http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events daily 0.75 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456944666131-VU11EL9U21WM0Y8Q5AR9/EventsPage.png TDP Past Events and Workshops http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2020/1/22/parent-and-teacher-relationships-from-blame-to-working-together monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2019/2/12/black-lives-matter-2019 monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1550026446811-OSYHALG80BV3P6PMFKR6/Screen+Shot+2019-01-28+at+10.51.29+PM.png TDP Past Events and Workshops - Black Lives Matter 2019 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2019/1/28/baltimore-history-and-culture-curricula-from-baltimore-educators monthly 0.5 2019-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1550025911411-VLK3EGO5OWZXKUNOX90H/equity+graphic+girl+reads.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Baltimore History and Culture: Curricula from Baltimore Educators http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/11/29/usjjhufuni0bjr2pu97oz105y0n4co monthly 0.5 2018-11-29 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/9/19/2018-summer-discussion-series monthly 0.5 2018-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1537414382678-VY1OHFFWZ4HB4AXVKADE/Summer+events+2018.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - 2018 Summer Discussion Series http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/6/5/organizing-101 monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1528251388493-03GP124PU8QJ1XS7OH8W/Organizing+Workshop.Retreat.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Organizing 101 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/6/5/black-teachers-matter monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1528251124001-9I6166Y4FKBGKU0WEPBA/Black+Teachers+Matter+opening+image.png TDP Past Events and Workshops - Black Teachers Matter 2018 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/6/5/parent-power monthly 0.5 2018-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1528250934694-AIRM7RES9GWWIMNNKCVD/PTO+Social.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Parent Power http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/6/5/investing-in-parents-town-hall-meeting monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1528248787723-ZESZVKXJMFZKX5ZI6Y21/Investing+in+parents.png TDP Past Events and Workshops - Investing in Parents: Town Hall Meeting http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/6/5/social-justice-teach-in-making-teaching-relevant-to-students-lives monthly 0.5 2018-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1528248446896-D5EJRQP9C90MDIE3LHNA/matts+kid.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Social Justice Teach-in: Making teaching relevant to students lives http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/6/5/understanding-and-navigating-the-iep-process monthly 0.5 2018-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1528247840894-OW49N0H3J33XHR818SI2/IEP+bubbles.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - UNDERSTANDING AND NAVIGATING THE IEP PROCESS http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2018/3/2/parenting-family-wellness-1 monthly 0.5 2018-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1520052607085-C5OV22S4RXW7OWFF14RB/Parenting+and+family+wellness.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Parenting & Family Wellness http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/7/27/equity-policy-monday-august-14-2017-at-waverly-library monthly 0.5 2017-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1501173626557-HAVF82WQ0O74O23G39K7/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - EQUITY POLICY - Monday August 14, 2017 at Waverly Library http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/6/29/summer-book-clubs monthly 0.5 2017-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498777424537-2F2TOIQX9FOOTQWEXWN0/Book+club_Page_01.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Summer Book Clubs http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/5/24/education-policy-events monthly 0.5 2017-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1495653002794-OR390RAJ7QYQTYKIKKWI/Policy+Events.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Education Policy Events http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/4/24/social-justice-curriculum-an-evening-for-educators monthly 0.5 2017-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1493066462082-E7UP7VSFWQKOVAIJ34G2/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Social Justice Curriculum: An evening for educators http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/2/8/restorative-practices-restorative-questions-and-daily-rap-training monthly 0.5 2017-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486571861466-12Z6O0AHW9TZEZCVYQLD/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Restorative Practices: Restorative Questions and Daily Rap Training http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/2/8/introduction-to-restorative-practices monthly 0.5 2017-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486571538990-6VFHZAAOFAI5TT7FVGT7/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Introduction to Restorative Practices http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/1/30/training-on-restorative-practices monthly 0.5 2017-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485837992319-SJVKV7KH1GA4SR6BCII7/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Training on Restorative Practices http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/2/1/policy-collaborative monthly 0.5 2017-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485977120376-VVOZ2U0CL8K1RMZPGHCF/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Policy Collaborative http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/2/7/inauguration-teach-in monthly 0.5 2017-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486490800606-GEAINUI1H9XCDDZ7TJ5A/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Inauguration Teach In http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/1/30/teaching-in-the-classroom-post-trump monthly 0.5 2017-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485837922798-TN3MDSDB287ODCC7LCBU/15259428_1855468974690706_2782589892597119544_o.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Teaching in the classroom post Trump http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/1/20/input-into-the-discipline-policy monthly 0.5 2017-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1484945729945-OWKAQAA5YHSAFQCKFQK1/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Input into the Discipline Policy http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2016/10/11/beyond-the-pto-integrating-the-village-into-schools monthly 0.5 2017-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1476203051821-JYFTTJJ440BTPXA1P9XJ/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Beyond the PTO: Integrating the Village into Schools http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2016/9/19/beyond-community-schools monthly 0.5 2017-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1474317140245-7NIGGHZCY6TGYTGU308R/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Beyond Community Schools http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2017/1/20/strengthening-the-link-between-communites-and-school monthly 0.5 2017-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1484945458475-1X1161LPR682UODVN3O3/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Strengthening the link between communites and school http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2016/6/10/discussion-of-community-control-of-schools-with-jitu-brown-1 monthly 0.5 2017-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1465576940586-3N1OU8Q7XG0OU6JBN79P/image-asset.jpeg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Discussion of Community Control of Schools with Jitu Brown Join the Teachers’ Democracy Project and partners for a discussion with Jitu Brown about a model for running a school called Community Control of Schools. The idea focuses on what would schools look like if they were run by the community? Dinner will be provided. Child care will be provided upon request. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/discussion-of-community-control-of-schools-with-jitu-brown-tickets-25996592508 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2016/3/30/curriculum-story-circle monthly 0.5 2017-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1459371802975-BURWGF4KNHEX6CGLY24X/image-asset.png TDP Past Events and Workshops - Curriculum Story Circle http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2016/3/23/6xyxdwmytjzm7295894gittxuapuz0 monthly 0.5 2017-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1458742095394-O7PY53YH59QQ7BX4ULEC/image-asset.png TDP Past Events and Workshops - Join Us in Making the Schools We Deserve! http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2016/01/29/peoples-state-of-the-union monthly 0.5 2017-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1454343817705-CM3XPBIUZXUQR38UE1IE/usdac_psotu2016_flyer_tdp.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - People's State of the Union http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2016/01/20/from-baltimore-to-chicago-to-the-world-one-struggle monthly 0.5 2017-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1454343816909-C4HKTEB3IJVM32CRR4WJ/flier-2-12-16.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - From Baltimore to Chicago to the World--One Struggle Flier 2-12-16 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/11/16/video-2-beginner-workshop monthly 0.5 2017-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1454343816454-A0U8EUT5NQ3C4XFSW5IL/screen-shot-2015-11-16-at-10-30-12-am.png TDP Past Events and Workshops - Video 2 Beginner Workshop http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/11/04/the-future-of-charters-in-maryland-2 monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/10/26/the-reflective-teacher-3 monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1454343810321-TSYGUECLXI6O765BNVTF/the-reflective-teacher.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Event--The Reflective Teacher The Reflective Teacher http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/10/21/885 monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/09/04/social-justice-curriculum-writing-workshops monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/08/06/the-reflective-teacher-2 monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/08/06/movienightforteachers monthly 0.5 2015-08-06 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/07/21/education-advocacy-follow-up-session-ii monthly 0.5 2015-07-21 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/07/20/school-stories-what-just-happened-to-me-follow-up-session-ii monthly 0.5 2015-07-20 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/07/20/the-pas-is-never-gone-follow-up-session-i monthly 0.5 2015-07-20 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/07/20/education-advocacy-follow-up-i monthly 0.5 2015-07-20 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/07/20/tdp-op-ed-in-baltimore-sun monthly 0.5 2015-07-20 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/07/20/charters-the-illusion-of-change-2 monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/17/the-real-news-network-covers-school-lock-in monthly 0.5 2015-06-17 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/17/protests-attempt-to-bring-attention-to-the-racial-disparity-in-school-closings-in-baltimore monthly 0.5 2015-06-17 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/17/for-immediate-release-june-12-2015 monthly 0.5 2015-06-17 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/08/occupying-schools monthly 0.5 2015-06-08 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/04/what-just-happened-to-me monthly 0.5 2015-06-04 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/04/education-advocacy monthly 0.5 2015-06-04 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/04/school-stories-human-face-of-policy monthly 0.5 2015-06-04 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/04/video-workshop-how-to-make-videos-in-your-classroom monthly 0.5 2015-06-04 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/06/03/the-reflective-teacher monthly 0.5 2015-06-03 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/05/17/film-series-slavery-by-another-name monthly 0.5 2015-05-17 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/05/14/movie-night-for-teachers-2 monthly 0.5 2015-05-14 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/05/14/langston-hughes-elementary-protect-our-schools-walk monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1454343813642-U86MEMXP1CNLZX3FH9O2/lhesmay20.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - Langston Hughes Elementary - Protect Our Schools Walk (May 2015) LHESMAY20 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/05/05/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/04/21/schools-out-film-showing monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1454343812626-4WP9L63W28H2FJQKSGXP/schoolsout_poster_.jpg TDP Past Events and Workshops - "Schools Out" Film Showing April 2015 SchoolsOut_poster_ http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/2015/04/20/current-books monthly 0.5 2018-07-05 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Events monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Books+We%27re+Reading monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Our+Blog monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Teacher+videos monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Media monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Press+Release monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Uncategorized monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/category/Coverage monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/neighborhood+schools monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Baltimore+City+School+Closure monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/classroom+practice monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/school+board monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Charter+Schools monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/post+racial+racism monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Waiting+for+Superman monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Dream+House monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/school+choice monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Baltimore monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/feature monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Public+Education monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/education+advocates monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/City+Schools monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Langston+Hughes+Elementary+School monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Critical+Response monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Community+Involvement monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Books monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/events/tag/Inconvenient+Truth monthly 0.5 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/staff-images daily 0.75 2017-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1509828293838-GWW1FSVKT3JFTV0LABN1/rebecca+yenawine+portrait+w+tulips.jpg Staff Images Rebecca Yenawine Executive Director Rebecca@tdpbaltimore.org Rebecca began work with TDP as a consultant in 2014 and became the Director in 2017. Rebecca has a BA in English from Goucher College and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Prior to TDP, Rebecca was the founder and director of a youth-driven, social justice, media organization called New Lens. At TDP, Rebecca works to provide leadership and direction for staff and fellows, to support TDP’s vision of creating an education movement that is driven by teachers and parents and to create more equity in the system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1509828293838-GWW1FSVKT3JFTV0LABN1/rebecca+yenawine+portrait+w+tulips.jpg Staff Images Rebecca Yenawine Executive Director Rebecca@tdpbaltimore.org Rebecca began work with TDP as a consultant in 2014 and became the Director in 2017. Rebecca has a BA in English from Goucher College and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Prior to TDP, Rebecca was the founder and director of a youth-driven, social justice, media organization called New Lens. At TDP, Rebecca works to provide leadership and direction for staff and fellows, to support TDP’s vision of creating an education movement that is driven by teachers and parents and to create more equity in the system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1509828095251-9TZ4KW9L6II484X2XZAG/Screen+Shot+2017-11-04+at+4.03.14+PM.png Staff Images Antinnea Skipwith Education Advocacy Director Antinnea@tdpbaltimore.org Antinnea, a Baltimore City born former City School teacher, joined TDP in 2017. She received her B.A. from Temple University and her M.S. from Johns Hopkins University. She brings diverse experiences in journalism, public relations, teaching and education policy work. Her experiences have given her insight into the challenges and opportunities of the public education system and a passion for improving it. She listens to and organizes teachers and community members in Baltimore around initiatives that improve transparency and educational equity for students and families in Baltimore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468505599993-M3JMSJ18SF5Z0TB1KYMY/Helen+Atkinson.jpg Staff Images Helen Atkinson, PhD Executive Director, TDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1511992883801-1O88TPXCMGQHMUOJF36P/Campaign+Photo+2016.jpg Staff Images Kim Trueheart Director of Democratic Decision Making in Schools. kimtrueheart@gmail.com Kim began work with TDP as a fellow in 2016 and joined us as the Director of Democratic Decision Making in Schools in 2017. She is a graduate of Western High school, holds a B.A. in Business Administration (summa cum laude) and is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College. Kim, a semi-retired Navy Veteran, has advocated as an active citizen to strategically engage with government, business, non-profit and community leaders to achieve improvements in the development and delivery of high quality programs and services for our children and youth. She partners with parents and community members to strengthen and build parent organizing, capacity building and participation in school decision making.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1473173751991-IGCDT7PU4A035NWOV4YT/Helen+Atkinson.jpg Staff Images Helen Atkinson, PhD Advisor Helen@tdpbaltimore.org Helen began work as the Executive Director for the Teachers’ Democracy Project in March 2014, after significant experience in education advocacy which includes work as a parent/community organizer, the director of the Resident Teacher Program, and as a teacher-leader for a new high school in Baltimore. She wrote her PhD at UMBC about her work in this teacher led school, created for students who were having problems in large city schools. She utilizes her background and experiences to provide insight and support on strategic direction and educational policy initiatives.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1454970586193-BZ9ICNAS03GYF7GBV4UM/image-asset.jpeg Staff Images Amber Taylor Program Coordinator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456865071394-OS2F0CXU5ZW8BXNSTLLW/bev-bickel-2.jpg Staff Images Bev Bickel, PhD Principal Investigator, Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, UMBC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456944807981-JCS3JKI4NJXRI2NY0Y4F/IMG_1635.JPG Staff Images Helen Atkinson, PhD Executive Director, TDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456865058973-B0J3IGIQROF1GJHCEMKD/561625_104363359730357_1605655871_n.jpg Staff Images Rebecca Yenawine TDP Media Consultant, Executive Director, New Lens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456864084838-O8H8EQJFG31CGCD5D9GO/image-asset.jpeg Staff Images Sherella Cupid Research Assistant, Doctoral Student, LLC-UMBC http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery daily 0.75 2017-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372698808-TWCJEIFO5GETBJ2E5EAE/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Using Real Data to Promote Agency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372698808-TWCJEIFO5GETBJ2E5EAE/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Using Real Data to Promote Agency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372744886-I3DZOVWWUG92IM7SJXX8/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Socratic Dialogues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372505103-PJ3VRDYS0Y7R68QWNQWH/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Deep Questions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372536471-J0RXMYQVEWM1QNVGTJWO/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Creating a Student-Led Classroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456154300598-PBZVDVGUPAVP6S803KSH/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Post it project This video was created by Kristina Berdan of Youth Dreamers. It is about how to engage young people in collecting real world data and having a voice in issues that impact their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372585084-VVKPD4DU2QXQFMD4HR1E/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - How to Collect Data form Busy Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456154194197-YZQPP07XU35GOZJ5VJWP/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Creating a Diverse Library This video was created by Kindergarten teacher Kathleen Sayers about how and why to create a diverse classroom library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372634135-LQFU0TDNB7H3S2PYKLWE/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Engaging Students in Social Justice Issues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457372810113-MX87T6WR9LTZB39QVHQS/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - The Truth About Education https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/56cb263f4c2f8519f5087740/56cb2652fd2119b38dd282c2/1456154193987/ Beginners Video Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456154432647-QH2YOXSEKHBJO0XMABZP/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Meditation in the Classroom This video about meditation as a classroom tool was created by Meg Viar. She is an Elementary School Teacher at John Eager Howard School.