Teachers College Press: 606 books
Transforming City Schools Through Art
Approaches to Meaningful K–12 Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective, contributors describe a positive, asset–based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban settings. Rather than focusing on...
Our Worlds in Our Words
Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Multicultural Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can teachers help their students to meet high standards of reading and writing while also preparing them to become thoughtful and productive members of a multicultural society? And why is it important to do this? In her new book, Mary Dilg brings us into her high school English classroom, where...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to every teacher educator, every curriculum director, and every literacy coach, whether or not they must meet Common Core Standards. Bringing together perspectives from literacy luminaries, each addressing their specialty, this book offers an accessible...
Engineering in Elementary STEM Education
Curriculum Design, Instruction, Learning, and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This comprehensive introduction will help elementary educators integrate engineering into their classroom, school, or district in age-appropriate, inclusive, and engaging ways. Building on the work of a Museum of Science team that has spent 15 years developing elementary engineering curricula, this...
Becoming Young Thinkers
Deep Project Work in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Continuing the exploration of project work in the author’s bestselling book, Young Investigators, Second Edition, this book is designed for preschool through primary grade teachers who know how to do project work but are ready to move to the next level. Focusing on how children become young...
Ordinary Gifted Children
The Power and Promise of Individual Attention
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the remarkable story of the Hoffmann School for Individual Attention, where the principal believed in a diverse, challenging, and challenged group of students—with extraordinary results. With a definition of gifted that included all children, Ann Hoffmann embraced students that other schools...
On the Case
Approaches to Language and Literacy Research (an NCRLL Volume)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this seminal book on the construction of case studies in the field of language and literacy, the authors consider in detail what it means to be “on the case.” They evaluate the basic assumptions that ground a qualitative approach to case study methodology, the decisions entailed in designing...
Teaching Your Child to Love Learning
A Guide to Doing Projects at Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Do you want to raise children who love to learn? Maybe you are simply looking for a way to unplug your child from the TV or video games? Just by reading this book, you will be taking a proactive step in providing your child with meaningful experiences that will result in growth and plenty of family...
by Anne Haas Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools’ socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K–3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed “at-risk” and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued...
The Young Artist as Scientist
What Can Leonardo Teach Us?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first in-depth look at the important connections between the arts and science specifically for early childhood education (pre-K–3rd grade). Highlighting their many commonalities, such as the processes involved in creative problem solving, the author draws on what we can learn from...
Dilemmas in Educational Leadership
The Facilitator's Book of Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, educational consultant and group coach Donna Reid argues that popular vehicles for improving school cultures and student achievement, such as professional learning communities and critical friends groups, too often fail because the participants are unaware or unwilling to make the required...
Defending Childhood
Keeping the Promise of Early Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“These pages make clear that the way to foster effective teaching is not with curriculum mandates and pacing guides but with professional learning opportunities that prepare expert educators to take advantage of and create teachable moments.” —From the Foreword by Linda Darling-Hammond,...
Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education
What's at Stake?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors do not defend the public school system, which for decades has failed primarily poor children of color. Instead, they use empirical evidence...
A Practical Guide to the Qualitative Dissertation
For Students and Their Advisors in Education, Human Services and Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do you write a good qualitative dissertation? This book offers advice about and examples of the primary tasks and hidden complications in writing a qualitative dissertation. The long process of bringing a dissertation to completion involves making many choices—substantive, organizational,...