If You Like Ken Robinson, Here are Some Great Books about Teaching

There are 49.5 million students and 3.1 million teachers here in America. 

I am a teacher. I have been teaching since 1977. 

Most of us teachers know we can do better. Many of us love to read stories about schools and education and teaching.

Here are some I have loved....

There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith

Raising the Curve:

A Year Inside One of America's 45,000 Failing Public Schools

by Ron Berler

Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade

by Linda Perlstein

Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esme Raji Codell

Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

by Stuart Brown

Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

by Mem Fox

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman

Improbable Scholars: 

The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools 

by David L. Kirp

The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way

by Amanda Ripley

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

by Paul Tough

How Children Succeed: 

Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough

Others you recommend?

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