Each year I invite readers to share their favorite education-related book of the year.
Feel free to add yours in the comments section!
You can see previous lists here:
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2018
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2017
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2016
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2015
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2014
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2013
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2012
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2011
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2010
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2009
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2008
I’m adding this list to All My 2019 “Best” Lists In One Place!
The best book I read was Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism and Social Marginalization by Cia Verschelden. You can see a two-part interview I did with her for Ed Week.
Here are choices from readers (feel free to add more in the comments section):
"Dare to Lead" @BreneBrown. A book that'll just make you a better human.
— SAVA Curriculum Coaches (@SavaCoaches) December 1, 2019
Ghosts in the Schoolyard by @eveewing
— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) December 1, 2019
We Want to Do More than Survive by @BLoveSoulPower bc it helped me re-center my practice and remember that I’m not crazy for wanting to dismantle the education survival complex
— Manuel Rustin (@Rustin3000) December 1, 2019
Know Better, Do Better: Teaching the Foundations So Every Child Can Read https://t.co/ELzvDaq4BX
— Andrew (@mrandrewrodgers) November 28, 2019
I read some of the great ones that others will offer up here. I would like to add @alienearbud 's "Better Leaders, Better Schools Roadmap".
— 𝙆𝙚𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣 (@thismighthelpED) November 28, 2019
We Got This by Cornelius Minor
— Mary Beth Nicklaus (@MBethNicklaus) November 28, 2019
“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni wasn’t written as an education book and certainly isn’t new, but it is relevant to schools who are trying to embrace large scale change. It is a go to reference when thinking about problems within our school teams.
— Britney Ballin (@PrincipalBallin) November 27, 2019
Powerful Teaching is the best book I’ve read this year.
— Marielle Poulin (@mandmpoulin) November 27, 2019
By far it has been Lost at School. It has helped to inform a practice that I wholeheartedly embrace, cited in the PDs that I’ve planned for colleagues as well as referenced in one of my conference presentations. pic.twitter.com/hSdjkC0nBY
— Sheila Wilson, Ed. D. (@Wilson1Sheila) November 30, 2019
Cynthia Resor’s series of books on teaching daily life themes in the classroom are great, especially for middle and secondary teachers. They are perfect for interdisciplinary teaching, and include thematic units on topics relevant to students. The books provide lots of primary source texts and images for inquiry learning.
• Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries, Modern Lessons from Historical Themes
• Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social Studies
• Exploring Vacation and Etiquette Themes in Social Studies