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What Artists Do
This book explains why Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is an influential art education movement, addresses misconceptions about TAB, and shares real-life examples from practicing teachers. With a diverse range of examples from teachers and school districts who use the Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) approach, What Artists Do provides a strong argument for the place of TAB in today’s K–12 visual arts education landscape. After beginning in the 1970s as a grassroots movement, TAB’s growth has been fueled by passionate teachers sharing ideas through social media, conferences, workshops, and professional development events. TAB’s continued expansion is driven by its student-centered approach to artmaking, the creativity of its practitioners, and a growing demand for educational models that prioritize innovation and self-direction. With chapters tailored for a wide audience—including experienced and new art teachers, administrators, and teacher educators—this book serves as a practical resource for understanding and implementing TAB in art rooms everywhere. Book Features:Includes over 40 full-color images of student artwork, classroom resources, and art teachers practicing in their studiosOffers ideas and guidance for using a choice-based approach to visual arts education that values student agency, classroom community, and artistic process and thinking. Cites evidence-based research that supports TAB as a best practice in contemporary art education and explains the psychological underpinnings of choice and student engagement. Addresses the growth of this approach over the past 50 years, as well as TAB's place in the historical evolution of art education.
The Dreamkeepers
This graphic novel is a beautiful reimagining of the classic text about reaching and teaching African American children. The Dreamkeepers has been a perennial favorite with teachers and programs of teacher education for over 30 years. Like the original work, this comics version blends scholarship and storytelling to document the practices of eight exemplary teachers who use culturally relevant and intellectually rigorous teaching to foster academic excellence among African American students. Readers will follow Nissa, a young student teacher beginning her placement at Pinewood School. As she observes and experiments with the methods of the eight teachers, Nissa not only grows in her craft but also learns to embrace her identity as a neurodivergent young woman. Her journey highlights the power of culturally relevant pedagogy while modeling how educators can form meaningful connections with all their students. This visually engaging graphic edition of the classic bestseller by distinguished professor Gloria Ladson-Billings offers an inspiring and accessible entry point for educators of all backgrounds. Book Features:Case studies and key themes are brought to life by the dynamic drawings of Rachel Branham, author of “What’s So Great About Art, Anyway?” A Teacher’s Odyssey. Depictions of what can be learned from successful teachers about teaching all children, especially African American students. An exploration of why human relationships must be at the center of meaningful educational experiences that aim to overcome racist and unjust societal structures.
Talk to Them Early and Often
This book explains why early communication with infants and toddlers is so important and how to effectively talk to these young learners in a wide variety of circumstances. Talk to Them Early and Often is a practical guide for early childhood educators, caregivers, and parents who want to harness the power of language during the most important years of brain development—birth to age 3. Early childhood educator and parent coach Cara Tyrrell explains how the way adults speak to young children not only shapes their vocabulary, but also informs their developing identity, confidence, and emotional resilience. Readers will learn how the quality and intention of an adult’s words affects the young, pre-verbal brain, laying the foundation for strong linguistic neural pathways, quality relationships, and independent success in school and life. Part I explores the science of receptive and expressive language development, while Part II delivers 10 linguistic guidelines and 25 intentional language strategies to embed into everyday conversation. This practical resource includes research-backed insights, practical scripts, and vivid classroom and home-based vignettes to help adults transform everyday interactions into opportunities for growth. Book Features:Provides 10 linguistic guidelines and 25 practical strategies for educators and parents to use in daily interactions. Includes a downloadable resource guide stocked with printable resources and video examples to support immediate application across home and classroom settings. Shares “Teacher-to-Parent Toddler Talk Tips” to bridge communication strategies from school to home. Offers helpful callout sections that compare what we tend to say vs. what we should say—and why it works. Makes the science of language development actionable with concrete next steps and developmental points to remember at the end of each chapter. Explores how adults’ words, tone, and body language shape early brain development during the “Invisible Learning Years.”
