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Read any good books lately? Raymond and Alyssa talk about the abundance of book studies and book clubs they're seeing right now, including the books we're reading in the Office of Standards and Instructional Support.

Links (linking does not imply an endorsement by the Colorado Department of Education):

• Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy by James P. Spillane: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674021099
• High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching by Jim Knight: https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/high-impact-instruction/book234377
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond: https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/culturally-responsive-teaching-and-the-brain/book241754
• Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better by Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, and Paul G. LeMahieu: https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/resources/publications/learning-to-improve/
• Taking Action book study from the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics: https://cctmath.org/taking-action

Hosts: Raymond Johnson (johnson_r@cde.state.co.us) and Alyssa Wooten (wooten_a@cde.state.co.us)

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