Designed for anyone interested in teaching and learning, Perusall® Engage is a community reading event that allows participants to engage with the authors, engage with each other, and engage with the book content in our social reading platform. Plus, you can participate at your own pace and on your schedule.
Our next book event starts January 13th -- sign up for each event below!
January 13th through February 9th, 2025
Failing Our Future is an indictment of the grading system in American schools and colleges—and a blueprint for how we can change it.
Eyler illustrates how grades interfere with students' intrinsic motivation and perpetuate the idea that school is a place for competition rather than discovery. Grades force students to focus on rewards and distract them from exploring ideas or pursuing interests beyond what they'll be tested on. In fact, grades significantly impede the learning process. They are also significantly affecting children's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation have spiked, and academic stress tied to grades is a leading cause of this escalation.
Eyler shares success stories of grading reform efforts that are already under way as an antidote to the harms caused by the practices currently used in educational institutions. Equal parts scathing and hopeful, Failing Our Future aims to improve the lives of students by encouraging them to define success on their own terms. Parents, educators, policymakers, and students will find in these pages a rallying cry for change and a blueprint for how to implement reforms in our homes and classrooms.
Join us for a 4-week asynchronous, author-facilitated, communal reading experience on Dr. Eyler’s book, Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It.
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February 10th through March 9th, 2025
Building on the framework presented in the best-selling Creating Cultures of Thinking, Ron Ritchhart’s new book, Cultures of Thinking in Action, takes the next step in helping readers not only understand how a culture of thinking looks and feels, but also how to create it for themselves and their learners. Arguing that no set of practices or techniques alone is sufficient to create a culture of thinking in and of itself, Ritchhart explores the underlying beliefs that motivate the creation of cultures of thinking, presenting key mindsets every educator and leader needs to embrace if they are serious about creating powerful thinkers and learners.
Much more than just an instructional guide, Cultures of Thinking in Action offers readers a reflective journey into their own teaching, leading, and parenting while providing the foundation and concrete strategies needed to create and develop a culture of thinking for all learners.
Join us for a 4-week asynchronous, author-facilitated, communal reading experience on Dr. Ron Ritchhart’s book, Cultures of Thinking in Action.
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March 10th through April 6th, 2025
In these days of an ever-expanding internet, generative AI, and term paper mills, students may find it too easy and tempting not to cheat, and teachers may think they can’t keep up. What’s needed, and what Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger offer in this timely book, is a new approach—one that works with the realities of the twenty-first century, not just to protect academic integrity but also to maximize opportunities for students to learn.
Join us for a 4-week asynchronous, author-facilitated, communal reading experience on Dr. Bertram Gallant’s and Dr. Rettinger’s book, The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI.
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April 7th through May 4th, 2025
A Teacher’s Guide to Conversational AI explores the practical role that language-based artificial intelligence tools play in classroom teaching, learning experiences, and student assessment. Today’s educators are well aware that conversational and generative AI―chatbots, intelligent tutoring systems, large language models, and more―represent a complex new factor in teaching and learning. This introductory primer offers comprehensive, novice-friendly guidance into the challenges and opportunities of incorporating AI into K-12 schools and college classes in ways that are appropriate, nourishing to students, and outcomes-driven.
Join us for a 4-week asynchronous, author-facilitated, communal reading experience on Dr. Joyner’s book, A Teacher's Guide to Conversational AI.
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Are you interested in hosting a book event through your Center for Teaching and Learning? Do you have a book publishing in 2025 on teaching and learning? Contact us.
Ask questions, give feedback, and engage with the authors as you read. Get access to curated resources and advice.
The event is asynchronous so you can read at your own pace and on your own schedule. Start conversation threads, upvote particularly useful observations, have some fun with emojis or GIFs and keep the conversation lively.
The Perusall platform allows participants to exchange ideas, experiences, and build a sense of community while reading collaboratively.
There is a $15 fee to access the book for 8 weeks. A discount coupon will be provided for attendees who wish to purchase a print copy after the event.
July 22nd through August 17th, 2024
Do you have a lucky charm? OK, I’ll confess—it’s silly, but I have a pair of lucky shoes. I know, on an intellectual level, that the particular pair of shoes I choose to wear on any given day cannot possibly affect the course of events in the universe—but still, when I find I need a bit of luck, those shoes are on my feet. Luck is a great example of an irrational behavior that persists even in the face of evidence that it is irrational. Belief in luck crosses all the lines that usually separate us—culture, religion, class, even political affiliation. What are the Chances? Why We Believe in Luck explores what psychology, neuroscience, history, philosophy and religion can tell us about luck.
Winner of the 2023 American Psychological Association's William James Book Award.
May 13th through June 9th, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. This book offers a practical guide to how faculty can harness and manage AI as a research, work and teaching tool.
February 26th through March 22nd, 2024
Memory is still important for learning even in an age of smartphones, search engines, and AI. This book offers college teachers an engaging introduction to how memory works and how it’s affected by technology, with advice on how to help students build the knowledge they need to succeed.
January 15th through February 9th, 2024
Ludic Pedagogy: A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn outlines why and how having fun and positive experiences in college and university classes (and not just at social events or parties) leads to increased student success in face-to-face, hybrid, hyflex, or online environments. It provides readers with the Ludic Pedagogy model, together with how instructors can employ the elements of the model – play, playfulness, and positivity – in the courses that they teach.
January 15th through February 9th, 2024
Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system? Does it accurately reflect your students’ learning and progress? Can it be gamed? Does it lead to grade-grubbing and friction with your students? The authors of this book offer readers a fundamentally more effective and authentic approach to grading that they have implemented for over a decade.
January 15th through February 9th, 2024
Online learning can be so dull. Enter Design for Learning. Whether you’re a novice or experienced online instructional designer, you’ll learn how to apply industry best practices, how-to examples, powerful templates, and compelling activities to craft compelling instructional content for text, audio, and video. Read, enjoy, and create online learning experiences that will never be called “dull”!
May 1st through May 31st, 2023
Do your teaching behaviors promote student success? Can you build a persuasive case demonstrating your teaching effectiveness? Critical Teaching Behaviors can help you identify behaviors that lead to improved student outcomes and guide you in documenting and discussing your teaching achievements with colleagues.
April 3rd through April 30th, 2023
Read Principles of Marketing for a Digital Age, 2e collaboratively with other marketing instructors from around the world, share your best classroom strategies for effective learning and interact with content socially through Perusall.
Sage Publishing and Perusall have partnered to provide a new kind of textbook review: an asynchronous reading event of the award-winning Principles of Marketing for a Digital Age, 2e.
February 9th through March 30th, 2023
The University of Glasgow's global reading group provides the opportunity for academics, alumni, students, and the public to join together as a global community to read and discuss Adam Smith’s work through examining the Wealth of Nations.