Let's Discuss
This practical book explores evidence-based practices that K–12 educators can use to encourage and support the participation of all students in classroom discussion. Research shows that when students participate in classroom discussions they grow cognitively, socially, and academically. Let's Discuss offers guidance for creating classrooms committed to student “talk” that is active and supports participation by more than just a few students. The authors, who have taught and worked with teachers at a wide range of grade levels, highlight core, research-informed strategies from multilingual education, literacy education, arts education, and disability studies—all adaptable to different age students. This book balances intellectual and theoretical material with practical implementation advice, making it appropriate for education certification and literacy methods courses, as well as in a PLC or professional development context. Book Features:Guidance on how to make classroom discussion inclusive, academic, and ambitious. High-leverage practices and concepts that have been widely used and researched in the fields of literacy teaching, multilingual studies, and literacy studies. Helpful “snapshots” of teaching practices at different grade-bands, exposing educators to core practices that are transferable across age levels. A strong focus on instructional practices rooted in dialog and dialogic education, such as exploratory talk, question generation, and collaborative reasoning. Appropriate for teachers of diverse populations of students, including multilingual learners and students with disabilities.
Screen-Aware Early Childhood
Use screen awareness to nurture and safeguard child development from birth to age 8 in the digital age. This book equips early childhood professionals to grow their “screen awareness”—the knowledge and practices that uphold the developmental well-being and rights of children in a screen-based, media-centric society. The authors introduce the Screen-Aware Framework for Early Childhood (SAFEC), a versatile approach for making informed, intentional decisions about screen use, time, and content across diverse home, classroom, and child care settings. The book highlights consequential research findings and myths about young children and screens; builds awareness of the influence of screen-based media, including problematic industry practices; and digs into protective factors for reducing risks and identifying priorities for strengthening child and family resilience. Full of practical information, strategies, tools, and resources for developing screen-aware practices, policies, and partnerships, Screen-Aware Early Childhood is essential guidance for all those who educate and care for young children. Book Features:Offers a dynamic framework with actionable practices that enable adults to prioritize and protect children’s developmental needs. Builds knowledge and skills so professionals and families can make informed decisions about screen use with confidence. Offers research-based cautions concerning the harmful effects of screen exposure on young children’s health, development, and learning. Encourages responsive, non-judgmental communication among caregivers, teachers, colleagues, families, and community partners to foster understanding and shared responsibility and support. Includes practice-based scenarios, questions for reflection and discussion, and helpful tools and resources.
Productive Uncertainty in Science Education
Productive Uncertainty in Science Education provides the support that teachers and students need for more complex science investigations. Science is driven by the need to manage uncertainty—uncertainty about how to explain the world, but also how to represent the world in an investigation, what to measure, and how to convince peers to see what the scientist wants them to see. For children, uncertainty supports engagement with materials, more purposeful science practice, and deeper conceptual understanding, yet classroom investigations typically reflect little of the uncertainty that scientists grapple with. How can we move past cookbook science investigations and provide the support that teachers and students need for more complex work? This book introduces a framework describing specific forms of science activity, shares stories of children engaging with uncertainty, and provides practical supports to help K– 2 teachers deepen their science teaching practice. The text includes tools for building classroom norms, planning and adapting investigations, leading discussions, and designing student sheets and other forms of support. The framework, tools, and examples are drawn from research conducted in partnership with elementary teachers and instructional leaders and have been applied in secondary science classrooms as well. Book Features: A new way of building engagement and supporting science practice through centering uncertainty, an essential human and scientific experience. Inspiring examples of students engaging in science practices, developed with teacher collaborators. A suite of tools to support the design, adaptation, and implementation of rich investigations for the science classroom. Sample classroom dialogue showing how teachers can facilitate student discussions that foster and build from uncertainty. A companion website with additional investigations, real classroom case studies, and helpful resources and tools (investigationsproject.org).
Applying Depth of Knowledge and Cognitive Rigor
Learn how to apply a cognitive mindset that supports student-centered classrooms (PK– 2). For more than 2 decades, Karin Hess has worked with the concept of depth of knowledge (DOK) and expanded applications of cognitive rigor across content areas and grade levels, proving that every student can experience deeper learning. This interactive book offers a self-guided journey beginning with the basics: what DOK is, what it is not, and debunking common misconceptions about rigor. Karin shares how she synthesized ideas from various thinking models with DOK as the foundation to create the Hess Cognitive Rigor Matrices, now used in more than countries. Each module is framed by frequently asked questions and provides practical tools and strategies for applying a cognitive mindset that supports student-centered classrooms, planning instruction that shifts student roles from taking in information to constructing meaning, and monitoring progress with assessments that uncover thinking. This unique, action-oriented workbook is a perfect companion to Karin's earlier books and a great DOK refresher for PK– 2 staff! Learn how to: Build a shared understanding of DOK and rigor among your teaching colleagues. Shift DOK levels in order to shift teacher-student roles in support of learning transfer. Create actionable standards-based and competency-based assessments. Analyze and adapt current curricular and assessment materials. Explore applications of DOK in progress monitoring and grading.
