The holiday season is officially here, so it’s time to find the perfect gifts for the educators on your list! To make your shopping as stress-free as possible, we’ve compiled a list of books that make wonderful presents, and have broken them down into helpful categories. Whether you’re shopping for K–12 teachers or community college leaders, scientists or artists, HEP has you covered with our wide-ranging, groundbreaking titles.
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#BlackEducatorsMatter
The Experiences of Black Teachers in an Anti-Black World
Edited by Darrius A. Stanley
Winner of the 2024 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics Choice Book Award
The personal accounts, educator portraits, and research findings assembled by Darrius A. Stanley in #BlackEducatorsMatter constitute an unstinting exploration of the experiences of Black K–12 teachers in the United States.
From Tinkering to Transformation
How School District Central Offices Drive Equitable Teaching and Learning
By Meredith I. Honig and Lydia R. Rainey
Winner of the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division A’s Excellence in Research Award
In From Tinkering to Transformation, Meredith I. Honig and Lydia R. Rainey call on superintendents and other district leaders to rethink the very premises that underlie the long-standing ways of working in their central offices.
Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms
By David Stroupe
Winner of the 2024 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award
In Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms, David Stroupe promotes powerful conversation and action around knowledge-building practices in science education
Not Paved for Us
Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia
By Camika Royal
Winner of the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Book Award
Not Paved for Us chronicles a fifty-year period in Philadelphia education, and offers a critical look at how school reform efforts do and do not transform outcomes for Black students and educators.
“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”
Resistance to Change in Higher Education
By Brian Rosenberg
2024 PROSE Award Finalist
In “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It,” president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit meaningful postsecondary reform.
Teaching Climate Change
Fostering Understanding, Resilience, and a Commitment to Justice
By Mark Windschitl
Teaching Climate Change lays out a comprehensive, NGSS-aligned approach to climate change education that builds in-depth knowledge of the subject, empowers students, and promotes a social justice mindset.
Transformative Science Teaching
A Catalyst for Justice and Sustainability
By Daniel Morales-Doyle
Transformative Science Teaching promotes science instruction as a venue to fuel students’ imaginations, complex thinking, and commitments to sustainability while also cultivating their sense of wonder about the world.
Black, Brown, Bruised
How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation
By Ebony Omotola McGee
2022 PROSE Award Finalist
Black, Brown, Bruised reveals the challenges that underrepresented racially minoritized students confront in order to succeed in these exclusive, usually all-White, academic and professional realms.
Ambitious Science Teaching
By Mark Windschitl, Jessica Thompson and Melissa Braaten
Winner of Choice‘s 2018 Outstanding Book Award
Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds.
Teach for Climate Justice
A Vision for Transforming Education
By Tom Roderick
In Teach for Climate Justice, accomplished educator and social and emotional learning expert Tom Roderick proposes a visionary interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to PreK–12 climate education.
How Schools Make Race
Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
By Laura C. Chávez-Moreno
In How Schools Make Race, Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students’ concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity.
Learning While Black and Queer
Understanding the Educational Experiences of Black LGBTQ+ Youth
By Ed Brockenbrough
In Learning While Black and Queer, Ed Brockenbrough outlines common obstacles to educational equity for Black youth in the LGBTQ+ community and suggests ways for educators to foster the success of Black queer students.
Radical Brown
Keeping the Promise to America’s Children
By Margaret Beale Spencer and Nancy E. Dowd
In Radical Brown, renowned developmental scholar Margaret Beale Spencer and critical legal analyst Nancy E. Dowd offer a fresh perspective on the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools
Edited by Royel M. Johnson and Shaun R. Harper
The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools delivers a collective response to the challenge of racially charged misinformation, disinformation, and censorship that increasingly permeates and weakens not only US education but also our democracy.
Teaching from an Ethical Center
Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction
By Cara E. Furman
In Teaching from an Ethical Center, Cara E. Furman proposes a process for bringing philosophical inquiry into teacher education and adopting it as a centering tool to enrich teaching practice and help teachers act justly.
Deep in Thought
A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues
By Jason Baehr
Deep in Thought provides an introduction to intellectual virtues—the personal qualities and character strengths of good thinkers and learners—and outlines a pragmatic approach for teachers to reinforce them in the classroom.
Delivering Promise
Equity-Driven Educational Change and Innovation in Community and Technical Colleges
By Xueli Wang
In Delivering Promise, award-winning scholar of higher education Xueli Wang tells a story of educational change and innovation that has and continues to occur at countless campuses of community and technical colleges.
A Blueprint for Equity-Driven Community College Leadership
By Pamela L. Eddy and Kim E. VanDerLinden
Pamela L. Eddy and Kim E. VanDerLinden offer discerning guidance for advancing social justice and addressing persistent opportunity gaps in US higher education in A Blueprint for Equity-Driven Community College Leadership.
Discredited
Power, Privilege, and Community College Transfer
By Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar
In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions.
Social Justice Art Education, Second Edition
A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy
By Marit Dewhurst
In Social Justice Art Education, Marit Dewhurst examines how to teach art-making to address systems of injustice, how to talk about the process, and the role of activist art projects not only in school classrooms but also within museum education, afterschool education, and other youth programming.
Visual Thinking Strategies
Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines
By Philip Yenawine
Winner of Choice‘s 2014 Outstanding Book Award
In Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), Philip Yenawine shows how VTS can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.
The Privateers
How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
By Josh Cowen
In The Privateers, Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization.
Deliberative Policymaking
Redesigning How We Make Education Policy
By Elizabeth Grant
In Deliberative Policymaking, Elizabeth Grant advances a fresh framework for making collective decisions about US schools. Grant argues that education policy itself can be made fundamentally better by improving education policymaking methods.
Going the Distance
The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World
By Lora Bartlett, Alisun Thompson, Judith Warren Little, and Riley Collins
In Going the Distance, Lora Bartlett, Alisun Thompson, Judith Warren Little, and Riley Collins examine the professional conditions that support career commitment among K–12 educators—and the factors that threaten teacher retention.
Educational Pluralism and Democracy
How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools
By Ashley Rogers Berner
In Educational Pluralism and Democracy, education policy expert Ashley Rogers Berner envisions a K–12 education system that serves both the individual and the common good.
Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction, Second Edition
By Jacy Ippolito, Christina L. Dobbs and Megin Charner-Laird
Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction, Second Edition outlines disciplinary literacy professional learning that not only supports the development of new instructional skills but also inspires hope, authentic engagement, and collaboration among teachers and educational teams.
Teaching with Literacy Programs
Equitable Instruction for All
By Patricia A. Edwards, Kristen L. White, Laura J. Hopkins, and Ann M. Castle
In Teaching with Literacy Programs, Patricia A. Edwards, Kristen L. White, Laura J. Hopkins, and Ann M. Castle present a model that allows educators to address educational inequity through the critical and adaptive use of existing literacy curriculum materials.