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This celebrated narrative captured the attention of educators and the media by depicting the journey of one teacher and his students juxtaposed against the bureaucracy of Chicago's public education system. This second edition examines how school reform continues to fail students in urban contexts and offers compelling updates on students.

This practical resource will assist secondary educators in creating equitable schooling environments for racially diverse youth. The authors identify key aspects of successful strategies and offer recommendations for tackling the many challenges of implementing effective school change.

Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two literacy professionals to present a teaching tool that includes curricular activities and probing questions crafted to help students heal through writing.

Presents best practices for coaches to use in their work with teachers and administrators to help them improve classrooms and teaching practices. The author includes guidance and activities for facilitating group meetings, professional learning communities, and staff workshops. Appropriate for use with ECERS-3 and ECERS-R.

The authors offer strategies for addressing a variety of issues related to authority, religion, gender, race, media, sports, entertainment, class and poverty, capitalism and socialism, and equality and justice. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments.

Education privatization is a global phenomenon that crystallizes in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform.

Emphasizing learning over evaluation, the think-aloud approach is especially well-suited to revealing students' strengths and helping them overcome common challenges to writing. This book describes how to implement the think-aloud method and shows how this method is flexible and adaptable to any writing assignment and classroom context.

By systematically examining six diverse countries, this book sheds light on new and exciting approaches to early childhood education and care. Brimming with fresh insights, the text provides examples of successfully implemented strategies that warrant attention from other countries wishing to improve their early childhood services.

Calling for a fresh way to teach history, this book helps teachers move beyond traditional textbooks to tackle difficult but important topics like conflicts with Native Americans, slavery, and racial oppression.

As an alternative to reductive views of emergent literacy, Lysaker explains how wordless books help young children to develop a range of comprehension abilities that are important for understanding narrative texts. Readers will find concrete methods to help them gauge, document, and respond to children as they make meaning of wordless books.

This easy-to-use instrument assesses: Qualifications and Professional Development, Income and Benefits, Work Environment, Fiscal Management, Recordkeeping, Provider-Family Communication, Family Support and Engagement, Marketing and Community Relations, and Provider as Employer.

This timely book will help policymakers and practitioners convert their visions of high-quality early education into on-the-ground reality by examining how states, local districts, and independent providers can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs. The authors describe and analyse how four states have built early education systems that positively affect student outcomes.

How do school communities create environments that fully prepare both English learners and dual-language learners for colleges and careers? Profiling six high-performing high schools, the authors identify design elements and shared values that were key factors in yielding extraordinary results.

In recent years, Maker-centred learning has emerged in schools and other spaces as a promising new phase of STEM education reform. This book expands the current Making landscape to include urban communities whose resources have not customarily accommodated such an innovative approach. The text features longitudinal ethnographic data and compelling examples.

Explores how the Black freedom struggle and the anti-Vietnam War movement dovetailed with faculty and student activism in the American south to undermine the traditional role of higher education and bring about social change. This book offers a deep understanding of the vital importance of independent institutions during times of national crisis.

Explores what data use in teaching really is, how it works in theory and practice, and why it sometimes fails to achieve expected goals. Each chapter includes a discussion of a new direction that schools and teachers can take to ensure that data use in teaching actually spurs growth in learning.

Shines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence-based practices and policies. Identifying the adverse effects of some of the "best" educational interventions, the author investigates causes and offers clear recommendations.

Argues that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability. The authors critique major accountability initiatives, exposing the lack of evidence behind these policies and the negative impact they have on teacher education. They also offer an achievable alternative based on a commitment to equity and democracy.

Presents an engaging approach to teaching US history that promotes critical thinking and social responsibility. In Volume 2, students investigate 19 significant historical episodes beginning with the era of expansion and reform and ending with problems facing Americans in the contemporary era. A comprehensive Instructor's Manual is available.

Presents an engaging approach to teaching US history that promotes critical thinking and social responsibility. In Volume 1, students investigate 20 significant historical episodes, arranged chronologically, beginning with the colonial era and ending with Reconstruction. A comprehensive Instructor's Manual is available.

Through activities, approaches, and examples, this resource highlights concrete strategies for incorporating material culture into K-16 art classrooms, as well as museum and community settings. Chapters are written by luminaries in the field and organised around various aspects of material culture, including object study, the role of technology, and multisensory art.

Focuses on the most important concepts and skills needed to provide early learners (preK-2) with a strong foundation in mathematics, in ways that are fun for both children and educators. Professional developer Marian Small provides sample activities and lessons, troubleshooting tips, and formative assessments, and much more.

Describes the importance of children's foundational cognitive skills for academic achievement in literacy and mathematics, as well as their connections with other areas of school readiness, including physical health and social and emotional development. The book also examines the growing evidence in favour of guided object play.

The digital revolution has hit education, with more and more classrooms plugged into the whole wired world. But are schools making the most of new technologies? This book argues that the knowledge revolution has transformed our jobs, our homes, our lives, and therefore must also transform our schools.

This landmark book translates positive and asset-based understandings of organizations to develop a powerful model of school leadership that is grounded in both existing research and the complexities of life in schools. The authorsboth senior scholars in educational leadershipapply insights from positive psychology to the role and function of educational leaders. The Positive School Leadership (PSL) model draws on the strengths of relationships among staff and the broader school community to communicate and instill shared values and a common mission. This book builds a compelling case for creating a more inclusive, less mechanistic approach to leadership. Designed to engage both the hearts and minds of readers, the text is organized around reflective questioning of educational practice and current assumptions about the purposes and goals of leadership in schools.

Do charter schools strengthen students' educational experience? What are their social costs? This volume brings together a group of premier researchers to address questions about the purposes of charter schools and the role of public policy in shaping the educational agenda. Readers across the political spectrum can use this book to inform public policy.

Shows teachers how to help young readers and writers construct meaning from and with texts. This practical resource offers a rich array of research-based teaching strategies, activities, and extended lessons focused on the ""thinking tools"" employed by experienced readers and writers.

This much-needed book will help schools, and by extension society, better understand and identify the promise, potential, and possibilities of Black boys. Drawing from their wealth of experience in early childhood education, the authors present an assets- and strength-based view of educating young African American males.