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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.

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.