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Using the case study of a Seattle school, this text describes a working model for the education of homeless children in America's public schools.

For the first time, this volume provides a definitive collection of Gloria Ladson-Billings' groundbreaking concept of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. This compilation of Ladson-Billings' published work on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy examines the theory, how it works in specific subject areas, and its role in teacher education.

Reflecting recent knowledge and developments in the field, this practical, easy-to-use guide emphasizes learning how to do case study research - from the first step of deciding whether a case study is the way to go to the last step of verifying and confirming findings before disseminating them.

An ethnographic study of a child's efforts to belong - to be a child among children - that confronts race and racism head-on. Follow the journey of a small Black child, Ta'Von, as he moves from a culturally inclusive preschool through the early grades in a school located in a majority white neighbourhood

A practical resource to help educators teach about current art and integrate its philosophy and methods into the K-12 classroom. The authors provide a framework that looks at art through the lens of nine themes, highlighting the conceptual aspects of art and connecting disparate forms of expression.

While student agency is considered an important aspect of classroom learning, opportunities to support and promote agency can be easily missed. This book addresses the inner dimensions of student agency to show what it is, why it is needed, and how it can be translated into instructional practices.

Addresses issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research on students' development of moral understandings and concerns for human welfare in order to address societal conventions, norms, and institutions.

Many believe that kindergarten no longer reflects a nurturing environment but, instead, has become a race for children to learn skills so they are ready for the academic achievement tests. Resisting the Kinder-Race examines how the race came about, why it must change, and how all stakeholders must take part in the reform process.

Answers questions that educators have asked of the author, who is a former teacher and legal advocate for ELL families, including the differences among immigrant, refugee, green card, and undocumented students; the right of a school to deny immigration officers entry; and the ways that teachers and school leaders can connect families to services.

Examines how a flux leadership mindset and corresponding tools promote the conditions for educational change that uplift stakeholders and generate contextualized data during emergency situations.

Examines how a flux leadership mindset and corresponding tools promote the conditions for educational change that uplift stakeholders and generate contextualized data during emergency situations.

Brings together experts on various aspects of education to address the emerging issues and problems that affect how data are being used or misused in educational contexts. Readers will learn about the importance of using data effectively, responsibly, and ethically to understand how cognitive fallacies occur and how they impact decisionmaking.

Brings together experts on various aspects of education to address the emerging issues and problems that affect how data are being used or misused in educational contexts. Readers will learn about the importance of using data effectively, responsibly, and ethically to understand how cognitive fallacies occur and how they impact decisionmaking.

A book that will help educators rethink their expectations of and practices for developing the literacy skills of Black boys in the elementary school classroom. Tatum shows educators how to bring students' literacy development into focus by creating an early intellectual infrastructure of advanced literacy, knowledge, and personal development.

Looks at the development of mathematical thinking in infants and toddlers, with an emphasis on the earliest stage, when mathematical thinking and problem solving first emerge as natural instincts. The text explores four precursor math concepts, with an emphasis on how development occurs when it is nurtured by loving knowledgeable others.

Above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare youth to be informed citizens and active, constructive participants in the democratic process. These essayists, criticizing as well as lauding the US educational system, believe that such a goal is best accomplished through a high-quality, public, free system of schooling.

Above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare youth to be informed citizens and active, constructive participants in the democratic process. These essayists, criticizing as well as lauding the US educational system, believe that such a goal is best accomplished through a high-quality, public, free system of schooling.

In this guide, readers will find an in-depth description of both the conceptual model underlying the ECERS-3 and innovative ways of analysing data for a fuller understanding of what can be done with the scale and why it is integral to the evaluation of early care and education.

Examines the exclusionary aspects of citizenship and offers democratic societies an alternative approach that includes all long-term residents regardless of citizenship and immigration status. Banks reimagines a civic education curriculum that gives students the knowledge and skills they will need to assist the US in becoming a more perfect union.