Young Children's Amazing Math
Explore young children's remarkable everyday math that can lay the groundwork for formal math education in kindergarten and beyond. Readers will learn how math is embedded in children's everyday lives, how daily routines contribute to the development of important math concepts, and what adults can do to foster the joy of early math learning. Ginsburg describes the development of children's informal ideas about number, shape, space, pattern, and measurement, and offers many specific activities designed to promote learning. This dynamic resource provides over 75 short videos showing individual children, from 9 months to years, engaging in spontaneous everyday math activities or talking with an adult about their thinking. Fascinating and often funny, the videos help adults understand the child's everyday math so they can support meaningful math education. Readers and watchers of the videos are encouraged to think deeply about young children's everyday math and how they can foster it at home, in early learning programs, and at school. Young Children's Amazing Math shows how everyday math can be fun for both children and adults. Enjoy it with the children! Book Features: An examination of young children's everyday math, much of which is universal, despite differences across gender, socioeconomic status, and culture. An exploration of how understanding children's everyday math can lay the foundation for teaching school math. The first book to make extensive use of videos to tell "thinking stories" about young children engaged in everyday math. Videos will help adults, including early childhood education students, professional educators, and parents, to understand that math learning can be enjoyable and is not to be feared or avoided in the early years and beyond. Numerous activities that teachers, day care providers, and parents can use to promote the development of children's everyday math. Available in print with embedded QR codes for video access, as well as in a digital version.
Queer Justice at School
Use this youth-friendly guide to build more just and liberatory school communities. Much change is needed to make school communities more affirming and inclusive of gender and sexual diversity. This timely book is written for secondary students and their adult allies who are working to make schools more supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, and their families. Grounded in scholarship, the text offers information, ideas, guidelines, inspiration, and resources to support grassroots efforts to envision and build more just and liberatory school communities. The author shares case studies of youth activism and profiles of these LGBTQIA+ activists to show what is possible when young people take action to improve their communities. Meyer explicitly acknowledges the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community and discusses working in coalitions to address related forms of injustice, including racism and white supremacy, ableism, colonialism, and classism, as well as biases around religion, immigration status, language, and culture. This hands-on guide is readable and accessible for use in extracurricular clubs or as a source for classroom assignments in grades – 2. Book Features: Written in a language appropriate for students and adults working together in student clubs like GSAs or after-school community centers. Provides figures and activities that can be used to guide action planning. Demonstrates that some of the best change happens when it is led by youth. Moves away from the dominant discourse that focuses on harm reduction, risk narratives, and reducing bullying and harassment. Includes a chapter that discusses relevant laws and policies. Offers a companion website that provides updated links and resources for readers at elizabethjmeyer.com/queer-justice.
To Teach
This is the Fourth Edition of the classic memoir that has inspired teachers for over 3 decades. It is also available as a graphic novel. To Teach is both the story of a new teacher's voyage into the classroom and a guide to the values and commitments that can animate a steady and meaningful life in teaching. There are stumbling blocks in every teacher's journey and today's specific, unprecedented challenges can seem insurmountable. In this new edition, Ayers discusses important events that have shaped education since the last edition was published, including a global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. He also discusses the heightened politicization of teaching as a profession that has resulted in insidious book banning, as well as the continuing influence of mass incarceration on schooling. For over 3 decades, this classic text has inspired teachers across the country to follow their own paths, face their own challenges, and become the teachers they long to be. This engaging teacher's odyssey is a road map to the beating heart of teaching, emphasizing the joy in the journey and the pleasure in a life lived in the company of children and youth. Book Features: A primer for new teachers trying to develop the skills and commitments needed to be effective in the classroom. An incitement to K– 2 teachers to reimagine their teaching and rethink their practice. Also available as a graphic novel, To Teach: The Journey, in Comics, featuring the drawings of talented artist Ryan Alexander-Tanner.
