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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.

Filled with day-to-day practices, this book will help elementary school teachers tackle the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Readers will learn about culturally relevant pedagogies as young children learn literacy and a critical stance through music, oral histories, name stories, intergenerational texts, and heritage lessons.

Developed by faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, this work includes chapters on history, media literacy, civics, economics and geography. It provides resources, such as a detailed timeline of the unfolding of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, as well as a map of the New Orleans levee system.

Addresses the critical need for a process of instructional design that allows K - 12 teachers to maintain their creativity within the increasing pressures of external accountability. This title empowers teachers to examine state content standards, design effective classroom assessments, and deliver engaging instructional strategies.

Offers the basics to help you set up and maintain a successful service-learning program in your school. This book answers questions that teachers and administrators might have about the nuts and bolts of the program. The accompanying DVD follows students as they attend a series of diverse sites in New York City.

Discover the inner workings of schools that successfully serve multilingual students. They do this through school-wide initiatives that include developing students' home languages, recruiting community members to mentor students, establishing positive and respectful climates, and providing rigorous instructional interventions.

Offers practical, evidenced-based strategies for teaching literature, informational texts, writing, and communication to students on the spectrum. The final chapter illustrates how curriculum focused on commonly taught literary works can be reimagined to accommodate the needs and draw on the strengths of students on the spectrum.

Explores the important role of the SHEEO and its impact on issues of higher education access, opportunity, and impact. Chapters present historical investigations, original research, and reflections and advice for current and aspiring SHEEOs, state policy leaders, and students of higher education.

Examines two waves of business influence that created models of schooling that are out of touch with the experiences of students, the professional expertise of teachers, and the needs of local communities. The book also describes the forms of resistance that are currently emerging to fight for the democratic mission of a public education.

Reviews core elements of ELA instruction - response to literature, classroom discussion, research, and digital literacy - and demonstrates how to adapt these activities to foster critical thinking and empathetic perspectives among students.

Delineates the ethical issues most salient and pressing to special education and provides a philosophically grounded framework for their discussion. Using the case method, the text presents 35 real-life situations that raise personal, institutional and policy issues.

Invites those caring for infants to join as companions on an incredible journey. Each chapter taps a distinct area of research to shed light on babies' biological expectations for care and their amazing competence as active participants in that care. The guide includes ways to help infants and families recover from trauma.