Book Review: Never Work Harder than Your Students

I spotted Never Work Harder than Your Students, by Robyn Jackson, on a friend's bookshelf, but didn't have time to read much of it; took it out of the library; didn't have time to read much of it; and finally ordered a copy, which I am now quickly skating through.

First impressions.

The form of the book is self-helpy. It starts with a quiz; it has its own website; it occasionally breaks out with a term like "Master Teacher" that you sense the author is just waiting to trademark.

But:
The content of the book is great. Some of it is obvious but all of it is getting good ideas crackling.

So, so far, I recommend it.

(The title is misleading -- it's not a book about keeping teachers from working too hard; it's a grab bag of pedagogical insights.)

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