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Knowledge of Students Books
 * //The Philosophy of Childhood// by Gareth Matthews
 * //You've Gotta Connect: Building Relationships That Lead to Engaged Students, Productive Classrooms, & Higher Achievement// by James Sturtevant
 * //Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners// by Kathleen Palmer Cleveland
 * //Why Don't Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works & What It Means for the Classroom // by Daniel Willingham
 * //Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys// by Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson
 * //Odd Girl Out// by Rachel Simmons
 * //Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls// by Mary Pipher & Ruth Ross
 * //Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers From Middle Schoolers// by Kathleen Cushman & Laura Rogers
 * //Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking// by Susan Cain
 * //Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts// by Susan Cain
 * //Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning// by Peter H. Johnston
 * //Nerds: Who They Are & Why We Need More of Them// by Dave Anderegg
 * //​Activating the Desire to Learn// by Robert Sullo
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure// by Larry Smith & Rachel Fershleiser
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything For Our Kids// by Kyle Schwartz
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It// by Jane Healey
 * //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> by Larry Ferlazzo
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//​Leaving to Learn// by Elliot Washor & Charles Mojkowski
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy// ​by Emily Bazelon
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed// by Jessica Lahey
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential// by Marylou Kelly Streznewski
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined: The Truth About Talent, Practice, Creativity, and the Many Paths to Greatness// by Scott Barry Kaufman
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers// by Nancy Jo Sales
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A//ge of Opportunity: Lesson From the New Science of Adolescence// by Laurence Steinberg

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Articles


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">My son broke my heart when he said nobody in his class notices him. Then he asked if I ignore my students. (post by Sarah Slivosky)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Middle School Students <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gifted Students
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Snapshot of a Modern Learner (post by Mike Fisher)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Engaging Students: Dangling the Carrot (blog post by William Waidelich)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Curriculum for Whom? (blog post by Ed Brazee)
 * <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Curious Case of Imposter Syndrome <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> (blog post by Ian Byrd)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Absenteeism & Ability Grouping (blog post by Laura Vanderkam)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cluster Grouping of Gifted Students: How to Provide Full-Time Services on a Part-Time Budget (article by Susan Winebrenner)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Regrets of An Accomplished Child (article by Pamela Paul)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What it Means To Teach Gifted Students Well (article by Carol Ann Tomlinson)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The Brain <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Books
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Five Minds for the Future// by Howard Gardner
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Brain Rules// by John Medina (and //Brain Rules// 45-minute video)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain// by Dan Siegel
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain// by David Eagleman
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents & Young Adults// by Frances Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success & Influence// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">by Heidi Grant Halvorson and E. Tory Higgins
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights From a Neurologist & Classroom Teacher// by Judy Willis
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Why Don't Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works & What It Means For the Classroom​ by Daniel Willingham
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive & Others Die// by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Prepping the Brain: Easy and Effective Ways To Get Students Ready for Learning// by Linda Allen et. al.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative// by Ken Robinson
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn// by Cathy Davidson
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students// by Thomas Armstrong
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement & Rigor Among Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Articles & Blog Posts <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Issue of Learning Transfer: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Critical/Creative Thinking
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using Brain-Based Learning in the Classroom (blog post by Larry Ferlazzo)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Identity & Emotion are Central to Motivating the Teen Brain (article by Emmeline Zhao)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Working Smarter, Not Harder, With Neuroscience in the Classroom (blog post by Larry Ferlazzo)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What Type of Learner Are You? (And Why It Doesn't Matter) (article by Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Teacher Education Should Include Neuroscience (article by Dr. Judy Willis)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How the Memory Works In Learning (article by Dr. Judy Willis)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What Brain Insights Can Boost Your Student's Classroom Success? (article by Eric Jensen)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teenagers Are Wired for Peer Approval, Study Says (article by Sarah Sparks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Q & A: Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain (article by Maia Svalavatiz)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//How Smart Can We Get?// = Nova Science NOW program <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 70%;">(available for online viewing)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Rethinking Thinking// by Trevor Maber <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 70%;">(TED-Ed video)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Mysterious Working of the Adolescent Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 70%;"> (TED video)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Don't They Apply What They've Learned (article by James Lang)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lessons for Life: Learning and Transfer (article by Linda Darling-Hammond and Kim Austin)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Learning Theories and Transfer of Learning (University of Oregon)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Preparing Students for the Real World (blog post by Peter DeWitt)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12 Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (blog post by Michael Michalko)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Flipping Bloom's Taxonomy (post by Shelley Wright)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Creativity Crisis (article by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Confronting the Creativity Crisis: Questioning, Problematizing, Learning by Doing (post by Jonathan Martin)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What Is Critical Thinking? (blog post by Paul Gary Wyckoff)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What's So Hard About Research? (article by by Jodi Passanisi & Shara Peters)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Avoiding "Learned Helplessness" (article by Andrew Miller)