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Books on Teaching and Learning

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Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

by Jose Antonio Bowen

Bowen’s best-seller gives directions, reasons, creative ideas, software, and resources for flipping your classroom. Games merit his special attention because students find them so engaging. Although the evidence that technology actually increases learning is thin, the value of active learning is indisputable.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1028.3 .B69 2012 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research 1st Edition

by  Linda B. Nilson and Ludwika A. Goodson

Bringing  pedagogy and cognitive science to online learning environments.

This book my be requested at the UT Library. Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

by George Anders

George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education – and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week.

This book my be requested at the UT Library. Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything

by Ulrich Boser

Boser maps out the new science of learning, showing how simple techniques like comprehension check-ins and making material personally relatable can help people gain expertise in dramatically better ways.

This book my be requested at the UT Library. Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning: A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching

by James R. Davis and Bridget D. Arend

This book offers a fresh, overarching organization of how we should be teaching, depending upon our student learning outcomes.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .D377 2013 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain

by Terry Doyle and Todd Zakrajsek

This is a path-breaking book. . . More sophisticated and empirically-grounded that any study skills manual, [it] addresses all the major research findings on how the human brain learns.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB1134 .D68 2013 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College Student

by Arthur Levine and Diane R. Dean

The authors assemble compelling survey evidence for the generalizations they make about Millennial students.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LA 229 .L417 2012 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Interactive Open Educational Resources: A Guide to Finding, Choosing and Using What’s Out There to Transform College Teaching

by John D. Shank

These resources, some of which are interactive, span simulations, games, multimedia tutorials, demonstrations, virtual labs and experiences, animations, videos, and audio recordings.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: ZA 4228 .S53 2014 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel

To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB1060 .B768 2014 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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First Principles of Instruction

by M. David Merrill

This handy resource describes and illustrates the concepts underlying the “First Principles of Instruction” and illustrates First Principles and their application in a wide variety of instructional products.

This books is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1028.38 .M468 2013 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

by L. Dee Fink

This volume offers a new model of integrated course design that links principles of higher level learning, active learning, effective dialogue, and educative assessment to help educators develop skills for lifelong learning in their students.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .F495 2013 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors

by Linda Nilson

This expanded and updated edition of the best-selling handbook is an essential toolbox, full of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, classroom activities and exercises, for the new or experienced college instructor.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .N55 2010 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice

by Maryellen Weimer

In this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation’s most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom.

This book my be requested at the UT Library. Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why it Happens

by Benedict Carey

But what if almost everything we were told about learning is wrong? And what if there was a way to achieve more with less effort? This book addresses that idea.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: BF 318 .C366 2014 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Learner-Centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice

by Terry Doyle

This book presents the research-based case that Learner Centered Teaching (LCT) offers the best means to optimize student learning in college, and offers examples and ideas for putting it into practice, as well the underlying rationale.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1027.23 .D69 2011 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom

by Daniel T. Willingham

This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn—revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.

This book is available at the UT Library Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning

by James E. Zull

James Zull invites teachers in higher education or any other setting to accompany him in his exploration of what scientists can tell us about the brain and to discover how this knowledge can influence the practice of teaching.

This book is available at the UT Library Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

by Lois J. Zachary

Thoughtful and rich with advice, The Mentor’s Guide explores the critical process of mentoring and presents practical tools for facilitating the experience from beginning to end.

This book is available at the UT Library Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Enhanced Learning Through the Scholarshop of Teaching and Learning: The Challenges and Joys of Juggling

by Kathleen McKinney

There has been growing demand for workshops and materials to help those in higher education conduct and use the scholarship of teaching and learning.

This book is available at the UT Library Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Quide to the Process, and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish

by Cathy Bishop-Clark and Beth Dietz-Uhler

It is an exceptionally fine, straight-forward and brief guide for faculty looking at their first SOTL project. For most such readers, it will probably seem to be the most helpful of the guides.

This book is available at the UT Library Reserve Desk (2nd floor)


 

Influential Books on Teaching and Learning Available at the UT Library

(These books are available in the general collection on the book shelves)
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How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching

by Susan A. Ambrose

The authors explain seven learning principles that affect the learning of students’ prior knowledge, their organization of the material, their motivation, and their level of development and class climate, as well as the importance of practice and feedback, the prerequisites of mastery, and the role of self-regulation in self-directed learning.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1025.3 .H68 2010

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What the Best College Teachers Do

by Ken Bain

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation?  The short answer is – it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. They  know how to engage and challenge students.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .B34 2004

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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Expanded Edition

by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking

Expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original hardcover edition can be translated into actions and practice, readers can now make valuable connections between classroom activities and learning behavior.

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1060 .H672 2000, and as an electronic resource at

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/dixie/detail.action?docID=10038789

Additional Books

The following books, while not as influential as those listed on the page before, are still excellent resources. These books are available at the UT library, call numbers and electronic resource information have been provided.

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A Guide to Faculty Development: Practical Advice, Examples, and Resources by Kay Herr. Gillespie

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331.72 .G85 2002 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution by Peggy L. Maki

This can be found on EBRARY.

Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide by Linda Y. Suskie

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2336 .S87 2009 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education by Barbara E. Walvoord

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2822.75 .W35 2004 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

Books, Bytes, and Bridges: Libraries and Computer Centers in Academic Institutions by Larry L. Hardesty

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: Z 675 .U5 .B66 2000 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina

This book is available on EBRARY.

