Teaching for Change

 

If you’re not familiar with Teaching for Change, then let me introduce you.  Teaching for Change is a great not-for-profit organization that provides teachers, parents, and students with the tools needed to make schools and learning better.  The goals is to make schools a comprehensive community where students learn to read, write and change the world.  They manage bookstores in one of my favorite Washington, DC area restaurants, Busboys and Poets, which is much more than a mere restaurant.  One thing I like is their annually list of recommended books. They range in scope and content, from fiction to non-fiction, leisure reading to textbooks, this collection would have something to attract the attention of everyone who enjoys reading. I encourage you to check out the 2013 list below.  Happy reading.

2013 FAVORITES 

When the Beat Was Born DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop	Each Kindness	Knock, Knock	The Lightning Dreamer Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist
Sugar	If I Ever Get Out of Here	Teaching About  The Wars	Rethinking Mathematics Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers
Reign of Error The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools	Game Over How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down	Eslanda The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson	Mo’ Meta Blues The World According to Questlove
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks	Shocking the Conscience A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement	Claire of the Sea Light	Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry	Chorus	Madiba A to Z The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela	Americanah