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As I’ve done every December for the past eight years, I invite readers to share what they think was the best education-related book they read during this calendar year. It doesn’t have to have been published in 2015 — you just have to have read it during the past twelve months.
In addition, please share no more than one or two sentences explaining why you think it was the best one. Please leave the info in the comments section.
You have until December 30th to contribute. As usual, I’ll post the final list, along with who contributed the choices, on New Year’s Day.
There are always a ton of books that get listed, and you can see the posts from previous years here:
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
Digital Leadership- Eric Sheninger
Amazing tips and direction for educational transformation
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education by Sir Ken Robinson.
Please read. Right away.
This is Not a Test by Jose Vilson
It resonated with me on so many levels and does well to remind us of the complexity and intersectionality of life as an educator.
The Prize by Dale Russakoff is a balanced, close observation of how Newark schools spent the $100 million gift from Mark Zuckerberg. That the funds made little to no impact on the daily lives of students is both sad and surprising. Russakoff doesn’t pit charter schools vs. public schools, but rather shines a light on the realities of operating a large urban district plagued by poverty.
Make Just One Change
By Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana
The QFT (Question Formulation Texhnique) is a powerful way to get students asking deep questions and guiding inquiry.
“Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom”
By Danniel Willingham
This is an amazing book which answers so many questions about teaching and learning. It is a cognitive psychologist’s point of view about how learning can be more efficient and how a teacher can maximize her contribution to students’ learning. I think that it is a book which every teacher must read!!