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Winter Reading Review: The Self-Driven Child

Winter Reading Review: The Self-Driven Child

Here I go again, finally finishing a book long after the book club finished it and moved on to another title. But this book, The Self-Driven Child by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson, was worth taking my time with. And

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Winter Reading Review: Science Matters

Winter Reading Review: Science Matters

As a science teacher and a logical brain thinker, I laugh and state ‘of course science matters, what else would anyone believe?’ But in truth, the book by Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil is more than promoting the claim

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Fall Reading Review: Math with Bad Drawings

Fall Reading Review: Math with Bad Drawings

This year as part of my work with a learning community of teachers, I decided to participate in all books chosen for our monthly book study group. That meant reading a book about math. MATH! Math and I do not

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Summer Reading Review: All Learning is Social and Emotional

Summer Reading Review: All Learning is Social and Emotional

Perhaps this book wasn’t on my radar of books to read. Perhaps even when my district choose a summer book study I neglected it at first. Perhaps after a second reminder email, I signed up. Perhaps I even forgot to

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Summer Reading Review: Visible Learning for Literacy

Summer Reading Review: Visible Learning for Literacy

Sometimes we are asked to read a book that isn’t on our radar of interests. There is no option but to find a way to plow through the first few pages. It is my experience, that sometimes this is the

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Spring Reading Review: Packing for Mars

Spring Reading Review: Packing for Mars

Let’s just say Mary Roach has done it again. I really enjoy reading her investigative non-fiction. I first read ‘Stiff’ and enjoyed learning about what happens to the body after death. Now, in ‘Packing for Mars’ (a deceptive title) she

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Spring Reading Review: Rise to the Challenge

Spring Reading Review: Rise to the Challenge

This was a super quick reading, ‘Rise to the Challenge’ by Jeff C. Marshall is just over 100 pages (but really fewer as the chapter end and starts take 3 pages each). At first, as I began reading this book

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Spring Reading Review: The Smartest Kids in the World

Spring Reading Review: The Smartest Kids in the World

Let me begin by saying that this is a book I bought without giving too much thought to the content. As a new mom, I read the title and thought this might give me some helpful tips to raise a

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Spring Reading Review: Make Just One Change

Spring Reading Review: Make Just One Change

This is the third book is a series of books for me that have created a real sense of what my classroom could look like. How I could integrate real change to help my students have more rewarding learning opportunities.

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Spring Reading Review: Grading for Equity

Spring Reading Review: Grading for Equity

Having requested to be part of a teacher ‘book club’ this was the first book chosen for this past school year – Grading for Equity (What it is, Why it Matters, and How it can Transform Schools and Classrooms) by

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