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Rooted in Belonging

Most practitioners and scholars agree that critical and reflective early childhood and elementary teachers...
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Promising Pedagogies for Teacher Inquiry and Practice

Drawing on frameworks of teacher research and critical literacy, this volume documents the experiences...
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For the Love of Teaching

There remains a significant achievement gap for students of color across the K–12 spectrum. One area...
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Design Thinking in the Middle Grades

Too often, mathematics and science are taught in isolation from each other and from meaningful problems...
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Brave Community

At the core of the intractability of racism is the persistent cultivation of our collective ignorance...
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Teachers as Policy Advocates

This book argues that teachers’ active participation in policy advocacy is crucial to creating a K–12...
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Education for Liberal Democracy

Our democracy is in crisis. Both political trust and a shared standard of truth are broken. In this book,...
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The Mentor Teacher Blueprint

Both higher education and P–12 faculty play a critical role in the preparation of new teachers, yet...
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Core Practices for Teaching Multilingual Students

Learn how to teach multilingual students effectively and equitably with this practical and accessible...
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Duck and Cover

In the 1950s and 1960s, students practiced ducking under their desks in case of an atomic bomb attack....
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Emotionally Responsive Teaching

Learn how to navigate the challenging terrain of connecting with a child who is deeply afraid, angry,...
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Accelerating K–8 Math Instruction

Schools have been using various approaches to address the pandemic-related struggles that students are...
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Dignity-Affirming Education

The word “dignity” is not typically used in education, yet it is at the core of strong pedagogy....
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Sparks Into Fire

In a thriving education system, students experience learning that prepares them as the vital keepers...
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Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching in Education

Books abound to guide mentoring and coaching for preservice and inservice teachers’ professional learning....
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Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice in the Elementary Classroom

Elementary-aged children are often positioned as not developmentally ready to learn about race, racism,...
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The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning

Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader...
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Non-Punitive School Discipline

When educators are challenged to address problem student behaviors, the question in their minds should...
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Making Schools Work

If we teach in the way that human brains learn, both students and their teachers will thrive! This book...
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Teaching and Learning in the New Latino Diaspora

This volume does more than document an educational dynamic that impacts Latino populations across the...
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Anti-Blackness at School

While schools often are framed as places of neutrality and fairness, many American schools have harmed...
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Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth

This important book offers strategies, models, and concrete ideas for better serving newcomer immigrant...
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Building Culturally Responsive Partnerships Among Schools, Families, and Communities

Learn how to create culturally responsive, socially just school–family partnerships that positively...
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Improving Online Teacher Education

Use this practical guide to develop collaborative and interactive online experiences for teacher candidates....
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Introduction to Teaching

Lesson Planning with Purpose

When teachers and students are both engaged in the educational enterprise, every day has the potential...
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Becoming a Metacognitive Teacher

How can early and preservice teachers master the complex practice of teaching? This clearly written,...
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Reimagining The Call to Teach

This award-winning sequel to the internationally acclaimed classic, The Call to Teach, revisits the idea...
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Holler If You Hear Me, Comic Edition

This graphic memoir of teaching in urban America is a brilliant reimagining of the classic text by Gregory...
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Same as It Never Was

After a decade as an education professor, Greg Michie decided to return to his teaching roots. He went...
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about Becoming a Teacher

Education activist William Ayers invites new and prospective teachers to consider the deepest dimensions...
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Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way

This celebrated narrative shows how a teacher, alongside his 5th-grade students, co-created a curriculum...
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Teaching Controversial Issues

2018 Delta Kappa Gamma Educators Book AwardIn this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings...
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Why We Teach Now

Why We Teach Now dares to challenge current notions of what it means to be a “highly qualified teacher”...
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To Teach

To Teach is the now-classic story of one teacher’s odyssey into the ethical and intellectual heart...
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To Teach

This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher,...
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Social Justice and Diversity

Is Everyone Really Equal?

This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education. Based on the authors’...
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Culturally Responsive Teaching

Geneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to...
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Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing...
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

For the first time, this volume provides a definitive collection of Gloria Ladson-Billings’s groundbreaking...
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Critical Race Theory in Education

This important volume brings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars...
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The Power of Community-Engaged Teacher Preparation

Discover how and why community-engaged teacher preparation is a powerful and vital approach to address...
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Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education

2022 Recipient of the NCTE David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English2022...
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Creating a Home in Schools

The authors of this book provide caring advice to Black, Indigenous, and Teachers of Color (BITOC) to...
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Teacher Educators as Critical Storytellers

Breaking away from the historically dominant narrative that White females make the best teachers, this...
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Critical Race Theory in Teacher Education

This important volume promotes the widespread application of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to better prepare...
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We Can't Teach What We Don't Know

For author Gary Howard, the issues and passions that sparked the writing of the First Edition of this...
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Letting Go of Literary Whiteness

Rooted in examples from their own and others’ classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices...
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Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice

Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the...
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Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World

How can we create truly multicultural classrooms? In this new edition of her popular text, renowned...
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Research Guides

A Student's Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education

This concise handbook helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students...
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Doing Critical Research in Education

This introductory text provides a clear, readable description of critical theory research and how to...
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Telling the Story in the Data

Traditional dissertations aiming to illuminate the landscapes of education are often too poorly written...
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Student Voice Research

This powerful resource is for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding...
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Doing Case Study Research

Now in a Fourth Edition, this how-to guide is an excellent starting point for anyone looking to begin...
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Humanizing Methodologies in Educational Research

This guide is for educational researchers interested in conducting ethically sound qualitative studies...
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Interviewing as Qualitative Research

This popular text, now in its fifth edition, provides step-by-step guidance for new and experienced researchers...
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Just Research in Contentious Times

In this intensely powerful and personal new text, Michelle Fine widens the methodological imagination...
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The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research

Despite all of the information that exists to encourage students to attend and do well in college, this...
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A Practical Guide to the Qualitative Dissertation

How do you write a good qualitative dissertation? This book offers advice about and examples of the...
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Education Research in the Public Interest

Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate argue that education scholars can and must undertake work...
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The Beginner's Guide to Doing Qualitative Research

This book provides theoretically grounded, real-world advice for students beginning to learn how to conduct...
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Inquiry as Stance

In this long-awaited sequel to Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, two leaders in the field...
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