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In this volume, teachers from urban, suburban, and rural districts join together in a teacher inquiry group to challenge homophobia and heterosexism in schools and classrooms. To create safe learning environments for all students they address key topics, including seizing teachable moments, organizing faculty, deciding whether to come out in the classroom, using LGBTQ-inclusive texts, running a Gay-Straight Alliance, changing district policy to protect LGBTQ teachers and students, dealing with resistant students, and preparing preservice teachers to do antihomophobia work.

Examines the work of elementary-level, non-supervisory, school-embedded, instructional teacher leader roles using research-based case studies. The authors use research to identify the fundamental components of instructional teacher leadership, which they present in the form of cases that are drawn from actual schools.

Details the positive impact that community-based organizations can have in rebuilding the lives of urban black youth, through a process the author calls radical healing. This book shows readers how caring adults in a community setting are able to create safe spaces for youth to turn away from neighborhood violence and their own traumatic pasts.

Early childhood education programs are expected to provide exemplary care for all children while also adapting care to include children's families and cultures. In this book, Carollee Howes shows how high-quality programs successfully adapt child development guidelines within cultural contexts, and why quality needs to be and can be measured in culturally specific ways.

Argues that schools cannot wait around for conditions to improve or policymakers to figure out how to provide the 'right' support. This book describes a small set of key practices that schools can use to get resources, manage external demands, and build their capacity to make and sustain improvements over time.

Challenges educators to view adolescent literacy as a 'civil right' that enables students to understand essential content and to develop as independent learners. This book offers frameworks to help teachers implement those practices in their own schools. It is suitable for professional learning communities, study groups, and individual teachers.

Offers advice on how to help both parents and teens survive adolescence in the digital age. This title provides practical advice on key parenting topics, including how to have frank discussions about sex, counteracting peer pressure, protecting children from predators, when teens start dating, sexually active teens, and more.

Provides advice to help parents and students through the admissions process for schools in New York. This guide uncovers the ""inside scoop"" about school atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, class size, and more.

An examination of how literacy coaching can improve instructional practice. This work offers research-based strategies that can be used to create the professional and dynamic relationships needed for successful teacher - coach collaborations.

Learning to read should be easy and effortless, but in schools it often is not. Why is this so? This work addresses questions that are frequently asked at workshops and conferences about learning, prediction, phonics, stories, meaning, writing, and the brain.

Argues that our national failure to carry out the Brown mandate has produced segregated urban school systems that fail poor students of color. Drawing on an array of research and personal experience, this book examines why urban districts have failed and what must be done to transform our city schools.

Examines how the multiple dimensions of race, class, culture, power and knowledge interact in mathematics classrooms to foster and create inequities. This book explores theoretical perspectives, describes successful classroom practices, and offers insights into how we might develop an effective sociocultural approach to equity in math education.

In this innovative book, Nathalie Sinclair makes a compelling case for the inclusion of the aesthetic in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Using a provocative set of philosophical, psychological, mathematical, technological, and educational insights, she illuminates how the materials and approaches we use in the mathematics classroom can be enriched for the benefit of all learners. While ranging in scope from the young learner to the professional mathematician, there is a particular focus on middle school, where negative feelings toward mathematics frequently begin. Offering specific recommendations to help teachers evoke and nurture their students' aesthetic abilities, this book: Features powerful episodes from the classroom that show students in the act of developing a sense of mathematical aesthetics. Analyzes how aesthetic sensibilities to qualities such as connectedness, fruitfulness, apparent simplicity, visual appeal, and surprise are fundamental to mathematical inquiry. Includes examples of mathematical inquiry in computer-based learning environments, revealing some of the roles they play in supporting students' aesthetic inclinations.

Discusses how teachers can develop a classroom in which students learn to trust each other. This work examines the connections of these classroom relationships to moral theory and moral behavior; and presents the ways teachers think about the many dimensions of classroom relationships.

There is an assault on the independence of teachers of reading, mandated under the No Child Left Behind legislation, which regards reading as an unnatural act requiring contrived systematic instruction. This book provides the evidence and arguments that teachers need to resist this mechanistic view; and describes how reading should not be taught.

Uses vision to shed light on the complex relationship between teachers' ideals and the realities of school life. Through the stories of four teachers, this work reveals how teacher educators can help new teachers articulate, develop, and sustain their visions and assist them as they navigate the gap between their visions and their daily work.

Provides practical guidance for working with children to promote creative play, and to positively influence the lessons about violence that children learn.

Reviews knowledge about leadership, frames questions to generate important research in the field, and directs researchers and policymakers to rethink how educational administration, leadership, and policy should be understood. This work covers a range of topics like, accountability systems, school - community relationships, and more.

Gloria Ladson-Billings, acclaimed African American scholar and teacher educator, examines the field of teacher education through the accomplishments and contributions of well-known African American teacher educators - Lisa Delpit, Carl Grant, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva Gay, Cherry McGee Banks, William Tate, and Joyce King.

Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school.

Aims help new and veteran teachers develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully address racial controversies in their classrooms. The author explains what race and racism mean and why we need to talk about these topics in schools.

This book provides the education and mathematics education communities - researchers, teachers, teacher educators, and curriculum developers - with examples of children's understanding and learning of mathematical notations, as well as with reflections regarding the role of mathematical notations in children's learning of mathematics.

Clark and Zimmerman present contemporary issues and theories regarding the education of artistically talented students. The authors provide nuts-and-bolts information on how teachers and administrators can develop curriculum and programs that help students realize their visual-arts talents.

The activities in this 24-page workbook prepare participants to use the ITERS-R, including explanations for the scoring system, terms used throughout the Scale, protocols for observation, sample situations for scoring practice, and more.This Workbook is to be used in conjunction with the Video Observation for the ITERS DVD, as part of a training package. Each participant will require a personal copy of the Video Guide and Training Workbook, which can be reproduced for use in the classroom for educational purposes only.

This volume offers information on the state of diversity in independent schools. Featuring the findings of a five-year study alongside personal stories by teachers and students of colour, the book looks at the progress independent schools are making to attract and retain teachers of colour.

This work provides educators with advice on how to integrate preventive mental health practice into public schools. It discusses the mandate for violence prevention and offers an intervention framework for teachers, administrators who want to improve the emotional climate in their school.

This is an introduction to Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and German critical theorist Jurgen Habermas. It compares their theories and situates their thinking in relation to other social theories and philosophies of education.

This text moves beyond theory to present day-to-day experiences of change in school communities. Community members, including business leaders, teachers and parents share their experiences of trying to create school communities in which adults help children to develop and learn.