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Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom

Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D., and veteran K-12 teacher Patrice M. Bain,…

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1 author picked Powerful Teaching as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love books with specific, pragmatic ways to change what I do in the classroom.

Every chapter of this book was packed with something I wanted to try. There are a lot of general suggestions floating around (e.g., more active learning), but what exactly does a teacher do?

This book is a great compliment to my book. The former gives students pragmatic tips, and this one is packed with examples for teachers. 

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