Teaching and teacher education: Recent print books
This guide is for those interested in teaching and teacher education, both research and practice.
Recent print books
- Small habits create big change: strategies to avoid burnout and thrive in your education career by Rebecca BranstetterPublication Date: 2025Small Habits Create Big Change is a valuable collection of micro-habits--small, science-backed adjustments--that educators can use to reclaim their mental health and their love for their jobs. This book helps you identify your unique personality type, so you can find the hacks and tweaks that will actually work as you strive to manage stress and reignite your passion for working with students. Many educators feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and on the verge of burnout, but it's never too late to turn things around. Best of all, psychologist Rebecca Branstetter gives you solutions that you can use while you work, so you don't have to sacrifice your already-scarce downtime.
- Preparing early career teachers to thrive: sustaining purpose, navigating tensions, and cultivating self-care by Kristina Marie Valtierra; William Anderson (Foreword)Publication Date: 2024This book addresses the post-pandemic crisis of early career teacher turnover that is harming students and entire school systems. The author provides teacher educators and mentors with strategies to help new teachers proactively navigate the early years and thrive in the K-12 classroom. Based on 10 years of research and practical application, this guide will support teacher professional identity formation, resilience, and agency.
- 21 visual thinking tools for the classroom: developing real-world problem solvers in grades 5-10 by Meredith J. Harbord; Sara Riaz KhanPublication Date: 2025This resource is for any busy teacher looking to enrich their lesson planning and support the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and metacognition skills. Designed for use in Grades 5-10, each of these 21 tools is paired with a real-world issue or ethical dilemma to guide students through complex social, emotional, and intellectual topics and can even be used within your existing lessons. Every chapter introduces a different visual thinking tool and a step-by-step approach for a range of topics from challenging bias and promoting self-awareness to reflecting on social interactions.
- Failing our future: how grades harm students, and what we can do about it by Joshua R. EylerPublication Date: 2024One of the most urgent and long-standing issues in the US education system is its obsession with grades. In Failing Our Future, Joshua R. Eyler shines a spotlight on how grades inhibit learning, cause problems between parents and children, amplify inequities, and contribute to the youth mental health crisis. Eyler, who runs the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, illustrates how grades interfere with students' intrinsic motivation and perpetuate the idea that school is a place for competition rather than discovery.
- What brain research says about student learning : how parents and teachers can capitalize on it for student success by Perry R. Rettig; Toni M. BaileyPublication Date: 2024What Brain Research Says about Student Learning provides parents and teachers the most recent findings in brain research and learning theory in a very approachable way. The reader will see how the child's brain develops, learns, remembers, and creates new meaning and understanding. User-friendly discussions of learning and teaching theories will show strategies both parents and teachers can use to capitalize on this new understanding about the child's developing brain.
- Teaching from an ethical center: practical wisdom for daily instruction by Cara E. Furman; David Hansen (Foreword)Publication Date: 2024In Teaching from an Ethical Center, Cara E. Furman proposes a process for bringing philosophical inquiry into teacher education and adopting it as a centering tool to enrich teaching practice and help teachers act justly. Under Furman's thoughtful guidance, both experienced and preservice teachers will find that engagement with philosophy can be a useful means of clarifying for themselves the educational ethics, values, and pedagogy that guide their work. Using firsthand accounts, recommended resources, and thought exercises, Furman prompts readers to explore the many benefits for both educators and their students of the act of reading and making sense of philosophical texts and thinking philosophically through daily dilemmas.
- Humans who teach: a guide for centering love, justice, and liberation in schools by Shamari ReidPublication Date: 2024All of the humans in schools--kids and adults--deserve joy. Yet, our experiences in schools, and the experiences of our students, are often far from joyful. Humans Who Teach invites readers to explore the complicated humanity of those who teach, with a focus on how we have been socialized to accept the status quo, our very real fears in disrupting the status quo, and how we can rely on our human capacity to love to engage in teaching for social justice even in the presence of fear.
- Unearthing joy: a guide to culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning by Gholdy MuhammadPublication Date: 2023In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit--joy--to her groundbreaking instructional model. She defines joy as more than celebration and happiness, but also as wellness, beauty, healing, and justice for oneself and across humanity. She shows how teaching from cultural and historical realities can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and-indeed-joy for all students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world.
