Our monthly newsletter, the IDE Update, includes a section entitled the IDE Bookshelf. Designed to spotlight educational research relating to the featured principle of the month from the Ten Principles of Successful Classrooms, each month the IDE Bookshelf will cite one of the books listed below.
June 2008
The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language that Helps Children Learn
by JPaula Denton
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May 2008
Why Science?
by James Trefil
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April 2008
Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers
editors - Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson
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March 2008
Education for Thinking
by Deanna Kuhn
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February 2008
Joyful Learning:Active and Collaborative Learning in Inclusive Classrooms
by Dr. Alice Udvari-Solner
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January 2008
Educator's Podcast Guide
by Bard Williams
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December 2007
The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman
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November 2007
Coolest School in America: How Small Learning Communities Are Changing Everything
by Ron Newell
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October 2007
Transforming The High School Experience: The Practitioner's Guide to Small Learning Communities
by Dr. Alan P. Blanchard & Dr. Brooke Harms
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September 2007
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
by Esmé Raji Codell
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June 2007
A Framework for Understanding Poverty
by Ruby Payne
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May 2007
Millenials Rising
by Niel Howard & William Strauss
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April 2007
Little Big Minds
by Marietta McCarty
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March 2007
Don't Bother Me Mom, I'm Learning
by Marc Prensky
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February 2007
Curriculum Mapping for Differentiated Instruction, K-8
by Michelle Langa and Janice Yost
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January 2007
The Technology Fix
by William Pflaum
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December 2006
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman
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November 2006
The Homework Myth
by Alfie Kohn
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October 2006
The Results Fieldbook: Practical Strategies from Dramatically Improved Schools
by Mike Schmoker
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September 2006
Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-16 Education
by Linda Torp and Sara Sage
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June 2006
Building School and Community Partnerships through Parent Involvement
by Kay Wright Springate and Delores A. Stegelin
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May 2006
Collaborative Learning in Middle and Secondary Schools: Applications and Assessments
by Dawn M. Snodgrass and Mary M. Bevevino
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March 2006
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice
by Maryellen Weimer
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February 2006
Differentiating Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: Besst Practices for General and Special Educators
by William N. Bender
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January 2006
Edutopia
by George Lucas
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December 2005
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
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November 2005
Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching & Training
by Eric Jensen
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October 2005
Becoming a "Wiz" at Brain-Based Teaching
by Marilee Sprenger
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September 2005
Differentiated Assessment Strategies: One Tool Doesn't Fit All
by Carolyn Chapman and Rita S. King
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June 2005
And What Do YOU mean by Learning
by Seymour B. Sarason
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May 2005
Strengthening the Heartbeat
by Thomas J. Sergiovanni
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April 2005
Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Teaching Beyond the Facts
by H. Lynn Erickson
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March 2005
Choice Theory in the Classroom
by William Glasser
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February 2005
A Mind at a Time
by Mel Levine
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January 2005
The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer
by Seymour Papert
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December 2004
Education for Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility
by Julie Andrzejewski & John Alessio
Online article at this link:
http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/monographs/glomono.html
November 2004
How the Brain Learns
by David A. Sousa
Corwin Press, Inc.; (2001)
ISBN 0761977651
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October 2004
Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expectation and Pupil's Intellectual Development
by Robert Rosenthal, Lenore Jacobson
Crown House Publishing; (May 1, 2003)
ISBN: 1904424066
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September 2004
Experience and Education by John Dewey
Free Press; Reprint edition (July 1, 1997)
ISBN: 0684838281
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