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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching Storytelling in Classrooms and
Book SynopsisUnleash the transformative power of storytelling to build belonging, ignite critical consciousness, and amplify students' voices. This dynamic book equips educators who work with middle and high school-aged youth to teach storytelling in their classrooms or community organizations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching and Supporting Students with
Book SynopsisThis volume offers international perspectives on the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on disabled students and their families, serving as a call to action for educational systems and education policy to become proactive, rather than reactive, for future disasters. Each chapter in the book is written by authors with lived experiences across diverse global regions, highlighting the daily life of people with disabilities and their families during the pandemic. Including case studies and practical suggestions, the book demonstrates that culturally responsive practices are essential to successfully support people around the world in their times of need. At the critical intersection of education and disability human rights, this book is important for pre-service teachers, researchers, professors, and graduate students to ensure all students are supported during times of crisis.
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Taylor & Francis The Facilitatorâs Handbook for Effective Enrichment
Book SynopsisThe Facilitatorâs Handbook for Effective Enrichment provides a clear, practical roadmap for implementing enriching educational activities across the curriculum.Enrichment focused and practitioner friendly, this book provides an implementation structure to help educators use the evidence-based practices of Renzulliâs Enrichment Triad Model, the foundation for Renzulli and Reisâs Schoolwide Enrichment Model, to raise students' knowledge, skills, motivation, and self-efficacy. Covering the what, why, and how with step-by-step guidance, hands-on strategies, and immediately implementable activity plans, this book provides everything needed to ensure that enrichment is meaningful and empowering for both facilitators and students.Featuring mini-curricular units aligned to educational standards and a Just for You section designed to support reader growth and confidence as a facilitator, this book is a must read for anyone working to promote childrenâs development, regardless of background or experience.
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Taylor & Francis Learning and Leading for Transdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide gives an overview of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for K-12 teacher leaders and other school professionals with practices towards transdisciplinary success for lifelong literacy in schools. MTSS is a holistic teacher leadership approach that focuses on transdisciplinary networks of instruction and intervention. For MTSS to be effective, teacher-colleagues and teacher leaders need to be prepared to understand the complexities of the systems and the multiple tiers of support needed within each system, as well as their roles in the process. This book details an illustrative list of tiers for seven systems within a MTSS framework, including multi-tiered systems for:â Assessment and Evaluationâ Professional Learning (e.g., literacy coaches, literacy leadership teams, online/offline professional learning)â Family Engagement (e.g., newsletters, parent nights, parent workshops, Parent Teacher Associations)â Transdisciplina
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Taylor & Francis AltEducation
Book SynopsisAlt-Education looks at the stories the right tells about schools: a fight between an evil, indoctrinating government and a far-right freethinking truth warrior, between a frigid cultural Marxist teacher and a loving Christian mother. This book explores the link between education, gender, and far-right metapolitics, and offers insights into the ways in which it circulates and is normalized. Through digital ethnography and fieldwork it explores the production, circulation, and interpretation of these discourses and the ideologies they express, tracing their movement across four groups of women in the US and UK â fascists, white nationalist, Christian nationalists, and Republicans. Although often understood to be opposed to education, the far-right is instead opposed to schooling â and offers its own practices of alt-education. Through media, alternative schools and home education-- the far-right teaches their ideologies of gender and race, knowledge, and power, as well as transmitting alternative histories, sociologies, and conspiracies. From momâs groups to digital discourses about the evils of public schools, social media are key arenas in which women not only teach, but are taught, far-right alternative knowledge. Alt-education teaches reactionary ideology as a timeless truth, normalizing it through discourses of home, family and love. At the same time, alt-education borrows and co-opts the language of critique â normalizing racism, sexism and fascism a kind of alternative knowledge, while making it exciting as a countercultural critique of âœwokeâ liberal indoctrination. The book concludes with a look at this attempt to âœspeak post-truth to powerâ as a way of normalizing and spreading their ideology â bringing alt-education to a wide audience as their critiques of âœwokeâ politics spreads across the US, UK, and into Europe.This book is aimed at scholars of the far-right and gender, as well as scholars and practitioners of education. Written in an accessible and engaging tone, this book will be of interest to both researchers and advanced undergraduates.