2022
- Adaptable teaching: 30 practical strategies for all school contexts by Jonathan Ryan Davis; Maureen ConnollyPublication Date: 2022This book is designed for all K-12 educators and teacher preparation faculty. Reading this book is like being in the room with 30 teacher mentors from different grade-levels and school settings who are sharing strategies for: (1) building and maintaining a positive classroom climate; (2) planning; (3) instruction; and (4) professional development.
- Antiracist teacher education. Volume 1: theory and practice by Gilda Martínez-Alba (Ed.); Luis Javier Penton Herrera (Ed.); Afra Ahmed Hersi (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022In this edited book sponsored by the ATE Diversity Committee, we invited teacher educators to engage in critical dialogue and reflection around theories, issues, complexities, and challenges of antiracist teacher education and to exchange critical ideas and theory/research-informed practices for preparing antiracist teachers.
- Beyond the traditional essay: increasing student agency in a diverse classroom with nondisposable assignments by Melissa Ryan (Ed.); Kerry Kautzman (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022This volume offers a range of responses to the problem of "disposable assignments," essays written just for a grade and then thrown away. The scholars collected here explore how renewable assignments can contribute to public knowledge, eliciting student work that is shared across networks of learning, that does something, that transcends the teacher's grade.
- Black college leadership in PK-12 education by Ivory A. Toldson (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022Educational equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice are widely considered to be the most important civil rights challenge of the 21st century. Many HBCUs began in the 1800s as institutions to prepare Black teachers to teach in segregated America. Although their focus has expanded since their critical beginnings, HBCUs remain significant producers of African American teachers.
- A case for change in teacher preparation: developing community-based residency programs by Julie A. GorlewskiPublication Date: 2022"This book describes a reconceptualized teacher preparation program based on a teacher residency model. Through a combination of rich description, and qualitative and quantitative program data, the authors make the case that university programs focused on the communities they serve can ensure more effective, learner-ready teachers who remain in the profession longer."
- Communicating social justice in teacher education: insights from a critical classroom ethnography by Aubrey HuberPublication Date: 2022Using a social justice framework, the book examines the ways in which new teachers contend with their identities as educators, and demonstrates how these communicative performances influence pre-service teachers perceptions of their role, as well as their responsibility to engage with social justice and critical approaches in the classroom.
- Coping with tensions: a catalyst for transformative change for teachers and administrators by Chelsea Faase; Sheila Kohl; Jason LauPublication Date: 2022Education is a profession filled with tension. Pressures to help students achieve their potential come from all directions: political, parents, students, teachers, administrators, interpersonal, and intra-personal. The tensions experienced can result in two distinct paths. The first path may take teachers and administrators toward feelings of bewilderment, exhaustion, frustration, and ultimately burnout. The second path can result in rejuvenation.
- Creating an actively engaged classroom: 14 strategies for student success by Todd Whitney; Terrance M. Scott; Justin CooperPublication Date: 2022Successful lessons are explicit, yet also inspire active learning and opportunities to respond. Research shows teachers consistently offer students far fewer than the recommended opportunities to respond, leaving all students--including those with special needs and behavior challenges--less than engaged and falling short of their best chance for success. With this book, you'll discover 14 strategies you can translate directly to your classroom, complete with descriptions, advantages and disadvantages of each, and how and when best to use them.
- Cultivating curiosity: teaching and learning reimagined [print & e-book versions] by Doreen Gehry NelsonPublication Date: 2022In Cultivating Curiosity: Teaching and Learning Reimagined, distinguished educator and author Doreen Gehry Nelson inspires anyone yearning to break away from formulaic teaching. Told from dozens of powerful and personal perspectives, the effectiveness and versatility of the Doreen Nelson Method of Design-Based Learning described in the book is backed by years of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Design thinking for every classroom: a practical guide for educators [paper version] by Shelley V. Goldman; Molly B. ZielezinskiPublication Date: 2022"Designed to apply across grade levels, Design Thinking for Every Classroom is the definitive teachers guide to learning about and working with design thinking. Addressing the common hurdles and pain points, this guide illustrates how to bring collaborative, equitable and empathetic practices into your teaching."
- Dismantling educational sexism through teacher education: engaging preservice teachers in an anti-sexism curriculum by Kimberly J. PfeiferPublication Date: 2022"Designed to help teacher candidates recognize gendered approaches and reconsider their role as anti-sexist educators, Dismantling Educational Sexism through Teacher Education explores how workshops can respond directly to issues of misrepresentation, androcentric pedagogies, sexual harassment, and intersectionality as manifest in US schooling."
