LibGuides CMS: Education: Books

Finding Books in the Library

You can find books on education related topics in the call numbers in the L-LC range. If you need help finding a book on your topic, ask a librarian!

To find a specific book or to find a book on a specific topic, your best bet is to start first with our library resources. Then work your way out, electronically and geographically. Here are the steps and links to follow. At each level, you can log in with your library card and make an electronic request.

Search the Mondor-Eagen Library catalog.
If we don't have what you need, expand your search to include all of the C/W MARS libraries in Central Massachusetts.

If you still cannot find the material, try searching for it on WorldCat Discovery OR submit an interlibrary loan request to us.

Interlibrary Loan

If we don't have the book (or article) that you're looking for, we can try to get you a copy from another library. It's completely free for you, and all you need to do is fill out the Interlibrary Loan Request Form with the publication information.

Note: Items may take ~7 business days to arrive, depending on whether it is an electronic or physical item, so make sure you request materials you need well ahead of when your project is due!

Books Available at the Library

Better Than Carrots or Sticks
Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together.
I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for our Kids
"One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe and supportive place in the classroom."
Layers of Learning: Using Read-Alouds to Connect Literacy and Caring Conversations
"What if we viewed every read aloud as an invitation to learn more about literacy and ourselves? When we layer together the two ideas that the books we share not only serve an academic purpose, but they also convey big, affective messages, our classroom conversations become richer and student learning becomes more meaningful."
Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
"A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study."
Student-Driven Differentiation: 8 Steps to Harmonize Learning in the Classroom
"What if we understood that we can teach the important ideas and skills of the disciplines in a hundred different ways? And that students can learn them in a hundred different ways?"