Frank McCourt

Author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. Pulitzer Price winning.
"It should be mandatory reading for every teacher in America." -  Publishers Weekly

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A Memoir

The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom, and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.

Teacher Man

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E. D. Hirsch

"Early inequity in the distribution of intellectual capital may be the single most important source of avoidable injustice in a free society"

And Why We Don't Have Them

By providing evidence of numerous studies proving that fact-based education works, the author of Cultural Literacy proves that if children are taught substantial knowledge and skills--and learn to work hard to acquire them--their test scores will rise, their love of learning will grow, and they will become enthusiastic participants in the information-age civilization.

The Schools We Need

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Edward Humes

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year immersed in a remarkable public high school. 

Making the Grade at a Top American High School

Profiles an unlikely American high school--Whitney High, located in a run-down section of Los Angeles--in search of secrets to this "dream school" envied by people all over California for its remarkable performance.

School of Dreams

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Mark Edmundson

An affectionate but unsentimenal homage to an inspirational teacher.

The One Who Made the Difference

When Frank Lears came to teach at Medford High School in the fall of 1969, he looked like easy prey to Mark Edmundson and his school-hating pals. At the front of the class, they saw a small, nervous man wearing a moth-eaten suit two sizes too big, with a large paperclip fastened to the left lapel. Lears, just out of Harvard, struck the class as absurd, the kind of teacher they could torment at will. And for some time, they did just that. But Edmundson and his classmates radically under-estimated Frank Lears. Lears got rid of their tired textbooks and brought in Kesey, Camus, and Freud. He ran a group psychology experiment that no one in the room ever forgot. He opened the class to a panel of SDS members and a crowd of proto-Black Panthers. He risked life and limb in a snowball fight with Edmundson and his football-playing buddies. He shook things up. Lears's opposition to the lockstep life of Medford High got under the skin and into the minds of Mark Edmundson and his friends--friends like Dubby O'Day, a fatalistic goof-off majoring in spitball ballistics. The conflicting ways of life represented by Lears and Medford's formidable football coach, Mace Johnson, confronted Edmundson with a choice. At real cost--the cost of conformity and belonging--Edmundson chose to go Lears's way. With a touching depiction of his father and of the deep grief caused by his sister's death, Edmundson beautifully conveys the family he came from. He evokes the 1960s with all the era's tumult and promise, and shows how Frank Lears started him thinking. Teacher is a moving portrait of Edmundson's transformation. It pays tribute to an exceptional man who, free in himself, struggled to make hisstudents free as well. Sometimes, we are lucky enough to experience a miracle that turns our lives around. For Mark Edmundson, Frank Lears was that miracle.

Teacher

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Sam M. Intrator

Parker J. Palmer

Honoring the Teacher's Heart

This book is a collection of essays, written by teachers at every level of practice, that honors the hearts of all teachers who struggle to reconnect with the source of their vocation. These teachers have found ways to serve their students, rekindle their passion for teaching, connect in life-sustaining ways with colleagues, and work towards creating educational institutions that seek to be places that, as Parker J. Palmer writes, "bring more light and life into the world." Their warm, practical, funny, and wise stories will provide inspiration, companionship, and hope to teachers who strive to reclaim the courage to teach.

Stories of the Courage to Teach

Neal Bascomb

Neal Bascomb documents the journey of a high school FIRST ROBOTICS team in this gripping tale of learning, engineering and Student engagement. 

A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts

A report on genius inventor Dean Kaman's FIRST program follows a team of brilliant, misfit high school students through the program's 2009 robotics competition, during which the teens under the guidance of a dedicated teacher confronted other hopefuls in stadiums throughout the country.

The New Cool

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Douglas Brinkley

Author Douglas Brinkley, a professor of History at Hofstra University documents his experiences in a revolutionary  progam. He takes a small group of students on a bus trip around the U.S. to bring History "to Life." 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An American Odyssey

In response to a student's question, history professor Douglas Brinkley formed a new kind of history course. Seventeen students were selected to join the maiden voyage of Hofstra University's traveling classroom in a course called An American Odyssey: Art and Culture Across America. The roving classroom visited 30 states on a sleeper bus over a six-week period in a unique learning expedition. 20 photos.

The Majic Bus

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Nancie Atwell

Donald H. Graves

Nancie Atwell is a leader in Reforming education.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Reading & Language Arts

Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents 

In the Middle

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Essays on Teaching to Learn

Side by Side

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Laurence Steinberg

Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do

Argues that the failure of school reform is due more to the attitudes and influences of parents and peers than of educators, explains why some students succeed while others fail, and offers suggestions designed to help all students do better in school.

Beyond the Classroom

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Bob Strachota

Helping Children Take Charge of Their Learning

Full of stories straight from the classroom, this book helps you to: empathize with all the children you teach; help children problem solve in both academic and social areas; pose "real questions" that identify and frame essential issues; decide when to wonder with children and when to direct them

On Their Side

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Waldorf education basd upon the writings of Rudolf Steiner.

The Waldorf Approach

Creativity in Education 

Stephanie Judson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, music, drama/theater

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, k, e, p, i, t.

A Manual on Nonviolence and Children

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Jim Shull

Science

Kids and Adults can take photos with home-made cameras!

The Beginner's Guide to Pinhole Photography

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P. Sean Smith

Astronomy

Project Earth Science

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Brent A. Ford

Physical Oceanography

Contains resources for lessons that teach middle-level students about oceanography, including concept explanations, activities, reproducible pages, related readings, and illustrations and covering the tides, waves, oil spills, and other topics.

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Meteorology

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Richard Phillips Feynman

Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry and Space-Time

No twentieth-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988)—physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon. His autobiographies and biographies have been read and enjoyed by millions of readers around the world, while his wit and eccentricities have made him the subject of TV specials and even a theatrical film.The spectacular reception of the book and audio versions of Feynman's Six Easy Pieces (published in 1995) resulted in a worldwide clamor for “More Feynman! More Feynman!” The outcome is these six additional lectures, drawn from the celebrated three-volume Lectures on Physics. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these lectures are more focused, delving into the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity.No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein's discovery of relativity. The notions that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But, as Feynman shows so clearly and so entertainingly in the lectures chosen for this volume, these crazy notions are no mere dry principles of physics, but are things of beauty and elegance. No one—not even Einstein himself—explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Richard Feynman.

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

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Sidney Harris

Sidney Harris is America's foremost science cartoonist. He has been praised by luminaries such as Linus Pauling and Isaac Asimov, as well as countless others throughout the world, for his ability to find humor in what is traditionally regarded as a somewhat dry subject.Harris does for science what Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) does for business: his unique perspective illustrates the scientific and technological environments in such a funny way that everyone can enjoy it.

Einstein Simplified

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Richard P. Feynman

Paul Davies

Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Designed for non-scientists, "Six Easy Pieces" is an unparalleled introduction to the world of physics by one of the greatest teachers of all time.

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