- Elephant in the classroom: tracing the complexity of teaching by exploring 13 competencies and practices by Andrew MaxeyPublication Date: 2022Elephant in the Classroom is an exploration of the vast complexity of teaching as it is described by research and experienced by teachers. The reality of a job so vital to the proper functioning of a society should not be as mysterious as teaching continues to be. This book takes readers on a guided tour of 13 competencies and practices that are a critical part of teaching.
- Empowering gifted educators as change agents: a playbook for equity-driven professional learning by Katie D. Lewis; Angela M. NovakPublication Date: 2022Designed for practitioners seeking to increase the rate of identification and retention of underserved gifted populations, this book guides readers through the Four Zones of Equity-Driven Professional Learning Model, a practical set of tools specific to the field of gifted education.
- The flexibly grouped classroom: how to organize learning for equity and growth by Kristina J. DoubetPublication Date: 2022Unlike traditional grouping, which typically puts like with like or combines students without regard to the best way to promote their individual growth, flexible grouping is both purposeful and fluid, regularly combining and recombining different students in different ways to pursue a wide range of academic and affective goals. In this comprehensive guide to flexible grouping, author Kristina J. Doubet shares a staged implementation approach that takes students from simple partner set-ups designed to build cooperative skills to complex structures ideal for interest and readiness-informed academic exploration.
- Handbook of research on teacher education: innovations and practices in Asia by Myint Swe Khine (Ed.); Yang Liu (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022This comprehensive book presents emerging research findings and promising reform practices in the field of teacher education, curriculum, assessment, teaching and learning approaches, pedagogical innovations, and professional development in educating the next generation of globally competent students. It reflects the current trends and highlights contemporary teacher education programs in twenty greater Asian countries and regions.
- Happy, healthy teens: why focusing on relationships works by Kari O'DriscollPublication Date: 2022This book offers clear, actionable ways for parents and educators to create and strengthen relationships with teens during a key time of growth and development. With an emphasis on mindfulness, non-violent communication, and rooted in what we know about brain and social development during the adolescent years, this book is a great resource for anyone who is struggling to understand how to support and connect with young people.
- Imperfect heroes : teaching in challenging times to motivate student achievement by Andrew BarkleyPublication Date: 2022Imperfect Heroes is intended to help teachers flourish during challenging times. The book is written for all educators, but especially those who seek renewal in their ability to help students learn and grow. Included are the inspiring and motivational stories of twelve "Teaching Heroes."
- Inclusive teamwork for pupils with speech, language and communication needs by Rosalind MerrickPublication Date: 2022This book provides a rationale for teaching inclusive teamwork and for understanding communication as a collective endeavour. It shows how teamwork can be taught within schools and emphasises the role that classmates have in facilitating good communication, particularly in the face of difficulty.
- Joyful resilience as educational practice: transforming teaching challenges into opportunities by Michelle C. Hughes; Kenneth Rea Badley (Illustrator)Publication Date: 2022Chapters highlight the reciprocal nature of educational challenges, or how the very challenges found in education--difficult interactions with students, finding and using effective classroom materials, attempts to connect educational theory with classroom practice--are likewise means of cultivating gratitude for the practice of teaching.
- Next-level digital tools and teaching: solving six major instructional challenges, K-12 by Rachel Karchmer-Klein; Lauren Boulden; Maureen McDonald; Douglas K. Hartman (Foreword)Publication Date: 2022What we have learned from the many challenges of online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic is the focus of this authoritative resource. Featuring teachers' experiences and classroom examples, the authors examine what's needed and what works in order to help educators improve current models of technology-integrated instruction in their schools and districts. With a focus on digital tools and planning for any setting, the text provides ready-to-use help for designing technology-integrated lessons, building and managing community, selecting the best digital tools for particular tasks, increasing student engagement, and differentiating instruction.
- Non-punitive school discipline: relational practices to help students overcome problem behaviors by Adam H. Frank; Harry Wong (Foreword)Publication Date: 2022The author draws on deep experiences as a teacher, coach, and school principal to show how discipline done right can help students to grow in self-management and responsibility. Listening to students and getting to know them are key to helping them to see consequences and make good choices.