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Taylor & Francis StrengthsBased Changemakers in Education
Book SynopsisStrengths-Based Changemakers in Education is the perfect tool for educators looking for brief articles involving the history and current state of racial equity in education. Following each reading, educators can complete self-reflection questions, identify changes needed in their own school, and create a plan of action. The format allows for independent use or with professional learning communities, equity teams, or school improvement planning committees working to interrupt racism in their school.The book explores different aspects of modern education beginning with a brief history, an understanding of laws and policies and their impact on education, and a dive into how schools are structured. Readers will then consider their own role in education, their school community, and the current state in which they work. Finally, the book considers implementation theory, resistance to change, and dismantling the current to create the new.For use on its own or in conjunction with the authorsâ book Interrupting Racism, this book lends itself well to use as a guiding resource for equity teams in schools.
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Taylor & Francis SENCO Leadership
Book SynopsisWritten by SENCOs for SENCOs and other school leaders, this book shares innovative, strategic and practical whole-school developments that have been trialed and reviewed through research with colleagues, students and families. Each chapter is written by an experienced SENCO school leader. Their accounts of the developments they carried out and the research evidence they collected to measure impact are presented accessibly and succinctly. These developments include: â Preparing for Ofsted Inspectionâ SEN policy and whole-school practice: what are staff doing and what do they know?â Whole-school referral for SEND Supportâ Capturing voices. Increasing all studentsâ experience of belonging in schoolâ Exclusion: The impact of limited wider-life experiences SENCO Leadership: Implementing Whole-School Practice is an indispensable resource for all SENCOs and other school leaders wanting to provide the best learning environment for thei
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Taylor & Francis Education and Social Change
Book SynopsisThis concise, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change.Like its predecessors, this fully updated new edition investigates the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration, globalization, and cultural conflict on the development of schools and other educational institutions. It also examines the various ways that schools have contributed to social change, particularly in enhancing the status and accomplishments of certain social groups and not others. Detailed accounts of the experiences of women and minority groups in American history consider how their lives have been affected by education at key points in the past.Updates to the seventh edition include: Enhanced coverage for understanding the experiences of Native Americans, students in poverty settings, and the LGBTQ+ community in the midst of social change. New topics include settler colonialism, indigeneity, culturally diverse education, gay and transgender educational policies, charter schools, voucher programs, and the rise of testing in schools. It has been edited throughout to update information and sources regarding the history of American education and related processes of social transformation in the nationâs past.This bestselling introductory text is essential reading for Educational Foundations, History of Education, and Schools and Society, and similar courses for pre-service teachers, educational leaders, and others.New online material includes discussion questions and links to further reading and resources, available at www.routledge.com/9781032745947
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Taylor & Francis Equity and Inclusivity for Multilingual Learners
Book SynopsisThis textbook equips pre-service educators with the tools they need to empower multilingual learners, their families, and communities; promote educational equity; and advocate for the rights of multilingual learners in increasingly complex socio-political settings. Featuring contributions from researchers, in-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and community leaders, the book offers expansive and diverse perspectives on the challenges and solutions related to multilingual learners in a myriad of educational contexts and environments. The book goes beyond traditional classroom strategies to cultivate all participantsâ active agency and incorporate advocacy for both teachers and multilingual learner students, exploring the intricate connections between praxis and community engagement in a comprehensive way. Addressing a wide array of increasingly common challenges, this thoughtful resource is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education and educational leadership preparation programs, as well as teacher researchers and school administrators.
