Teachers College Press: 606 books
City Schools and the American Dream
Reclaiming the Promise of American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What will it take for urban schools to achieve the kind of academic performance required by new state and national educational standards? How can classroom teachers in city schools help to close the achievement gap? What can restore public confidence in public schools?
Pedro Noguera argues...
Teaching What Really Happened
How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely...
Imagination and the Engaged Learner
Cognitive Tools for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Students’ imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination—one of the great workhorses of learning—can be used to make all learning and all teaching...
The Fluency Factor
Authentic Instruction and Assessment for Reading Success in the Common Core Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Reading fluency has been identified in the Common Core Standards as a foundational competency for reading proficiency. This resource provides teachers with approaches to fluency instruction that are effective, engaging, and easy to implement. The authors begin with a comprehensive definition of reading...
Quiet at School
An Educator's Guide to Shy Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Compared to their more sociable counterparts, shy children are at greater risk for a variety of difficulties in elementary school, including internalizing problems, difficulties with peer relationships, and poorer academic performance. Written by a developmental and an educational psychologist with...
All About Words
Increasing Vocabulary in the Common Core Classroom, Pre K-2
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inaugural title in the Common Core State Standards for Literacy Series, edited by Susan B. Neuman and D. Ray Reutzel.
Vocabulary forms a relentless divide between children who succeed and those who do not. This divide is often between poor children and their privileged counterparts. Without...
We Can't Teach What We Don't Know
White Teachers, Multiracial Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Making a case for the “fierce urgency of now,” this new edition deepens the discussion of race and social justice in education with new and updated material. Aligned with our nation’s ever more diverse student population, it speaks to what good teachers know, what they do, and how they...
Cognitive Capital
Investing in Teacher Quality
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on the authors’ celebrated work in cognitive coaching, this important book provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators, their performance, and their ultimate effects on student...
Literacy Tools in the Classroom
Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video...
by Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the story of a white high school English teacher, Bob Fecho, and his students of color who mutually engage issues of literacy, language, learning, and culture. Through his journey, Fecho presents a method of “critical inquiry” that allows students and teachers to take intellectual and...
We Don't Need Another Hero
Struggle, Hope and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just achieve. Drawing on...
by Laurel Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey’s Laboratory School from their inception to the current day. Dewey’s Laboratory School: Lessons for Today provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyian reforms the way they were originally—and...
Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City
Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schools—takes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools....
LGBTQ Youth and Education
Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Based on the diverse experiences of LGBTQ students and their allies, this essential volume brings together in one resource the major issues that schools must address to improve the educational outcomes for gender and sexual minority students—as well as all students. Many of these issues involve...