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456154549617-EOUX0DRKZ6WI2CFRFGDA/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Zentangle This video created by permaculture designer Ulysses Archie and is about an art form called Zentangle. It is about creating patterns and visual repetition.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456154492802-3F0MLUQ1W9Q2N8M1WUFN/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Using Primary Sources to Challenge the Dominant Narrative This video was created by Mike Pesa who is a history teacher at Patterson High School. He explores why it is useful to use primary sources in the classroom and offers specific examples of where teachers can find primary sources as well as ideas for how to have students work with them.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456154390265-4YD85TQO31E4BLHRN4ZC/image-asset.jpeg Beginners Video Workshop - Rules This video was created by Nicole Talley. She explores what the purpose of rules are and shares how mich time children are bound by them in schools.   http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/cohort-1-videos daily 0.75 2016-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155532913-FCZEI3Q5GCUSW4H0FG3Z/image-asset.jpeg Cohort 1 Videos - Deep Questions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155532913-FCZEI3Q5GCUSW4H0FG3Z/image-asset.jpeg Cohort 1 Videos - Deep Questions https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/56cb2b5d859fd0a4beca6981/56cb2b8cf04e936d99b9cf84/1456155532677/ Cohort 1 Videos - Valencia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155555212-QMAHNJA31AO861CKROMH/image-asset.jpeg Cohort 1 Videos - Tim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155573480-YSIYBMWCDYABMRZSK4UR/image-asset.jpeg Cohort 1 Videos - Natalia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155808435-X998FNM1GNHBD36X8IQN/image-asset.jpeg Cohort 1 Videos - Diamonte http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/psotu-videos daily 0.75 2016-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155270081-R8TH8A1BF006GSDVC4ET/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Rebecca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155270081-R8TH8A1BF006GSDVC4ET/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Rebecca https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/56cb2a64859fd0a4beca61bd/56cb2a85fd2119b38dd29dc2/1456155258717/ Story Circle Videos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155295558-M98B31WO5S56XDL0ZZB4/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Sherella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155327505-Z62ZAIL111LBD63EYAYT/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Kristina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155351906-28VSQ3RY88C2QHFR4BZR/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155378898-QUPQLX9KNIQR3VS0RNKK/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Dominique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456155409463-KSX7G7PRHTVKI6VOAWZO/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Shawntay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468516353340-PFSI04ZTHY6IFQ02R805/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Opportunity, Story By George https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468516448390-J7KS5C61KCN5OCK0A2E2/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Teacher of the Year, Story By Rebecca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468516469098-W6M3COHPXWTTVC4FSB3T/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Integration, Story By Ms. Jews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468516490435-7Y7O7K2WA4N0GPSSU7E3/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - The Arrangement, Story By Shymaine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468516505191-I2ID2T75VAT9UA4AUCSC/image-asset.jpeg Story Circle Videos - Ms. Harris, Story By Babatunde http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/human-face-of-polocy daily 0.75 2016-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456860202681-VENP76NLKK9QGZUW4SCA/image-asset.jpeg School Stories - Teacher Evaluations, Story by Cheryl Harrison-Murray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456860202681-VENP76NLKK9QGZUW4SCA/image-asset.jpeg School Stories - Teacher Evaluations, Story by Cheryl Harrison-Murray https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/56d5ebe5a3360c3681c171f8/56d5ec2a0c4a68ea6f367dc8/1456860164492/ School Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456860245518-XC5JIS7VD2T82AJBJ2BN/image-asset.jpeg School Stories - School Shutdowns, Story by Cranston Dize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456860271185-GX028KL2L0LNTIHGFODA/image-asset.jpeg School Stories - PARCC Testing, Story By Azya Maxton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456860293129-4RN5P105D6AVSWURL8U4/image-asset.jpeg School Stories - Respecting Students, Story by Charnell Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456860367247-2C92I9L2R0GPG5X6FHQQ/image-asset.jpeg School Stories - Academic Freedom, Story by Iris Kirsch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456860321670-O68TZNZ6HT5B8E7JKXMN/image-asset.jpeg School Stories - Teacher Certification, Story by Bresean Jenkins http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/charter-event-videos daily 0.75 2016-03-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/t/56dda39d859fd03a8d99a324/1456861216767/ Charter Event Video - YouTube https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/56d5ef9b1d07c02d04d42419/56d5efc81d07c02d04d425ea/1456861216767/ Charter Event Video - YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456861438541-X9OKJE59BRS3F25QOMGJ/image-asset.jpeg Charter Event Video - The Future of Charters in Maryland http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/social-justice-pedagogy-videos daily 0.75 2016-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456861871450-Q01EU2LXRTTN1HN0TH8A/image-asset.jpeg Social Justice Pedagogy Videos - Using Real Data to Promote Agency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456861871450-Q01EU2LXRTTN1HN0TH8A/image-asset.jpeg Social Justice Pedagogy Videos - Using Real Data to Promote Agency https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/56d5f2862b8ddec113c0ae6d/56d5f2af0c4a68ea6f3699f4/1456861871247/ Social Justice Pedagogy Videos - Using Real Data to Promote Agency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456861902587-UU7RKUURDY4UBMMGB5M2/image-asset.jpeg Social Justice Pedagogy Videos - The Truth About Education https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1456861954452-UFMLS6VZYIZQER6J9F9V/image-asset.jpeg Social Justice Pedagogy Videos - Socratic Dialogues http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/advocacy-videos daily 0.75 2016-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457371614275-E5AVW8IRP3GGVUDIMS7Q/image-asset.jpeg Advocacy Videos - The Value of a Teacher https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/56ddb9c4d210b821511bf996/56ddb9de06dcb7301b32e5df/1457371614073/ Advocacy Videos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457371614275-E5AVW8IRP3GGVUDIMS7Q/image-asset.jpeg Advocacy Videos - The Value of a Teacher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1457371686586-XLXCTJFD4PHLOMELHV4B/image-asset.jpeg Advocacy Videos - Behind the Doors: Teacher Evaluations http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2016-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468515725053-ER8HK3YT294B4R90T23D/image-asset.jpeg Lessons from Chicago - Jackson Potter - Chicago Teacher Union https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468515725053-ER8HK3YT294B4R90T23D/image-asset.jpeg Lessons from Chicago - Jackson Potter - Chicago Teacher Union https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/5787c5645016e19f4cf23b1f/5787c58cf66fa726c3be16b3/1468515715696/ Lessons from Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468515862688-VY32KZM8EAHOT6ZZ97BI/image-asset.jpeg Lessons from Chicago - Matt http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2016-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468590986950-XLV6KB7HB8RJX89NQP89/Sitting+outside+of+Pimlico.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468590986950-XLV6KB7HB8RJX89NQP89/Sitting+outside+of+Pimlico.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1469563225648-M2FN6HMLC2YH5Q278KVN/IMG_7535.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos - Michelle talking about the problems with school closures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468591042282-IDATGG76ZD3P1AP5UO0K/Mike+Johnson+Talking.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468591062937-GN06G3HS8ARMGJYDNBGR/IMG_7492.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468591083938-MS1WKDDGGQV9U0PKUAV8/IMG_7495.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1469563131907-NSIA4F6ZTILHBY6CH61A/IMG_7557.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos - Samantha Winslow talking to the team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468591015622-YI0FTTZHSHH3I6G66PM4/No+Trespassing+Sign.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468591113695-8N71C4ANR7SYLLKN08PK/IMG_7530.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468591145001-CADNM6N1Z0IMCDEPU5D4/IMG_7506.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1469563054022-JSLQQRMAS70PSISCO03C/IMG_7498.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos - Tour of Northwestern High school https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1469563314448-C6QS3YSC1ZDMAX3G70UX/IMG_7526.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos - Talking to the community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1469563363241-EZMCGW339HLEJUVNVZBZ/IMG_7517.jpg Community Control of Schools Photos - Standing outside of Pimlico E/M http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-3 daily 0.75 2016-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470766271511-1IA7MI7AVL7XG0CF0753/0A0D03A9-D3D6-4EA7-A281-4495DC79B36C-256.png Education Theory and History - Title of book 1 xfdbfbdbdbdb vs df\ dfbdbfdsl svlfkd;f sdfkd;fb' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470766271511-1IA7MI7AVL7XG0CF0753/0A0D03A9-D3D6-4EA7-A281-4495DC79B36C-256.png Education Theory and History - Title of book 1 xfdbfbdbdbdb vs df\ dfbdbfdsl svlfkd;f sdfkd;fb' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470921934323-YX3MAYC8OM55YMZ99KUT/EBB287CB-FF36-4A4D-915F-2EF5902E828D-256.png Education Theory and History - Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry Also available on Amazon An exploration of how Edmund Perry, a 17 year old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation by a young white plain clothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470922236506-99V9G19WDEZMTFSIVQO6/91BCB7FB-E68E-44B9-A55C-4D1AC44E7F64-256.png Education Theory and History - Ideology and Curriculum Also available on Amazon To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its publication, Michael W. Apple has thoroughly updated his influential text, and written a new preface. The new edition also includes an extended interview circa 2001, in which Apple relates the critical agenda outlined in Ideology and Curriculum to the more contemporary conservative climate. Finally, a new chapter titled "Pedagogy, Patriotism and Democracy: Ideology and Education After 9/11" is also included. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470922459399-H7M5DWYNRRXZKGZ6LFMN/3D3F05A2-8366-4439-82E4-C5EABB5019E4-256.png Education Theory and History - Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education’s most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be “official,” and whose agendas this knowledge represents. A probing and award-winning study, this new edition builds on the tradition of its predecessors to question the rightist resurgence in education while substantive updates throughout show how such policies continue to define our commonsense notions about what counts as a good school. As insightful as it is thorough, Official Knowledge is a refreshing call to challenge the dominant forces within education today, as Apple powerfully illustrates how larger social movements are only possible if we purposefully and inclusively deepen our understanding of the existing body of knowledge about education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470922695214-QYZUB71FRJZ2AFJ7E2MJ/5DA688B6-3B19-428B-BE24-9AE33A9E9F7A-256.png Education Theory and History - Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism Also available on Amazon The first book to offer a systematic look at the significance of postmodernist ideas for education. “In Postmodern Education Aronowitz and Giroux are architects of the imagination, presenting essays of political, social, and cultural criticism aimed at altering the ways we understand the existing social order and act to change the conditions of our lives.” --Afterimage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470922921316-8K1OTZ7MFA2RH422UB8S/9865C671-7D19-4864-9D4B-406F465793E0-256.png Education Theory and History - "Brown" in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism Also available on Amazon In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city's liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. From the classroom to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore's distinct identity as a border city between North and South shaped local conversations about the national conflict over race and equality. The city's history of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals Americans' preferred way of dealing with racial issues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum concludes, allows segregation to continue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470923987718-PD4O0OQELCEEU4HHHB8A/4502A418-066A-413F-920F-091EF66DF6EA-256.png Education Theory and History - The Culture of Education Also available on Amazon In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emerging "cultural psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only through participation in the culture—not just its more formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling, and carrying out discourse. By examining both educational practice and educational theory, Bruner explores new and rich ways of approaching many of the classical problems that perplex educators. Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend. Educators, psychologists, and students of mind and culture will find in this volume an unsettling criticism that challenges our current conventional practices—as well as a wise vision that charts a direction for the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470924894211-JO4G261W1T6KBODLK2FY/3389379C-986E-41AC-ABF7-B69779090EEC-256.png Education Theory and History - The Process of Education Also available on Amazon In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses. Bruner’s foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470925484001-G43FTMXXYS28O5L1518Q/1A71DAE2-5470-427C-88A5-E375DE3BD7BF-256.png Education Theory and History - Toward a Theory of Instruction Also available on Amazon In this new volume the subjects dealt with in The Process of Education are pursued further, probed more deeply, given concrete illustration and a broader context. The theories presented are anchored in practice, in the empirical research from which they derive and in the practical applications to which they can be put. The latter are exemplified incidentally throughout and extensively in detailed descriptions of two courses Mr. Bruner has helped to construct and to teach—an experimental mathematics course and a multifaceted course in social studies. Written with all the style and élan that readers have come to expect of Mr. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction is charged with the provocative suggestions and inquiries of one of the great innovators in the field of education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470926021628-QXM1X2E0AS3NEX4WZ6FQ/EE111353-A673-4513-8024-DB3E5FF2A292-256.png Education Theory and History - Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance Also available on Amazon While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap. Opportunity and achievement, while inextricably connected, are very different goals. In communities across the U.S., children lack the crucial resources and opportunities, inside and outside of schools that they need if they are to reach their potential. Closing the Opportunity Gap offers accessible, research-based essays written by top experts who highlight the discrepancies that exist in our public schools, focusing on how policy decisions and life circumstances conspire to create the "opportunity gap" that leads inexorably to stark achievement gaps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470927705493-RCNOUDUMY25RALHWQGOX/7A79472A-4BFD-4293-9B1C-7C7A5A94ED64-256.png Education Theory and History - Constructivist Early Education, Overview an Comparison With Our Program: Overview and Comparison With Other Programs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470927835336-CB3OZOHEC50JHGPKKOJI/4D7CF4EF-1B05-4579-A3EA-17B156867FD3-256.png Education Theory and History - Democracy and Education Also available on Amazon In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group (its future sole representatives) and the maturity of the adult members who possess the knowledge and customs of the group. On the other hand, there is the necessity that these immature members be not merely physically preserved in adequate numbers, but that they be initiated into the interests, purposes, information, skill, and practices of the mature members: otherwise the group will cease its characteristic life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470928146266-Z7794F83AOLVBY9JRN6H/086DE0C4-7F3E-4FD2-BD96-7D56970C4A2E-256.png Education Theory and History - Experience and Education Also available on Amazon Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education(Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470928470986-OJ26DPCRBG1JF0ZHK72X/1D4C5298-2405-4AC6-828E-778D314AF824-256.png Education Theory and History - John Dewey, On Education: Selected Writings Also available on Amazon In this collection, Reginald D. Archambault has assembled John Dewey's major writings on education. He has also included basic statements of Dewey's philosophic position that are relevant to understanding his educational views. These selections are useful not only for understanding Dewey's pedagogical principles, but for illustrating the important relation between his educational theory and the principles of his general philosophy.