- On liking the other: queer subjects and religious discoursesOn Liking the Other by Kevin J. Burke; Adam J. GretemanPublication Date: 2022On Liking the Other: Queer Subjects and Religious Discourse sstudies the intersection of religious and queer discourses in teacher education. It looks at the sometimes difficult topics rooted in these two particular discourses, which are often seen as unwelcome in both public and private educational spaces. In engaging in such a conversation, the authors seek the ways that these discourses, while steeped in discontent, dilemma, and difficulty, might also offer ways to reorient ourselves amidst twenty-first century educational realities.
- The peak performing teacher: five habits for success by Mike KuczalaPublication Date: 2022This book guides educators in meaningful self-reflection by providing: five critical practices to increase productivity and decrease anxiety, reflection prompts and vignettes to guide readers in developing self-care strategies, practical checklists and templates to help educators maintain goals. Grounded in new research connecting personal change to professional improvement, Kuczala's approach to well-being builds a bridge between mind and body to create a comprehensive path for success.
- Pedagogies of post-truth by David H. Kahl (Ed.); Ahmet Atay (Ed.); Anjuli Joshi Brekke; Leda Cooks; K. Megan Hopper; John Huxford; Lore/tta LeMaster; Rob Razzante; Simon Rousset; Ann Savage; J. J. Sylvia; Chad Woolard; Jennifer Zenovich; Joseph ZompettiPublication Date: 2022Pedagogies of Post-Truth explores the national and international political developments in what has been called a post-truth society; specifically, in which conservative groups target media outlets claiming fabrication of news and that the veracity of evidence-based reporting should be questioned. This collection responds to these issues by initiating a scholarly dialogue about teaching in the era of post-truth in which research-based findings that do not align with political viewpoints are judged, criticized, and often described as "fake."
- Pedagogy as encounter: beyond the teaching imperative by Naeem InayatullahPublication Date: 2022What is the role of politics in the classroom? How does the desire of the teacher shape the pedagogical process? Is teaching possible? Is learning possible? Pedagogy as Encounter engages with such larger issues. The majority of discussions, workshops, conference panels, articles, and books avoid meta-pedagogical issues by focusing on technique.
- Promoting teacher advocacy as critical teacher leadership by Jill Bradley-LevinePublication Date: 2022This book critically explores the meaning and practice of teacher advocacy. Drawing from the work of teachers who advocate with and for students who are traditionally marginalized--including students of color, students with exceptionalities, students in poverty, and immigrant students--this volume investigates classroom realities like inequitable distribution of resources, student trauma, and uneven support for teachers' work from administrators.
- The racialized experiences of Asian American teachers in the US: applications of Asian critical race theory to resist marginalization by Jung Kim; Betina HsiehPublication Date: 2022"Drawing on in-depth interviews, this text examines how Asian American teachers in the US have adapted, persisted, and resisted racial stereotyping and systematic marginalization throughout their educational and professional pathways. Utilizing critical perspectives combined with tenets of Asian Critical Race Theory, Kim and Hsieh structure their findings through chapters focused on issues relating to (anti-)essentialism, intersectionality, and the broader social and historical positioning of Asians in the US."
- Rethinking teacher education: a bold alternative to preservice programs by Selma WassermannPublication Date: 2022The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs, including improved strategies for selection into the program; key ingredients for pre-service course work; courses that emphasis skill development in critical areas of teaching practice and more effective evaluation of student teaching that emphasizes professional development.
- Sources for a better education : lessons from research and best practices by Piet KommersPublication Date: 2022This textbook evolves from the intersection between ''Research'', ''Educational Information Technologies'' and recent ''Best Practices''. It offers diplomacy and erudite rhetoric in order to harvest from innovation projects and see how new professional needs for teachers are emerging day by day. The volume launches the compact background for the 21st century education that every teacher faces after being in charge for 3 or 6 years after pre-service training. ''Sources for a better education'' refers to the deep understanding and to the incentives for encouraging teachers to leave the comfort zone and experiment the next steps into a further sophisticated professionalism, without the threat of feeling in a ''Dilemma''.
- Student-centered mentoring: keeping students at the heart of new teachers' learning by Amanda BrueggemanPublication Date: 2022Mentor relationships should focus on student growth and provide novice teachers with instructional support to truly make an impact on student learning. Amanda Brueggeman brings this focus to life in Student-Centered Mentoring by presenting mentorship strategies that can be applied effectively in any induction context, all through the prism of orienting mentor conversations around student learning outcomes.