Getting to Know You
This user-friendly guide uses narrative storytelling to describes the principles of early relational health with direct application to day-to-day work with infants and parents. Practitioners on the front lines often feel great pressure to know "what to do" in a wide range of challenging situations. Drawing on both developmental science and extensive clinical experience, Dr. Gold provides evidence that the exact opposite—a stance of not-knowing—helps us find our way into another person's experience, offering the greatest opportunity for connection, growth, and healing. Gold presents a model of "listening in" with an intentional suspension of expectations and a willingness to be surprised. The paradigm of listening in functions as a kind of superpower to enhance teacher–student, professional–parent, and parent–infant relationships. Getting to Know You is important reading for a broad variety of practitioners working with infants, including early childhood educators, home visitors, pediatricians, doulas, and mental health clinicians, as well as policymakers, parents, and other caregivers. Book Features: Summarizes the key advances in our understanding of brain science, child development, and infant-parent mental health. Emphasizes lessons from real-life interactions between infants and caregivers as communicated through detailed clinical vignettes. Offers practitioners a model for listening that is rooted in the concept of cultural humility and the idea that even in sameness there is difference.
Everyday Restorative Justice
This much-needed book provides a practical framework for implementing school-wide restorative justice practices to enhance students’ social emotional readiness. Amidst today’s uncertainty and social unrest, this book offers teachers and students hope in the underlying principles of restorative justice that challenge us to be our best selves. Through curricular sequences, lesson plans, case studies, and narrative examples, Chaterji maps the terrain for learning and practicing empathy, studying models of repair and accountability, and creating conditions for trust and vulnerability. While much of restorative justice in schools is responsive to incidents that have already occurred, this book argues for robust prevention and culture-building through students’ personal and conceptual exploration of pain, loss, oppression, and other emotionally charged topics. Chaterji carries lessons from restorative justice in high-level harm, such as victim-offender dialogue, to the classroom through exercises that foster tenderness, self-reflection, and skillful attention on how to “make it right.” The text includes classroom-tested strategies and activities that the author developed over 15 years working in schools, youth programs, prisons, probation and juvenile detention facilities. Book Features:Vivid case studies, anecdotes, and practitioner's notes from extensive restorative justice work in schools and prisons. Robust collection of supplemental materials, including activity descriptions, worksheets for classroom use, lesson plans, and curricular sequences (reproducible documents in an online appendix). Spanish language materials for teaching concepts in restorative justice, including circle-keeping scripts, sample agendas, and activity descriptions. A teacher-centered approach to implementing restorative justice through concrete lessons, thematic areas, and activities that foster greater trust, connection, and healing. A connection to SEL core competencies of responsible decision-making, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, and self-management.
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The New Meaning of Educational Change
"For over 4 years, Michael Fullan has been one of the world's most important thinkers on education policy. In this important new book, he offers clear and compelling recommendations on what we must do differently if schools are to meet the learning needs of future generations." —Pedro Noguera, coauthor of A Search for Common Ground: Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K– 2 Education The sixth edition of The New Meaning of Educational Change is unlike any of its predecessors. Michael Fullan first provides a deeply critical account of the last years of educational change across the world with a focus on the United States. He then presents a radically different future based on learnings from the past and innovative examples from the recent present, along with a complete model for transforming our badly outdated current education system. Fullan not only carefully documents the historic failure of system change, but he also offers a fundamental and innovative proposal that will generate better results with staying power. This new edition is part history, part boldly and radically action-oriented—setting out a future agenda for an increasingly complex world that has the power either to destroy the planet or make it the most wonderful place in the universe. Written for a wide audience that includes practitioners, students, and policymakers, this dynamic resource shows readers how to develop collaborative cultures at the school level, foster district-wide success in all schools, and integrate individual and systemic success. Book Features: Offers devastating evidence on how and where educational system change has failed in the past and continues to do so. Provides a clear sequence of system transformation—build the bottom, strengthen the middle, and intrigue the top! Makes specific, practical recommendations for educational improvement that should be embraced by educators and policymakers now. Written in a reader-friendly language with an inspiring invitation to take action.
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