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• [Ambrose2010] Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha C. Lovett, and Marie K. Norman: How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching Jossey-Bass, 2010, 978-0470484104. An excellent overview of what we know about education and why we believe it's true, covering everything from cognitive psychology to social factors.

• [Brookfield2016] Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill: The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking Jossey-Bass, 2016, 978-1119049715. Describes fifty different ways to get groups talking productively.

• [Brown2007] Michael Jacoby Brown: Building Powerful Community Organizations Long Haul Press, 2007, 978-0977151806. An excellent practical introduction to creating effective organizations in and for communities written by someone with decades of experience doing exactly that.

• [Didau2016] David Didau and Nick Rose: What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology John Catt Educational, 2016, 978-1909717855. An informative, opinionated survey of what modern psychology has to say about teaching.

• [Green2014] E. Green: Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) W. W. Norton, 2014, 978-0393244151. A well-written look at why educational reforms in the past 50 years have mostly missed the mark, and what we should be doing instead.

• [Guzdial2015b] Mark Guzdial: _Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone Morgan & Claypool, 2015, 978-1627053518. An evidence-based argument that we must design computing education for everyone, not just people who think they are going to become professional programmers.

• [Huston2009] Therese Huston: Teaching What You Don't Know Harvard University Press, 2009, 978-0674035805. A pointed, funny, and very useful book that explores exactly what the title suggests.

• [Lang2016] James M. Lang: Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning Jossey-Bass, 2016, 978-1118944493. Presents a selection of accessible evidence-based practices that teachers can adopt when they little time and few resources.

• [Lemon2014] Doug Lemov: Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College (2nd edition). Jossey-Bass, 2014, 978-1118901854. Presents 62 classroom techniques drawn from intensive study of thousands of hours of video of good teachers in action.

• [Margolis2003] J. Margolis and A. Fisher: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing MIT Press, 2003, 978-0262632690. A groundbreaking report on the gender imbalance in computing, and the steps Carnegie-Mellon took to address the problem.

Other References

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• [Guzdial2017] Mark Guzdial: "Computing Education Blog". https://computinged.wordpress.com/, viewed April 2017. An informative, frequently-updated blog about computing education.

• [Guzdial2013] Mark Guzdial: "Exploring Hypotheses About Media Computation." Proc. Ninth Annual International ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2013, 10.1145/2493394.2493397. A look back on 10 years of media computation research.

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• [Lee2017] Cynthia Lee: "What Can I Do Today to Create a More Inclusive Community in CS?" http://bit.ly/2oynmSH, viewed April 2017. A practical checklist of things instructors can do to make their computing classes more inclusive.

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• [Nederbragt2016a] Lex Nederbragt: "A Video Introduction to Live Coding Part 1". https://youtu.be/bXxBeNkKmJE, viewed April 2017. How not to use live coding when teaching.

• [Nederbragt2016b] Lex Nederbragt: "A Video Introduction to Live Coding Part 2". https://youtu.be/SkPmwe_WjeY, viewed April 2017. How to use live coding effectively as a teaching technique.

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