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In this volume, Ann Leiberman and Lynne Miller enlist a group of contributors to offer the best of what is known and practiced about professional development in schools. Topics include the use of data to improve practice and educational standards, and school/university partnerships.

Provides a unique insider's look at the process that teachers experience when they assume leadership positions in their school, district, state, or writing project site. The text features vignettes by K-12 teachers, describing their individual leadership roles and experiences to show how teachers take charge in a variety of contexts.

Special 2018 Edition From the new Introduction by Janet L. Miller , Teachers College, Columbia University: Maxine Greene never claimed to be a visionary thinker. But forty years later, her trepidations detailed throughout 1978's Landscapes of Learning now appear unnervingly prescient. Witness and treasure Landscapes as evidence of her matchless abilities to inspire myriad educators and students worldwide. "I would suggest that there must always be a place in teacher education for 'foundations' people, whose fundamental concern is with opening new perspectives on the many faces of the human world."--Maxine GreeneThe essays in this volume demonstrate clearly that Maxine Greene is herself an example of the kind of "foundations" specialist she hopes to see: someone who can stimulate, inform, and bring new insights to teachers, students, curriculum planners, administrators, policy-makers--indeed all those concerned with education in its broadest sense.These essays, a number of them based on lectures presented to various professional organizations, reveals her dedication to learning and teaching, as it reveals her belief in the potential of each individual person. A philosopher whose orientation is largely existential and phenomenological, she seeks to demystify aspects of today's technological society, to question taken-for-granted notions of social justice and equality, and to elucidate conflicts between youth and age, the poor and the middle class, people of color and Whites, male and female. As a humanist, she calls for self-reflectiveness, wide-awakeness, and personal transformation within the context of each person's own lived world--each one's particular landscape of work, experience, and aspiration.Recognizing the multiple realities that compose experience, the many landscapes against which sense-making proceeds, the essays are grouped in four sections: intellectual and moral components of emancipatory education; social issues and their implications for approaches to pedagogy; artistic-aesthetic considerations in the making of curriculum; and the cultural significance of women's predicaments today. All are richly illuminated by examples; all are written with grace and passion; all will help readers achieve greater self-understanding and critical consciousness.

This teacher-friendly resource addresses one of the most important critical reading skills in the Common Core State Standards - reading across multiple texts. As the world grows ever more complicated, students more than ever need to become skilful at reading multiple sources, comparing, contrasting, and integrating texts.

In the raging controversy over how to fix the nations underperforming schools, the voices of Americas best teachers are seldom heard. Now, in a provocative book about the future of teaching and learning, 12 of Americas most accomplished classroom educa

This book details the Guggenheim Museums classroom-tested, inquiry-based approach to learning. This user-friendly guide provides teachers (grades 28) with strategies and resources for investigating art to enhance student learning across the curriculum. For the classroom teacher, Art Investigation provides an exciting way to study contemporary and historical cultures while also improving critical thinking and literacy skills. For the art teacher, Art Investigation offers students the tools to engage meaningfully with the world of art and artists. This unique text features the experiences of the Guggenheim Museums 40-year-old Learning Through Art program, as well as reproductions from the museums vast art collection.

Using sociological, economic, and political analysis, the authors present studies of controlled and voluntary choice plans, charter schools, private school selection, and their interaction with race, social class, gender, and student disability.

Demonstrates the power of classroom assessments to improve both teaching and learning. This book explains how well-constructed assessments provide data that is essential to the development of learning opportunities for all students, regardless of their backgrounds. It features chapters illustrated with vignettes from real life in the classroom.

Reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. This title focuses on the significant role of teachers in transforming students' lives. It also examines the importance of student and teacher voice in research and practice.

This volume contains essays by leading thinkers on gifted education and by writers outside the field who have examined it critically. Each author examines, reconsiders, and challenges the assumptions and beliefs underlying the theory and practice of gifted education.

A scientifically grounded guide for better teaching and learning practices, it explains the new Mind, Brain, and Education Science--a field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. While parents and teachers are of

Examines a range of Philip W Jackson's scholarship and teaching. This work features essays that attest to the decisive impact Jackson's work has on our understanding of education, and they exemplify, as does Jackson's own work, how such an understanding may draw nourishment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Brings together a group of extraordinary educators and scholars who offer important insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media.

Explains the function, structure, and philosophy of the professional development school. The text includes case studies from urban and suburban settings, that illustrate the accomplishments of these schools as well as the challenges they face as they strive toward improvement of the American educational system.

Offers the comprehensive review of research on the effectiveness of mentoring and induction support for teachers. This book provides a revealing analysis of teacher induction programs and their consequences for education, teacher quality, teacher effectiveness, and teacher development. It synthesizes the relevant research.

Examines the state of bilingual education in the United States and effective curriculum and instructional approaches. Eugene Garcia depicts the vast scope and complexity of the problem of educating English language learners. He sets forth a conceptual framework to guide educational policy and practice that reflects democratic ideals and values.

Offers a framework that teachers, librarians, youth workers, and parents can use to empower girls to succeed in a technology-rich world. This book examines the disconnect many girls have with technology and shows adults what they can do to change this environment.

Covers such topics as punishment and due process, intellectual freedom, and equal treatment of students. This book also covers multiculturalism, religious differences, democracy, teacher burnout, professional conduct, parental rights, child abuse/neglect, and sexual harassment.

Looks at the efforts to develop inclusive peer play programs for children on the autism spectrum. This text includes a description of the Integrated Play Groups (IPG) model and related research; an examination of the nature of autism and play, with updates on incidence, diagnosis, and characteristics; and, a review of play interventions.

The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. This book identifies several important commonalities across oral and written language. It incorporates various examples from a diverse range of children engaged in authentic literacy experiences.

Distributed leadership is an important term for educational policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in US and around the world. There is much diversity in how the term is understood. This book examines what it means to take a distributed perspective based on extensive research and a theoretical perspective developed by experts in the field.