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Taylor & Francis The Social and Emotional Core of Equity Leadership
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Taylor & Francis Exploring Practitioner Research in Further
Book SynopsisExploring Practitioner Research in Further Education unpacks how people in the Further Education (FE) sector undertake research and the impact it has had on the world around them.Using a newly developed writing framework and offering a practitioner view of approaching and conducting work in the FE system, this book demystifies the process of undertaking research by showcasing the readersâ peers at various stages of the research journey. It draws together research work from general and specialist FE colleges, adult and community learning, offender learning, work-based training, and college-based higher education across the UK. Within these contexts, it makes links to theoretical and practical arguments regarding the usefulness of practitioner-led research. Uniquely, the chapters also explore practitioner- or sector-led models for developing practitioner research within a classroom, within an organisation, and across multiple organisations.Including a range of div
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Routledge School Leadership and Governance in India
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Taylor & Francis Growing Up Green Grades 35
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Taylor & Francis The Restorative School Library
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Taylor & Francis Interventions for All Phonological Awareness K2
Book SynopsisHave you wondered how to prepare all your kids with a solid phonological awareness base but found your advanced learners bored and your struggling learners lost? Well, in this long awaited, second edition of Interventions for All: Phonological Awareness, author Yvette Zgonc along with Kim Zgonc present a wealth of phonological awareness activities directly tied to a three-tiered model, which fits in with Response to Intervention (RTI) or any multilevel approach you use.Informed by research on how the brain learns best, these activities include songs, poems and games that will keep students engaged, involved, and having fun, because thatâs when learning is sustained. So, whether theyâre pretending to be superheroes, surgical assistants, baseball pitchers, or just lowly worms, get ready to see your students actually enjoy strengthening their phonological awareness skills.In addition to the original and updated 96 phonological awareness activities for whole group,
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Taylor & Francis Whats the Evidence
Book SynopsisThis book gives an account of a recent study into the nature of teacher quality that moves beyond typical discussions of teacher impact on student results and into what it means to be a teacher.It describes how a range of different research methodologies were combined to design a process for research-informed examinations of teacher quality and the predictive validity of teaching performance assessments. The authors present qualitative and quantitative evidence that reveals how education stakeholders including teachers perceive what teacher quality is and what it might look like in the classroom. They aim to shift the discourse on this issue by changing the language we use to talk about teachers and what they do. In re-examining how we think about teachers, this work highlights the complex nature of defining teacher quality and what is required for successful engagement in the profession.Putting forth a new understanding of teacher quality, this is an essential resource for education academics and students, as well as teaching professionals. Further information about the study discussed in this book is available at https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/research-projects/teacher-quality/whats-the-evidence.html.
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Taylor & Francis Quests and Quandaries
Book SynopsisTake your students on a learning journey to discover their personal intellectual interests and develop expertise. Using a research- based approach, the lessons in Quests and Quandaries are designed to teach students how to think and behave as a scholar. Along the way, students will write SMART goals, use the Depth and Complexity Icons to conduct research, solve problems using the steps in the problem-based learning model, and synthesize what they learn into an Expertise Expo project/presentation.Designed for gifted students in grades six and up using the National Common Core Standards for Language Arts and NAGC's Learning and Development Standards this unit will guide teachers through the process of helping studentsâ identify an area of interest and then develop expertise over the course of a quarter, semester, or year.Teacher friendly with supplemental resources and tips for how to use the unit online, this book is a must have for educators looking for an engaging, student-centered curriculum for their classroom.
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Taylor & Francis Understanding Australian Teachersâ Success Strategies
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Taylor & Francis Dynamics in Education Politics
Book SynopsisDynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still suffering from certain methodological deficits and is in need of robust theorisation. Focusing on relational dynamics between policy threads, actors and institutions in education politics CADEP seriously considers the phenomena of complexity, contingency and trans-nationality in late-modern societies. In this book CADEP is applied and validated in analysing the Finnish Educational Miracle that has been attracting attention in the educational world ever since they rocketed to fame following the PISA studies during the 2000s. This book will open up opportunities for mutual unde
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Taylor & Francis Pedagogy of the Black Child
Book SynopsisIn Pedagogy of the Black Child, David E. Kirkland invites readers into an urgent and profound conversation about race, education, and the future of Black childhoods. Through the lens of his own experiences as a Black child, he uncovers the hidden ways that societal structures undermine the humanity and potential of Black children. His powerful narrative calls on educators, policymakers, and readers alike to confront the realities of racial injustice with courage and conviction to uplift possibilities that create spaces where Black children can thriveâwhere their dignity is restored, their potential embraced, and their futures are shaped by hope, not oppression.Kirkland introduces the transformative concept of dignity-driven education (DDE), a holistic approach rooted in the belief that understanding, affirming, and honoring the dignity of every child is essential for creating lasting change. Blending personal story, historical analysis, research, and practical insights
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Taylor & Francis The Secondary Educators CTE Toolkit
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Taylor & Francis Fingerplays and the Science of Reading in Early
Book SynopsisUnlock the magic of fingerplays and transform your early childhood classroom with this essential guide bridging research and practice.While many books compile fingerplays and action rhymes, few explore their rich history or the science behind their impact on early literacy and social development. This groundbreaking guide offers teachers and caregivers a resource that connects tradition with evidence-based practices, examining how fingerplays align with the latest research in the science of reading and offering insights into their effectiveness.Featuring a wealth of research on early literacy and social development, the book includes a practical section filled with selected rhymes and visual cues for easy classroom implementation. Fingerplays and the Science of Reading in Early Childhood is a timeless addition to any early childhood educatorâs collection.
