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Young people are facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions - yet no one is taking action. Children are born as active, curious, imaginative beings with a built-in physical identity. Survival of the Fit offers a new and revelatory plan to nurture this identity and save the health of youngsters.

Highlights the value of open questions for differentiating instruction in the K-8 virtual environment; shows teachers how to adapt the materials that they are already using; illustrates how students can incorporate items from their home environment into math lessons; demonstrates how to maintain community with students online; and much more.

How do you know which college is right for you? And what should you do during college to make the most of your time there? In Doing College Right, dean of undergraduate studies Joe O'Shea helps readers to both choose a college and make key decisions throughout their higher education journey.

Over 400 schools across the world have adopted Invitational Education to foster innovative thinking, sustained positive action, and the creation of socially and emotionally safe schools. As educators are now involved in an epic rethinking of what they do and how they do it, this book provides a dependable guide for improvement.

Offers a necessary intervention to help progressive educators and advocates take back public education. This book highlights how the broader Left are often talking about the "problem" in ways that were framed by forces counter to the goals of democracy and justice, and in so doing, advancing "solutions" that cannot help but be counterproductive.

Offers a critique of recent efforts to reform Indigenous education in public schools. John Hopkins centres his critique on Montana State's innovative and bold multicultural education policy called Indian Education for All, and demonstrates why Indigenous education reforms must decolonize the curriculum and pedagogy.

Presents the Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science instructional model to help teachers craft practices that will encourage students to apply science concepts beyond defined school boundaries. This practical resource includes detailed vignettes, classroom examples, and guidance for trying out strategies.

Provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities of culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning, chapters specifically demonstrate how arts integration strategies and formative assessment can be a catalyst for change in the classroom.

Offers the tools teachers need to get started with a more thoughtful and compelling approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives today, and meets social studies 3C standards and most state standards (grades 6-12).

How might school funds be spent more effectively in today's uncertain environment? This up-to-date volume explores a range of ideas to help schools and districts better manage their resources. This is a valuable guide for how to spend budgets wisely and well.

How might school funds be spent more effectively in today's uncertain environment? This up-to-date volume explores a range of ideas to help schools and districts better manage their resources. This is a valuable guide for how to spend budgets wisely and well.

Explains brain development from prenatal to age 8 with suggestions for activities educators and caregivers can use to foster children's cognitive growth. The authors begin with the basics of brain development, and the issues that affect it, and then provide information specific to infant, toddler, preschool, and kindergarten to primary age levels.

In this follow-up to his popular book, ''Is This English?,'' Bob Fecho explores dialogic teachingwhat it is and how teachers can move toward more reflective teaching practices. Fecho provides a framework to help teachers develop the necessary focuses, perceptions, and intellectual habits that will result in an ever-enriching dialogue with their practice. Chapters like ''Using the Difficulty'' consider how an obstacle in the classroom can become a teachable moment, and Wobble asks teachers to be alert to when their beliefs are challenged by students and colleaguesand what can be learned in the balancing act. With anecdotes and scenarios from the authors own experience teaching adolescents and pre-service teachers, this engaging book will resonate with educators busy with todays overcrowded curriculums.

Captures the core ingredients of leadership. Joseph Murphy, a preeminent scholar of leadership, has compiled this book of short and thoughtful lessons designed for today's busy professional. The lessons come from reading, seeing, and hearing about leadership in various sectors of practice.

Drawing from over two decades of research, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a systemic form of everyday racism commonly experienced by People of Color. The authors make a unique contribution to the study of racial microaggressions by using Critical Race Theory to develop the concepts, frameworks, and models provided in this book.

Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing up to make sweeping changes in urban education. More than a new edition, this sequel has been substantially revised to include insights from new research, recent demographic trends, and emerging political realities.

Starting from the premise that children learn better when their learning community respects their families and cultures, this thought-provoking resource shows what it means-and what it takes-to include today's diverse parents in their children's learning.

The second edition of the seminal text designed to empower educators with an innovative conceptual framework for teaching. The book is grounded in the synergy of five big ideas for connecting mind, brain, and education research to classroom practice: neuroplasticity, potential, malleable intelligence, the Body-Brain System, and metacognition.

Use this practical guide to develop collaborative and interactive online experiences for teacher candidates. The author examines methods for integrating evidence-based practices into online teaching environments, including think alouds, case-based instruction, peer feedback, and field experience.

Many American schools continue to struggle with segregation. This important book tells the story of how two school districts - one a predominantly White and wealthy suburban community and the other a more diverse and urbanized community - were merged into a single district to work toward a solution for school segregation.

Learn how to integrate lessons about good digital citizenship into the early childhood classroom. Based on reviews of empirical research, this book addresses the need for a new educational paradigm that will enable educators to help young children develop the skills and ethical behaviours to thrive in both the real and digital worlds.

Presents a range of perspectives to offer practical steps and policy options for creating campus structures that are fair and inclusive to students of all races and social statuses. This book demonstrates the power and value of principled non-violent activism to provoke change and provides strategies to help manage conflict and racial tension.

Examines what it means to be present in one's teaching. The book begins with an in-depth definition of presence from several different angles. The text goes on to delineate what a teacher may be present to, providing a map for useful discussions among teachers and between teachers and students.

Brings together the expertise of scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the current state of racial heterogeneity, data practice, and educational inequality. They offer recommendations to guide future research, practice, and policy with the goal of better understanding and meeting the needs of diverse student populations.

Maguire-Fong has updated her groundbreaking book designed to assist pre- and inservice professionals working with infants and their families. Each chapter draws from research and real-life infant care settings to provide valuable insights into how to design an infant care program, plan curriculum, assess learning, and work with families.

Maguire-Fong has updated her groundbreaking book designed to assist pre- and inservice professionals working with infants and their families. Each chapter draws from research and real-life infant care settings to provide valuable insights into how to design an infant care program, plan curriculum, assess learning, and work with families.

Explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. The book presents a framework of teaching for a living democracy - supporting learners to produce intellectually creative work by designing instruction that intersects with students' lives.

In this guide, the authors outline a program of collaboration to enable novice teachers to gain insight from their experienced colleagues. The book argues that ""epistemic empathy"" is a core attribute to develop in practitioners at all levels of experience in order to apply principles of special education practice in thoughtful and innovative ways.

Explores how educational institutions have failed to recognise and effectively address the symptoms of trauma in students of all ages. Gross argues that it is time for educational institutions and those who work within them to change their approaches and responses to traumatic symptoms that manifest in students in schools and colleges.