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This resource empowers readers to oppose reform efforts that minimize teacher agency by offering an evidence-based approach to teacher-led instructional improvement. The text provides structures for attending to students' interests, knowledge, and values when planning, teaching, reflecting, and revising instruction.

After a decade as an education professor, Greg Michie decided to return to his teaching roots. Same As It Never Was chronicles Michie's efforts to navigate the new realities of public schooling while also trying to rediscover himself as a teacher.

Learn how to design history lessons that foster students' knowledge, skills, and dispositions for civic engagement. Each section of this resource introduces a key element of civic engagement, such as defending the rights of others, advocating for change, taking action when problems are observed, and working with others to achieve common goals.

Shows how asking questions and posing problems spark curiosity and encourage learners to think deeply and make meaningful connections across the curriculum. At the centre of this approach is creativity, with contemporary visual art as its inspiration.

Focuses on the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of immigrant-origin community college students. Drawing on data from the Research on Immigrants in Community College Study, this book looks at what community colleges can do to better help this growing population of new Americans succeed.

Written by and for visual art educators, this resource offers guidance on how to execute Community-Based Art Education in the pre-K-12 classroom and with adult learners, taking a broad view towards intergenerational art learning. Chapters include vignettes, exemplars of practice, and curriculum examples.

Explore how one classroom community played with and engaged in authorship. The authors illustrate how curriculum can be authentically and meaningfully integrated. They also offer a unique perspective on the development of language and literacy practices by framing children's play narratives as the foundation from which rich curricula can grow.

A must-read for new teachers and seasoned practitioners, this book presents Sonia Nieto and Alicia Lopez, mother and daughter, writing about the trajectories, vision, and values that brought them to teaching, including the ups and downs and the reasons why they have remained in one of the most difficult, and most rewarding of professions.

Writing lesson plans is often considered busywork, but it can be a useful path for discovering what's important about artmaking and teaching. Featuring clear definitions, practical examples, and self-reflection prompts, this resource will help teachers create lesson plans that are useful to their specific contexts and methods of teaching.

Provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, Michael Wehmeyer notes how the digital revolution has made it possible for all learners to gain access to content and instruction.

Presents an examination of the development, evolution, and current realities of educating emergent bilinguals in US classrooms. The text begins by showing how the authors evolved from monolingual language educators to translanguaging educators and ends with concrete takeaways for successfully using an inclusive translanguaging approach.

Education policymakers often demonstrate surprisingly little awareness of how popular reforms impact teaching and teacher education. In this book, scholars help readers develop a more robust understanding of the nature of teacher preparation, as well as an in-depth grasp of how popular policies, practices, and ideologies have taken root.

Education policymakers often demonstrate surprisingly little awareness of how popular reforms impact teaching and teacher education. In this book, scholars help readers develop a more robust understanding of the nature of teacher preparation, as well as an in-depth grasp of how popular policies, practices, and ideologies have taken root.

Discover new strategies to create equitable, engaging, interactive classroom environments where students from all backgrounds are motivated to take risks, share their unique perspectives, and develop their own identities as powerful life-long learners.

Focuses on the contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, the author helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population.

Examines the major issues that must still be addressed if children are to be given more and better opportunities. This second edition will help everyone whose work impacts the ECE workforce to deepen their commitment to adaptive and systems work and to develop the leadership capacity needed to become change agents.

Education activist William Ayers invites new and prospective teachers to consider the deepest dimensions of a life in teaching. This guide features hands-on advice and examples of classroom practice, including curriculum-making, building relationships with students, fostering an effective learning environment, and teaching toward freedom.

Topics include trauma-informed frameworks, policies affecting homelessness and housing insecurity, transitioning to college, supporting college retention, collaborations and partnerships, and transitioning to life after college.

Partnerships are now pervasive in global education and development. Through case studies of prominent multi-stakeholder partnerships, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the global education network, this book exposes clear power imbalances that persist in the international aid environment.

Guides teachers through the design of tasks, lessons, and units of study that invite English learners (and all students) to engage in meaningful and intellectually engaging activity. The book offers direction for designing lessons and units and provides examples that demonstrate the approach in various subject areas.

What is gender identity justice, why does it matter, and what are the implications for not doing this work in today's schools? This book opens up spaces where evolving, indeterminate gender identities will be understood and recognized as asset-based, rich sources for learning literacy and literacy learning.

Guides teachers through the design of tasks, lessons, and units of study that invite English learners (and all students) to engage in meaningful and intellectually engaging activity. The book offers direction for designing lessons and units and provides examples that demonstrate the approach in various subject areas.

Designed to strengthen the teaching of mathematics in the elementary grades, this book focuses on helping teachers engage in instruction based on learning trajectories. Renowned scholars examine four exemplary projects with details on professional development design, teacher learning, and project implementation.

Learn how exemplary countries are advancing the development of their youngest citizens. Drawing on a groundbreaking study, The Early Advantage 2 extracts the essential elements from six high-performing systems to determine what must be considered when creating and implementing programs and policies for young children and their families.

Promotes the widespread application of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to better prepare K-12 teachers to bring an informed asset-based approach to teaching today's highly diverse populations. The text explores the tradition of CRT in teacher education and expands CRT into new contexts, including LatCrit, AsianCrit, TribalCrit, QueerCrit, and BlackCrit.

Covers common challenges teachers face in a variety of situations, including conducting honest parent-teacher conferences, dealing with discipline issues, responding to confrontational parents, and educating neurodiverse students. Each module includes questions, worksheets, and background information for developing asset-based approaches.

Drawing on their work with more than 800 teachers and administrators, the authors present a pedagogical model that challenges teachers to modify the way they plan and implement their lessons to better support the linguistic, cognitive, and social-emotional development of culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Challenges prevailing notions about autism by offering the viewpoint of adolescents on the spectrum through their writing, photography, poetry, art, and more. This book is a critical resource for teacher preparation and professional learning in any field that interacts with individuals with autism or other disabilities.

Designed to strengthen the teaching of mathematics in the elementary grades, this book focuses on helping teachers engage in instruction based on learning trajectories. Renowned scholars examine four exemplary projects with details on professional development design, teacher learning, and project implementation.