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Provides an integrated approach to incorporating nonfiction and informational texts into the literature classroom. Grounded in solid theory with new field-tested classroom activities, this new edition shows teachers how to adapt practices that have always defined good pedagogy to the new generation of standards for literature instruction.

Offers teachers a way of addressing social and emotional issues in the classroom. This title offers strategies for integrating Teddy Bears into classroom life and the curriculum itself to help teachers address unresolved emotional issues that hinder children's socialization and learning processes.

Reading fluency has been identified in the Common Core Standards as a foundational competency for reading proficiency. This resource provides teachers and literacy interventionists with approaches to fluency instruction that are effective, engaging, and easy to implement.

Growing evidence supports the important relationship between trauma and academic failure. The trauma-sensitive schools movement presents a new vision for promoting children's success. This book introduces this promising approach and provides K-5 education professionals with clear explanations of current research and dozens of practical, creative ideas.

Outlines methods for record-keeping that provide a realistic picture of each child's interactions and experiences in the classroom. This book includes observations that reflect the diverse population in contemporary classrooms, and research on language and children with special needs.

Uses literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Based on firsthand experiences, research, and a school-university-community collaborative, this practical book homes in on what literacy leaders need to do in today's rapidly changing schools.

This text continues to define what multicultural education means in all kinds of settings. As in previous editions, Patty Ramsey guides teachers in helping our children make sense of their complex world by becoming curious, critical, and compassionate learners.

This critically acclaimed, lavishly illustrated book will help educators create the highest quality learning opportunities for a new generation of children. This second edition features substantial and important changes, including the addition of new chapters by pioneers of the work that happens in the atelier who draw on several decades of experience.

Honest, clearly written, and accessible this book shows how to use "Family Dialogue Journals" to increase and deepen learning among students in grades K-12. Written by teachers who have been implementing and studying the use of weekly journals, the book shares what they have learned and why they have found these journals to be an invaluable tool for forming effective partnerships with families.

Using a rich array of research-based practices, this book will help teachers improve the academic writing of English learners. It provides specific teaching strategies, activities, and extended lessons to develop E Leaner students narrative, informational, and argumentative writing, emphasized in the Common Core State Standards. It also explores the challenges each of these genres pose for English Learners and suggests ways to scaffold instruction to help students become confident and competent academic writers. Showcasing the work of exemplary school teachers who have devoted time and expertise to creating rich learning environments for the secondary classroom, Helping English Learners to Write includes artifacts and written work produced by students with varying levels of language proficiency as models of what students can accomplish. Each chapter begins with a brief overview and ends with a short summary of the key points.

Presents the stories of what happened in New York City schools on 9/11. The accounts in this work reveal the amazing wisdom and courage of public school teachers and school leaders who cared for and protected the children in schools near the World Trade Center and around the City.

Details the author's work with underachieving urban youth and their families at Project Interface, a math and science enrichment program, where she developed an approach to raising achievement. This book includes testimonials from youth, staff, and parents who participated in a successful after-school program.

Explores the language used in educational contexts and conversation, and its impact on student outcomes. The author addresses educational language in myriad contexts such as public schooling, teacher education programmes, deficit terminology and labelling. Realistic examples illustrate the facts.

Since the publication of the widely used Ways of Studying Children in 1959, young children and education have experienced many new influences, including an increased emphasis on learning in the early years. Focusing on children under the age of eight, this enlarged edition analyzes theories and practices that have had an impact on the study of young children, such as the insights of Jean Piaget and the use of behavioral objectives.New applications of child study relevant to bilingual children, youngsters from diverse cultures, and handicapped children are provided. In a balanced way, the authors consider controversial questions of school records versus children's privacy, standardization and individual development, cognitive and emotional growth, excessive testing versus other ways of appraising progress. Up-to-date lists of suggested readings at the end of each chapter offer additional opportunities for learning and growth to experienced or beginning teachers.Reviewers praised Ways of Studying Children as practical and readable, valuable not only to teachers but also to supervisors, curriculum coordinators, parents, and others interested in education. The new edition adds special appeal for teachers in preschool programs, day-care centers, and kindergarten through second grade.The authors offer a detailed, caring perspective on individual child development that concentrates on the whole child. They are concerned not only with the study of young children, but also with the realities faced by early childhood teachers today.

Although proportional reasoning is not formally introduced as a topic in the Common Core and other mathematics curricula until 6th grade, introducing its fundamental ideas in the early grades helps students develop essential skills in ratios, percentages, and other proportional representations when they reach the upper grades. The author takes this complex subject and crafts examples and questions that help teachers see the larger purpose in teaching concepts, such as unitizing, and how that understanding is essential for more complex ideas, such as ratios. Teachers and vertical teams can see how the concepts can build year after year. This new resource by well-known professional developer Marian Small suggests questions that are both interesting for students and useful for providing diagnostic information to teachers. Chapters are organized by grade level (K8) around the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics to help teachers use the resource more easily.

Examines common features and differences in the approaches of high-performing Education systems. Their varied solutions offer valuable ideas for how to create a strong teacher and school administrator corps from recruitment and preparation through induction, professional development, evaluation, and career advancement into leadership roles.

Challenges current notions of what it means to be a "highly qualified teacher", and demonstrates the depth of commitment and care teachers bring to their work with students, families, and communities. This sequel to Nieto's popular book, Why We Teach, features powerful stories of classroom teachers from across the country as they give witness to their hopes and struggles.

These field-tested resources from Consortium Schools in NYC-small schools with a big presence among educators nationwide-have been widely used in professional development sessions with both new and experienced teachers. This engaging approach focuses on making teaching and learning more inquiry-based and student-centered, while also developing the students' skills in reading, critical analysis, writing, speaking, and listening that are necessary for achievement. This classroom-based resource explores how both teachers and students learn the skills of discussion in content areas across the disciplines. Student reflections and teacher talk provide live examples of how discussion plays a pivotal role in inquiry-based classrooms, developing students' basic skills of critical analysis and helping them become lifelong learners, able to confront and research any topic.

Explores the opportunities and challenges that arise when White teachers are willing to deal directly with race and the role it plays in their classrooms. Based on lessons gleaned from experienced White teachers in a variety of settings, it lays out a path for using inquiry to develop sustained, productive engagement with challenging - and common - questions about race.

Family-professional partnerships are essential to early intervention practice. However, building and sustaining these partnerships is complex. This book is about digging deeper and looking closer at what it takes to have successful relationships with every family. The authors explore seven partnership concepts, brought to life through the words and perspectives of families and professionals.

This powerful collection will inspire new and veteran teachers to "make space" for children's interests, for teaching as relational and intellectual work, and for new insights and ideas. The authors introduce the Prospect Center's Descriptive Review of Practice, a collaborative inquiry process that provides an opportunity for teachers to examine their practice and gain new perspectives from other participants. The contributors to this volume respond to each child's modes of thinking as they develop curriculum or find "wiggle room"; in curricula they are given. By demonstrating how it is possible to pursue careful knowledge of craft, this book offers ways of teaching that allow for continuing growth and change.