I Wish My Teacher Knew
How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids

I Wish My Teacher Knew by Kyle Schwartz is not the book I expected. The publicity for the book implies that the book is about student responses to the author's question. It's not. Rather, this book is research, case studies, and techniques for elementary teachers. In addition, the format of the eboo......more

I Wish Every Teacher Would Read... When Kyle Schwartz asked her elementary students to complete the sentence "I wish my teacher knew...", she did something extraordinary and her students rewarded her with their honesty. "I wish my teacher knew I didn't have pencils at home to do my homework", wrote o......more

I received a copy of the book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The format of this book is poorly done which makes it very hard to follow in some places. It reads like a textbook, but instead of the "box" off to the corner of side, it's right in the middle of the paragraph. Which brea......more

Ehhh, I wouldn’t strongly recommend this one. Maybe it would be inspiring to pre-service teachers? But I think it’s very basic overall, not particularly astounding or challenging in any way… also seems a bit outdated. There are plenty of other relevant books for teachers touching on the same topics.......more

Unfortunately, this book reminds me of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and I think Kyle Schwartz is precisely at the point of the blue arrow when writing this book about the teaching profession!......more