Every year, I ask readers of this blog to share – either in the comments section or on Twitter – the title and author of their favorite education-related book, along with one or two sentences explaining why they chose it.
It’s that time again!
Please share them with me no later than December 15th. Then, I’ll compile them in a post to share. With luck, I’ll publish it before everyone has done their holiday shopping so you can put some of them on your gift list!
Here are posts from previous years:
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
Minds Made for Stories by Thomas Newkirk. It has altered the way I read nonfiction and changed my writing practice for the better. You will see text in a new way after reading it.
Literacy Essentials by Reggie Routman summarized everything effective teachers should know and be able to do to help students be literate participants in their own lives and the loves of others.
Adequate Yearly Progress by Roxanna Elden is FICTION and it is funny. It made me laugh through the pain of some of the boneheaded policy decisions made by the higher-ups. Educators have to laugh….
“The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and JonathannHaidt. This book explains how we are raising a generation of fragile children rather than anti-fragile kids w/ our culture of “safetyism” both in parenting and on college campuses. Also, the book offered important insights into the way those on the right view liberals’ efforts to curtail speech on college campuses, which I found fascinating.