Teachers College Press: 606 books
A Smarter Charter
Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“A remarkable new book.... Wise and energetic advocates such as Kahlenberg and Potter can take the charter movement in new and useful directions.”—The Washington PostMoving beyond the debate over whether or not charter schools should exist, A Smarter Charter wrestles with...
How Teachers Taught
Constancy and Change in American Classrooms, 18901990
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the first edition of this seminal study, Larry Cuban presented the last century of American teaching as one of a stable teacher-centered pedagogy. Within this framework, Cuban explored how major school reform efforts to alter classroom teaching often resulted in modest shifts in pedagogy in elementary...
Learning In Small Moments
Life In An Urban Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Chronicles the ups-and-downs of two young, first-grade teachers in an urban public school. Through rich, detailed portraits, excerpts from teacher journals, student work, and lived memories and recollections, Daniel Meier shows that the heart of teaching and learning in our culturally diverse urban...
The Activist Learner
Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic book explores a variety of ways teachers can integrate service learning to enliven their classroom, meet the unique developmental needs of their students, and satisfy the next generation of standards and assessments. The authors demonstrate how inquiry-based teaching with service learning...
The Colors of Learning
Integrating the Visual Arts Into the Early Childhood Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Unique in its creativity and depth of understanding, The Colors of Learning will change the way that teachers think about and react to children’s artwork. Promoting the integration of visual art into allearly childhood curriculum areas, this volume will help early childhood professionals present...
Literary Conversations in the Classroom
Deepening Understanding of Nonfiction and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Combining research with real-life classroom examples, this book demonstrates how high-level conversations centered on fiction and nonfiction can promote student understanding and help them meet and exceed a spectrum of standards. The authors demonstrate how to use literary conversations in small,...
To Teach
The Journey, in Comics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from...
by William Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This important book is the result of an in-depth inquiry into the lives and work of six outstanding preschool teachers. Through a creative, original combination of interviews, letters, vignettes, interpretive analysis, and reflections, the author describes and links together the events, people, and...
Big Science for Growing Minds
Constructivist Classrooms for Young Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Strong evidence from recent brain research shows that the intentional teaching of science is crucial in early childhood. Big Science for Growing Minds describes a groundbreaking curriculum that invites readers to rethink science education through a set of unifying concepts or “big ideas.”...
Diving In
Bill Ayers and the Art of Teaching into the Contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspired by the life and work of Bill Ayers—particularly his advice to “teach into the contradiction”—Diving In reflects the intellectual adventures that Ayers has always encouraged those around him to undertake. Written by leading educators and activists, the collected chapters...
An Empty Seat in Class
Teaching and Learning After the Death of a Student
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The death of a student, especially to gun violence, is a life-changing experience that occurs with more and more frequency in America’s schools. For each of these tragedies, there is a classroom and there is a teacher. Yet student death is often a forbidden subject, removed from teacher education...
Teaching in the Cracks
Openings and Opportunities for Student-Centered, Action-Focused Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This engaging book shows how teachers and schools are creating emergent, democratic, progressive education amidst the current context of high stakes accountability. In this follow-up to his bestseller, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Schultz explores how today’s rhetoric and restrictive...
by Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In today’s culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book helps classroom teachers become attuned to these differences and offers practical strategies...
Race, Community, and Urban Schools
Partnering with African American Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this important book, award-winning author Stuart Greene enters the ongoing conversation about low-income African American families and their role in helping their children flourish. Greene focuses on parents’ self-defined roles within the context of race, urban development, and an economy...