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Forthcoming Titles

Equity in School–Parent Partnerships

Starting from the premise that children learn better when their learning community respects their families...
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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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Teaching for a Living Democracy

This classroom narrative explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally...
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The Essential Renewal of America's Schools

What can today’s educational leaders do to create schools that are purposeful, moral, and successful?...
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EdSpeak and Doubletalk

The debate over public schools has become highly politicized, featuring movements dedicated to privatizing...
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Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R)

Featuring a spiral binding, the updated Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, ® ECERS-R, offers...
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What's New in Arts Education?

Studio Thinking 3

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning...
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How the Arts Can Save Education

This book provides a blueprint for using the arts—performing, visual, and multimedia—to rethink what...
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A Guide to Teaching Art at the College Level

This accessible guide will help studio art and design professors meaningfully and effectively transform...
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Teaching Contemporary Art With Young People

This full-color resource will help educators teach about current art and integrate its philosophy and...
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Teacher as Curator

Teacher as Curator provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students...
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Art and Technology

Learn how to use digital technologies to provide a rich new entry-point for art students to make meaning,...
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Steppingstones

Representing the first extensive volume on the history of art education to be published in 20 years,...
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Community-Based Art Education Across the Lifespan

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of Community-Based Art Education...
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Integrating the Visual Arts Across the Curriculum

With lots of examples and color images, this resource is both a foundational text and a practical guidebook...
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Social-Emotional Learning

Emotionally Responsive Teaching

Learn how to navigate the challenging terrain of connecting with a child who is deeply afraid, angry,...
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Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces

Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion...
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Culturally Sustaining Language and Literacy Practices for Pre-K–3 Classrooms

Literacy educators are often unequipped to help young children contend with the world we inhabit, where...
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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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Cooperative Games in Education

Cooperative Games in Education is the first comprehensive guide to the world of cooperative play and...
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Authentic Cariño

As the population of Latinx students grows in U.S. public schools and our nation seeks to address systemic...
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Moral Education for Social Justice

The authors draw from their work with teachers and students to address issues of social justice through...
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Restorative Literacies

Through eight compelling stories of restorative literacies, Wolter explores the complex relationships...
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Developing Inviting Schools

Over 400 schools throughout the world have adopted Invitational Education to foster innovative thinking,...
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Emotionally Responsive Practice

It is essential for all schools to integrate trauma-informed care into practice as children, parents,...
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Compose Our World

Learn how to develop and sustain multimodal, project-based learning (PBL) instruction in secondary English...
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Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door

Recipient of the 2021 Delta Kappa Gamma Educators Book Award.This book explores how educational institutions...
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The Power of Student Agency

How can we promote the learning and well-being of all students, especially those who come from some of...
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The Heart and Science of Teaching

The Heart and Science of Teaching shows readers why and how to connect essential social–emotional factors...
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Trauma-Sensitive Schools for the Adolescent Years

The trauma-sensitive schools movement is the result of a confluence of forces that are changing how educators...
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The Brilliance of Black Boys

2018 NAME Philip C. Chinn Book Award Winner!This much-needed book will help schools and, by extension,...
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Trauma-Sensitive Schools

Growing evidence supports the important relationship between trauma and academic failure. Along with...
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Teaching Hope and Resilience for Students Experiencing Trauma

Huge numbers of our students are caught in storms of trauma—whether stemming from abuse, homelessness,...
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Infant and Toddler Development from Conception to Age 3

Infants invite those caring for them to join as companions on an incredible journey. Infant and Toddler...
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The Vulnerable Heart of Literacy

What is trauma and what does it mean for the literacy curriculum? In this book, elementary teachers will...
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Unsmiling Faces

The first edition of this indispensable book set the standard for high-quality intervention and prevention...
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Bears, Bears Everywhere!

Noted psychotherapist, educator, and bestselling author Lesley Koplow shares her extensive experience...
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Creating Schools that Heal

In a world where children are beset by violence and stress, Lesley Koplow provides educators with clear,...
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It’s Not About Grit

2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Gold Award in Education2019 PROSE Award in Education FinalistSpeaking...
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Feeding the Roots of Self-Expression and Freedom

This curriculum-based collection of lesson plans is designed to build student confidence for articulating...
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Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning

In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized leaders in education and psychology examine the relationships...
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Full of Ourselves

This dynamic health-and-wellness education program was developed at the Harvard Medical School by a...
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Black Culture Matters

Anti-Blackness at School

While schools often are framed as places of neutrality and fairness, many American schools have harmed...
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Rise for Racial Justice

This book highlights the work of Rise for Racial Justice, an organization that launched a public racial...
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Reckoning With Racism in Family–School Partnerships

Drawing from the lived experiences of Black parents as they engaged with their children’s K–12 schools,...
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Black Male Success in Higher Education

For more than 175 years, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played a significant...
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Doing and Being Hip-Hop in School

Hip-hop, born after the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, is an expression and embodiment of liberation....
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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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Talking College

Talking College shows that language is fundamental to Black and African American culture and that linguistic...
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Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies

Drawing on the authors’ experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators,...
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Writing the School House Blues

Anne Dyson confronts race and racism head-on with this ethnographic study of a child’s efforts to belong—to...
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Teaching Black Boys in the Elementary Grades

This book will help educators rethink their expectations of and practices for developing the literacy...
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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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Radical Care

Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to...
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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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Strong Black Girls

Strong Black Girls lays bare the harm Black women and girls are expected to overcome in order to receive...
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Campus Uprisings

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “White supremacist groups are targeting college campuses...
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about Centering Possibility in Black Education

Improving education outcomes for Black students begins with resisting racist characterizations of blackness....
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The Healing Power of Education

Situating the African American learning experience within the stream of historic enslavement and hundreds...
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The Brilliance of Black Boys

2018 NAME Philip C. Chinn Book Award Winner!This much-needed book will help schools and, by extension,...
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When Getting Along Is Not Enough

Now more than ever, race has become a morphing relational dynamic that has less to do with the demographic...
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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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Jim Crow Campus

2020 Frederic W. Ness Book Award Winner (AACU)2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in...
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Race, Culture, and Politics in Education

This autobiographical volume will foster a deeper understanding of racism, discrimination, and inequality...
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"We Dare Say Love"

"We Dare Say Love" takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students...
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A Search Past Silence

This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex...
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Black Youth Rising

Black Youth Rising is a book that restores hope and possibility to the lives of urban black youth. In...
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The White Architects of Black Education

A historical investigation into the political and ideological foundations of the "miseducation of the...
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Shoptalk—Lessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon

Shoptalk examines the development of literacy, identity, and thinking skills that takes place through...
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New Editions for Course Adoptions

Young Investigators

Young Investigators has been expanded to guide today’s teachers through the process of conducting meaningful...
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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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Why Are So Many Students of Color in Special Education?

Bringing to life the voices of children, families, and school personnel, this bestseller describes in...
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Biography-Driven Culturally Responsive Teaching

This popular resource has transformed classrooms for thousands of teachers by providing how-to guidance...
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LGBTQ Youth and Education

This second edition is essential reading for educators and other school community members who are navigating...
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Studio Thinking 3

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning...
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More Good Questions

Learn how to differentiate math instruction to help all students be successful learners in the secondary...
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Program Administration Scale (PAS)

The Program Administration Scale (PAS) is designed to reliably measure and improve the leadership and...
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Just Released

The Successful Dean

What does leadership and change actually look like in myriad situations? This “boots-on-the-ground”...
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The Scandal of Standardized Tests

This update to SAT Wars provides new evidence in the case against standardized college entry tests, including...
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Escala de Calificación del Ambiente de Cuidado Infantil en Familia, Edicion Revisada

In a translation approved by the authors, this is the Spanish edition of the newly revised Family Child...
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Excluded by Choice

Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides...
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Writing to Make an Impact

Through ideas and practices straight from the classrooms of outstanding teachers, this lively resource...
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Campus Uprisings

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “White supremacist groups are targeting college campuses...
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Meeting Families Where They Are

This book presents an in-depth discussion of how human disability and parental advocacy have been constructed...
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Escala de Calificación del Ambiente de la Infancia Temprana, Edicion Revisada

La ECERS-R es una revisión completa de la ECERS (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale®, en inglés),...
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Bestsellers

Teaching Critically About Lewis and Clark

The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery is often presented as an exciting adventure story of discovery,...
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Measuring Race

The United States demography is changing rapidly. How are we capturing these shifts? Do the racial categories...
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Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-3)

The long-anticipated new version of the internationally recognized Early Childhood Environment Rating...
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Campus Uprisings

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “White supremacist groups are targeting college campuses...
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Case Studies of Minority Student Placement in Special Education

This book features vivid case studies that bring to life real children, school personnel, and family...
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Challenges to Japanese Education

In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues...
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Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education

This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the...
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What's New in Arts Education?

Social-Emotional Learning

Black Culture Matters

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