- Supporting children of incarcerated parents in schools: foregrounding youth voices to improve educational support by Whitney Q. HollinsPublication Date: 2022"Drawing on qualitative research conducted with young people in New York, this volume highlights the unique experiences of children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and counters deficit-based narratives to consider how young peoples voices can inform and improve educational support services."
- Sustaining action research: a practical guide for institutional engagement by Anne Burns; Emily Edwards; Neville John EllisPublication Date: 2022This book is a practical guide for English language teachers and teacher educators seeking to carry out and promote teacher action research within their institutional context. Based on contemporary theory and a reflexive and social approach to teacher professional development and learning, it offers readers structured methodologies and concepts, wide-ranging hands-on activity sets, and focused suggestions for appropriate and sustainable ways to implement action research across an institution.
- Teacher education for inclusive bilingual contexts : collective reflection to support emergent bilinguals with and without disabilities by Patricia Martínez-ÁlvarezPublication Date: 2022"Through analysis of rich qualitative data, Teacher Education for Inclusive Bilingual Contexts shows how group reflection supports pre-service educators to recognize the intersectional challenges faced by students, and understand their identities beyond the confines of disability. This, in turn, engenders reconceptualization of standardized expectations and implicates the educator in developing student agency through individualized use of routine, language, and materials."
- Teacher retention in an age of performative accountability : target culture and the discourse of disappointment by Jane PerrymanPublication Date: 2022In this insightful and timely volume, Jane Perryman provides a definitive analysis of the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention through a critique of the culture of performative accountability in education, bringing together theory, literature, and empirical data.
- Teaching as protest : emancipating classrooms through racial consciousness by Robert S. HarveyPublication Date: 2022Teaching as Protest explores how K-12 teachers can expand the boundaries of their profession with anti-oppressive, community-building pedagogies.
- Teaching on days after: educating for equity in the wake of injustice by Alyssa Hadley DunnPublication Date: 2022What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? This beautifully written book features teacher narratives and youth-authored student spotlights that reveal what classrooms do and can look like in the wake of these critical moments.
- Training teachers in emotional intelligence : a transactional model for elementary education by Elena Savina, Caroline Fulton, and Christina BeatonPublication Date: 2022Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills regarding their own and their students' emotions. Teachers are increasingly charged with providing social-emotional learning, responding to emotional situations in the classroom, and managing their own stress, all of which have real consequences for their retention and student achievement.
- Transforming novices into professionals: a comprehensive and systematic guide to teacher induction by Matthew J. JenningsPublication Date: 2022If we are to succeed in staffing our schools with effective teachers, educational leaders must do a better job of supporting these teachers early in their careers. One form of support we can improve is the teacher induction process. In combination with the book From First Year to First Rate, this book provides all of the material necessary to provide a comprehensive, systematic multi-year teacher induction program.
- Transforming professionals into experts: a systematic and comprehensive approach to mid-career teacher development by Matthew J. JenningsPublication Date: 2022Educational administrators make a sincere effort to develop a curriculum scope and sequence for students. Yet, with few exceptions, educational administrators make no such effort to develop a similar document for the professional learning of teachers. As a result, teachers often are provided with professional learning activities that lack focus and coherence. The content of Transforming Professionals into Experts: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Mid-Career Teacher Development fills this void.
- Tuned-in teaching: centering youth culture for an active and just classroom by Antero Garcia; Ernest Morrell; M. Colleen Cruz (Ed.); Nell K. Duke (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022In Tuned-in Teaching, Antero Garcia and Ernest Morrell offer a road map for creating a classroom that is transformative for your students and revitalizing for you. They explain why students play an integral role in turning classrooms into spaces for greater engagement and innovation. By tuning into youth culture and the lives of students, we become more connected to their needs and ways of learning. Build an active, just, and engaging classroom with students.
- Uprooting instructional inequity: the power of inquiry-based professional learning by Jill Harrison BergPublication Date: 2022Noted leadership coach Jill Harrison Berg offers a comprehensive guide to help school and teacher leaders amplify the power of collaborative inquiry as a means for identifying, interrogating, and addressing instructional inequity.