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Taylor & Francis Promoting Equitable Math Instruction
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Hodder Education Is leadership a race
Book SynopsisIs Leadership a Race? is applicable to leaders old and new, of all levels of experience and expertise. It is a book that will support people considering becoming a leader, who are new to leadership or who are established leaders. If you are undertaking a national professional qualification, then this book will serve as the ideal aide-memoire. Equally, if you just want a referral point that will serve as a touchstone for guidance and reassurance, then this is the book for you. The focus of this book is deliberately sharp and tight, with consideration predominantly given to the following seven areas: know who you are; understand what leadership means; know and respect your context; know, respect and support your people; positively drive behaviour; focus on the curriculum; and build your culture. If you want a book on leadership written by someone who has real experience of the job, then look no further.
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Hodder Education Creating Positive Classrooms 50 strategies for
Book SynopsisCreating Positive Classrooms is the definitive guide for classroom teachers in all matters behaviour, culture and ethos. This book explains how to craft the social norm in your classroom with 50 approaches to creating a positive classroom environment. Each approach includes a five-step summary that details how to turn a theoretical concept into reality. Read it from cover to cover, or dip in as needed. This book provides you with step-by-step instructions to master positive classroom techniques. Your pupils will behave, thrive and be inspired to learn.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Muslim Students
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching Environmental Justice in the Elementary Classroom
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Mentorship in Early Childhood Education and Care
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Taylor & Francis An EdTech Tragedy
Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies at a pace and scale with no historical precedent. For hundreds of millions of students, formal learning became fully dependent on technology â whether internet-connected digital devices, televisions or radios.An Ed-Tech Tragedy? examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech. It documents how technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind and details the many ways education was diminished even when technology was available and worked as intended.Using tragedy as a metaphor and borrowing the organization of a three-act theatrical play, the book shows how technology-first modes of learning introduced novel health and safety risks, handed significant control of public education to for-profit companies, expanded invasive digital surveillance and carried detrimental environmental repercussions, in addition to adversely impacting educational access, equity, quality and outcomes in most contexts.Dedicated sections consider alternative and less technology-reliant educational responses to COVID-19 disruptions that had the potential to be more inclusive and equitable. The analysis further explains how pandemic models of learning are rippling beyond school closures and influencing the future of education.Holistically, the work invites readers to reconsider a turbulent chapter in education history and reexamine the purposes and roles of technology in education.
