Teachers College Press: 606 books
Forever After
New York City Teachers on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Forever After presents the untold stories of what happened in New York City schools on September 11, 2001. These moving, first-hand accounts reveal the amazing wisdom and courage of public school teachers and administrators who cared for and protected the children in schools near the World Trade Center...
Be the Change
Reinventing School for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Be the Change tells the remarkable story of an innovative public high school launched by dedicated teachers in East Palo Alto, California, one of a growing number of low-income communities starved of the resources needed to serve its students and schools. Chronicling a rags-to-riches story of how...
Don't Leave the Story in the Book
Using Literature to Guide Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Passion and wonder are in short supply in schools these days. If you want to bring powerful stories into your classroom that inspire curiosity and questions, spark deep thinking and cultivate thoughtful conversations, embrace this book!” —Anne Goudvis, consultant and author“Don’t...
Making Space for Active Learning
The Art and Practice of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This powerful collection will inspire new and veteran teachers to “make space” for children’s interests, for teaching as relational and intellectual work, and for new insights and ideas. The authors introduce the Prospect Center’s Descriptive Review of Practice, a collaborative...
Art-Centered Learning Across the Curriculum
Integrating Contemporary Art in the Secondary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This handbook provides teachers with a framework for implementing inquiry-based, substantive art integration across the curriculum, along with the background knowledge and models needed to do this. Drawing on ideas from Harvard Project Zero, the authors make a clear and compelling argument for how...
Teaching and Learning in Public
Professional Development Through Shared Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Teaching and Learning in Publicaddresses the central issue of education reform: How do schools become places where teachers continuously improve their teaching? . . . This is a compelling first-hand account of what it means to be a change agent of a different sort.” —From the Foreword...
Reading the Rainbow
LGBTQ-Inclusive Literacy Instruction in the Elementary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing on examples of teaching from elementary school classrooms, this timely book for practitioners explains why LGBTQ-inclusive literacy instruction is possible, relevant, and necessary in grades K–5. The authors show how expanding the English language arts curriculum to include representations...
Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom
Teaching Practice in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts classrooms. With detailed analysis and authentic classroom vignettes, the author explores how teachers cultivate relationships for equity,...
by Scott Mendelsberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students when so much is arrayed against them and how believing in all kids helped save a school and change education in the state of Colorado. In 2 years, Principal Scott Mendelsberg took...
Teaching U.S. History Thematically
Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with an innovative approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students’ lives today, and meets Common Core State Standards (grades 7–12).
The author provides over...
Math That Matters
Targeted Assessment and Feedback for Grades 38
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this insightful math resource for grades 3–8, popular professional developer Marian Small helps teachers understand and facilitate meaningful assessments to advance student understandings. Small shows new and veteran teachers how to do three fundamental things well: identify the most important...
Overtested
How High-Stakes Accountability Fails English Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book explores what is often overlooked in policy debates about the education of English language learners: how the day-to-day dynamics of the classroom are affected by high-stakes testing and the pressures students and teachers experience and internalize as a result. The author presents...
by Allison Skerrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first book to specifically address the needs of transnational youth, a growing population of students who live and go to school across the United States and other nations including Mexico and different Caribbean islands. The author describes a coherent approach to English language arts...
Literacy and History in Action
Immersive Approaches to Disciplinary Thinking, Grades 5–12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a solid research and theoretical foundation for combining social studies and literacy instruction. A collaboration between a literacy scholar, two classroom teachers, and a school librarian, this volume also shows teachers how to engage middle and high school students in historical...