2021
- Accountability and culture of school teachers and principals: an eight-country comparative study by Zehava Rosenblatt and Theo WubbelsPublication Date: 2021Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals studies the degree to which teachers and principals in eight countries view themselves as taking responsibility, working by clear standards, reporting transparently, and accepting feedback at work. The book focuses on cultural values that explain variation in accountability levels of school educators, drawing on data from Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
- Better learning through structured teaching: a framework for the gradual release of responsibility by Douglas Fisher; Nancy FreyPublication Date: 2021Now in its 3rd edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility-an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners. To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to master content and develop new competencies.
- Building teacher quality in India: examining policy frameworks and implementation outcomes by Alexander W. Wiseman (Ed.); Preeti Kumar (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021In India, which has one of the largest student populations and fastest growing economies in the world, the quality of teaching is blamed for the poor performance by Indian students on internationally-comparative assessments. As a result, Indian national policy documents and curriculum frameworks have repeatedly called for drastic improvements in teacher preparation and performance, but with few widespread results. By identifying and analyzing various measures of teacher quality, and how teacher quality varies in India, this book provides an evidence-based framework for policymakers to further improve teacher quality in India.
- The commodification of American education: persistent threats and paths forward by T. Jameson Brewer (Ed.); Gregory Harman (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021For the last few decades, teacher preparation has increasingly aligned itself with "best practices," standards, and accountability, and such policies became mandatory in P-12 schooling nationwide. Technical skills instruction and methods have become the common practice of teacher preparation and accreditation of programs. Teacher candidates are encouraged to be unquestioning servants of a school system rather than educators who govern the meaning of schooling. The purpose of this book is to present a view of how we got to where we are today and to offer strategies to bring the job of teaching back to its roots.
- Core practices for project-based learning: a guide for teachers and leaders by Pam Grossman; Christopher G. Pupik; Zachary Herrmann; Sarah Schneider KavanaghPublication Date: 2021Core Practices for Project-Based Learning offers a framework and essential set of strategies for successfully implementing project-based learning (PBL) in the classroom. Centering on teaching practice, this work moves beyond project planning to focus on the complex instructional demands of the student-centered PBL approach.
- Engendering #blackgirljoy: how to cultivate empowered identities and educational persistence in struggling schools by Monique LanePublication Date: 2021Historically, racialized sexism in U.S. schools has manifested uniquely for Black girl-identified adolescents (including cisgender, queer, and transgender youth). These learners face heightened exposure to malicious discourses and exclusionary disciplinary policies. Engendering #BlackGirlJoy identifies the teaching practices that equip young Black women to locate, analyze, heal from, and ultimately thrive through the suffering they face inside and outside of schools.
- Global perspectives on dialogue in the classroom: cultivating inclusive, intersectional, and authentic conversations by Ashmi Desai (Ed.); Hoa N. Nguyen (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021This book explores globally-informed, culturally-rooted approaches to dialogue in the classroom. It seeks to fill gaps in communication and education literature related to decolonizing dialogue and breaking binaries by decentering Eurocentric perspectives and providing space for dialogic practices grounded in cultural wealth of students and teachers.
- The hybrid teacher: using technology to teach in person and online by Emma PassPublication Date: 2021The Hybrid Teacher: Using Technology to Teach In-Person and Online will teach educators to leverage the technology they have access to both in their traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms and in remote learning environments, including established online and hybrid schools; emergency response models for pandemics, natural disasters; rural education; and connecting with students who can't make it to school.
- Learning: design, engagement and definition: interdisciplinarity and learning by Brad Hokanson (Ed.); Marisa Exter (Ed.); Amy Grincewicz (Ed.); Matthew Schmidt (Ed.); Andrew A. Tawfik (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021This book examines the topic of learning design from a human, interactive, and collaborative perspective. A variety of pedagogic and instructional modalities are thoroughly investigated as methodologies for creating functional and effective designs for students.
- The maker playbook: a guide to creating inclusive learning experiences by Caroline HaebigPublication Date: 2021Get concrete strategies for designing and implementing cultural and instructional supports for maker learning, and equipping makerspaces to model universal design for learning (UDL) in action.
- The minimalist teacher by Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman; C. Y. ArnoldPublication Date: 2021Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman and C. Y. Arnold have developed a way to bring a minimalist mindset to the classroom and shed the burden of too many initiatives, strategies, and "things" in general. Their Triple P process helps teachers declutter in three steps: identify something's purpose, prioritize what is important, and pare down to essentials.