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Taylor & Francis Identity Criticality and Advocacy in Young Adult Literature
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Taylor & Francis Where the Science of Improvement Meets the Heart of Leadership
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Taylor & Francis Bridging the Communication Gap between Latino Families and Public Schools
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fix the Plan Not the Teaching
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Taylor & Francis Transforming Urban Schools for Educational Excellence
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SAGE Publications Inc Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks 612
Book SynopsisEmpower your students as they reimagine the world around them through mathematics Culturally relevant mathematics teaching engages students by helping them learn and understand math more deeply, and make connections to themselves, their communities, and the world around them. The mathematics task provides opportunities for a direct pathway to this goal. But many teachers ask, how can you find, adapt, and implement math tasks that build powerful learners? Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Taskshelps teachers to design and refine inspiring mathematics learning experiences driven by the kind of high-quality and culturally relevant mathematics tasks that connect students to their world. With the goal of inspiring all students to see themselves as doers of mathematics, this book provides intensive, in-the-moment guidance and practical classroom tools that empower educators to shape culturally relevant experiences while systematically building tasks that are standards-based. It includes A pathway for moving through the process of asking, imagining, planning, creating, and improving culturally relevant math tasks. Tools and strategies for designing culturally relevant math tasks that preservice, novice, and veteran teachers can use to grow their practice day by day. Research-based teaching practices seen through the lens of culturally relevant instruction that help students develop deep conceptual understanding, procedural knowledge, fluency, and application in 6-12 mathematical content. Examples, milestones, opportunities for reflection, and discussion questions guide educators to strengthen their classroom practices, and to reimagine math instruction in response. This book is for any educator who wants to teach mathematics in a more authentic, inclusive, and meaningful way, and it is especially beneficial for teachers whose students are culturally different from them.Trade ReviewThe book is a great resource and provides a deep dive into culturally responsive and relevant mathematics practices. It includes rich examples and tasks that can be used during instruction, professional development, and research initiatives in mathematics education that seek to embrace culture and emphasize the relevance of mathematics in our everyday lives. Notably, the culturally relevant mathematics task-building framework provides clear guidance for creating cognitively demanding tasks that draw on the knowledge and experiences of individuals’ communities and empower them to address existing inequities. -- Ruthmae Sears * Tampa, FL *This phenomenal book provides practical approaches to analyze, identify, and create culturally relevant mathematics tasks that help secondary mathematics teachers create opportunities to connect to students’ lived experiences. -- Lateefah Id-Deen * Kennesaw, GA *Thank you, Matthews, Jones, and Parker, for the secondary version of Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks. You provide secondary teachers with the tools to deepen their understanding of culturally relevant pedagogy for the classroom. Our students need it! -- John Staley * Randallstown, MD *The authors of Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks have provided a well-needed modern vision of what mathematics teaching and learning at the secondary level should look like in the 21st century. Teachers who read this book will be given the tools to begin developing rich, engaging, meaningful mathematics experiences that foster joy and creativity for their students while empowering students and teachers as change agents. -- Robin Wilson * Los Angeles, CA *In this much-needed work, Matthews, Jones, and Parker build seamlessly on their prior volume for Grade K–5 teachers. The authors provide practical guidance to support teachers in finding, adapting, or creating tasks with challenging contexts that help develop students’ hope, empathy, and agency. This is an invaluable resource for teachers who want to center students’ voices and lived experiences. -- Tami S. Martin * Normal, IL *For those who fear that culturally relevant math can be misconstrued as formulaic tricks or bombastic rhetoric, this book lives up to the title’s promise of fostering hope. Readers will find a wealth of frameworks for reaching students where they are at, for illuminating the cultural landscapes that escape our notice, and for inspiring students to see how mathematical ways of knowing and social motivations for inquiry can be united with rigor, compassion, and scholarly excellence. -- Ron Eglash * Ann Arbor, MI *The authors remind us that quality math tasks are not solely defined by their level of cognitive demand but must also give deliberate attention to inquiring about and centering the cultural brilliance and wisdom of students and their communities. This book