The Alberta Teachers’ Association

These resources are now available through the ATA library.

The ATA library has great resources for teachers in print and online. Library staff are happy to mail out whatever you need to wherever you are, and we prepay the return postage for you. Drop us a line at library@ata.ab.ca and let us know how we can help you with your teaching this year.

1. Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons
A book for teachers that emphasizes the pedagogy rather than the technology in makerspaces. Readers will learn how to develop and assess powerful learning for their students. 

2. Génocides : usages et mésusages d’un concept
À l’ère des revendications mémorielles de toutes sortes qui investissent le débat public, l’auteur, professeur de science politique à l’université Rennes 1, s’interroge sur l’usage « inflationniste » du terme de génocide. Il plaide pour une définition rigoureuse des pratiques génocidaires et met en garde contre les captations politiques qui menacent aujourd’hui de brouiller leur compréhension.

3. Digging Deeper: Making Number Talks Matter Even More (Grades 3–10)
Authors Ruth Parker and Cathy Humphreys tie the strategies in this book directly to the online videos of their classroom practice. 

4. L’instinct de volonté : comment renforcer votre persévérance et mettre fin à la procrastination pour atteindre enfin tous vos objectifs
Cette capacité à contrôler notre attention, nos émotions ou nos comportements qu’est la volonté peut transformer notre vie. Elle peut améliorer notamment notre santé et notre bienêtre, nos relations, notre succès professionnel... Ce livre propose un programme complet pour identifier vos objectifs, renforcer votre maitrise de vous-même et commencer à transformer votre vie. 

5. Knowing the Past, Facing the Future: Indigenous Education in Canada
An essential read for teachers who want to create a better future for all their students, both Indigenous and settlers. 

6. Practicing Presence: Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers
This book offers insights into handling the stresses of work and home for teachers while taking time to appreciate the small things and be present in every moment. 

7. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Picking up from her previous exploration of reading and the brain in Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf discusses what is now happening to the brain as it adapts to reading digital media. 

8. Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone
Design thinking is the crux of makerspaces. This small book demonstrates how design thinking can be used to solve a host of problems in all sorts of industries. 

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From The Ashes by Jesse Thistle. This is an excellent pick. The selection is Canadian, timely, educational and a page turner.

Andrew Bullen 
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe. I like the sense of humour and rigour of it all.

Kelly Johnston 
The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew. The story is beautifully written and mesmerizing from beginning to end.

Chad Durling 
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Nonfiction about how our intent to protect today’s children may be backfiring.

Anna Nowakowski Hayes 
The Overstory by Richard Powers. A wonderful book about trees told through stories about people. I’ve never read a book like it. Absolutely wonderful.

Irene Deatcher 
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane. Shane has taken what is (to me) a complex idea and made it very understandable and humorous. The main title came from an experiment whereby she trained artificial intelligence to generate pickup lines.