Here’s the list of suggestive reading for educators in the month of March by ScooNews. This includes books like What Schools Could Be, C.R.A.F.T. Conversations for Teacher Growth, Teachers and Machines, The Teacher Wars, etc.
What Schools Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America
by Ted Dintersmith
The author went all across America’s states, he met teachers in ordinary settings doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where children learn deeply and joyously as they gain purpose, agency, essential skillsets and mindsets, and real knowledge.
C.R.A.F.T. Conversations for Teacher Growth: How to Build Bridges and Cultivate Expertise
by Lakesha Robinson Goff, Sally Zepeda, and Stefanie W. Steele
C.R.A.F.T. Conversations for Teacher Growth offers the answer, demonstrating how exchanges between administrators and teachers that take place every day, are clear, realistic, appropriate, flexible, and timely can be transformational.
Teachers and Machines: The Classroom of Technology Since 1920
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by Larry Cuban
Film and radio, television, and computers have each been heralded by reformers as a way to revolutionize classroom instruction by increasing productivity. The author answers, drawing from a range of disciplines, will provoke readers into viewing the current passion for classroom computers in a different light. This now-classic text provides a much-needed perspective on technology in the classroom.
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
by Dana Goldstein
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A rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, the author reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. This book upends the conversation about American education by bringing the lessons of history to bear on the dilemmas we confront today. By asking “How did we get here?”
Today I Made a Difference: A Collection of Inspirational Stories from America's Top Educators
by Joseph W. Underwood
A collection of stories from some of the top educators, this book is a celebration of teachers’ work, and motivation for them to continue. This collection of stories is sure to inspire, celebrate, and motivate those people who make the biggest difference in everyone’s life.