is a must-read for middle and high school math teachers. -- Tonya Gau Bartell * Pleasant Lake, MI *What a wonderful resource full of concrete, actionable strategies for creating more inclusive, culturally responsive mathematics classrooms. The authors offer not only a multitude of rich task examples that are classroom tested, but they also provide guidance for designing mathematically meaningful tasks that are relevant for the students and communities you serve. At the heart of their work is a deep respect for students’ identities and abilities and for the work of teachers committed to a more just, equitable, and hopeful approach to mathematics education. -- Mark Ellis * Fullerton, CA *Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Building a Foundation for Culturally Relevant Mathematics Teaching Chapter 1: What is Culturally Relevant Mathematics Teaching Chapter 2: Imagining Culturally Relevant Teaching through Mathematics Practices and Tasks Chapter 3: Creating and Assessing Culturally Relevant Mathematics Tasks PART II: Practical Approaches for Planning and Creating Culturally Relevant Mathematics Tasks Chapter 4: Planning with Intention and Hope Chapter 5: Creating Contexts for Cultural Inquiry Chapter 6: Creating Contexts for Empathy, Agency, and Action PART III: Refining Our Notions and Experiences Chapter 7: The Journey—Improving Culturally Relevant Mathematics Teaching Chapter 8: The Flow—Implementing and Refining Culturally Relevant Tasks, Lessons, and Units Chapter 9: Continuing the Journey Resources Appendices
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SAGE Publications Inc Rebellious Read Alouds
Book SynopsisSpark meaningful conversations about race, identity, and social justice in your classroom using read alouds as an entry point. Students need to see themselves and their peers in the books they read, and to engage with varying viewpoints. How can educators create a safe and nurturing space that inspires young children to explore diversity and ask curious questions? InRebellious Read Alouds,author Vera Ahiyyabeloved by educators worldwide as The Tutu Teacher (@thetututeacher and @diversereads on Instagram)empowers teachers toencourage classroom conversationsaboutimportant and culturally relevant topics using daily read alouds as an entry point. Presenting a broad range of read aloud lessons around current, diverse picture books that can ignite deep conversations and learning about self, others, and the world, this wise and joyful guide prepares educators to tackle hushed topics with young children. It includes: Trade ReviewAre you wondering how to have conversations with your youngest learners about essential topics for today’s classrooms? In Rebellious Read Alouds, Vera will support you every step of the way beginning with her accessible three-part framework—start small, be consistent, be constant. In each lesson, she skillfully weaves together literacy and social justice standards, without losing sight of your primary focus—learners. Every rebellious read aloud includes key questions to spark conversation and action. With Vera whispering in your ear, you’ll feel confident in taking steps toward "activating your young activists." -- Maria Walther * Author of The Ramped-Up Read Aloud and Shake Up Shared Reading *I have spent decades promoting the art and function of read aloud experiences and have been a staunch advocate for revisiting books with a different lens to provide students opportunities to unearth nuance, shift perspective, build empathy, and take action. As I was reading Rebellious Read Alouds I found myself nodding and saying, "amen," a lot. If you believe that small children cannot be part of big conversations, this book is for you. If you find "hushed" topics uncomfortable, this book is for you. If you are searching for books that can spark interest and action for social justice, this book is for you. If you are searching for a way to bring read aloud, deep conversations, big thinking, and the growth of human potential into your classroom while addressing the "have tos" of school, this book is for you. As you read you have Vera there with you, nudging, encouraging, offering scaffolds to help you take the next step. Vera has curated an impressive list of books around 9 themes that are general enough to fit in almost any elementary classroom. She has developed 45 lessons (enough for each week of the school year with a bonus lesson within each theme) that are organized around a simple framework (start small, be consistent, keep constant) that can be generalized to any theme you may choose to pursue. I’ll say it again, this book is for you. -- Lester Laminack * Educator, Author, and Consultant *I will be sharing Vera′s book with all my preservice and early career teachers, who understand the importance of filling their classroom libraries with books that serve as windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. Vera empowers us with manageable and engaging ways to use books as the springboard for the essential - though often tricky to start - conversations about race, ability, and so many other areas of identity. She encourages rebellion in the best possible way - to ensure that all children are seen and valued in classrooms. -- Molly Ness * Author of Every Minute Matters, and Think Big With Think Alouds, Grades K-5 *Vera Ahiyya has created something amazing for every stage of the rebellious reader′s heart! The power of a great story is that it can be the catalyst to so much change. In Rebellious Read Alouds, Ahiyya beautifully breaks down stories, lessons, and ideas about books that inspire the most important conversations, the conversations about who we are. The framework of Rebellious Read Alouds effortlessly empowers educators and parents to start using literacy to better understand their world and themselves. A must read for all. -- Juan E. Gonzalez Jr. * Elementary School Teacher, Speaker, and Social Media Content Creator *As I read the manuscript, I kept thinking to myself, this a book teachers need in their hands. So many teachers don’t know how to read and talk about these topics and this is the guide to help them. The breadth of diversity is overflowing, and teachers can follow along with a sample scope and sequence OR pick and choose topics/books as they see fit. Vera’s passion for the subject rings through and her voice is loud and clear. -- Matt Halpern * Education Consultant, Speaker, and Author *One of the most important aspects of professional learning is that the experience not only explains why it’s important to make an instructional shift, but how. Rebellious Read Alouds: Lessons to Invite Conversations About Diversity With Children’s Books is one of those precious gifts for teachers that is both inspirational and practical in a way that is empathetic and responsive to and supportive of the needs of teachers and students. Vera Ahiyya provides the why -- rationale for being rebellious as a teacher and interviews with featured educators – as well as the how, with standards-based read-aloud lessons that show teachers how to make necessary shifts to instructional practices that use a framework of the small, the consistent, and the constant as a scaffold. In these pages, we see what it looks like to partner with parents, administrators, and colleagues along the way, and how to make the journey both enjoyable and transformational for teachers and students as a community of learners. -- Afrika Afeni Mills * DEI Director, Educational Consultant, and author of Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist Students *Ready to break free from the confines of what may sometimes seem like stale literature not representative of the world around us, but more importantly the world of our children? The Rebellious Read Aloud is a must-read for anyone and everyone lucky enough to stare into young eyes full of wonderment and a thirst to learn about their peers around them. Ahiyya Vera provides an invitation to venture into what many naively still view as uncharted territory in children’s literature. The Rebellious Read Aloud boldy –and responsibly!- provides title after title of literature that serve as catalysts for dialogue and are rooted in topics that are beautifully a part of our children’s lives: immigration, divorce, religion, LGBTQ+, and others, all while promoting an environment of celebration and appreciation of the beauty of our differences. As global educators, we have the responsibility to interrupt and dispel stereotypes and ignorant ideologies that often run rampant in the world around us, and instead instill awareness, compassion, and acceptance of others so that our children may engage with their community and beyond to make our planet more peaceful, sustainable and equitable. -- Hilda E. Martinez * M.A., NBCT, 2020 San Diego County Teacher of the Year, Early Literacy Resource Teacher *Rebellious Read Alouds is a book that is needed right now and it’s presented in a way that is simple, easy to use and yet, has a strong call to action for the urgency of this work in our world today. Children deserve to have teachers who honor the identity of all children in their classrooms and beyond and the author shows us how this is possible with read aloud books and powerful conversations.. This book is an excellent entry point for brave teachers to do the work. -- Katie Keier * Kindergarten Teacher and co-Author of Catching Readers Before They Fall *This beautiful and impactful guide will change the pedagogical approach of educators worldwide.Vera′s overall theme is to create a true safe space for students and all involved to come face to face with their deepest emotions, fears, and ultimately reflections in the mirror via Read Alouds. By doing this educators, parents, and community members will be challenged to do the same as they learn the importance of taking time to connect with your students, embracing diverse perspectives to inspire change beyond the classroom through creative critical reflection, thanks to this text. -- Darius Phelps * GAEYC 2016 Childcare Giver of the Year, Educator, Writer, Poet, & Illustrator *Vera is the QUEEN of books for a reason! This book is for any teacher that wants to center inclusiveness and diversity, but isn′t always sure where to start. She has taken the time to carefully cultivate a list of books that you should be reading and walks you through how to tackle the lessons and topics that some might find controversial or intimidating. -- Naomi O’Brien * Founder of Read Like a Rock Star, Content Creator, and Author *Table of ContentsPrologue Part 1: What is a Rebellious Read Aloud Part 2: Rebellious Read Aloud Lessons Introduction to Lesson Format Our NAMES Are Important Our FEATURES Are Important Our TRADITIONS Are Important Our ACTIONS Are Important Our FAMILIES Are Important Our IDENTITIES Are Important Our DISABILITIES Are Important Our FOODS Are Important Our HISTORIES Are Important Part 3: Communicating with Parents, Administrators, and Colleagues Epilogue: Wishes Appendix
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SAGE Publications Inc How Learning Works
Book SynopsisTranslate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom. The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn? How Learning Works: A Playbookunpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge into promising principles or practices that can be implemented in the classroom or utilized by students on their own learning journey. Designed to help educators create learning experiences that better align with how learning works, each module in this playbook is grounded in research and features prompts, tools, practice exercises, and discussion strategies that help teachers to Describe what is meant by learning in the local context of your classroom, including identifying any barriers to learning. Adapt promising principles and practices to meet the specific needs of your studentsparticularly regarding motivation, attention, encoding, retrieval and practice, cognitive load and memory, productive struggle, and feedback. Translate research on learning into learning strategies that accelerate learning and build students' capacity to take ownership of their own learningsuch as summarizing, spaced practice, interleaved practice, elaborate interrogation, and transfer strategies. Generate and gather evidence of impact by engaging students in reciprocal teaching and effective feedback on learning. Rich with resources that support the process of parlaying scientific findings into classroom practice, this playbook offers all the moves teachers need to design learning experiences that work for all students!Table of ContentsAcknowledgments INTRODUCTION The Purpose of This Learning Playbook The Learning Plan With the Modules Learning Within the Modules Collaborating for Great Learning PART I CHAPTER 1. WHAT DOES LEARNING LOOK LIKE IN YOUR CLASSROOM? A Definition of Learning Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 2. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT WAYS TO THINK ABOUT LEARNING? Three Different Types of Knowledge Three Parts of the Learning Process Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 3. WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS TO LEARNING? Acquisition Consolidation Storage Challenges to Learning by Design Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 4. HOW DO STUDENTS LEARN? Learning Myths The Science of Learning Checks for Understanding PART II CHAPTER 5. PROMISING PRINCIPLE 1: MOTIVATION What Is Motivation? What Does This Principle or Practice Look Like in the Classroom? How Do We Implement This Principle and Practice Into Our Classrooms? Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 6. PROMISING PRINCIPLE 2: ATTENTION What Is Attention? Factors Influencing Attention What Does This Principle or Practice Look Like in the Classroom? How Do We Implement This Principle and Practice Into Our Classrooms? Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 7. PROMISING PRINCIPLE 3: ELABORATE ENCODING What Is Elaborate Encoding? Components of Elaborate Encoding Approaches to Promoting Elaborate Encoding What Does This Principle or Practice Look Like in the Classroom? How Do We Implement This Principle and Practice Into Our Classrooms? Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 8. PROMISING PRINCIPLE 4: RETRIEVAL AND PRACTICE What Is Retrieval and Practice? Timing of Retrieval Types of Retrieval Practice What Does This Principle or Practice Look Like in the Classroom? How Do We Implement This Principle and Practice Into Our Classrooms? Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 9. PROMISING PRINCIPLE 5: COGNITIVE LOAD What Is Cognitive Load? What Does This Principle or Practice Look Like in the Classroom? How Do We Implement This Principle and Practice Into Our Classrooms? Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 10. PROMISING PRINCIPLE 6: PRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE What Is Productive Struggle? What Does This Principle or Practice Look Like in the Classroom? How Do We Implement This Principle and Practice Into Our Classrooms? Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 11. PROMISING PRINCIPLE 7: FEEDBACK What Is Feedback and What Makes It Effective? What Does This Principle or Practice Look Like in the Classroom? How Do We Implement This Principle and Practice Into Our Classrooms? Checks for Understanding Where to Next? PART III CHAPTER 12. EXPLICIT STRATEGY INSTRUCTION The Gradual Release of Responsibility Effective Learning Practices A Return to Germane Cognitive Load Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 13. LEARNING STRATEGY 1: GOAL SETTING The Benefits of Goal Setting Getting Ready for Goal Setting The Process of Goal Setting Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 14. LEARNING STRATEGY 2: INTEGRATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE The Benefits of Integrating Prior Knowledge Getting Ready to Integrate Prior Knowledge A Process for Integrating Prior Knowledge Bonus Material: Annotated Reading Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 15. LEARNING STRATEGY 3: SUMMARIZING Essential Characteristics of Summarizing Getting Ready to Summarize A Process for the Explicit Instruction of Summarizing Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 16. LEARNING STRATEGY 4: MAPPING Three Different Ways to Map Getting Ready for Mapping A Process for the Explicit Instruction of Summarizing Checks for Understanding CHAPTER 17. LEARNING STRATEGY 5: SELF-TESTING Benefits of Self-Testing What if Learners Make Mistakes? 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