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Jossey-Bass
I'm about to get involved in the education market, and one of the books that I've enjoyed is How learning works.
I believe in a world where information is readily accessible, it's a teacher's job to not just teach the course, but to help students learn about how they learn.
I work at a community college, and we definitely have a significant number of students who are people of color and/or live in economic precarity. So, it sounds like we are interested in working with similar populations of students. Here are a few resources I've found helpful:
Reading on critical pedagogy for a theoretical framework. Freire and Giroux are where I'd start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_pedagogy
The idea of backward design for semester-length planing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_design
I'm having trouble finding a good resource to link to quickly, but the idea of transparency in lesson design seems important to me.
"How Learning Works" and "What the Best College Teachers Do" for more day to day things:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Principles/dp/0470484101
https://www.amazon.com/What-Best-College-Teachers-Do/dp/0674013255/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F2A8M8CSVQKDBS14P2QC
"In The Middle" for a good outline of a workshop approach to teaching writing
https://www.heinemann.com/inthemiddle/
I haven't found a good single book that talks about teaching active reading, but there are a lot of resources online, and I've found teaching it explicitly and modeling it for my students as part of a whole class discussion to work pretty well.
As far as the critical theory aspect of reading (which I do think should be taught early on and even to people who are just beginning to read at the college level) I like "Texts and Contexts" and "Critical Encounters"
https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Encounters-High-School-English/dp/0807748927
https://www.amazon.com/Texts-Contexts-Writing-Literature-Critical/dp/0205716741
Hope that's helpful! Good luck to you!
Follow the data: How Learning Works by Susan Ambrose.
How Learning Works is a good one.
https://www.amazon.ca/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Principles/dp/0470484101
The book I consistently recommend is: How Learning Works (I have no stake in it, just think it's one of the better ones). amazon link here