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Examines the chronic under-performance of African American males in US schools. Citing a plethora of disturbing academic outcomes for Black males, this book focuses on the historical, structural, educational, psychological, emotional, and cultural factors that influence the teaching and learning process for this student population.

Provides an introduction to the author's writings and includes a chapter on critical exploration in the classroom. Touching on many subjects, the essays in this work support the author's belief that ""the having of wonderful ideas is the essence of intellectual development,"" and that the focus of education should be on the learner's point of view.

In this text, Duckworth and six of her colleagues describe learners (who range in age from five to adulthood) coming to connect with seven different subject matters - from politics to poetry, medicine to mapping. There are suggestions for pedagogical and curricular pathways for schools.

Offers a new vision for teaching literacy to adolescents that moves beyond reading for its own sake and toward reading as a way to motivate students to connect with their world. The authors draw on the voices of adolescent readers to discover how teachers can encourage their students to explore their identities, face injustices, and contribute to their communities.

Every early care and education program deserves a qualified and competent supervisor. This pioneering text addresses the needs of administrators and staff to help them expand and improve their supervisory skills. This classic volume is still the best choice for those supervising staff from a wide variety of educational and cultural backgrounds.

In this important book, experts from around the globe come together to examine what solidarity in multicultural societies might mean and how it might be built. Educators will recognise relationships between issues discussed in the book and their own places of work, helping them to better understand issues of diversity and take steps toward building solidarity in their own schools and communities.

How do race and race relations influence leadership practice and the education of students? In this timely and provocative book, the author identifies cultural and unstated norms and beliefs around race and race relations, and explores how these dynamics influence the kind of education students receive.

In his new book, popular author Patrick Shannon examines reading as agencywhy reading critically is essential to civic engagement and a healthy democracy. We follow the author on a journey of self discovery as he practices ''wide-awake reading'' with a variety of everyday texts, from radio programs to legal documents to more traditional books and magazines. Shannon demonstrates how we can and must engage in close reading of the world around us and how teachers, in turn, can help their students make meaning from the information in their lives that often appears to move at warp speed. Reading Wide Awake integrates personal stories, political commentary, and guidance for educators into an engaging, fun-to-read book that will resonate with a diverse audience of teachers.

The Computer Clubhouse makes an important contribution not just in the local communities but also as a model for after-school learning environments. This book deals with the Computer Clubhouse - the idea and the place - that inspires youth to think about themselves as competent, creative, and critical learners.

Offers different strategies for supporting English learners in elementary classrooms. This resource investigates the social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of English learners in American schools, and describes how to teach to each student's strengths and background knowledge. It features chapters that provide examples from real classrooms.

Of all the school readiness domains, approaches to learning is perhaps the least understood but the important. Research shows that positive approaches to learning improve both social - emotional and academic outcomes. This resource helps early childhood professionals implement strategies to support young children's positive approaches to learning.

Tells the story of Black colleges in Mississippi during a watershed moment in their history. This work examines colleges against the backdrop of the black freedom struggle of middle twentieth century, and a conflict between state agents determined to protect the racial hierarchy and activists equally determined to cripple white supremacy.

Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children's understanding of picture storybooks. This volume includes examples of children's responses and how teachers scaffold the children's interpretation of stories. It is suitable for contemporary young children with various ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

This volume emphasizes early childhood settings, and focuses on those skills that enable the observer to make appropriate, valid inferences and to arrive at decisions based on objective observation data gathered in natural learning environments and diverse educational settings.

Shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of algebra by focusing on the most important ideas that students need to grasp. Organised by grade level around the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Marian Small shares approaches that will lead to a deeper and richer understanding of algebra for both teachers and students.

Shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of fractions by focusing on the most important fraction ideas that students need to grasp. The book is organised by grade level beginning with Grade 1, where the first relevant standard is found in the geometry domain, and ending with Grade 7, where the focus is on operations with rational numbers and proportional thinking.

As adults working in schools, educators' beliefs translate into messages, actions, and behaviours that can enhance or impede student success. This book affirms why beliefs are so important and why it is imperative to spend time focusing on, reflecting upon, and affecting educators' beliefs-especially about students' resilience.

Offers new ways to think about creating a culture of literacy in your school. Both the book and DVD follow seasoned teachers and examine the strategies they've used to engage students in the excitement of both making texts meaningful and creating their own texts. The DVD features extensive classroom footage and interviews with teens that demonstrate ways to create a literacy culture in your school—a culture that encourages adolescents to read, write, and think critically about books.

A provocative challenge to teachers and parents of young children, this book demonstrates why play is the most effective way for children to develop critical life skills such as thinking and social problem solving.

Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school in the US annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes.