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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 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.

The authors who introduced the concepts of ""Teaching for Artistic Behavior"" (TAB) and ""choice-based art education"" have completely revised and updated their original, groundbreaking bestseller. This second edition will support those who are new to choice-based authentic art education, as well as experienced teachers looking to go deeper with this curriculum.

Outlines the growth and development of marketing and branding practices in public education. The authors highlight why these practices have become important across key fields within public education, including leadership and governance, budgeting and finance, strategic initiatives, use of new technology, the role of teachers in marketing, and messaging.

Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favourite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming schools and students' futures.

In this intensely powerful and personal new text, Michelle Fine widens the methodological imagination for students, educators, scholars, and researchers interested in crafting research with communities. Fine shares her struggles over the course of 30 years to translate research into policy and practice that can enhance the human condition and create a more just world.

In his latest book, internationally renowned educator and futurist Marc Prensky presents a compelling alternative to how and what we teach our children. Prensky argues that a routinely taught combination of math, language arts, science, and social studies increasingly leaves the bulk of our students woefully unprepared for the future. Drawing on emerging world trends, he elaborates a comprehensive vision for K12 education that includes new goals, new means, a new curriculum, a new kind of teaching, and a new use of technology. This is a book ultimately about developing young peoples capacity to accomplish things that will make the world a better place, using means never before available. It offers an innovative and achievable vision for a Global Future Education that will better prepare all students from diverse backgrounds. Following the authors original ideas about Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, this volume promises to have an important impact on the educational conversations over the coming years. Visit the book website at Bettertheirworld.org.

This guide will help pre- and inservice secondary teachers and their instructors to use videos as a resource to improve teaching. The book focuses on five disciplinary literacy strategies to help teachers develop high-leverage teaching practices across a range of subject areas. The text includes sample lessons, protocols, and transcripts from video discussion groups.

Building on earlier work that reviewed curriculum texts, this book serves as a much-needed correction to the glaring gaps in US curriculum history. Chapters focus on the curriculum discourses of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos during what has been construed as the "founding" period of curriculum studies, reclaiming their historical legacy.

This book draws on a half century of efforts to forge a consensus that early education is a public responsibility in the US. While that consensus has not yet been achieved, recent progress provides a platform for identifying new strategies, based on lessons learned. Transforming the American primary school, starting with threes and fours and ending at age ten is the focus of this volume.

This classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner's seminal work on mind, education, and research explores the ways in which the methods, content, and assumptions in the arts, humanities, and social sciences can help us better understand our schools and classrooms. Includes a new foreword by Nel Noddings.