Reading List

Isabelle Beck, Margaret G. McKeown and Linda Kucan Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction

Tom Bennett Teacher Proof: Why research in education doesn’t always mean what it claims, and what you can do about it

Ron Berger An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students

Brown, Roediger and McDaniel Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Covers important content but is appallingly badly written.)

Pedro De Bruyckere & Paul A. Kirschner Urban Myths about Learning and Education

Benedict Carey How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens

Daisy Christodoulou Seven Myths About Education

Carol Dweck Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential

Kieran Egan Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget

Julian Elliott The Dyslexia Debate (Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development)

Jonathan K Foster Memory: A Very Short Introduction

Pauline Gibbons Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom

Richard Gregory Seeing Through Illusions: Making Sense of the Senses

Andy Hargreaves & Michael Fullan Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School

Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind

Judith Rich Harris The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Chip & Dan Heath Switch: How to change things when change is hard & Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

John Hattie Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning & Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn

ED Hirsch Jr The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children & The Schools We Need: And Why We Don’t Have Them

Eric Kalenze Education is Upside Down: Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems

Daniel Khaneman Thinking, Fast and Slow

Oli Knight & David Benson Creating Outstanding Classrooms: A whole-school approach

Doug Lemov Practice Perfect & Teach Like a Champion

Michael Lewis The English Verb: An Exploration of Structure and Meaning

Jan Meyer, Ray Land & Caroline Baillie Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning

David McRaney You are Not So Smart

Graham Nuthall The Hidden Lives of Learners – finally available in the UK! A must read.

Robert Peal Progressively worse: The Burden of Bad Ideas in British Schools

Stephen Pinker The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate

Martin Robinson Trivium 21c: Preparing young people for the future with lessons from the past

David Rose Learning to Write/Reading to Learn: Genre, Knowledge and Pedagogy in the Sydney School: Scaffolding Democracy in Literacy Classrooms

Richard Saul ADHD Does Not Exist

Katherine Schultz Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: The Meaning of Error in an Age of Certainty

Roger Scruton The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope

Alistair Smith High Performers: The Secrets of Successful Schools

Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Daniel Willingham Why Don’t Students Like School? and When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education

Dylan Wiliam Embedded Formative Assessment

Richard Wiseman 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot