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Comprehensively addresses different mathematical domains for grades 3-8. Marian Small shows new and veteran teachers how to do three fundamental things well: identify the most important math to assess, construct formative and summative assessments, and provide students with clear and timely feedback.

This practical book will help readers understand what STEAM is, how it differs from STEM, and how it can be used to engage students in K-8 classrooms. The authors present a conceptual model with classroom examples and specific strategies, such as problem-based learning, student choice, technology integration, and teacher facilitation.

Drawing from a professional development model that was developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, this book is an essential resource for anyone who wants to support preschool children to be STEM thinkers and doers. The text features research-based resources, examples of field-tested activities, and highlights from the classroom.

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.

Drawing on decades of research and examples from their own practices, the authors provide best practices in race dialogue facilitation. Through concrete lesson plans and hands-on material, both experienced and novice facilitators can immediately use this inclusive curriculum in a variety of classrooms, work spaces, and organisations.

Argues that if educators want to create more equitable, socially just, and learner-focused schools, then they need a more robust, transformational theory of school change - an "UnCommon Theory". This practical book provides readers with the knowledge and tools needed to do more than just tinker at the edges of school improvement.

This handbook will help educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing.

Since the 2016 presidential election, the term fake news has become part of the national discourse. In this book, leading civic education scholars unpack why fake news is effective and show K-12 educators how they can teach their students to be critical consumers of the political media they encounter.

Offers educators evidence-based best practices to help them address the individual needs of English learners with academic challenges and those who have been referred for special education services. The authors include guidance and specific tools to help districts, schools, and classrooms use multi-tiered systems of support and other interventions.

Nieto and Lopez document their reasons for becoming teachers and share some of the most important lessons they have learned along the way. Using journals, blogs, current writings, and their research, they explore how their views on curriculum, pedagogy, and the field of education itself have evolved over the years.

Chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District that created an environment with high expectations for the engagement and achievement of Black boys. The text features reflection chapters by leading experts on Black male achievement.

Blending the latest research in education, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, this resource will help K-12 teachers create emotionally supportive classroom environments. Sections ground teachers in three aspects of instruction: The Heart of Teaching: Social-Emotional Learning; The Science of Teaching; and 21st-Century Classroom Applications.

Provides an overview of the fundamentals of teaching in early childhood settings (pre-K-2), with a focus on what high-quality practices look like. The book details the features of developmentally appropriate, linguistically responsive, culturally sustaining teaching and how this approach can prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century.

This groundbreaking volume encourages educational leaders to reposition the way they think about leadership and its challenges. Experienced school and district leaders reveal how they conceptualize their roles; how they learn by posing and solving problems of practice; and how they cope with increasing expectations and complexity in their work.

Examines the period between World War I and the 1980s, focusing on how US schools countered the influence of fascist and communist ideologies, as well as racial discrimination. The author also considers this approach in light of current-day interests in the Common Core State Standards.

Provides teachers with the tools to use discussion protocols to support students in developing crucial skills as readers, writers, critical thinkers, and active participants within the classroom community. For each protocol the authors provide a clear set of steps, tips for teachers and students, and a story of a teacher using the protocol.

Featuring three new chapters and extensive updating, the second edition of this groundbreaking book describes current research that confirms the importance of key elements in the authors' summer reading model that are essential to ensure gains for low-income, low-achieving students.

In this graphic novel, Branham advocates for art education in school, while also providing a rationale for how art education can play a part in enhancing education curricula in the common core era, and provides a succinct look at art education and its history and function in the American education system in the form of a graphic novel.

Offers readers a unique and progressive approach for preparing prospective and inservice teachers, and graduate students, to effectively teach the literacy skills to K-12 students that are needed for eventual college and career success. The book's focus is on engaging teachers, as adult learners, in professional learning that is collaborative, substantive, situated, dynamic, intense, and personal.

Based on a major international teacher education research project - the Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century Study (MT21) - this book investigates the pre-service preparation of middle school mathematics teachers in the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Bulgaria, and Mexico. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation and the participating countries.

Presents the newest research linking graphic narratives and literacy learning, as well as the tools teachers will need to make comic book projects a success in their classrooms.

Asks a question that many educators may think, but won't say out loud: Does compliance with IDEA legislation matter? The author acknowledges that, while compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is important, it can also be an administrative burden that detracts from practitioners' capacity to serve students with disabilities.

Through research data and conversations among teachers, readers will explore the impact trauma has on the lives of African American students, examine how their own identities and perceptions of these students influence their text selections and instruction, and identify the conditions needed to engage African American male students in literacy.

Blending vivid descriptions of classroom life with equity and language research, the author urges teachers to be aware of and intentional about the power of their interactions with students - in everything from their classroom decor and informal hallway chats to their responses to challenging moments during class and in after-class discussions.

Examines how the use of the "at risk" category and label creates problems for students and teachers. Drawing from research across various education sites, the author illustrates how educators recognise the label's potential to redress issues of equity, but warns that it can also stigmatize the students so labelled.

Outlines what good teachers know, what they do, and how they embrace culturally responsive teaching. This book includes school reform efforts, an introduction and a chapter that talks about the issues such as closing the achievement gap, and to legislation such as No Child Left Behind.

Learn how to engage and advocate for undocumented children and youth with this new resource written by and for teachers. Teachers as Allies provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences.

Amusing stories about a variety of familiar situations are written in a clear style using common, easily understood words. The stories have humorous aspects that add to reading enjoyment and provoke discussion. The ten Yes-No questions following each story aid to checking each learner's progress in reading and thinking skills.

Word study integrates decoding/phonics, spelling, and vocabulary instruction to help struggling readers identify unfamiliar words in order to improve reading comprehension. This book provides secondary teachers with practical strategies to embed word study instruction in content area classes and support the needs of adolescent readers, particularly those with disabilities.