Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Culturally Inclusive Instructional Design
A Framework and Guide to Building Online Wisdom Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
As online courses and digital learning enable more people from more places to learn together, it is crucial for instructional design to incorporate diverse cultural perspectives. *Culturally Inclusive Instructional Design *provides a framework for thinking about culture in digital learning, offering...
by Carol Corbett Burris Corbett Burris, Delia T. Garrity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Ability grouping. Leveling systems. Streaming. This is the modern way of talking about tracking -- the traditional practice of sorting and selecting students based on test scores and other criteria, and then steering these groups into “the most appropriate” course of study. In 1987, New York’s...
A Culturally Proficient Response to the Common Core
Ensuring Equity Through Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Lead a Common Core implementation that closes achievement gaps!
This illuminating book shows how central Common Core tenets—rigor, meaningful curricula and assessment, and higher order thinking—can become educational realities for every child in your school or district. This timely...
by Dr. Pradnyashailee Bhagwan Sawai
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Ever since the end of the Cuban crisis, cultural studies have gained significant status in American and Western universities. In India, however, the cultural studies programs were somehow interlinked with interdisciplinary studies in English and vernacular literatures. Dr. Pradnyashailee Sawai decided...
Equity 101: Culture
Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Help a culture of equity grow and thrive in your school!
This second book in the groundbreaking Equity 101 series takes on the cultures we come from and the culture we foster in our schools. When diversity is the norm, how do we create an equitable culture where everyone succeeds? Your path...
by Carol Minnis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Students entering Senior High School often do so with reservation and trepidation; this is a crucial step for any child. Children may feel fearful and anxious about going to a new school and a new environment. There will be new students and new teachers they will get to know. Students will take more...
When Critical Multiculturalism Meets Mathematics
A Mixed Methods Study of Professional Development and Teacher Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
When Critical Multiculturalism Meets Mathematics details the development and outcomes of a teacher professional development project that merged multiculturalism and mathematics. In six compact chapters the authors describe the impetus for their multi-year project and present rich case studies of nine...
Learning to Teach in Urban Schools
The Transition from Preparation to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book is about the transition from teacher preparation to teaching practice in urban school settings. It provides a clear presentation of the challenges, resources, and opportunities for learning to teach in urban schools; examples of the experiences, perceptions, and practices of teachers who...
Gender Tales
Tensions in the Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
A book of "real world" cases, this text introduces "flashpoint" issues related to gender equity in the schools. It immerses readers in the human dilemmas teachers face when they set out to provide equal opportunities for -- and to develop the abilities of -- all of their students....
Schooltalk
Rethinking What We Say About-and To-Students Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
An essential guide to transforming the quotidian communications that feed inequality in our schools—from the award-winning editor of Everyday Antiracism
Words matter. Every day in schools, language is used—whether in the classroom, in a student-teacher meeting, or by principals, guidance...
by Candace Schlein
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book comprises an examination of novice teachers’ experiences in schools and cultures of schooling across the contexts of Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada. Drawing on narrative inquiry and artsbased approaches, this study employs experience as a starting point for making sense of both professional...
by Lorna Rose Liverpool
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
It was the last day of rehearsals for tomorrow's Festival of Dance in the park. Kaa'hina was practising her African dance routine. For some unknown reason she kept getting her steps wrong. With all the reassurances from her mother and her teacher, she was still feeling glum. That night Kaa'hina parents...
Educating African American Students
And How Are the Children?
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Focused on preparing educators to teach African American students, this straightforward and teacher-friendly text features a careful balance of published scholarship, a framework for culturally relevant and critical pedagogy, research-based case studies of model teachers, and tested culturally relevant...
An Educator's Guide to Dual Language Instruction
Increasing Achievement and Global Competence, K–12
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This user-friendly book is a key resource for teachers and administrators to ensure their school’s success in implementing and maintaining a dual language program. Authors Gayle Westerberg and Leslie Davison share their own experiences leading a dual language school, the obstacles they overcame,...