Hey there! I hope you're enjoying These 6 Things, and I'm so glad that you've come to this handy dandy list of the books and studies that informed by work in each chapter. I'll probably add to this as time goes on and my research deepens, so feel free to check back once in awhile! Also, for any of the links below that take you to Amazon, keep in mind that I've chosen to link to Amazon because first, I find it most convenient, and second, Amazon gives me a small commission on every sale, and I use those commissions to fund book purchases for my research or classroom libraries 
Teaching right beside you,
Dave Stuart Jr.
Chapter 1: Teaching Toward Everest
- FOCUS: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, by Mike Schmoker
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown (this one also makes for a great audiobook listen)
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't, by Jim Collins
Chapter 2: Cultivate Key Beliefs
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- Teaching Adolescents To Become Learners: The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review, by Camille Farrington et. al.
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough
- Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why, by Paul Tough
- The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, by James J. Heckman and John Eric Humphries
Chapter 3: Build Knowledge Purposefully & Often
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
- A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), by Barbara Oakley
- How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens, by Benedict Carey
Chapter 4: Argue Purposefully & Often
- Good Thinking: Teaching Argument, Persuasion, and Reasoning, by Erik Palmer
- They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Fourth Edition), by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
- Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind, by Gerald Graff
- Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response, by Jennifer Fletcher
- Cross-X: The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate on Community on Race, Power, and Education, by Joe Miller
Chapter 5: Read Purposefully & Often
- Text-Dependent Questions, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Close and Critical Reading, by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
- Rigorous Reading: 5 Access Points for Comprehending Complex Texts, by Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
- Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading, by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
- Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies, by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
- Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters, by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
- Vocabulary Is Comprehension: Getting to the Root of Text Complexity, by Laura Robb
- Whole Novels for the Whole Class: A Student-Centered Approach, by Ariel Sacks
- No More Fake Reading: Merging the Classics With Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers, by Berit Gordon
- Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers, by Penny Kittle
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It, by Kelly Gallagher
Chapter 6: Write Purposefully & Often
- The 6 Academic Writing Assignments: Designing the User's Journey, by Jim Burke (available October 2018)
- Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts, by Kelly Gallagher
- This Is Disciplinary Literacy: Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Doing Content Area by Content Area, by ReLeah Cossett Lent
- Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, by Penny Kittle
Chapter 7: Speak Purposefully & Often
- Well Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students, by Erik Palmer
- In the Best Interest of Students: Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom, by Kelly Gallagher (cf. Gallagher's chapter on speaking and listening)
- Own Any Occasion: Mastering the Art of Speaking and Presenting, by Erik Palmer
- Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds, by Carmine Gallo
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