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1. Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Stories of Practice
   
   Events such as war, genocide, slavery and terrorism can be challenging for teachers to discuss in classrooms in an unbiased way. In this book, educators will find the voices of many teachers who have struggled and ­reflected on their practices in ­teaching these difficult histories. 
2. How to Look at Student Work to Uncover Student Thinking
   
   Rather than looking at student work to determine what’s right or wrong, this book encourages teachers to consider what students are telling you about their understanding and their thinking around the material. 
3. 75 tâches pour enseigner le français au fil des jours
   
   Cet ouvrage présente des tâches quotidiennes, hebdomadaires et occasionnelles qui favorisent l’autonomie des élèves envers la prise en charge progressive de leur apprentissage. Il fournit un cadre clair pour accompagner les élèves et les aider à devenir des lecteurs et des auteurs pour la vie.
4. Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
   
   The authors examine eight habits of mind that result from education in the visual arts: develop craft, persistence, envision, express, observe, reflect, stretch and explore, and understand. They also look at the four studio structures that teach these habits of mind.
5. Des routines mathématiques au quotidien
   
   Cet ouvrage présente des routines qui aideront vos élèves de 6 à 12 ans à renforcer leurs acquis et à développer leur fluidité de raisonnement et de calcul, tout en inspirant chez eux un sentiment de confiance en leurs habiletés mathématiques.
6. Restoring Students’ Innate Power: Trauma-Responsive ­Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Newcomers
   
   Author Louise El Yaafouri ­examines how trauma affects newcomer students and how teachers can use stress-mitigating strategies to help these students engage in learning.
7. Hacking Graphic Novels: 8 Ways to Teach Higher-Level Thinking with Comics and Visual Storytelling
   
   Graphic novels are amazing tools for drawing many reluctant readers into a love of reading. Author Shveta Miller shows teachers to see these books as tools for complex thinking, and to work with ­students to expand visual and textual literacy.
8. Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America
   
   In this love letter to and about forests, the authors bring to light many ­fascinating new facts about how arboreal environments affect climate, weather and people.

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Karlee Hren

I Just finished The Dressmaker’s Secret by Lorna Cook and have just started Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World, by Eliza Reid.

Annie Forney

My class and I fell in love with Bumble Gum Brain by Julia Cook. One of the best growth mindset books I’ve read. Plus I gave the kids gum to chew while we read it. It’s so easy to have a brick brain, but so much better to grow your bubble gum brain!

Andrew Lojczyc

I’ve been reading Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean. Really cool breakdown of our atmosphere, its history, and the people who have studied gases over time. So far, between Sam Kean, Randall Munroe and Mary Roach, I feel like I have a litany of fun examples and anecdotes for all my science classes.

Laurel Janinne

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. It’s an essential for surviving life as a teacher these days.

Anna Sparrow

A Minor Chorus, by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree Nation), and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.