- Moviemaking in the classroom: lifting student voices through digital storytelling by Jessica PackPublication Date: 2021Our world hinges on storytelling and the ways in which stories can be told are always evolving. For students to become future-ready, confident creators of original content, they need opportunities to share their stories. Moviemaking helps students showcase their learning, process their lives and connect with others in a meaningful way.
- Restorative justice in education: transforming teaching and learning through the disciplines by Maisha T. Winn (Ed.); Lawrence Winn (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Restorative Justice in Education makes the case for restorative justice as a practice as much as it is a paradigm. Through essays, case studies, and interviews, the book outlines for educators and teacher educators how restorative justice can be leveraged to teach across disciplines.
- So each may soar: the principles and practices of learner-centered classrooms by Carol Ann TomlinsonPublication Date: 2021Carol Ann Tomlinson's role in defining and popularizing differentiated instruction has made her one of the most influential voices in modern education. In So Each May Soar, she illuminates the next step forward: creating learner-centered classrooms to help all students gain a deeper understanding of themselves, others, and the world.
- Teacher diversity and student success: why racial representation matters in the classroom by Seth Gershenson; Michael Hansen; Constance A. LindsayPublication Date: 2021Teacher Diversity and Student Success makes a powerful case for diversifying the teaching force as an important policy lever for closing achievement gaps and moving schools closer to equity goals. Written by three leading scholars, the book provides nuanced solutions on how to diversify the teaching force, increase student exposures to same-race teachers, and improve teacher training for a culturally diverse student body.
- Teaching with clarity: how to prioritize and do less so students understand more by Tony FrontierPublication Date: 2021In Teaching with Clarity, Tony Frontier focuses on three fundamental questions to help reduce curricular and organizational clutter in the interest of clarity and focus: * What does it mean to understand? * What is most important to understand? * How do we prioritize our strategic effort to help students understand what is most important? By prioritizing clear success criteria, intentional design, meaningful feedback, and a shared purpose, teachers can begin to clear away the curricular clutter that overwhelms the profession-and embrace the clarity that emerges.
- Teaching with empathy: how to transform your practice by understanding your learners by Lisa WestmanPublication Date: 2021Rather than try to identify who needs empathy, start with the premise that all learners deserve empathy because it is a prerequisite for learning and growth. In Teaching with Empathy, Lisa Westman explores three types of empathy-affective, cognitive, and behavioral-and clarifies how they intertwine with curriculum, learning environment, equity practices, instruction and assessment, and grading and reporting.
- Thriving beyond the early years: transitioning from professional to master teacher by Matthew J. JenningsPublication Date: 2021Building upon a solid foundation of classroom management, direct instruction and classroom assessment, teachers in the early professional stage of their teaching career need to learn how to engage students in deeper learning experiences. This book provides the research-based strategies teachers need to successfully implement these learning activities.
- Understanding excessive teacher and faculty entitlement: digging at the roots by Tara Ratnam (Ed.); Cheryl J. Craig (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement develops a significant body of professional knowledge by providing a deeper and sympathetic understanding of what manifests itself as 'excessive entitlement'. The volume presents a theoretical framework within which one can investigate and articulate issues and helps those concerned with education and teacher education internationally to get a sense of the complexities surrounding teachers' work.
- We belong: 50 strategies to create community and revolutionize classroom management by Laurie Barron; Patti KinneyPublication Date: 2021The secret to every positive learning environment? Belonging. When students feel that they belong in their school and classroom, commitment to learning goes up and behavioral disruptions subside. And when teachers embrace an SEL-infused approach to classroom management that helps every student feel valued, safe, and competent, belonging soars. We Belong offers 50 targeted strategies to increase students' sense of belonging and reinforce the habits that support classroom harmony and learning success.
- Who's in my classroom?: building developmentally and culturally responsive school communities by Gess LeBlanc; Tim FredrickPublication Date: 2021Capitalize on the latest educational research and youth voices to inform your teaching and become more culturally and developmentally aware In Who's In My Classroom?, accomplished educator and author delivers an inspirational and practical combination of true stories from teens in Youth Communication's award-winning writing program and the most current educational research.
- Why are we still doing that?: positive alternatives to problematic teaching practices by Pérsida Himmele; William HimmelePublication Date: 2021In Why Are We Still Doing That?, the best-selling authors of Total Participation Techniques lead a teacher-positive, empathetic inquiry into 16 common educational practices that can undermine student learning...
2020
- Borders in mathematics pre-service teacher education by Nenad Radakovic (Ed.); Limin Jao (Ed.)Publication Date: 2020This book examines the current state of the field of mathematics pre-service teacher education through the theme of borders. Borders are ubiquitous; they can be used to define, classify, organize, make sense of, and/or group. Chapters include the following topics: explorations of mathematics across topics (e.g., geometry, algebra, probability) and with other disciplines (e.g., science, the arts, social sciences); challenging gender, cultural, and racial borders; exploring the structure and curriculum of teacher education programs; spaces inhabited by teacher education programs (e.g., university, community); and international collaborations and programs to promote cross-cultural sharing and learning.
- Chasing success and confronting failure in American public schools by Larry CubanPublication Date: 2020Eminent historian and educator Larry Cuban provides a thorough examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of what constitutes educational success in the US. Cuban argues that in the history of American education, standards of achievement and inadequacy--as well as the reform efforts issuing from them--have been neither stable nor consistent. Nor are these standards untainted by political considerations.
- A collective pursuit: teachers' unions and education reform by Lesley LaveryPublication Date: 2020In A Collective Pursuit, Lesley Lavery unpacks how teachers' unions today are fighting for contracts that allow them to earn a decent living and build "schools all students deserve." She explains the form and function of the nation's largest teachers' unions.
- Everyday advocacy: teachers who change the literacy narrative by Cathy Fleischer; Antero GarciaPublication Date: 2020Once, teachers who knew their content area and knew how to teach it were respected as professionals. Now there is an additional type of competency required: in addition to content and pedagogical knowledge, educators need advocacy skills. In this groundbreaking collection, literacy educators describe how they are redefining what it means to be a teaching professional.
- Exploring self toward expanding teaching, teacher education and practitioner research by Oren Ergas (Ed.); Jason K Ritter (Ed.)Publication Date: 2020Against the backdrop of a pull toward external standards and accountability, this collection of chapters re-grounds us in the importance of bringing the 'self' to the foreground of the discourse of teaching, teacher education and practitioner research.
- More than an ally: a caring solidarity framework for White teachers of African American students by Michael L. BoucherPublication Date: 2020White teachers in multiracial schools are looking for ways to understand how to make a difference with their students of color in their classrooms. This book will help teachers make that difference.
- Participatory pedagogy: emerging research and opportunities by Martha Ann Davis-McGaw and Simone McGaw-EvansPublication Date: 2020Participatory Pedagogy: Emerging Research and Opportunities explores educational change and methodologies for the promotion of lifelong learning. highlighting a wide range of topics such as educational achievement, learning experience, and public education.
- Playing with Teaching [paper edition] by Antero Garcia (Volume Editor); Jennifer S Dail (Volume Editor); Shelbie Witte (Volume Editor)Publication Date: 2020Playing with Teaching serves as a hands-on resource for teachers and teacher educators. Particularly focused on how games - both digital and non-digital - can shape unique learning and literacy experiences for young people today, this book's chapters look at numerous examples that educators can bring into their classrooms today.
- Preparing science teachers through practice-based teacher education by David Stroupe (Ed.); Karen Hammerness (Ed.); Scott McDonald (Ed.)Publication Date: 2020This comprehensive volume advances a vision of teacher preparation programs focused on core practices supporting ambitious science instruction. The book advocates for collaborative learning and building a community of teacher educators that can collectively share and refine strategies, tools, and practices.
- The teacher insurgency: a strategic and organizing perspective by Leo CaseyPublication Date: 2020In The Teacher Insurgency, Leo Casey addresses how the unexpected wave of recent teacher strikes has had a dramatic impact on American public education, teacher unions, and the larger labor movement. Casey explains how this uprising was not only born out of opposition to government policies that underfunded public schools and deprofessionalized teaching, but was also rooted in deep-seated changes in the economic climate, social movements, and, most importantly, educational politics.
- Toward anti-oppressive teaching: designing and using simulated encounters by Elizabeth A. Self; Barbara S. StengelPublication Date: 2020Toward Anti-Oppressive Teaching introduces an innovative approach for using live-actor simulations to prepare preservice teachers for diverse classroom settings. Based on the SHIFT Project at Vanderbilt University, the book highlights the promise of these encounters to empower preservice teachers to become more culturally responsive.
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