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470928632937-D0UVHKZ4QT1S7J5VVDA9/1119337F-74F6-4E92-AC86-93D0A68B3727-256.png Education Theory and History - Learning to Labor in New Times Also available on Amazon Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470928875932-6N052523EKZJDYRN4GO1/B47BD8C5-33C2-40C3-9010-104736D540FE-256.png Education Theory and History - Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances Also available on Amazon In Whither Opportunity? a distinguished team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy examines the corrosive effects of unequal family resources, disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets, and worsening school conditions on K-12 education. This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is undermining the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success.Whither Opportunity? shows that from earliest childhood, parental investments in children s learning affect reading, math, and other attainments later in life. For generations of Americans, public education provided the springboard to upward mobility. This pioneering volume casts a stark light on the ways rising inequality may now be compromising schools functioning, and with it the promise of equal opportunity in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470929069894-XWLAPWKMRSN3PGWZG6Z5/071A0EDB-0D08-4B8F-B1DD-CD0A877B9537-256.png Education Theory and History - Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School Also available on Amazon I think this is the most important work I have read in over a decade on the sociology and politics of school dropouts. Fine combines a narrative structure with a rigorous theoretical discourse that allows the reader to both hear the voices of those involved in the dropout situation as well as to have the opportunity to reflect critically on the ideological and material forces that structure the dropout issue as a social problem. I am convinced that it will be a major influence in the field and will establish a new theoretical standard for inquiry into the area of school dropouts." — Henry A. Giroux, Professor and Renown Scholar in Residence, Department of Educational Leadership, Miami University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470929328353-630WMNL57EIZVO8F77AJ/0DF44C49-377D-4826-9B96-192DD6158693-256.png Education Theory and History - Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living Also available on Amazon The internationally acclaimed children’s book writer and educator offers her insights into the learning process, language education, and the pleasure, growth, and power that reading and writing can bring.The author states her opinion, reinforced with personal anecdotes, that the basal readers and activities sheets widely used in reading schemes are harmful to children's acquisition of reading and writing skills. A whole language' approach, based on children reading and writing about topics which really matter to them, is argued. The author of the bestselling Possum Magic' draws on her own writings and experience as a parent and as a lecturer in language arts. Includes a bibliography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470929491816-FFTBHISLZCMJDL6S9ZMX/13439231-524D-4204-A6F1-525C659E66F6-256.png Education Theory and History - Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage Also available on Amazon This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470929666438-XN3P8O83JIQW6JOR4D2X/142194E1-A190-4827-9734-F4ABB90946C3-256.png Education Theory and History - Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition Also available on Amazon First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470929952285-JICT3ZCFM9FIC8POCHPE/8136657D-48BC-4667-8A5F-2F50C1313B6B-256.png Education Theory and History - Teachers As Cultural Workers: Letters To Those Who Dare Teach Also available on Amazon In Teachers as Cultural Workers, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. No other book so cogently explains the implications for classroom practice of Freire’s latest ideas and the pathbreaking theories found in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other treatises. This book challenges all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. Freire shows why a teacher’s success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training, as part of an ongoing appraisal of classroom practice. When teachers open themselves to recognize the different roads students take in order to learn, they will become involved in a continual reconstruction of their own paths of curiosity, opening the doors to habits of learning that will benefit everyone in the classroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470930081997-2KKSIX6BRYG1VU6ACPVI/B3979FB5-3AA5-4B54-98E7-1CBEA610DC41-256.png Education Theory and History - Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times Also available on Amazon In an age where terms such as 'hard-to-teach,' and 'at-risk' beset our pedagogical discourses, where students have grown up in systems plagued by anti-immigrant, anti-welfare, 'zero-tolerance' rhetoric, how we frame and understand the dynamics of classrooms has serious ethical implications and powerful consequences. Using theatre and drama education as a special window into school life in four urban secondary schools in Toronto and New York City, The Theatre of Urban examines the ways in which these schools reflect the cultural and political shifts in big city North American schooling policies, politics, and practices of the early twenty-first century.< The Theatre of Urban not only explores the very notion of performance in a novel and interesting way, it also provides new insights into the conflicts that often erupt in these highly charged school spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470931783167-PC4NQ7UT3NQPQFWBOPQY/844CCA41-C7D2-48AF-81EB-52ADDAB0087B-256.png Education Theory and History - The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling Also available on Amazon and online THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION is a freewheeling investigation into the real - as opposed to the `official' - history of schooling, focused on the U.S. but with examinations of other historical examples for the purposes of comparing and contrasting, as well as for tracing where ideas and concepts related to education originated. You will discover things you were never told in the official version, things that will, at times, surprise, disgust, and scare you. You will also be introduced to the little-known historiography of the the darker side of the construction of compulsory government schooling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470932969036-WTYX1J8YV1P4DB0O1WTV/6F791BD9-06D7-462C-8A62-B708CF718259-256.png Education Theory and History - Control Theory in the Classroom Also available on Amazon Arguing that too many capable students make little or no effort to learn, the author advocates the use of control theory for a productive classroom model of team learning with emphasis on satisfaction and excitement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470933308908-AT90I5JB3RR66HH1H4W2/8864FAF9-CB97-465C-A04C-D54DF566EDE0-256.png Education Theory and History - The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession Also available on Amazon In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change. The Teacher Wars upends the conversation about American education by bringing the lessons of history to bear on the dilemmas we confront today. By asking “How did we get here?” Dana Goldstein brilliantly illuminates the path forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470933412942-3AK1LM1IM881PTKB5F8G/39DC9761-A2E0-4CDE-980E-3B8648184473-256.png Education Theory and History - The Last Little Citadel: American High Schools Since 1940 Also available on Amazon A third report from a Study of High Schools, co-sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Independent Schools. Robert Hampel describes the sweeping transformation of secondary school education that occurred over the forty-five years prior to his publishing this book in 1986. How it all changed, from a regimented institution where formal manners prevailed and fun was extracurricular--the world of "the last little citadel"--to the laissez-faire campuses of today, is the focus of this book. It is a fascinating piece of social and intellectual history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470933710290-EI5DXBQSFEC3Z8KFTAEL/C15D7EB1-4275-454A-9AFE-9DC72648E7BC-256.png Education Theory and History - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom Also available on Amazon In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal. bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom? Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470933838312-SO8E3KVQGJ2CFOB0XP3U/A0BFDB33-9884-4E5F-9130-72B01FD878AE-256.png Education Theory and History - Who Controls Teachers' Work?: Power and Accountability in America's Schools Also available on Amazon Richard Ingersoll reveals the shortcomings in the two opposing viewpoints that dominate thought on this subject: that schools are too decentralized and lack adequate control and accountability; and that schools are too centralized, giving teachers too little autonomy. Both views, he shows, overlook one of the most important parts of teachers' work: schools are not simply organizations engineered to deliver academic instruction to students, as measured by test scores; schools and teachers also play a large part in the social and behavioral development of our children. As a result, both views overlook the power of implicit social controls in schools that are virtually invisible to outsiders but keenly felt by insiders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470933949802-B0BJVAAZPOS5WGIGWP8F/CE666F68-B27A-48E0-92C2-CE9AF20B019D-256.png Education Theory and History - Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation Also available on Amazon A conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates the discussion about what’s wrong with our schools and how to fix them. It offers “solutions” that scapegoat teachers, vilify unions, and impose a market mentality. But in each case, students lose. This book, written by teacher-activists, speaks back to that elite consensus and offers an alternative vision of learning for liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470934060711-OITEPPAXJZOQWF9LECF6/44F1377F-6DE1-471E-80C9-388DE9267632-256.png Education Theory and History - No Contest: The Case Against Competition Also available on Amazon No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470934174354-AD7SYCOS7141VY99A8L6/0714C226-7CC9-4140-98DA-C64DEAAD5627-256.png Education Theory and History - Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes Also available on Amazon The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way that we train a family pet. The quick fix of rewards may seem to be effective, but manipulating people with external incentives actually kills their interest in what they are doing and lowers the quality of their work. Indeed, Kohn shows that the decline in our workplaces and classrooms may be related to our acceptance of a theory of motivation derived from lab animals. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, he points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. "Do rewards motivate people?" asks Kohn. "Yes. They motivate people to get rewards." Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished By Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-75 daily 0.75 2016-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470945431384-GZ9DA2JHAKOMQU555YNI/49DF3145-B8E8-4E58-8DAF-AF60034E5809-256.png Guidance and Counseling - English for the College Boards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470945431384-GZ9DA2JHAKOMQU555YNI/49DF3145-B8E8-4E58-8DAF-AF60034E5809-256.png Guidance and Counseling - English for the College Boards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470945797182-7ECASDTZAFV5F7V11AFF/EC8640BE-630E-49D3-A7F3-5AE115CA855D-256.png Guidance and Counseling - College and Career Ready: Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School Also available on Amazon Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and work. College and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success. The book is filled with detailed, practical guidelines and case descriptions of what the best high schools are doing. Includes clear guidelines for high school faculty to adapt their programs of instruction in the direction of enhanced college/career readinessProvides practical strategies for improving students' content knowledge and academic behaviorsOffers examples of best practices and research-based recommendations for change. The book considers the impact of behavioral issues-such as time management and study habits-as well as academic skills on college readiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471273069080-3H2HPVHJRP8SPQFMIU0Q/45BED17B-D534-4A49-98D9-542B131FB366-256.png Guidance and Counseling - SAT Preparation for Critical Reading Also available on Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471273110289-91N5NDTU296HFO8ZD0KA/96E46CEB-36D3-42E3-A833-AC2D8339A727-256.png Guidance and Counseling - Vocabulary for the College Bound Student Also available on Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471273263267-4CUP41W02P49LDICX85U/DE56C335-2F25-40EB-8A09-F28D5134D24F-256.png Guidance and Counseling - Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You're Not a Straight-A Student Also available on Amazon In this revised and expanded guide, College Placement Bureau Director Loren Pope profiles forty colleges that excel at developing potential, values, initiative, and risk—taking in a wide range of students. This new edition includes a revised group of colleges and for the first time addresses the issues of home schooling, learning disabilities, and single—sex education. Pope encourages students to be hard—nosed consumers when visiting colleges, and shows how the college experience can enrich every young person's life, whether they are "A," "B," or "C" students. Included in the profiles are: Evaluations of each school's program and "personality" Interviews with undergraduates, professors, and deans Information on what happens to the graduates and what they think of their college experience.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471273468780-KJ3JKF21M87Z0ZA4DUJA/44654D4C-DA7D-44B0-A592-19E40F07327C-256.png Guidance and Counseling - English Language, Literature, and Composition: Content Knowledge Study Guide Also available on Amazon Complete with a targeted review of all the material on the selected Praxis exam in addition to a full-length practice test, these test preparation guides are written by the makers of the real tests. Thorough explanations of the answers are provided and helpful test-taking strategies are found throughout the guide. The three categories of assessments covered correspond to the three milestones in teacher development-academic skills assessment, subject assessment, and classroom performance assessment. Reflecting the rigorous and carefully validated nature of the exams, these guides provide beginning teachers the information needed to succeed. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/education-theory-and-history-2 daily 0.75 2016-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470934663409-FFQQS6BWYL4JEB11MZ7E/5BC32E05-0502-40B2-9F1D-DF0F26981AE5-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Death At an Early Age Also available on Amazon Countless sociological studies and official reports have described the dreadful condition of the nation's ghetto schools in abstract terms, but the general public has no concrete idea of what goes on inside them. Jonathan Kozol recounts his experience as a teacher in the Roxbury section of Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470934663409-FFQQS6BWYL4JEB11MZ7E/5BC32E05-0502-40B2-9F1D-DF0F26981AE5-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Death At an Early Age Also available on Amazon Countless sociological studies and official reports have described the dreadful condition of the nation's ghetto schools in abstract terms, but the general public has no concrete idea of what goes on inside them. Jonathan Kozol recounts his experience as a teacher in the Roxbury section of Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470934888453-23BVMTXYK88855NJ5U38/C2F23E95-C9B7-4462-9681-6DFDE4EF69DE-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Also available on Amazon For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learning—including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470935111691-XDGKTYX7CTJJBK33P6PR/3CFFF285-1307-417C-A249-243D87008DDF-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America Also available on Amazon Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society. Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470935785005-FY4E4RC3RHEO9X5F8QX7/F95E5FB3-1ABF-469F-B70F-6F2FCF5236CC-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City Also available on Amazon Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are reshaping cities in the United States and around the globe. Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of neoliberal urban policies on housing, economic development, race, and education, Lipman explores larger implications for equity, justice, and "the right to the city". She draws on scholarship in critical geography, urban sociology and anthropology, education policy, and critical analyses of race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470935888086-0K99WX5DYXHP1NZJTSQT/974B248D-3A7B-40B9-93E8-D5966E1F019D-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools Also available on Amazon Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470935998072-NRSSMR9PEQ6D26JV7KAF/E041EE75-DF86-458D-9DE6-A47FFBFFB850-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Controlling Public Education: Localism Versus Equity Also available on Amazon Most Americans believe that local school districts are the only means by which citizens may exercise control over public education. Kathryn McDermott argues to the contrary that existing local institutions are no longer sufficient for achieving either equity or democratic governance. Not only is local control inequitable, it also fails to live up to its reputation for guaranteeing public participation and citizen influence. Drawing upon democratic theory and the results of field research in New Haven, Connecticut, and three suburbs, McDermott contends that our educational system can be made more democratic by centralizing control over funding while decentralizing most authority over schools to the level of schools themselves while enacting public school choice controlled for racial balance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470936280249-89O2CLSNUY9JOMO83DW3/AAE4B2FC-200C-4851-89FA-7D9BE2634319-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education Also available on Amazon This text is a provocative investigation of the political, social, and economic factors underlying classroom practices, offering a unique introduction to the contemporary field of critical pedagogy. Life in Schools features excerpts from the author's best-selling work, Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghetto. The text provokes analytic discussion of social problems and a theoretical framework for formulating potential solutions (Parts III &amp; IV). It also includes a new discussion of race and class, a chapter on the social construction of whiteness, and a new chapter that challenges current domestic and foreign policies of the current White House administration (including the No Child Left Behind Act) and their impact upon American public schooling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470936445533-2BUBJPLQSLLE5AFBCY7F/A3CDB6BE-20E7-48C7-B441-C70C0A672693-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Contradictions of Control: School Structure and School Knowledge Also available on Amazon Because the organization of the classroom and the school provide the framework for teaching and learning, this important volume reviews research that focuses on specific issues including: achievement effects of alternative school and classroom organizational practices, ability grouping, departmentalization, special and remedial programs, evaluation processes, and class size. The studies utilize realistic evaluations rather than laboratory or experimental data, and do not prescribe particular practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470936648235-KQR2JXESRDY9GHCVLH5A/4B0D9A18-66E0-4054-AE62-17859B1765BF-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project Also available on Amazon At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside-national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors-the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities-parents, teachers, and especially students-to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity.Radical Equations provides a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470936727572-VPFNRYB9IXQ01LWRGTJA/D5463384-A433-4FFC-AD58-DC9D486B14EC-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Critical Lessons: What our Schools Should Teach Also available on Amazon How can schools prepare students for real life? What should students learn in high school that is rarely addressed today? Critical Lessons recommends sharing highly controversial issues with high school students, including "hot" questions on war, gender, advertising, and religion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470936821131-KN47TLZPCNN56WCQ0E1C/7032620A-7522-4E04-A16A-F88B01ABA47C-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Philosophy of Education Also available on Amazon Acclaimed as the "best overview in the field" by the Teaching Philosophy and predicted to "become the standard textbook in philosophy of education" by Educational Theory, this now-classic text includes an entirely new chapter on problems of school reform, examining issues of equality, accountability, standards, and testing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470936955357-JXDFQP8MQI7SZ7CH2RSM/AE69C0A8-6460-493C-BFCA-13B775816D35-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality Also available on Amazon Selected by the American School Board Journal a "Must Read" book when it was first published and named one of 60 "Books of the Century" by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its influence on American education, this provocative, carefully documented work shows how taking—"reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps I perpetuate them. For his new edition, Jennies Oaks has added a new Pre force and two new chapters in which she discusses the "tracking wars" of the last twenty years.wars in which Keeping hand has played a central role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470937064547-DJLQQVQU1SAEAQ9TXZBP/BF44996C-5EC1-4429-86F9-86BDE812845A-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School Also available on Amazon Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to instill our children with a sense of global citizenship, healthy intellectual skepticism, respect of America's traditions, and appreciation of its diversity? In answering this question, The End of Education restores meaning and common sense to the arena in which they are most urgently needed."Informal and clear...Postman's ideas about education are appealingly fresh."—New York Times Book Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470937252545-VUBK7EBQXYLK6KXV64U5/F66075A0-38EF-4968-82F1-7D71CB027AC1-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Teaching As a Subversive Activity Also available on Amazon A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470937514625-YFWI143LWXTRWBWHZFOH/9323C16D-1425-4756-A4AB-3C251431030B-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education Also available on Amazon A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America’s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum—examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today’s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. The Death and Life of the Great American School System is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470937618154-VAHFYJ0787QUL1LU5L7W/E1BE5C7A-5EEC-400F-A48E-67E877E08C25-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Lives on the Boundary Also available on Amazon Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient—these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470937771944-3U9SYBXMPOXNS0CV8VOQ/044D83A4-7042-4F74-A598-2DEA62EECC1B-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education Also available on Amazon This practical handbook will introduce readers to social justice education, providing tools for developing ''critical social justice literacy'' and for taking action towards a more just society. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this book offers a collection of detailed and engaging explanations of key concepts in social justice education, including critical thinking, socialization, group identity, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, power, privilege, and White supremacy. Based on extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the authors address the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. They provide recognizable examples, scenarios, and vignettes illustrating these concepts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470937953561-RG7Z5Q0J97J3PBQPCSNE/C8704090-5324-4E15-9369-75A145CC2F3C-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialism, American Education, and the Search for Radical Curriculum Also available on Amazon By rediscovering the radical educational movements in the US, this text paves the way to re-conceiving the possibilities of reforming schools and society. It adds to the debate about the need for change amidst the current crisis of confidence in the education of children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470938101189-VXHTTYP1BITP3B40R3MX/067B7133-CA0F-4E79-A9FF-8157E3842A99-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Managers Of Virtue: Public School Leadership In America, 1820-1980 Also available on Amazon Can America’s faith in public education be restored? As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today’s leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470938266238-GA0Q4T0JO5NLM4P7PJPG/03C9382B-2E0B-4464-8EF7-D4B7FC48EC0C-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society Also available on Amazon The American republic will survive only if its citizens are educated—this was an article of faith of its founders. But seeking common civic ground in public schools has never been easy in a society where schoolchildren followed different religions, adhered to different cultural traditions, spoke many languages, and were identified as members of different "races."In this wise and enlightening book, filled with vivid characters and memorable incidents that make history but don't always make history books, David Tyack describes how each American generation grappled with the knotty task of creating political unity and social diversity.Seeking Common Ground illuminates puzzles about democracy in education and chronic conflicts that continue to make news. Americans mistrusted government, yet they entrusted the civic education of their children to public schools. American history textbooks were notoriously dull, but they were also highly controversial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470938533434-H6MRHRE5TJV8X3M22LD8/242F372D-3A86-4FC3-AEAF-77BF6591A5F0-256.png Education Theory and History 2 - Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Also available on Amazon Hailed by the New Society as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/g-e daily 0.75 2016-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470944826446-XQAJ4HGVX0F6IZR5RPI5/A2666B3E-495F-4454-B7A6-999A0667C327-256.png Gender and Education - Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls Also available on Amazon Sounds from the Heart is about girls-their learning, their social dilemmas, their dreams, hopes, and fears-and one teacher's struggle to help them reach their full potential. Maureen Barbieri's book takes a careful, deliberate, and often disturbing look at the experiences of a group of adolescent girls as they are nudged into meaningful literacy. Because she recognizes in herself a desire to avoid conflict at all costs, Maureen must work hard to take on the specific needs of girls. Her students collaborate with her to become curriculum builders as they explore such loaded issues as duplicity, vengeance, and homophobia in their literature and especially in their writing and talking.Maureen invites readers to ask new questions about curriculum, evaluation, co-education, choice, risk, and conflict. In a final chapter, she examines the more common classroom situation- boys and girls together-and suggests innovative ways to ensure that girls' voices continue to be heard.Sounds from the Heart is essential reading for any teacher, administrator, or student concerned about the ways girls learn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470944826446-XQAJ4HGVX0F6IZR5RPI5/A2666B3E-495F-4454-B7A6-999A0667C327-256.png Gender and Education - Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls Also available on Amazon Sounds from the Heart is about girls-their learning, their social dilemmas, their dreams, hopes, and fears-and one teacher's struggle to help them reach their full potential. Maureen Barbieri's book takes a careful, deliberate, and often disturbing look at the experiences of a group of adolescent girls as they are nudged into meaningful literacy. Because she recognizes in herself a desire to avoid conflict at all costs, Maureen must work hard to take on the specific needs of girls. Her students collaborate with her to become curriculum builders as they explore such loaded issues as duplicity, vengeance, and homophobia in their literature and especially in their writing and talking.Maureen invites readers to ask new questions about curriculum, evaluation, co-education, choice, risk, and conflict. In a final chapter, she examines the more common classroom situation- boys and girls together-and suggests innovative ways to ensure that girls' voices continue to be heard.Sounds from the Heart is essential reading for any teacher, administrator, or student concerned about the ways girls learn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470944939792-ZDMABN5YGWDRD3CH80XE/5F81B60B-CFFE-4C5D-AB58-4A5C128301B5-256.png Gender and Education - In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development Also available on Amazon This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate—and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light. Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women—their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470945053225-HUBXOL2RJXBSXXQJCUZ8/7AC7BBDB-9935-433C-97C2-FB6D0C845D7A-256.png Gender and Education - Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap Also available on Amazon The classic account of the hurdles facing adolescent girls in America—now reissued with a new Foreword, to coincide with the award-winning author's new book on women and identity.Inspired by a study by the American Association of University Women that showed girls' self-esteem plummeting as they reach adolescence, Peggy Orenstein spent months observing, interviewing, and getting know dozens of girls both inside and outside the classroom at two very different schools in northern California. The result was a groundbreaking book in which she brought the disturbing statistics to life with skill and flair of an experienced journalist. It continues to be read by all who care about how our schools and our society teach girls to shortchange themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470945174239-186TZVRFV5CO0LAP1DU3/2D6F8C1C-C286-4957-892E-D060E8FF83B5-256.png Gender and Education - Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self Also available on Amazon At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood. Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other Ophelias to do so as well.A poignant collection of original pieces selected from more than eight hundred contributions, Ophelia Speaks culls writings from the hearts of girls nationwide, of various races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Ranging in age from twelve to eighteen, the voices here offer a provocative and piercingly real view on issues public and private, from body image to boys, politics to parents, school to sex. Framing each chapter are Shandler's own personal reflections, offering both the comfort of a trusted friend and an honest perspective from within the whirlwind of adolescence. At once filled with heartbreak and hope, in these pages Ophelia speaks. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/educational-psychology-1 daily 0.75 2016-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470940394422-ZBVXCQJ9HL44WGQU9R92/593D12A6-AB5A-4681-8F99-E95B469564D7-256.png Educational Psychology - Childhood and Society Also available on Amazon Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology,Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470940394422-ZBVXCQJ9HL44WGQU9R92/593D12A6-AB5A-4681-8F99-E95B469564D7-256.png Educational Psychology - Childhood and Society Also available on Amazon Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology,Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470940797354-RROHYV4WNGV8Y4LQW28B/B5B243E6-722B-45A1-8449-1B445EFA46CE-256.png Educational Psychology - Identity: Youth and Crisis Also avaiable on Amazon Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the core of the communal culture. As the culture changes, new kinds of identity questions arise—Erikson comments, for example, on issues of social protest and changing gender roles that were particular to the 1960s. Representing two decades of groundbreaking work, the essays are not so much a systematic formulation of theory as an evolving report that is both clinical and theoretical. The subjects range from "creative confusion" in two famous lives—the dramatist George Bernard Shaw and the philosopher William James—to the connection between individual struggles and social order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470940889592-N8TR85WLRPJXVIJS63OV/6D39558C-A809-40F9-9023-4B53426E8EDA-256.png Educational Psychology - On Sexuality: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and Other Works Also available on Amazon This volume contains all of Freud's major writings on sexuality. It begins with his revolutionary "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (1905). It also includes shorter papers on normal and abnormal sexuality, illustrated by numerous examples provided by Freud's own patients. These writings follow the full range and development of this thought up to 1931, covering such topics as sexual education of children, the psychology of love, perversions, the taboo of virginity and anal eroticism. His views changed considerably over the years, particularly those concerning the development of sexuality in children, the Oedipus complex, the relation of character to sexual types and the sexual life of women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470941324334-RZGB3TD9MKFTQX0PZDC4/D01E61EE-9B59-4F3A-94B6-30A284179C06-256.png Educational Psychology - Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Also available on Amazon First published in 1983 and now available with a new introduction by the author, Gardner's trailblazing book revolutionized the worlds of education and psychology by positing that rather than a single type of intelligence, we have several—most of which are neglected by standard testing and educational methods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470941439826-69GT0JCF12CEXYTCTXG2/71CA1F53-4036-476C-8F00-76CFEC84971C-256.png Educational Psychology - A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed Also available on Amazon In his #1 New York Times bestseller A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure. Consistent progress can result when we understand that not every child can do equally well in every type of learning and begin to pay more attention to individual learning patterns — and individual minds — so that we can maximize children's success and gratification in life. In A Mind at a Time Dr. Levine shows us how. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470941585737-SN30ME1XT2KEFOFMMGFT/770C75AE-5437-44CA-9474-9D77903ABED5-256.png Educational Psychology - The Moral Judgement of the Child Also available on Amazon The seminal book by this century's most important developmental psychologist chronicles the evolution of children's moral thinking from preschool to adolescence, tracing their concepts of lying, cheating, adult authority, punishment, and responsibility and offering important insights into how they learn -- or fail to learn -- the difference between right and wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470941668619-0T6N05SL3V0T043Z02CF/B9FED4FA-C278-4013-8C7C-5519882492D5-256.png Educational Psychology - The Psychology Of The Child Also available on Amazon Piaget’s influence on psychology has been profound. His pathbreaking investigations and theories of cognitive development have set child psychology moving in entirely new directions. His bold speculations have provided the inspiration for the work of others. His studies have been the subject of many books and countless articles. And, significantly, his influence has spread to other disciplines and is having an ever-growing impact on the general culture at large.Here Jean Piaget, with the assistance of his long-time collaborator Bärbel Inhelder, offers a definitive presentation of the developmental psychology he has elaborated over the last forty years. This comprehensive synthesis traces each stage of the child’s cognitive development, over the entire period of childhood, from infancy to adolescence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470941777507-CL7IMB7AT95GENHS1XOK/8C781D3B-3A9E-48F3-9431-B7BAF8092E6C-256.png Educational Psychology - The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture Also available on Amazon The Adolescent: Development, Relationships and Cultureoffers an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of adolescence, presenting both psychological and sociological viewpoints as well as educational, demographic, and economic data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470941865347-MK7VD83RP58WGLBS3CNT/F13AFE8B-E8DD-4701-A3EB-6C0B7C2F3A13-256.png Educational Psychology - Freedom to Learn Also available on Amazon This is the text that championed a revolutionary approach to education that changed the way we teach our children. Now, in the Third Edition, it's challenging the status quo with twenty years of evidence that defies current thinking. Five exciting new chapters focus on issues of importance now and in the future--learning from children who love school; researching person- centered issues in education; developing the administrator's role as a facilitator; building discipline and classroom management with the learner; and person-centered views of transforming schools. Freedom to Learn, Third Edition is written in the first person, with two goals in mind--to aid the development of the minds of children and young persons, and to encourage the kinds of adventurous enterprises being carried out daily by dedicated, caring teachers in creative classrooms and supportive schools throughout the nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470942288497-Y6CJ9CN9TJVNNH6VGUGP/B649C931-05CD-4CC1-BF00-363547A58809-256.png Educational Psychology - How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Also available on Amazon In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control.How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories—and the stories of the children they are trying to help—Tough traces the links between childhood stress and life success. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do—and do not—prepare their children for adulthood. This provocative and profoundly hopeful book has the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net. It will not only inspire and engage readers, it will also change our understanding of childhood itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1470942395273-MTKCHHVB7RGHTPN12TN8/A5632861-7EA8-4749-A107-76D6E78EEE2F-256.png Educational Psychology - When Acting Out Isn't Acting Also available on Amazon WHEN ACTING OUT ISN'T ACTING * Eight Million US Children - Ages 6-17 - Require Some Form of Mental Health Care. * A National Controversy Rages Over the Use of Medicines to Treat Temper, Anger and Other Child and Adolescent Behavior Problems * Tragically, Only One In Four Children Are Ever Treated Appropriately or Diagnosed Properly. WHAT CAN BE DONE? Finally, parents and professionals are recognizing this growing national health crisis. They can act to prevent their children from acting out of control. Recent Studies show that missed diagnoses generally result because symptoms are misunderstood or ignored. Fortunately recent advances in medicine, psychopharmacology, and biopsychiatry have enables physicians to define and treat such childhood behavior problems as Conduct Disorder and Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/leadership daily 0.75 2016-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463096671-VI4RE7PPW69VQ29JMP7B/C19A91BC-A4A1-400F-ABC9-90FC1ED285A0-256.png Leadership - The School Law Handbook: What Every Leader Needs to Know Also available on Amazon The School Law Handbook is designed to enable educators to confront such issues with information, insight, and initiative.The issues are organized into five areas: the school environment, Constitutional issues, students, personnel, and accountability. Within each area are several chapters, each beginning with a realistic scenario followed by legal and practical analyses of the situation. Kate R. Kaminski is an attorney in the field of education law and the Director of Legal and Policy Services for the Virginia School Boards Association. Richard S. Vacca is Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Commonwealth Educational Policy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463096671-VI4RE7PPW69VQ29JMP7B/C19A91BC-A4A1-400F-ABC9-90FC1ED285A0-256.png Leadership - The School Law Handbook: What Every Leader Needs to Know Also available on Amazon The School Law Handbook is designed to enable educators to confront such issues with information, insight, and initiative.The issues are organized into five areas: the school environment, Constitutional issues, students, personnel, and accountability. Within each area are several chapters, each beginning with a realistic scenario followed by legal and practical analyses of the situation. Kate R. Kaminski is an attorney in the field of education law and the Director of Legal and Policy Services for the Virginia School Boards Association. Richard S. Vacca is Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Commonwealth Educational Policy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463183623-Z56GLBOPI4Y5BZR80NAM/EC02B69C-3329-4DFF-8787-9710C5ADDC6D-256.png Leadership - Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning Also available on Amazon Walk into any school in America and you will see adults who care deeply about their students and are doing the best they can every day to help students learn. But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done before educate all students to high levels yet we don't know how to do that in every classroom for every child. This book is intended to help education leaders and practitioners develop a shared understanding of what high-quality instruction looks like and what schools and districts need to do to support it. Inspired by the medical rounds model used by physicians, the authors have pioneered a new form of professional learning known as instructional rounds networks. Through this process, educators develop a shared practice of observing, discussing, and analyzing learning and teaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463289587-D14MRDNHHT1X3L1YOCC8/DDA4604F-B54D-432F-A129-03B403209826-256.png Leadership - Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership Also available on Amazon Just as culture is critical to understanding the dynamics behind any thriving community, organization, or business, the daily realities and deep structure of school life hold the key to educational success. Reforms that strive for educational excellence are likely to fail unless they are meaningfully linked to the school's unique culture. In Shaping School Culture, Terrence E. Deal and Kent D. Peterson show how leaders can harness the power of school culture to build a lively, cooperative spirit and a sense of school identity. Shaping School Culture provides an action blueprint for school leaders committed to transforming their schools for success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463446190-4FQQHZK7TIC9J38R4AO0/E9A197F2-61EE-425A-9BBB-B6BF31522684-256.png Leadership - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Also available on Amazon World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea–the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success–but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals–personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463519581-RVS3C6LWVWSK0WRY2W4Z/B40E018E-D975-4893-9D18-B68D820E946E-256.png Leadership - Teachers and the Law Also available on Amazon A non-technical, non-intimidating look at legislation and cases that apply to the experience and daily life of teachers and students in schools. Clearly written and useful to both teachers and school administrators, this text focuses on legal issues reflecting national trends most important to educators today. The authors designed the text to help school professionals avoid unnecessary litigation by educating them about their legal rights and responsibilities and how and why the courts decided the way they did. This up-to-date presentation is technically accurate yet presented in ordinary language that non-lawyers can understand. Guiding legal principles are developed by examining actual current cases, and the question-and-answer format enables students to contextualize legal issues within the school environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463703401-K9TMP7DB8CEND9YN4F93/01338436-A281-45B6-9EDA-161BFB41AB8D-256.png Leadership - Leading in a Culture of Change Also available on Amazon "In Leading in a Culture of Change, Michael Fullan deftly combines his expertise in school reform with the latest insights in organizational change and leadership. The result is a compelling and insightful exposition on how leaders in any setting can bring about lasting, positive, systemic change in their organizations."—John Alexander, president, Center for Creative Leadership "Michael Fullan's work is remarkable. He masterfully captures how leaders can significantly improve their learning and performance, even in the uncontrollable, chaotic circumstances in which they practice. A tour de force." —Anthony Alvarado, chancellor of instruction, San Diego City Schools   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463803571-6IEV1X47X3HPUYHA9I93/DE163431-203B-4838-90FA-5F1819A77685-256.png Leadership - The New Meaning of Educational Change, Fourth Edition Also available on Amazon When Michael Fullan published the first edition of this seminal work in 1982, he revolutionized the theory and practice of education reform. Now, a quarter of a century later, his new fourth edition promises to be equally influential for radical reform in the 21st century. Capturing the dilemmas and leading ideas for successful large-scale systemic reform, Fullan bases his text on practical and fundamental work with education systems in several countries. The New Meaning of Educational Change is your definitive compendium to all aspects of the management of educational change-a powerful resource for everyone involved in school reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471463952267-NN2EEA8BWO9CA6KS1G66/4B5CFF3D-F277-42D5-B130-8AF7CCACFBC0-256.png Leadership - Renewing America's Schools: A Guide for School-Based Action Also available on Amazon An excellent 'how-to-do-it book' for educators in schools and school districts who are involved in or about to begin major school-based reforms? Thomas W. Payzant, superintandent of schools, San Diego, California. Renewing America's Schools raises the most fundamental questions about the purpose of public education, the role of schools, and the needed school-based application to fulfill the promise of education in a democratic society. This is a book that shows teachers, principals, students, parents, central office personnel, school boards, and community members exactly what they need to do to create schools that are purposeful, moral, and successful places. A down-to-earth and provocative look at the school reform movement, Renewing America's Schools keeps the focus of renewal squarely on teaching and learning concerns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471464077320-SC39LFGQ2WLVNO1UCLYV/72195A6A-0719-4654-952C-3594D3855ED9-256.png Leadership - SuperVision and Instructional Leadership: A Developmental Approach Also available on Amazon This ground-breaking text in instructional leadership and supervision continues to challenge and reshape the conventional purposes, practices, structure, and language of supervision. The text's emphasis on school culture, teachers as adult learners, developmental leadership, democratic education, and collegial supervision has helped redefine the meaning of supervision and instructional leadership for both scholars and practitioners. This Seventh Edition continues the book's trend-setting tradition by placing instructional leadership and school improvement within a community and societal context; providing new examples of direct assistance, professional development, and action research; and presenting an entire new chapter, "Supervision for What? Democracy and the Good School." Building on the success of previous editions, the Seventh Edition addresses hot issues such as school improvement, constructivist teaching, professional development, Chaos Theory, and state-mandated standards. This is a resource that students purchase, use in class, and reference throughout their careers as education leaders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471464225366-RDCZ6L5NVT7SHL2ARBQM/215C76BB-FD0D-40A1-8CFA-29FDE77A9A42-256.png Leadership - Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School Also available on Amazon In this latest and most important collaboration, renowned educators Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching It includes action guidelines for classroom teachers, administrators, schools and districts, and state and federal leaders. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore.''Transforming education is one of the signature challenges of our times. Professional Capital sets out exactly and undeniably why the only way to do it is to honor and improve the profession of teaching. Written by two of the sharpest educational thinkers in the world, Professional Capital is an incisive critique of the failing reform movements in many countries and a powerful manifesto for the only strategy that can and does work. This book should revolutionize how policymakers and practitioners alike think and act in education. The price of failure is more than they or our children can afford.''—Sir Ken Robinson, educator, author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471464349132-YZUQZ9AUUGOGHO8S5Z37/99F922B4-EEC5-4819-898A-FF81B1B65B96-256.png Leadership - Rethinking Educational Change with Heart and Mind Also available on Amazon Why does successful, enduring change beyond a few isolated schools continue to elude us? The fundamental problem, says editor Hargreaves, is that educational change is more complex and controversial than the change literature has recognized. In this book, Hargreaves and the other contributors move the dialogue about change beyond the technical aspects to three essential areas of teaching, learning, and leadership that have received only limited attention: the passion, purpose, and politics of change. Each chapter looks realistically but also optimistically at many of the complexities of change. In the first chapter, editor Hargreaves discusses the need for greater depth and breadth in our educational change efforts. In the next few chapters, authors explore the vital role of parents and communities in educational change efforts. Subsequent chapters stress the value of involving students in school improvement; suggest practical ideas for managing time differently; and discuss the importance of clear, measurable goals. Other authors look at alternative assessment practices, with a corresponding view of accountability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471464722102-CS5XPBQAEL9HE2F69RRU/5DF0A919-3830-44F4-8E87-8B8E0A2D19F8-256.png Leadership - Cage-Busting Leadership Also available on Amazon Rick Hess aptly describes his aims at the start of this provocative book: 'I believe that two things are true. It is true, as would-be reformers often argue, that statutes, policies, rules, regulations, contracts, and case law make it tougher than it should be for school and system leaders to drive improvement and, well, lead. However, it is also the case that leaders have far more freedom to transform, reimagine, and invigorate teaching, learning, and schooling than is widely believed.' In his travels across the country, Hess has met school and system leaders who have shared stories about evading, blasting through, or reshaping unnecessary and counterproductive constraints. Drawing on these stories and with his sharp eye, Hess shows current and aspiring leaders how they can cultivate and sustain powerful cultures of teaching and learning.A practical and entertaining volume, Cage-Busting Leadership will be of profound interest and value to school and district leaders and to everyone with a stake in school improvement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471465127262-N3FY6DTQRZ3EP9V3M800/A34186D5-14C6-4F55-B7E1-170042D9309F-256.png Leadership - The Strategic School: Making the Most of People, Time, and Money Also available on Amazon This book offers numerous strategies and case studies that illustrate how to invest in teacher quality and improve learning environments through creative allocation of existing resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471465417196-0NGZNFZJ3U3H9NGKWMTE/8B591227-4973-4EA3-B680-ADAC32B7660B-256.png Leadership - The Art and Science of Leadership Also available on Amazon Applications-oriented with a strong research base this text "demystifies" leadership. Integrates cross-cultural, racial, and gender-based analyses of leadership. Ahavandi’s text has an application emphasis with a cross cultural perspective on leadership.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471465535639-G3KJ55H0HO32V3811QFM/55ED33F2-27DA-4437-9C2A-2D5CD19C03F9-256.png Leadership - Open Space Technology: A User's Guide Also available on Amazon Open Space Technology: A User's Guide is just what the name implies: a hands-on, detailed description of facilitating Open Space Technology (OST). Written by the originator of the method - an effective, economical, fast, and easily-repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants - this is the first book to document the rationale, procedures, and requirements of OST. OST enables self-organizing groups of all sizes to deal with hugely complex issues in a very short period of time. This practical, step-by-step user's guide details what needs to be done before, during, and after an Open Space event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471465702689-VTW3C5HTVG3QMUNPWMTT/965C206A-AFAB-4FB4-A8B9-929883B83D4B-256.png Leadership - Smart Schools Also available on Amazon Although there has been a great deal of impassioned debate over the sad state of American education today, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how children actually learn to think. But, as David Perkins demonstates, we cannot solve our problems in this area simply by redistributing power or by asking children to regurgitate facts on a multiple choice exam. Rather we must ask what kinds of knowledge students typically acquire in school. In "Smart Schools, " Perkins draws on over twenty years of research to reveal the common misguided strategies students use in trying to understand a topic, and then shows teachers and parents what strategies they can use with children to increase real understanding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471531604227-9VG7C7JH7HAMDF1OTZAV/7DF38F3B-982C-455D-A693-B2183F4B4CAD-256.png Leadership - The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching Also available on Amazon Based on The Skillful Teacher framework, this book is targeted to evaluators and supervisors who want a field-tested tool kit of strategies to improve, rather than remove, underperforming teachers. The text includes valuable legal notes and a model contract, case studies, assessment tools, and personal accounts of leaders in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471531696870-RRUW8Z939LXINNNIDU1M/737530B7-DAAE-449A-96CC-2C99C483A6C8-256.png Leadership - The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization Also available on Amazon An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" — corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471531810253-H5BRT9MKKGTAH3DRYOWS/BA9731C3-0C58-4DA8-BC03-032B34D0FA3C-256.png Leadership - Leadership in Empowered Schools: Themes From Innovative Efforts Also available on Amazon This scholarly new book explores leadership as it relates to today's trends toward school restructuring and the creation of environments that are empowering for both teachers and their students. KEY TOPICS: Uniquely based on two studies of leadership in schools, the book presents an historical view of restructuring as a context for understanding the findings of actual in-school research conducted in twenty-six schools over a six year period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471531955817-G2Q8Y3VOOB6G60DTXPTZ/227DFEC6-8A5D-49E9-A9AD-3EE22277A688-256.png Leadership - The School Leaders Our Children Deserve: Seven Keys to Equity, Social Justice, and School Reform Also available on Amazon George Theohar is draws on the experiences and words of successful public school principals committed to advancing equity, social justice, and school reform to show why social justice leadership is needed and how it can be effective. Although facing tremendous barriers, these principals made important strides toward closing the achievement gap in their schools through the use of humane and equitable practices. Featuring a mix of theory and practical strategies, this timely book portrays how real school leaders seek, create, and sustain equitable schools, especially for marginalized students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471532087871-H3CCYQ82AJWJKKD1SL2F/12B9BD34-D6DE-4B11-8370-CA6EA1FEC84E-256.png Leadership - The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages Also available on Amazon This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Lao-tzu and others demonstrate that the challenges of leadership are as old as civilization. Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Ghandi, and W.E.B. Du Bois provide a wide range of insights into the eternal practice and problems of leadership. Modern masters of leadership such as James MacGregor Burns, John Kotter, and Warren Bennis join such leading practitioners as Max De Pree and Roger B. Smith in discussing contemporary issues in leadership theory and practice. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/literacy daily 0.75 2016-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471536391702-027ZQPZB0YD5F34R6W22/4BF7F57E-053A-42AE-8001-A2DE833B00A5-256.png Literacy - Inside Words Also available on Amazon We've learned a lot in recent years about the important role vocabulary plays in making meaning, yet many teachers still struggle with vocabulary instruction that goes beyond weekly word lists. Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content areas, where the specialized language used by “insiders” often creates a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects. In Inside Words, Janet Allen merges recent research and key content-area teaching strategies to show teachers how to help students understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles, and other informational texts.Inside Words builds on Janet's previous books Words, Words, Words and Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, to provide a much-needed middle and secondary school resource for teaching vocabulary, not only in the language arts, but in all of the content areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471536391702-027ZQPZB0YD5F34R6W22/4BF7F57E-053A-42AE-8001-A2DE833B00A5-256.png Literacy - Inside Words Also available on Amazon We've learned a lot in recent years about the important role vocabulary plays in making meaning, yet many teachers still struggle with vocabulary instruction that goes beyond weekly word lists. Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content areas, where the specialized language used by “insiders” often creates a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects. In Inside Words, Janet Allen merges recent research and key content-area teaching strategies to show teachers how to help students understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles, and other informational texts.Inside Words builds on Janet's previous books Words, Words, Words and Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, to provide a much-needed middle and secondary school resource for teaching vocabulary, not only in the language arts, but in all of the content areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471536507691-R19PKAWWKKELKMGF50FK/76294716-3311-47C7-94F5-D5E5C87F2C60-256.png Literacy - Exploring Themes Also available on Amazon Exploring Themes is a unique interactive approach to the study of literature. It presents authentic literature about people, their experiences, their differing value systems, and their ways of thinking. As students read they are asked to apply their prior knowledge, culture, and values to the content of each selection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471536714155-JQW0BJNJ3316QE5P8HIB/1456EEE8-50EA-4029-B3E2-3F18A0B94D7D-256.png Literacy - Making Revision Matter Also available on Amazon When teachers are asked, "What's the toughest thing about teaching writing?" they usually answer, "Revision." Here, finally, is a book that will change their opinion. Janet Angelillo offers a rigorous, yet accessible guide that treats revision as the rich, satisfying activity that it is meant to be. She provides ideas, inspiration, and classroom illustrations to bring it alive and make it possible for all students. In short, she makes revision matter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471549928737-ZWG7T30KX5IZMHLNTRBA/2C3D4236-FA15-4F70-BC36-BB80FB957924-256.png Literacy - Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction Also available on Amazon Exciting and engaging vocabulary instruction can set students on the path to a lifelong fascination with words. This book provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. The authors emphasize instruction that offers rich information about words and their uses and enhances students' language comprehension and production. Teachers are guided in selecting words for instruction; developing student-friendly explanations of new words; creating meaningful learning activities; and getting students involved in thinking about, using, and noticing new words both within and outside the classroom. Many concrete examples, sample classroom dialogues, and exercises for teachers bring the material to life. Helpful appendices include suggestions for trade books that help children enlarge their vocabulary and/or have fun with different aspects of words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471550190754-4UCBVVA8HPBKIFA3USVS/B82F108E-7772-4BC1-8B3D-4B0667FAD6E0-256.png Literacy - Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice Also available on Amazon In Adolescent Literacy renowned educators Kylene Beers, Bob Probst, and Linda Rief lead twenty-eight of the most important and widely read educators across the country in a conversation about where we are in the teaching of literacy to adolescents and how best to move forward. From researchers to classroom teachers, from long-treasured voices to important new members of the education community, Adolescent Literacy includes the thoughts of central figures in the field today. Adolescent Literacy discusses the most provocative issues of our time, including: English language learners struggling readers technology in the classroom multimodal literacy compelling writing instruction teaching in a "flat world"young adult literature.Each of its chapters builds on the previous to create a unified story of adolescent literacy that will help all middle and secondary teachers and administrators envision literacy instruction in exciting new ways. In addition Adolescent Literacy's assessment rubrics for teachers, administrators, and staff developers make it an ideal resource for school wide and districtwide professional development, while its accompanying study guide is perfect for small-group discussions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471550359971-EKUHC0WN9HAAQNB81CH2/09C22068-082D-4D65-BC2E-D5C7764C7A54-256.png Literacy - Less Is More: Teaching Literature with Short Texts, Grades 6-12 Also available on Amazon Less Is More is full of powerful ideas for teaching with short, provocative text. This book broadens and extends our available teaching tools and materials, and can help engage all students. It is a valuable resource for language arts teachers. The classroom reality is that many students are not ready or motivated to immerse themselves in an entire novel. In order to reach and engage all students, teachers need to look beyond novels alone and embrace a richer variety of literature.In Less Is More Kimberly Hill Campbell draws on research as well as her own classroom experiences to show how short texts engage a wide range of middle and high school students. She shares her discovery of the power of short texts to support her students' skills as readers, writers, and students of literature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471550488271-V933QVSN11VNGLMQG5W7/9B587966-BDDC-429C-8A44-5CBD735553B6-256.png Literacy - Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word Also available on Amazon A practical, inspirational book offering essays,lesson plans, and a remarkable collection of student writing, all rooted in an unwavering focus on language arts teaching for justice. An excellent resource for colleagues, staff development, teacher education, and school libraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471550658056-MN9MQOC4LV81ODYW3GXN/B6CD93B1-36E7-42C8-BA10-3A2CBAB04049-256.png Literacy - Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content - Area Reading Also available on Amazon This book features:23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more a tough analysis of today’s textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively a new “balanced diet” of reading, including 150 books of interest to teenagers instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area plans for setting up student book clubs and reading groups in any discipline group-building techniques that create a productive community of readers a do-it-yourself exploration of the ways smart readers think models for developing ambitious thematic units within your classroom or with colleagues special help and materials for students who struggle scientific proof that the book’s recommended activities do improve reading and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471550773543-9JEC6VR5352HCL579CBO/118618CB-AF07-41C6-9701-CA4A467EC44D-256.png Literacy - Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families Also available on Amazon A couple years ago, Denny Taylor and Catherine Dorsey Gaines made the first of what were to be many visits to families living in the inner city of a major metropolitan area in the Northeast. Their aim: to study the familial contexts in which young Black children living in urban poverty are growing up literate. Through their focus on children who were successfully learning to read and write despite extraordinary economic hardship, this multiracial team presents new images of the strengths of the family as educator and the ways in which the personal biographies and educative styles of families shape the literate experiences of children. Through the stories of the Shay Avenue families, Taylor and Dorsey-Gaines reach several conclusions that some readers may find surprising. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471550983184-1PBZPRTS1CFTYUNSHEPN/9287FEEA-6EA9-419A-997E-DB262DC4DA1D-256.png Literacy - Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle Also available on Amazon Background knowledge simply has to become an instructional focus if we want to help students make sense of school. We will lose a generation of learners if we don't act now."-Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey Why background knowledge?Because the Grapes of Wrath is dry reading if students don't know about the Dust Bowl.Because the Boston Tea Party is a non-event if students don't know loyalists from patriots.Because knowing a triangle has 180 degrees isn't the same as knowing why.Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey help you develop lasting subject-area understanding with ideas for modeling, guided practice, productive group work, and independent work that effectively engage adolescents. You'll learn to: distinguish incidental knowledge from core background knowledge check students' understanding prior to a unit with tools such as opinionnaires, interest surveys, and anticipation guides model how to activate and apply prior knowledge so kids can wrestle with new content build up students' background knowledge through virtual field trips, YouTube, guest experts, and more provide collaborative ways for students to develop expertise, show what they know, and own their learning.Doug and Nancy also build your background knowledge with multimedia book-study resources at www.heinemann.com/backgroundknowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471551331734-BNKCEXTD2CXW2G9OVM54/B773ED83-0E7E-4A77-BAB9-D63961CD371C-256.png Literacy - Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Reading, K-8 Also available on Amazon Fountas and Pinnell's teaching and assessment frames will give you a firm understanding of your students' reading levels: where they are, where they should be, and what they need to do to get there-for any reader, in any grade, at any moment. You'll also gain insight about the specific demands that fiction and nonfiction texts place on readers and about how effective readers think within a text, beyond a text, and about a text to gain rich understandings. As you learn about how the characteristics of texts help or hinder a reader's improvement, you'll find effective teaching strategies for: comprehending, word solving, fluency, and vocabulary writing about reading in a variety of genres and using writing as a tool for thinking using guided reading with fiction and nonfiction books discussing books during interactive read-aloud and literature study taking part in shared and performance reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471551516095-BJYO4HLEHIL7O4E8K43L/EA78AD04-38F5-48CD-A56D-59FA97D95362-256.png Literacy - Complete Writing Lessons For The Middle Grades Also available on Amazon Your class will not be able to resist these 30 high-interest writing challenges on such diverse topics as idiom stories, character studies, myths, tall tales, jokes, poetry, spooky stories, and more. The easy-to-use format means you can start teaching right away, with complete teacher-directed lessons from start to finish. This book includes a summary of the writing process and a writing skills checklist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471551622439-G2ZQ789ZJ72O0KJQLMOI/7A410525-BAEF-4611-99F0-173D87B00389-256.png Literacy - I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World Also available on Amazon “Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Geary is no less astonishing, as he deciphers the subtle implications embedded in advertising slogans, familiar slang and government double-talk…. You'll scarf down every page of I Is an Other and then ask for more.” —Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Book by Book and Classics for Pleasure. For lovers of language and fans of Blink and Freakonomics, New York Times bestselling author James Geary offers this fascinating look at metaphors and their influence in every aspect of our lives, from art to medicine, psychology to the stock market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471627330772-RHX4LFHI959SHTI9N93F/B33915B6-058B-407A-A2BB-1D42007144E1-256.png Literacy - Is It Done Yet?: Teaching Adolescents the Art of Revision Also available on Amazon Is It Done Yet? takes a new, refreshing look at revision. It acknowledges that while writing manuals often suggest general guidelines for writing, few target the specific and recurring issues of style and argumentation that students typically encounter in their assignments. Gilmore offers a variety of practical strategies for incorporating revision at all stages of the writing process - especially in content and style - as well as in numerous genres, including literary analysis, on-demand writing, and the college entrance essay. He goes beyond marking up grammar and spelling, differentiates editing from revising, and presents a multifaceted approach that moves students toward an understanding of revision as a process that helps them write fluently and communicate more effectively. All the while, Gilmore will help you change your own sense of revision so that you can use it to match up student needs with specific instructional focuses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471973015632-HB8SXNNXP5TXFXPPQU14/82EBA7F5-B62C-4FCC-A85E-D5D45DD283EA-256.png Literacy - Teaching Reading in the 21st Century Also available on Amazon Informed by the latest research on topics ranging from phonemic awareness and phonics to teaching comprehension strategies, motivation, and assessment, this text provides the knowledge base, skills, and research-based strategies that you need to guide K-8 students successfully toward literacy for the 21st century—using reading and writing for thinking, problem solving, and communicating. Principal themes include balancing phonemic skills with more holistic approaches; fostering the love of reading; and successfully teaching all students to become able and eager readers.Motivating Struggling Readers features provide real-life examples of research-based strategies in action that help make reading exciting for all learners. Motivating Children with Technology features provide access to technological resources related to chapter concepts and explain why a technology-based approach can sometimes be more motivating for students than a traditional approach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471973141876-QMAY34IQ0POBVZJ3SZ20/90E06994-FF11-40F7-8D11-79D187FF91D2-256.png Literacy - Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 Also available on Amazon When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries, research discoveries, and writing discoveries on our way. Nonfiction Matters offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real world and report these insights in a compelling manner. Stephanie Harvey shows how students can read expository text, engage in research, and write authentic nonfiction that is captivating, visual, and full of voice. The inquiry projects she describes require in-depth learning: topic selection, question development, research exploration, reading for content, organization, synthesis, writing to convey meaning, and presenting findings—all skills that develop independent thinkers who know how to make decisions, solve problems, and apply their knowledge insightfully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471973246756-O2T4ER70LAEYEQEJKTS6/22B63B55-CEBB-4DA5-B3FD-417C4861D625-256.png Literacy - From Talking to Writing: Strategies for Scaffolding Expository Expression Also available on Amazon Do your students struggle to express what they want to say? Do you search for help, only to find programs that don't really address your students' needs? From Talking to Writing gives you tools to help children find topics, retrieve words, formulate sentences, or sequence their ideas. Help your students "get the words out" and "get them down on paper". Here's a brief look at what you'll find: * Research-based approaches that are tailored to children with oral and written language difficulties * Techniques for "priming the word pump" to aid students' word finding * Frameworks for sentence, paragraph, and essay instruction to use in your language arts or content classes * Teacher-friendly examples and templates to use with your students The teaching methodology in this book has been refined through over 30 years of teaching students with language-based learning disabilities. (Appropriate for individuals who work with students of any age or grade level who experience difficulty writing at the sentence and paragraph levels.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471974411755-DAYD7O8ID0QRKK0124H3/12E42F5E-ABB4-4C4E-A159-94A0B2956362-256.png Literacy - Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know Also available on Amazon In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471974551616-WFZ2OCFGTKD71HXR5MO4/E894EACF-006E-4DB1-8149-40C5762CA3E0-256.png Literacy - School's Out: Bridging Out-Of-School Literacies With Classroom Practice (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr)) Also available on Amazon This timely book uses research on literacy outside of school to challenge how we think about literacy inside of school. Bringing together highly respected literacy researchers, this volume bridges the divide in the literature between formal education and the many informal settings - homes, community organizations, after-school programs, etc. - in which literacy learning flourishes. To help link research findings with teaching practices, each chapter includes a response from classroom teachers (K-12) and literacy educators. This book's unique blending of perspectives will have a profound effect on how literacy will be taught in school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471974662354-E9JXPIZ1A8IF6LS3IKZ9/EBEC7258-39CC-4B9D-A8E7-36BD07C814E4-256.png Literacy - Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories Also available on Amazon In “provocative and entertaining essays [that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators” (Library Journal), one of the country’s foremost education writers looks at the stories we tell our children. Available now in a revised edition, including a new essay on the importance of “stoop-sitting” and storytelling, Should We Burn Babar? challenges some of the chestnuts of children’s literature. Highlighting instances of racism, sexism, and condescension that detract from the tales being told, Kohl provides strategies for detecting bias in stories written for young people and suggests ways to teach kids to think critically about what they read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471974778020-RS4S11HBREA4388ZX948/5ACCF927-D46C-45B5-92E3-842DF7440841-256.png Literacy - Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry Also available on Amazon This one-of-a-kind mixture of essays, interviews, and lesson plans gathers the best thinking about how we can impart the value and joy of poetry to kids. The essays in the first section—from Matthea Harvey, Ron Padgett, William Stafford, Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch, Theodore Roethke, and many others—illuminate the importance of poetry to a well-rounded education, in and out of traditional classroom settings. The next section is a roundtable conversation among a handful of creative men and women who’ve helped set up or run poetry education centers around the United States. In the book’s final segment, award-winning poets (Matthew Zapruder, Yusef Komunyakaa, many others) offer an array of brilliant lesson plans for people teaching poetry to kids of all ages. Open the Door will be useful for first-time and veteran teachers, as well as parents, babysitters, MFAs with no job, and anyone else with an interest in poetry’s place in the lives of our younger citizens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471974968184-LXJ8VG5TPUYOGOW3LMFL/35E6B68D-9641-498B-AA8D-D2170C6825BA-256.png Literacy - Systems for Change in Literacy Education: A Guide to Professional Development Also available on Amazon Now, with their latest collaboration, Lyons and Pinnell turn their eye to K-6 literacy teachers' professional development, offering the theories, designs, guidelines, examples, and materials needed to bring about schoolwide, long-lasting change. Lyons and Pinnell asked themselves: "What if we could create more and better ways for teachers to learn from their own teaching? What if we could provide high-quality, ongoing professional development and coaching for literacy teachers that result in improving their students' achievement?" Well, they could . . . and they did. Systems for Change offers specific - and, quite often, unique - suggestions for planning and implementing a literacy professional development course. Everything is covered, including how to get started the right way, what materials are needed and where to find them, what are the best activities for effective, hands-on practice, and how to develop K-6 inservice courses throughout the year. Particular emphasis is placed on how to help teachers of the reading and writing processes improve via coaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471975188417-WLLJ30PO2G9V22XAKQDE/1EF798D1-5B6B-4094-9CB2-43ABBA870996-256.png Literacy - Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Third Edition Also available on Amazon The most comprehensive text available on multisensory teaching, this book shows preservice educators how to use specific multisensory approaches to dramatically improve struggling students' language skills and academic outcomes in elementary through high school. They'll be prepared to help students develop skills in key areas such as phonological awareness, letter knowledge, handwriting, phonics, fluency, spelling, comprehension, composition, and mathematics plan structured, explicit multisensory language lessons that incorporate two or more senses create a positive classroom environment conducive to effective teaching and learning for struggling students conduct successful assessment of reading difficulties and monitor progress teach older students who struggle with reading work effectively with high-functioning adults with dyslexia conduct biliteracy instruction for Spanish-speaking students meet the needs of students who use assistive technology know the rights of individuals with dyslexia. A text to keep and use long after the course is over, this book includes practical strategies and guidelines on planning lessons, conducting assessment, helping students with learning disabilities develop good study skills, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471975316453-Q91E38QVWHSP1KFCMAJ6/7A211D67-6A16-469B-9216-A0AA764FEE51-256.png Literacy - What They Don't Learn in School: Literacy in the Lives of Urban Youth Also available on Amazon Contributors to this book have illuminated the practices of literacy and learning in the lives of urban youth. Their descriptions and assessments of these practices are anchored in perspectives of «New Literacy Studies». The ten studies explore a number of urban scenes in order to engage, understand, and present multiple youth identities, attitudes, activities, representations, and stories connected to a range of situated, adaptive, and voluntary uses of literacy. The authors use a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to explicate the various skills, the distinct methods of production or composition, the subjective and collective meanings, the mutable and variegated texts, and the dynamic contexts that urban youth utilize for expression, affirmation, and pleasure. There is a response to each chapter by a major scholar in its area of focus. Together, these studies and responses contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the pedagogies, politics, and possibilities of literacy and learning in and out of school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471975562733-V9YZD2SG99DW12CT7ZFH/F3A6CD93-54E9-4C8B-B8BF-FBD741FD625D-256.png Literacy - Techniques in Teaching Writing Also on available on Amazon This book outlines practical procedures for teachers, including ways to stimulate students to write through pictures, readings, and discussions, and effective, motivating ways to respond to student writing. Follow at every stage are outlined, including ways to stimulate students to write through pictures, readings and discussions, and ways to respond to student writing as a form of communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471975677274-X8BTGHPOE9XFOUG3P0J6/28265695-FE39-4122-934C-06CF650BF797-256.png Literacy - Short Takes in Fiction: Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing Also available on Amazon Short Takes in Fiction engages students in reading, speaking, and writing English, using brief selections by 20th-century writers. The content is designed to help students relate what they read to their own lives. Authors include Rumer Godden, Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Somerset Maugham, William Saroyan, Raymond Carver, and Marjorie Kellogg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471975773491-9W0738F00DNBAHGRUX2I/5130DA09-5D80-48A3-9E2A-CB6A8B99DDD1-256.png Literacy - What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction, Fourth Edition Also available on Amazon The new edition of this classic research review offers a broad and balanced perspective of the latest theory, research, and practice to provide a solid foundation for the important work of teaching students to read. Chapters such as ''Implementing a Response to Intervention Model to Improve Reading Outcomes for All Students,'' ''Integrating Reading Strategies and Knowledge Building in Adolescent Literacy Instruction,'' and ''Reading Engagement Among African American and European American Students'' reflect changes and current thinking in the field. Others focus on core and timeless elements of reading instruction, such as word recognition, fluency, and comprehension. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471975961479-RNPJYDEXHY26YQ0W9K50/A8C78F51-1343-464E-AD02-2748A1381C9C-256.png Literacy - Where's the Glitch?: How to Use Running Records with Older Readers, Grades 5-8 Also available on Amazon Many students find themselves struggling to learn from texts because glitches in their reading process block learning, cause frustration, and impede success. The source of these problems can be difficult to discern. Where's the Glitch? identifies why readers stumble and presents strategies designed to get them back on track and reading well. In Where's the Glitch? Mary Shea shows you how to use modified running records (MRRs) to pinpoint where readers struggle with comprehension, to determine their current reading level, and to assess the specific skills they already possess. Shea explains how to take an MRR and get meaningful assessment data on the spot - even in a busy classroom. Then, she describes how to use that information to plan interventions that integrate instruction in literacy skills with content - area studies. As a result, students increase their reading fluency, overall achievement, and motivation to learn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471976202384-ZEZV0YR2UK59ZE5BKJWK/C78D653F-C045-4348-94FE-9B8C4F3C0D99-256.png Literacy - Techniques and Resources in Teaching Reading Also available on Amazon This book answers theoretical and practical questions on the teaching of reading. It offers numerous suggestions on how to teach expository prose, non prose reading, fiction, poetry, and songs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471976299126-QBZ688TDVXRI8Q5RJ3YC/416A076A-0F4F-4463-B9DE-B2F74FDF718E-256.png Literacy - Reading Without Nonsense Also available on Amazon This text provides a humanistic antidote to the managed "systems" approach to reading instruction. Its theme is that reading must make sense to the learner and so must reading instruction. Revised and expanded, this edition has been restructured to provide separate (and updated) chapters on: phonics and meaningful reading; comprehension and learning; the act and range of reading; and teaching reading and "reading disabilities". The underlying learner-friendly, teacher-supportive approach that characterized the previous editions remains unchanged. Dr Smith notes that the research and debate of the past ten years, though often acrimonious, have done nothing to undermine this book's account of the basic nature of reading and of learning to read. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/instruction-and-pedagogy daily 0.75 2016-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471275891737-WGI9F2WVDBH4MASGO3QJ/F6E0F642-BD14-4877-A58A-21F9248A9E8B-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice in the Common Core Classroom: A Guide for Teachers Also available on Amazon Inspired by the author's research and work with preservice and beginning teachers, this book presents a unique framework to help educators (grades 3- 8) embed their efforts to teach social studies for social justice within the context of literacy. It is a resource for using primary and other sources that will offer students new ways of thinking about history while meeting Language Arts Common Core Standards demands for information text and critical thinking. Grounded in the daily realities of today's public schools, the framework offers a way of planning that takes into account teaching factors that include pressures for content coverage, preparation of students for high-stakes tests, and the low importance placed by many districts on including social studies in the curriculum. Each chapter explains how teachers can restructure, reshape, and work with mandated curriculum materials to teach from a critical perspective. The book also discusses how to meet Common Core Standards by teaching language arts and social studies as complementary subjects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471275891737-WGI9F2WVDBH4MASGO3QJ/F6E0F642-BD14-4877-A58A-21F9248A9E8B-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice in the Common Core Classroom: A Guide for Teachers Also available on Amazon Inspired by the author's research and work with preservice and beginning teachers, this book presents a unique framework to help educators (grades 3- 8) embed their efforts to teach social studies for social justice within the context of literacy. It is a resource for using primary and other sources that will offer students new ways of thinking about history while meeting Language Arts Common Core Standards demands for information text and critical thinking. Grounded in the daily realities of today's public schools, the framework offers a way of planning that takes into account teaching factors that include pressures for content coverage, preparation of students for high-stakes tests, and the low importance placed by many districts on including social studies in the curriculum. Each chapter explains how teachers can restructure, reshape, and work with mandated curriculum materials to teach from a critical perspective. The book also discusses how to meet Common Core Standards by teaching language arts and social studies as complementary subjects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471275932979-AMVT9GVLUWD8QHXTL9QL/F922DA60-9577-4510-81C0-2645757B20CC-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - ADD / ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom Also available on Amazon What does it mean to a kid to be labeled attention-deficit disordered (ADD)? Or to have "hyperactive" added to the label (ADHD)? What can teachers do to boost the success of students with attention and behavioral difficulties? Are we relying too much on medication for these kids and not enough on new perspectives on learning, child development, the child's socioeconomic and cultural background, biological and psychological research, and the learner's emotional and social needs? Armstrong urges educators and parents to look for the positive characteristics in learners who may carry the ADD/ADHD label. Mastering the multiplication tables by forming a conga line, moving around the classroom counting from 1 to 30 out loud, and on every multiple of 3 shaking their hips and legs. Showing patterns of molecular bonding in chemistry class through a "swing your atom" square dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471368192314-7VH34FU9BU3ZIOKN4EBR/55A91C68-6A35-4AC8-B959-A52D2973BC38-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom Also available on Amazon "To respect the many differences between people"—this is what Howard Gardner says is the purpose of learning about multiple intelligences (MI). Now, in the 2nd edition of "Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom," Thomas Armstrong has updated his best-selling practical guide for educators, to incorporate new research from Gardner and others. Gardner's original studies suggested that the mind comprises seven intelligences—linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. This new edition includes information on the eighth intelligence (the naturalist), a chapter on a possible ninth intelligence (the existential), and updated information and resources throughout the text to help educators at all levels apply MI theory to curriculum development, lesson planning, assessment, special education, cognitive skills, educational technology, career development, educational policy, and more. The book includes dozens of practical tips, strategies, and examples from real schools and districts—as well as solid outcomes of MI, including improved test scores and discipline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471368391171-C5K9OVOEF720IDDHRBGW/9154A119-1769-47D5-8AC5-B4E1DC49608A-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Rethinking Our Classrooms Vol 1 - Revised Edition Also available on Amazon This revised and expanded edition includes new essays on science and environmental education, immigration and language, military recruitment, teaching about the world through mathematics, and gay and lesbian issues. Creative teaching ideas, compelling classroom narratives, and hands-on examples show how teachers can promote the values of community, justice, and equality while building academic skills. Nowhere is the connection between critical teaching and effective classroom practice clearer or more accessible. A great resource for new and veteran K-12 teachers, as well as teacher education and staff development programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471368650404-5E06EZWAQVVZQAM0I1QO/BE748DA0-E52B-4475-AC3B-B7B79E3873C1-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching For Equity and Justice - Volume 2 Also available on Amazon The new companion volume to the original Rethinking Our Classrooms is packed with compelling articles about teaching, as well as curriculum ideas, lesson plans, and resources, all grounded in the realities of the classroom. Like the bestselling first volume, Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2 is an invaluable tool for educators striving to promote social justice and high-quality student learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471369008774-D09P54WAP1MSGGRPPA64/D81B0B39-1290-4520-9E7D-2598483D7E83-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Games for Actors and Non-Actors 2nd Edition Also available on Amazon Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone – actors and non-actors alike!This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes: two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company a revised introduction and translator's preface a collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition new reflections on Forum Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471369158832-2DVUQ45U9NQ4LU5WYPH7/08973228-24A2-47BD-AE90-AC7FBD18DB09-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - For a Better World: Reading and Writing for Social Action Also available on Amazon With For a Better World, Randy and Katherine Bomer present a new vision of curriculum - one that invites students to read with important social ideas in mind and write with the purpose of making the world a better place. Developed in years of classroom experience with diverse children, the book will help more experienced teachers take the next step in their professional growth, while providing newer teachers with a picture of how the largest purposes in democratic education connect to the details of teaching. A unique, reader-friendly guide for bringing critical literacy into reading and writing workshops, For a Better World demonstrates how to: support students' writing for public purposes and connect their personal writing to important social issues facilitate more meaningful talk in the classroom develop students' language and concepts for discussing significant social and political ideas in response to literature help students inquire into the daily politics of classroom life integrate social studies, writing, and literature in experiential, inquiry-based ways assure that all students have access to a rich and meaningful education for social justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471369292215-GKELSUGGT2QQ7AMDHVUR/6CB0D069-B7DB-418D-AD81-4B81286ED27F-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Connecting with the Past: History Workshop in Middle and High Schools Also available on Amazon In a history workshop, the teacher encourages students to become young historians — practicing history in imitation of professionals — to make the people and events of the past meaningful and relevant. Connecting with the Past is the first book to explore the history workshop approach at the middle and secondary levels. The book provides both the theoretical framework and the step-by-step details of how to put history workshops into practice. Chapters describe precisely how the author made each decision, from the planning stage through to final student presentations. Extensive samples of student discussions and writing are presented and analyzed. Readers will identify with the process described and are invited to transform their own history teaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471371393111-GFUTQ36BQ732U39WEEVQ/25461B07-A3E6-4B09-915E-5D5B6786E6D6-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Assertive Discipline: Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom Also available on Amazon Assertive Discipline®: Positive Behavior Management for Today s Classroom, Fourth Edition outlines a three-step approach for positive behavior management by creating a classroom discipline plan that includes: rules that students must follow at all times; positive support that students will receive consistently for following the rules; and corrective actions that the teacher will use consistently when students choose not to follow the rules. The book emphasizes the last two steps to help teachers provide nonjudgmental feedback to students in a way that recognizes their efforts but also corrects their actions. The book stresses the importance of building positive relationships with students, which is vital for their success. Finally, the new edition features a special addendum that introduces the real-time coaching model (in which a coach sits in the classroom and actively cues the teacher with regard to repeating directions, providing feedback, or taking disciplinary action) and explains how to establish a school wide Assertive Discipline program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471371701279-NRZZS5907VZJWRA83TZS/3E230955-F83B-46FF-BD16-0A3E7F46B3CB-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Teaching with Text Sets Also available on Amazon Looking for a way to increase engagement, differentiate instruction, and incorporate more informational text and student writing into your curriculum? Teaching with Text Sets is your answer! This must-have resource walks you through the steps to create and use multi-genre, multimodal text sets for content area and language arts study. It provides detailed information support you as you choose topics, locate and evaluate texts, organize texts for instruction, and assess student learning. The guide is an excellent resource to help you meet the Common Core and other State Standards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471371830734-OY5UGJG25QY10UIEHNK5/0679BB0C-E1CC-4E34-9B51-F0F51908E2AD-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Language Arts Mini-Lessons: Step-by-Step Skill-Builders for Your Classroom Also available on Amazon Step-by-Step Skill-Builders for Your Classroom. Help students become better readers and writers. Lessons include note taking, lead sentences, editing, punctuation, and more. Complete step-by-steps, photos, student samples, and ideas for using popular children's literature as models. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471371967547-ANLGN34CNRJLFQDCPTGT/8E6CD862-495C-4E52-8BC4-E95BF8FF1547-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Making History Mine: Meaningful Connections for Grades 5-9 Also available on Amazon Middle school history teachers confront the same challenge every day: how to convey the breadth and depth of a curriculum that spans centuries, countries, and cultures. In Making History Mine, Sarah Cooper shows teachers how to use thematic instruction to link skills to content knowledge. By combining thought-provoking activities and rich assessments, Sarah encourages teachers to challenge students to make history personal and relevant to their lives. A one-page description at the beginning of each chapter explains the embedded skills and shows how the lessons correlate to state and national history standards. Making History Mine includes dozens of short activities, in-depth projects, guiding questions, and effective strategies to help teachers bring history to life in the classroom. Students will learn how to imagine themselves in the past, making decisions that changed the world. Through role playing, debates, and service learning they will gain the skills to make their own histories count. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471372058492-UMN1RGF3S6JFS6OY9G43/276EF776-D95E-43AA-ABD5-393998B85A97-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - El Sabelotodo The Bilingual Teacher's Best Friend Also available on Amazon Includes a collection of words for every occasion, a compendium of things and people Hispanic, a resource of instructional words for language arts and the content area, some good ideas for implementing a theme-oriented approach to teaching and ten fruitful themes to get you started, a catalog of imaginative ideas to promote reading, writing listening and speaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471372241297-HLEQABETW10U2ZM7OBNC/086048F5-21CD-4CB6-8CA0-09CFF4D97C05-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Comprehension & Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action Also available on Amazon Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action occurs at the intersection of comprehension, collaboration, and inquiry and serves as a guide for teachers who want to realize the benefits of well-structured, student-led, cross-curricular projects. Stephanie Harvey (Strategies That Work and The Comprehension Tool kit series) and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels (Literature Circles and Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles): - lay the foundation for inquiry circles by chronicling the current research and practices behind comprehension instruction and classroom collaboration - explain nine fundamental classroom conditions needed for active, small-group learning - provide 26 practical lessons in comprehension, collaboration, and research - offer how-to instructions for four types of inquiry circles-mini-research projects; curricular inquiries; extensions of literature circles; and open inquiry projects - address characteristic management concerns, such as how to use the Internet for research and how to assess and monitor student achievement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471372486654-E1YR0WVKLYMX5Q98YSVH/A1086EC1-A30B-4EDD-BBA4-1C824F0D941B-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Enhancing Thinking Through Cooperative Learning Also available on Amazon This volume is a collection of theoretical and practical cooperative strategies, models, and frameworks which support and enhance the improvement of thinking in the classroom. Chapter authors provide educators with a wide range of effective cooperative thinking approaches for both small- and large-group cognition and metacognition, and show the value of such constructs in improving student thinking performance. Using classroom vignettes and supportive research, contributors illustrate how cooperative small-group learning is more effective than traditional whole-class learning in helping children to think effectively. Each chapter also includes suggestions for practice and implementation of the authors' ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471373185171-K7KQ66G7K1C7N2QISOFR/C552BA08-93B0-4423-82C4-1858DB588D2C-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - I Am Not a Test Score: Lessons Learned From Dreaming This collaborative book is written by the very young people who dreamt and built Baltimore’s only youth-run youth center—The Dream House. A nonfiction, how-to book, it provides a model for other youth, youth workers and non-profit organizations. It includes best practices for youth work, lessons learned, and examples of programming that focuses on real-world, project-based, community building curriculum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471373376798-5QULDGZ3QRINPJU0J85X/1EAF8B0C-5968-456A-84EE-695183625053-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education Also available on Amazon Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. He begins by taking to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike—both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally. Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the “Seven C’s” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471373593460-A14BWWD5IH9A7C2JT6DY/B1805D40-1AAE-43A2-AC48-E5DB207AD047-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Preventing Failure in the Primary Grades Also available on Amazon The tasks that are outlined in the reading and math sections are designed for children who have not mastered the basic skills whatever their age or grade level. Segments were used initially with tenth-grade disadvantaged children. Others were developed expressly for primary children. