{"product_id":"invested-stayers-9781475852073","title":"Invested Stayers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvested Stayers: How Teachers Thrive in Challenging Times features chapters co-authored by PK-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators from across the U.S. that reflect how they persist, remain, and thrive in the teaching profession. Premised on the idea that co-authors are colleagues and mentors to each other, this book conceptualizes contributors as invested stayers in the education profession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapters feature how particular catalysts, or landmark changes in education, have been productive sites for growth, agency, and even resistance across the arc of contributors' professional lives. The book recognizes that teacher educators and teachers persist because of multiple and overlapping factors between our professional and personal lives, including the relationships we develop with each other as colleagues and mentors in our professional learning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the public sphere, PK-12 educators increasingly face challenges that limit their\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom new educators to veterans, this book is a practical resource for teachers of all content areas. It offers an honest look at our profession and provides insight on the changing classroom culture that impacts daily connections with students. The authors are tireless advocates for all learners, while offering relevant ways for teachers to persist and thrive in the classroom. This book is a welcome addition to my professional library! -- Terri Benson, High School Language Arts Teacher, 21 years experience\u003cbr\u003eThis is an important book in that it provides teachers with examples and strategies for persistence as well as strategic resistance...In the teaching profession, remaining is a pre-requisite for thriving, because when teachers go they cannot grow as educators. But thriving teachers are a pre-requisite for thriving students--through innovation, collaboration, and transformation--and this is the book's ultimate take-away. -- Jason Margolis, Professor of Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Shelbie Witte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Terri L. Rodriguez, Heidi L. Hallman, and Kristen Pastore-Capuana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection I: Social Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Do More, Think Again, Keep Learning: Advocating for Refugee and Immigrant English Learners Through Social Justice Teaching by Terri L. Rodriguez and Lauren Thoma Ergen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Reciprocity for CriticallycConscious Language Teacher Education by Allison J. Spenader and Leah Shepard-Carey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Lessons for Special Education Teachers to Persist and Thrive by Shelley Neilsen Gatti, Martin Odima Jr., Deeqaifrah Hussein, and L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Rowing Together in the Same Direction: How Entwined Symbiosis Empowers Teachers at all Levels to Embrace Culturally Responsive Teaching by Katharine Covino, Garrett Zecker, and Hannah M. Britten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection II: Political Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Ongoing Transformation: Exploring the Chronologies of Becoming a Teacher by Margaret Flynn and Heidi L. Hallman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Beyond Reacting: One New Teacher’s Re-envisioning of Top-Down Accountability Initiatives by Meghan A. Kessler and Arpan Patel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Growing to Thrive: The Story of Two Colleagues Prospering in an Era of Standards-based Education by Eric D. Moffa and Toni M. Poling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Sustaining Our Voices: Critical Collaboration Through English Teacher Communities of Practice by Kristen Pastore-Capuana and Deborah Bertlesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection III: Disciplinary Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Persisting in Teaching with a New Vision of Science Education by Elizabeth Xeng de los Santos, Candice Guy-Gaytán, and Sylvia Scoggin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: An Innovative Approach to Improve College Readiness in Mathematics: A Collaborative Project by A. Susan Gay, Christopher W. Carter, and Carrie L. La Voy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Using Digital Spaces to Foster and Sustain an Informal Professional Learning Community by Joe O’Brien, Brian Bechard, Kori Green, and Nick Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Hope as the Catalyst to Thrive in the Profession by Elizabeth Yomantas and Sarah Rosenthal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040302367063,"sku":"9781475852073","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475852073.jpg?v=1750946309","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/invested-stayers-9781475852073","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}