Top 6 #Education Books!! 🏫🎒📚

Hi everyone and Happy October!

School’s already a month or more out of the way for all of your students out there, myself included.

So, as I approach the end of my studies (Thank You God!) I decided to take a dive into my own bookcase and share my Top 6 Educational Books with you.

Some of these came about from my personal interest while others were assigned as reads from various college and grad school classes I've taken or am taking now.

I’ll include links just in case any of you want to check these out.

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#6: Program Evaluation in Practice by Dean T. Spaulding 

I was assigned this read for one of my doctoral classes. If you have an idea for an education program that you'd like to make better or want to make sure is working or you just want to familiarize with methods and theories related to matters of evaluation, its worth the read.

#5: Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People by Edward M. Hallowell, MD

I find myself going back to this one many times. Whether you're an educator or a business person with a team already or looking for a team to help build your dream, it's a read you need to have in your library.

It's all about working with people and bringing out their best (not burning them out in building for you) which will, in turn, bring out yours.



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#4: Leading in a Culture of Change by Michael Fullan 

Another read for class, but one I'm glad to have. If you're a leader or want to be, you likely already know its not easy. You also know that change is inevitable and the author teaches you how to deal with that as a leader.



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#3: A Left-Handed History of the World by Ed Wright

Not technically an education book, but it goes hand-in-hand with the others on this list.
With most of the world being right-handed, I knew from personal experience that being left-handed is  different.
In softball, I had to use the right-handed gloves, everybody goes "OMG you're left-handed" and you're like...

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But different is good.
Different makes a good team. Everyone shouldn't think the same as you.
So this book is good to have simply as that reminder.


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#2: Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need by Chris Lehmann & Zac Chase 

A friend of mine recommended this book and I'm glad I added it to my library. It's written by the founders of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. It isn't just your basic, run-of-the-mill book that tells you how to change schools using certain "clinical" steps for a one-size-fits-all cluster of students.

Instead, Lehmann and Chase discuss issues facing schools and offer the tools that educators and officials already have to make necessary to create the schools necessary for success in an education system desperately in need of change.


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#1: Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 65 by Rafe Esquith

Back when Sirius XM had Book Radio (when it was gone, so was my subscription) I learned about this wonderful book written by a teacher in Los Angeles who teaches a class of first-generation immigrants who live in poverty and are learning English. Because of the unconventional methods the knowledgeable and enthusiastic Mr. Esquith illustrates in his classroom, his students score in the top 1 percent of standardized tests and go on to attend Ivy League Schools. 


It is a testament to the lives that can be change with passion, mastery, and a never-ending desire to learn. 

Get this in your library today! 





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What are some of your favorite education books? What didn't I cover? Let me know in the comments!