Graduate students, postdocs, sessional instructors, librarians, staff, and faculty are welcome to join our reading groups. Each semester we pick one or two books to read and meet to discuss our thoughts, reactions, and how the reading influenced our teaching. All participants who commit to regular participation in the group receive their own copy of the book.
Reading groups are offered during the Fall, Winter and Summer terms.
Fall 2025 Selections
Our selections for Fall 2025 are:
- SNAFU EDU: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom by Jessamyn Neuhaus - Thursdays, 12 - 1pm
- Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing Your Practice Using a Critical Lens by Carolyn Roberts - Mondays, 1 - 2pm
- Burnout From Humans: A Little Book About AI That is Not Really About AI by Aiden Cinnamon Tea & Dorothy Ladybugboss - Mondays, 11 - 12pm
Interested in joining the discussion? Email us at eddev.utm@utoronto.ca
Summer 2025 Selections
Our selections for Summer 2025 were:
- Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity by Sarah Elaine Eaton
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching by Elizabeth A. Norell
Winter 2025 Selections
Our selections for Winter 2025 were:
- Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
- Undoing The Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop by Jesse Stommel
- Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
Fall 2024 Selections
Our selections for Fall 2024 were:
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue
- Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
Past Reading Groups
We began facilitating reading groups in 2018 as a way to build relationships across departments at UTM. Below is a running list of all the books we have read in pedagogical reading groups. We look forward to expanding this list! If you have suggestions for future pedagogical reading group books, please share them with us.
- 99 Tips to Creating Sustainable Online Videos by Karen Costa
- Academic Ableism: Disability And Higher Education by Jay Dolmage
- Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students edited by Benita Bunjun
- AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future edited by Melanie Schmitt
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with Artificial Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
- Creating Engaging Discussions by Jennifer H. Herman
- Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit by Marie Battiste
- Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
- Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Distracted by James Lang
- Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom by John Bean
- Equity-centered Trauma-informed Education by Alex Shervin Venet
- Feel Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
- Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach To Saving The University by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
- Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers by Jessamyn Neuhaus
- Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices that Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education by David Clark and Robert Talbert
- Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
- Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing by Jessica Riddell
- How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching by Joshua Eyler
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose and Michael W. Bridges
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
- Kandassowin 2nd Edition, How We Come to Know: Indigenous Re-Search Methodologies by Kathleen Absolon
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger III & Mark McDaniel
- My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara Ahmed
- Online Teaching at Its Best by Linda Nilson and Ludwika Goodson
- Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning by Jessamyn Neuhaus
- Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity by Sarah Elaine Eaton
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue
- Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by by Kevin M. Gannon
- Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
- Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
- Small Teaching Online by Flower Darby
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang
- So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Specifications Grading by Linda B. Nilson
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning by James Zull
- The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life by Parker J. Palmer
- The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching by Elizabeth A. Norell
- Undoing The Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop by Jesse Stommel
- Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) edited by Susan D. Blum
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain