Teach the way the brain learns: NLP's co-creator on rewiring spelling, reading, math, and attention.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Self Help
Learning
Teaching Excellence
Teach the way the brain learns: NLP's co-creator on rewiring spelling, reading, math, and attention.
Education
Teaching
Psychology
Self Help
Learning
8 Great Smarts for Homeschoolers
Eight ways to be smart. Match the subject to the strength and watch resistance fall away.
Parenting
Education
Christian
Self Help
Teaching
8 Great Smarts for Homeschoolers
Eight ways to be smart. Match the subject to the strength and watch resistance fall away.
Parenting
Education
Christian
Self Help
Teaching
In Search of Deeper Learning
The richest learning in high school happens after the bell, in theater, debate, and journalism.
Education
Teaching
School
Sociology
Social Justice
In Search of Deeper Learning
The richest learning in high school happens after the bell, in theater, debate, and journalism.
Education
Teaching
School
Sociology
Social Justice
Chemistry for Dummies
The chemistry class you wish you had: atoms, bonds, reactions, and the mole, minus the confusion.
Science
Reference
Education
Learning
School
Chemistry for Dummies
The chemistry class you wish you had: atoms, bonds, reactions, and the mole, minus the confusion.
Science
Reference
Education
Learning
School
The Unschooled Mind
Children's intuitive theories outlast school; genuine understanding takes deliberate rewiring.
Education
Psychology
Teaching
School
Parenting
The Unschooled Mind
Children's intuitive theories outlast school; genuine understanding takes deliberate rewiring.
Education
Psychology
Teaching
School
Parenting