Embracing New Paradigms in Education by H.W. Wilson Company

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LA 209.2 .E43 2014 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation by Georg von Krogh

This book is available through EBRARY.

Excellence in College Teaching and Learning: Classroom and Online Instruction by George Henderson

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .H447 2007 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning: A Resource for More Purposeful Effective and Enjoyable College Teaching by James R. Davis and Bridget D. Areno

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .D377 2013 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1044.75 .B47 2012 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Learning to Think: Disciplinary Perspectives by Janet Gail Donald

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1060 .D64 2002 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Learning Together and Alone: Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning, 5th Edition by David R. Johnson

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1032 .J595 1999 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom: The Realities of Online Teaching by Rena M. Palloff

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1044.87 .P34 2001 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Mckeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, 10th Edition by Wilbert J. McKeachie and Marilla D. Svinicki

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1738 .M35 1999 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student by Rebekah Nathan

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 3605 .N34 2006 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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The Craft of Teaching: a Guide to Mastering the Professor’s Art by Kenneth Eugene Eble

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .E328 1988 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions by Peter Seldin

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2333 .S46 2010 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)
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To Serve a Larger Purpose: Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education by John Saltmarsh

This book is available through EBRARY.

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Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .D37 1993 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Understanding By Design by Grant P. Wiggins

This book is available through EBRARY.

A Learning College for the 21st Century by Terry, O’Banion

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2328.15 .U6 O33 1997 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives, and Practice by Catherine Twomey Fosnot

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1590.3 .C676 1996 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula: A Practical Guide, Revised Edition by Robert M. Diamond

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2361.5 .D5 1998 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)[/two_third_last]

Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms by Stephen D. Brookfield

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .B679 1999 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Dollars, Distance, and Online Education: The New Economics of College Teaching and Learning by Martin J. Finkelstein

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2395.7 .M26 2000 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment by Barbara E. Walvoord

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2368 .W35 1998 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

From Command to Community: A New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges and Universities by Nicholas V. Longo

This book is available through EBRARY.

Gateways to Knowledge: the Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Research by Lawrence Dowler

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: Z 675 .U5 G39 1997 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Global Perspectives on School Libraries: Projects and Practices by Luisa Marquardt

This book is available through EBRARY.

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Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III by Michael L. Kamil

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1050 .H278 2000 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

How College Affects Students: Findings and Insights from Twenty Years of Research by Ernest T. Pascarella

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LA 229 .P34 1991 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom by Ronald A. Beghetto

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1062 .N87 2010 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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On Teaching and Learning in College by Paul L. Dressel

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .D73 1982 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939: Laboratories, Learning, and College Life by Robert Fox

This book is available through EBRARY

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Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom by Chet Meyers

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1027.23 .M49 1993 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Teaching in the Real World: Strategies to Survive and Thrive by Daniel Zukergood

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1025.3 .Z85 2009 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, First American Edition by Greg Lukainoff

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: KF 4242 .L85 2014 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: P 93.5 .T846 1997 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom by Robert E. Cummings

This book is available through EBRARY.

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Wiring the Writing Center by Eric Hobson

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: PE 1404 .W56 1998 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Women’s Ways Of Knowing: The Development Of Self, Voice, And Mind by Mary Belenky

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: HQ 1206 .W88 1986 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Y. Arum

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LA 227.4 .A78 2011 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

Changing College Classrooms: New Teaching and Learning Strategies for an Increasingly Complex World by Diane F. Halpern

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .C4543 1994 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

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Civic Engagement in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices by Thomas Ehrlich

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LC 220.5 .C58 2009 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty by Elizabeth F. Barkley

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: call number: LB 1032 .B318 2005 Reserve Desk (2nd floor)

College Libraries and Student Culture: What We Now Know by Lynda M. Duke

This book is available through EBRARY.

Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines: from Learning Theory to College Teaching by E. J. Mastascusa

This book is available through EBRARY.

How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course: Achieving Student-Centered Learning Through Blended Classroom, Online, and Experiential Activities by Jay Caulfield and Alan Aycock

This book is available through EBRARY.

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Interdisciplinary Handbook of Adult Lifespan Learning by Jan D. Sinnott

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LC 5225 .L42 I58 1994 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning by Mary E. Huba

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .H83 2000 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Learning Spaces by Diana Oblinger

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1060 .T854 2006 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Learning that Lasts: Integrated Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond by Marcia Mentkowski

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1060 .M464 2000 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Teaching on Solid Ground: Using Scholarship to Improve Practice by Robert J. Menges

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2331 .T418 1996 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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The Adjunct Professor’s Guide to Success: Surviving and Thriving in the College Classroom by Richard E. Lyons

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 1778.2 .L96 1999 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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The Adult Student’s Guide to Survival and Success by Al Siebert

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2343.32 .S556 2003 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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The Aims of College Teaching by Kenneth Eugene Eble

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: call number: LB 2331 .E327 1983 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach by Judith Grunert O’Brien

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2361 .G78 2008 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to be an Educated Human Being by Richard M. Gamble

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LA 5 .G74 2007 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Stop Plagiarism: a Guide to Understanding and Prevention by Viviana Bowman Cvetkovic

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: PN 167 .S76 2010 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)

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Librarians as Community Partners: an Outreach Handbook by Carol Smallwood

This book is available through EBRARY.

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Whatever it Takes: Transforming American Schools: the Project GRAD Story by Holly Holland

This book is available at the UT Library, call number: LB 2822.82 H64 2005 Reserve Desk. (2nd floor)