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With a focus on literacy instruction, this showcases stories of ""what works"" when teachers in elementary school classrooms partner with families across cultural and language differences. It demonstrates effective strategies that educators can adapt to fit their own school communities. This book is perfect for professional study groups, parent-teacher discussions, and whole-school workshops.

Provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-field analysis of current trends in the research, policy, and practice of science education. It offers valuable insights into why gaps in science achievement among racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups persist, and points toward practical means of narrowing or eliminating these gaps.

Examines the methods currently used for supervising pre-service teachers and discusses how teacher educators have striven to change or renew these procedures. Also presents strategies to provide student teachers with learning experiences that move beyond traditional models.

Looking at three different school models, the author discusses the requirements for creating successful small schools and develops a new vision of school reform. Part I examines student disengagement as an issue largely unaddressed by current views of sch

An introductory guide to teaching in contemporary middle and high schools this book shows teachers how to use standards to choose appropriate instructional materials and methods. It links directly to the most recent version of standards for beginning teachers published by the Council of Chief State School Officers.

By carefully documenting how space was made for Jenny - a child who didn't fit the school mold - this book offers a renewed sense of human possibility and an attainable vision of what schools can be. It demonstrates that it is only by attending to each and every child that schooling can begin to achieve its most noble aim: equality.

Pulling together the research on the effects of restrictive language policies, this volume focuses on what we know about the actual outcomes for students and teachers in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts - states where these policies have been adopted. It features contributions from well-known educators and scholars in bilingual education.

Investigates how the political struggles over the social studies curriculum, the corporate domination of the textbook and testing industry, and the curricular constraints of the No Child Left Behind Act combine to stifle historical inquiry and deprive students of meaningful social studies instruction.

Helps educators to identify, address, and meet the needs of the diverse families in classrooms. This book examines how families are represented in the media, schools, and other institutions as well as how different relationships between families and teachers are defined by discourses that circulate through formal and informal curricula.

Helps educators to identify, address, and meet the needs of the diverse families in classrooms. This book examines how families are represented in the media, schools, and other institutions as well as how different relationships between families and teachers are defined by discourses that circulate through formal and informal curricula.

Presents the challenges and possibilities at the school and classroom level. This book depicts the daily concerns and small victories of teachers determined to support the students in meaningful learning, and prepare them for postsecondary education. It characterizes the importance of a coherent school learning culture.

Demonstrates a five-part framework for teachers, reading specialists, and literacy coaches who want to help their least engaged students become powerful readers. This book shows how teachers can 'turn-around' their instructional practice, beginning with reading materials, lessons, and activities matching their students' interests.

Investigates how the lives and literacies of youth in New York City's historic Harlem are affected by public attempts to gentrify the community. This book draws connections between race, place, and students' literate identities through interviews with youth, teachers, longtime Black residents, and their new White neighbors.

Based on empirically based ethnographic and sociological research in schools and communities in St Louis (which operated the nation's largest voluntary desegregation plan) and Atlanta (a city that abandoned its desegregation plan in the 1970s), this book captures the experiences of African American families from a community in St Louis.

Tells the story of a group of teachers that engaged in inquiry about their own practice in order to support inquiry learning in their students.

Shares the author's experience teaching a hip-hop centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school where rap music, turntablism, breakdancing, graffiti culture, and other aspects of hip-hop were incorporated into the curriculum. This book shows that hip-hop culture is the opportunity to affect students' lives in extraordinary ways.

Brings to light the devastating consequences of an educational approach that values conformity over creativity, flattens students' interests, and dampens down differences among learners. Drawing on emotional stories, this book shows that institutional structures do not produce the kinds of minds and thinking that society really needs.

Using the experiences and words of seven public school principals who came to the field of administration committed to advancing social justice in their schools, this book presents a framework and 7 'keys' to social justice leadership (SJL).

Shares the lessons learned by a large community of educational researchers and science teachers as they designed, developed, and investigated a fresh technology-enhanced learning environment known as WISE: The Web-based Inquiry Science Environment.

Illuminates the relationship between teacher research, teacher practice, and student learning. This book offers a framework, examples, and practical guidelines for designing and conducting individual and collaborative inquiries that build fresh knowledge and theories about teaching and learning.

A guide to reading across the content areas of math, science, and social studies in grades 6-12. It presents key information that addresses various types of 21st century literacy - visual, digital, and print.

Illuminates the useful work behind the scenes in building successful online communities and scaffolding site interactions, including content selection, creation and management, administrative structures, tools and interactive functionalities, the facilitation of discourse and emergent sub-communities, and the development of online leadership.

We should hold public schools accountable for effectively spending the vast funds with which they have been entrusted. This title describes a kind of accountability plan for public education, one that relies on higher-quality testing, focuses on professional evaluation, and builds on capacities we already possess.

Focusing on three diverse school districts (Arlington, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; and Oakland, California), this book offers a portrayal of how teachers teach. It looks at a range of workable pedagogical options educators are using to engage students while satisfying parents and policymakers - options that succeed by creating hybrid practices.

The United States is at a pivotal crossroads in determining the educational experiences of children ages 3 through 8. Helping educators set goals and design effective policies, this title provides a history of early education and care in the United States and invites readers to consider early schooling in a global perspective.

Helping students master a broad range of individual words is a vital part of effective vocabulary instruction. This book describes a practical program for teaching individual words in the K-8 classroom.