Teachers College Press: 606 books
Educating for Empathy
Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Educating for Empathy presents a compelling framework for thinking about the purpose and practice of literacy education in a politically polarized world. Mirra proposes a model of critical civic empathy that encourages secondary ELA teachers to consider how issues of power and inequity play out in...
Children, Language, and Literacy
Diverse Learners in Diverse Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of young children as they learn language and literacy in our diverse times. Despite burgeoning sociocultural diversity, many early childhood classrooms (pre-K to grade 2) offer a one-size-fits-all curriculum in which...
The Pedagogy of Confidence
Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her new book, Yvette Jackson shows educators how to focus on students’ strengths to inspire learning and high intellectual performance. Jackson asserts that the myth that the route to increasing achievement by focusing on weaknesses (promoted by policies such as NCLB) has blinded us to the...
by Shelley B. Wepner, Dorothy S. Strickland, Diana J. Quatroche
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now in its fifth edition, this popular textbook is still the most comprehensive resource available on the oversight of literacy programs (pre-K–12). Focusing on what literacy leaders need to know and do to meet today’s mandates, experts in the field offer new insights that reflect the...
Interrupting Hate
Homophobia in Schools and What Literacy Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and important book focuses on the problems of heterosexism and homophobia in schools and explores how these forms of oppression impact LGBTQQ youth, as well as all young people. The author shows how concerned teachers can engage students in literacy practices both in and out of school...
Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students
A Critical Race Feminista Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book chronicles a 10-year journey to develop and sustain Adelante, a university-school-community partnership designed specifically to address public education’s failure to meet the needs of students of color, particularly Chicana/o students. The authors examine the persistent barriers,...
Raising Children Who Soar
A Guide to Healthy Risk-Taking in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can we keep children safe in an uncertain world, but also raise them to be confident in taking the healthy, emotional risks necessary to succeed in life? The authors of this unique book—two clinical psychologists, who are also mothers—provide essential guidance for parents and teachers....
Teachers Without Borders?
The Hidden Consequences of International Teachers in U.S. Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
*Teachers Without Borders?*is the story of four Indian teachers who came to the United States in the face of tremendous personal and professional odds to teach in urban schools. Their experiences are brought to life in this groundbreaking empirical study through interviews with their principals, district...
by sj Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This premiere book in the new Teachers College Press series School : Questions carefully walks readers through both theory and practice to equip them with the skills needed to bring gender identity justice into classrooms, schools, and ultimately society. The text looks into the root causes and ways...
Change Is Gonna Come
Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy...
The Wrong Kind of Different
Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She...
More Good Questions
Great Ways to Differentiate Secondary Mathematics Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We know that Differentiated Instruction helps all students to learn. Yet DI challenges teachers, and nowhere more than in mathematics. In this new book, written specifically for secondary mathematics teachers, the authors cut through the difficulties with two powerful and universal strategies that...
Reclaiming Our Teaching Profession
The Power of Educators Learning in Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing from a wealth of research and experience, this book shows educators how to use the transformative power of professional learning in community to raise the professional stature of educators. The authors, experts in their field, provide clear steps and real-school examples with a focus on collaborative...
Going Online with Protocols
New Tools for Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many users of the popular professional development book,The Power of Protocols, discovered that protocols are also very useful for online teaching. This new book, by three of the same authors, focuses on using protocols to enhance learning with their students in multiple environments including online-a...