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/57b1e241bebafb58ff0208c5/57b36163197aea37dfc35ba1/1471373667130/ Instruction and Pedagogy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471373853888-EKT3TZJDSTOEAOI11GOP/53487B24-7A25-4123-BC58-F6259A6866EF-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Teaching with Love & Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom Also available on Amazon Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximize classroom learning time. Discover why Love and Logic works in the school environment and understand the psychological reasons for its effectiveness. Jim Fay and David Funk's truly positive approach and time-tested ideas and strategies will empower teachers to effectively manage classroom dynamics while bringing the joy back to teaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471374121081-N05PUYGHB33WDCW4U61P/E26760FA-85FD-48E6-B346-7AEE4B2E1D2D-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - On Critical Pedagogy Also available on Amazon For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book opens by discussing the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture.Giroux focuses on five crucial elements associated with critical pedagogy. First, he presents an overview of the term as it applies to schooling and to larger cultural spheres. Second, he analyses the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism. Third, he examines some of the major economic, social, and political focus undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education. Giroux then outlines increasing attempts by both right wing and liberal interests to reduce schooling to training and students merely to customers. Finally the book focuses on the legacy of Paulo Freire and issues a fundamental challenge to educators, public intellectuals, and others who believe in the promise of radical democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471374615727-OG3KY75PRGG89SCYEYF3/C4FDCC0C-9B97-40D1-8B7B-F664140E15C0-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Elementary Social Studies: Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning Also available on Amazon This text frames and develops a coherent, practical, and engaging approach to teaching and learning elementary social studies. The authors combine the latest research on learning patterns, curriculum structure and presentation, and assessment with practical issues like classroom management, goal establishment, and creative lesson planning. Elementary Social Studies is organized according to four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—to help teachers create a powerful learning environment for their students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471374756099-Y9NI1L8BFI6I11YD3V80/504473E0-D966-42AD-AD86-309FF9EF7B6F-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All Also available on Amazon Your favorite differentiated instruction text just got better! If you're in need of a single resource to put differentiated instruction immediately into practice, then follow the lead of 100,000+ teachers and look to Gregory and Chapman's ground-breaking text. With new strategies, updates throughout, a Common Core lesson-planning template, and a larger format, the third edition is an even richer resource with: A deep research base coupled with immediately useable examplesA start-to-finish six-step process, beginning with establishing a classroom climate, then getting to know studentsAn emphasis on formative assessment before, during, and after learning70+ templates, tools, and questionnaires https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471374877680-8L0SJ4P0UK18E164T5JJ/AA1FC910-B944-40A0-B884-1000996B020B-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Instruction: A Models Approach Also available on Amazon This classroom-ready resource makes instructional models clear and relevant for readers by placing them within a standards-based and instructionally aligned process. Based on current research and best practice, the more than one dozen models provided in this text are closely linked to the preparation of objectives, differentiation practices, and assessment options. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471375579195-PR8RF23O66N8ECZBE9C1/82D7AC21-D2D3-4502-80CE-291FE9F9D5C3-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s Also available on Amazon Join brave and terrified youngsters walking through a jeering mob and up the steps of Central High School in Little Rock. Listen to the vivid voices of the ordinary people who manned the barricades, the laborers, the students, the housewives without whom there would have been no civil rights movements at all. This remarkable oral history brings to life country's great struggle for civil rights as no conventional narrative can. You will hear the voices of those who defied the blackjacks, who went to jail, who witnessed and policed the movement; of those who stood for and against it—voices from the heart of America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471375785986-K4SRH9HUO1PA1YTWFX02/6CCA450D-315F-46E1-AFAC-1B1A29C709BF-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - The Collaborative Classroom: A Guide to Co-Operative Learning Also available on Amazon Practical guide for teachers wishing to implement cooperative learning processes as opposed to the more traditional individual is used and competitive learning environments. Four broad areas where cooperative skills are needed are identified and discussed. They include forming groups, working and problem solving as a group, and managing differences. Includes a list of references and further reading suggestions, sheets that can be photocopied, and an index. Susan Hill is a senior lecturer in curriculum studies at the South Australian College of Advanced Education and Peter Hill is a psychologist and lecturer in Human Development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471375932758-VZCA2ZF769M1Q9HWRSPQ/511E1A78-A9AD-41F8-B65A-FC3EBCB73F0A-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope Also available on Amazon In Teaching Community bell hooks seeks to theorize from the place of the positive, looking at what works. Writing about struggles to end racism and white supremacy, she makes the useful point that "No one is born a racist. Everyone makes a choice." Teaching Community tells us how we can choose to end racism and create a beloved community. hooks looks at many issues-among them, spirituality in the classroom, white people looking to end racism, and erotic relationships between professors and students. Spirit, struggle, service, love, the ideals of shared knowledge and shared learning - these values motivate progressive social change. Teachers of vision know that democratic education can never be confined to a classroom. Teaching - so often undervalued in our society — can be a joyous and inclusive activity. bell hooks shows the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471376260647-B6N5WGOVH7IXTRJ5K8PQ/AEB23885-7EFA-4EF0-8C10-BCD6D86EE4B0-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom Also available on Amazon In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471376462893-4FXUOA8JH8TL9HSYDH9F/B0348EB2-742D-4A7E-8157-978FD43CE01C-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers Also available on Amazon In Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe invite readers to join them in classrooms where they listen, watch, and talk with children, then use what they learn to create lessons designed to meet children where they are and lead them into the world of writing. The authors make a case for a broader definition of writing, advocating for formal storytelling sessions, in which children tell about what they know, and for focused sketching sessions so that budding writers learn how to observe more carefully. The book's lessons are organized by topic and include oral storytelling, drawing, writing words, assessment, introducing booklets, and moving writers forward. Based on the authors' work in urban kindergarten and first-grade classes, the essence and structure of many of the lessons lend themselves to adaptation through fifth grade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471376655735-41BD4WYS5E666CI2NJXM/C3035A66-71B3-4C2E-AF56-C8125498524F-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Positive Behavioral Support in the Classroom: Principles and Practices Also available on Amazon This comprehensive text provides research and practical strategies on how to implement a positive behavioral support (PBS) plan in the classroom. In this book you will examine the origins of PBS in public education explore the possibilities and boundaries of the support process within today's schools learn a planning protocol for the entire support process from concept to revision, along with assessment practices address the practical details of planning, designing, and implementing support processes for individual students link behavioral support concepts to the broader practices of school communities and society This book also includes photocopiable forms to aid preservice and in-service educators as they begin to assess children with challenging behavior and plan effective interventions. And vignettes, accompanied by thought-provoking questions for the reader, give a peek into the reality of PBS in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471376844428-145OQ4ZKGASR6121OVLW/B7DEC2CD-7F4C-429B-9A2F-993021B97F7D-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy - Fred Jones Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation Also available on Amazon In Tools for Teaching, Dr. Jones describes the skills by which exceptional teachers make the classroom a place of success and enjoyment for both themselves and their students. Tools for Teaching integrates the management of discipline, instruction and motivation into a system that allows you to reduce the stress of teaching by preventing most management headaches. Dr. Jones helps you reduce student disruptions, backtalk, helpless hand raising and dawdling while helping you increase responsible behavior, motivation and independent learning. These skills are made access able by practical, down-to-earth language and many examples and illustrations that provide the next best thing to attending one of Dr. Jones' workshops. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/instruction-and-pedagogy-2 daily 0.75 2016-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471377477616-E7KW6ZHDZEX190R63KFJ/3904FB06-FDAE-43E4-B42B-B752510D774C-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice, Revised Edition Also available on Amazon The phrase "teaching for social justice" is often used, but not always explained. What does it really mean to teach for social justice? What are the implications for anti-oppressive teaching across different areas of the curriculum? Drawing on his own experiences teaching diverse grades and subjects, Kevin Kumashiro examines various aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning in six different subject areas. Connecting practice to theory through new pedagogical elements, the revised edition of this bestselling text features: A new and timely preface that considers the possibilities of anti-oppressive teaching and teaching for social justice in the face of increasing pressure from both the Right and the Left to accept neoliberal school reform policies.The new pedagogical components of the revised edition will offer K-12 teachers and teacher educators the tools they need to teach against their common sense assumptions and continue the evolution of social justice in education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471377477616-E7KW6ZHDZEX190R63KFJ/3904FB06-FDAE-43E4-B42B-B752510D774C-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice, Revised Edition Also available on Amazon The phrase "teaching for social justice" is often used, but not always explained. What does it really mean to teach for social justice? What are the implications for anti-oppressive teaching across different areas of the curriculum? Drawing on his own experiences teaching diverse grades and subjects, Kevin Kumashiro examines various aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning in six different subject areas. Connecting practice to theory through new pedagogical elements, the revised edition of this bestselling text features: A new and timely preface that considers the possibilities of anti-oppressive teaching and teaching for social justice in the face of increasing pressure from both the Right and the Left to accept neoliberal school reform policies.The new pedagogical components of the revised edition will offer K-12 teachers and teacher educators the tools they need to teach against their common sense assumptions and continue the evolution of social justice in education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471377632959-QY95MSA93U26FRO2ZGQB/23142995-DED6-47CD-98A9-45FD0D524C07-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility Also available on Amazon Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471377810281-JQ1DCPBVSVYJP2ICOGH4/C1F161A5-9CD0-4932-83F9-F97E49DF05DB-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Teaching with Intention Also available on Amazon Effective, intentional teaching begins with a strong set of beliefs, but even the best teachers — including Debbie Miller — struggle to make sure that their classroom practice consistently reflects their core convictions. In Teaching with Intention, Debbie shares her process of defining beliefs, aligning practice, and taking action to ensure that children are the true beneficiaries of her teaching. Reading with Meaning, chronicled a year in her own classroom, Teaching with Intention brings us into classrooms of teachers and children she has met over the last five years in her work as a literacy consultant. From setting up the classroom environment to the intentional use of language, from comprehension instruction to lesson design, Debbie is explicit about what she does and why. In an environment where the handing down of scripted programs and "foolproof" curricula is increasingly the norm, Teaching with Intention offers a compelling reminder that truly transformative teaching is built from the ground up, and is rebuilt every year, by every teacher, in every classroom, with every new group of students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471378130484-053JFNH9489SBE6NWLP5/63BB969B-868A-4C58-92B2-FD9893A4698D-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Putting The Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching Also available on Amazon An incredible, informative, collection of essays, articles, analysis, interviews, primary documents and interactive &amp; interdisciplinary teaching aids on civil rights, movement building, and what it means for all of the inhabitants of the planet. With sections on education, economic justice, citizenship, and culture, it connects the African-American Civil Rights Movement to Native American, Latina, Asian-American, gay rights, and international struggles; while highlighting the often-ignored roles of women in social justice movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471378267452-JCWDN4PWQURMT160LY8M/C0C7C01E-B876-42EE-85F5-44B9EE5716C0-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Social Studies Today: Research and Practice Also available on Amazon Social Studies Today: Research and Practice inspires educators to think freshly and knowingly about social studies education in the early years of the twenty first century. Written by the field’s leading scholars, this collection provokes readers to consider the relationship of research and practice as they think through some of the most interesting challenges that animate social studies education today. Each chapter tackles a specific issue and includes discussion of topics such as teaching history, learning tolerance, assessment, globalization, children’s literature, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching about genocide. Walter Parker not only pulled these chapters together but also contributes two of his own—-both of which are sure to be cited as key works of this era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471378395815-ARIRE28T8DN7QZBOW402/4FDC62C2-6D6E-467C-BE64-71E5354A26C6-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade Also available on Amazon Explore the knowledge and skills young children should have as they progress along the continuum of oral language growth. Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade will encourage you to make your classroom a noisy place, full of rich conversation about ideas, opinions, stories, school subjects, and language itself a place where spoken words are at the heart of a community of teaching and learning. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research.Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471378568119-EWXUSGJ5HL34LSZVI6AO/DCB67E93-EB90-4CEE-A0AB-2A3C8477D93B-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community Also available on Amazon In this book, Barbara Rogoff puts into practice the theoretical account she presented in her highly acclaimed book Apprenticeship in Thinking. Here, Rogoff collaborates with two master teachers from an innovative school in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she conducted extensive research into what is involved when people learn—students, parents, and teachers alike. Illustrated with observations by participants in this school, this book shows that children and adults learn by participating within a community of learners. Their experiences will speak to all those interested in school improvement and in how people learn through engaging together in activities of mutual interest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471447364400-D39KOISZLIWP5JA1HB3P/9FF84A56-A490-404D-BC1E-209AED14A8D0-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills Also available on Amazon Of all the things that are essential to high performing schools, nothing is more important than the teacher and what that person knows, believes and can do. A teacher's skill makes a difference in student performance, not only in achievement scores, but also in students sense of fulfillment in school and their feelings of well-being. Twenty chapters capture a blend of research and practitioner-developed approaches for using the research in the classroom. Each chapter lays out a known repertoire of strategies to help teachers fulfill a particular kind of mission from the spiritual imperative of communicating high expectations to the abstract challenge of planning lessons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471447519528-3Z452CF354RJVLG74H0V/8AF634F0-C93C-4D9C-AA7F-825882203F9B-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - The Baltimore Textbook Also available on Amazon Where you live shapes who you are, yet learning about Baltimore is often absent from classrooms. In order to become active, change-making citizens, every student in Baltimore needs to have an understanding of the social, political, and economic forces at play in their city. The Baltimore Textbook is a guide to the city's past, present, and future that will empower students and residents of all ages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471447645950-FVHLKXR4S52G5T5RQLP2/AFDAA636-A21E-4D0A-90B1-B2741F7D2827-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Conducting School-Based Functional Behavioral Assessments, Second Edition: A Practitioner's Guide Also available on Amazon Explaining the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of functional behavioral assessment, this practical and engaging book is packed with real-world tools and examples. Effective procedures are presented for evaluating challenging behavior in K–12 students, organizing assessment data, and using the results to craft individualized behavior support plans. The authors draw on extensive school-based experience to provide sample reports, decision trees, and reproducible checklists and forms—all in a large-size format with lay-flat binding to facilitate photocopying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471447732200-CX00YFKXP4D9XZ6HX57X/DE6B45A9-C4C0-444D-9C67-8E9BFD46E2FD-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Hands-On History: World History Activities Also available on Amazon Garth Sundem is an educational writer with a background in writing instruction. His recent books include Implementing an Effective Writing Program, as well as a three-book series focusing on writing in the content areas. Garth has also written numerous magazine articles and has trained teachers at conferences and school-based events nationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471447801359-DV9VI08K2RBP6O4TOWBG/252EB5F5-8470-414A-97D3-B0BB268E7891-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Storygathering Toollkit: interviewing, recording, editing and sharing oral histories Also available on Amazon The story gathering and sharing process is powerful. It can do many things; celebrate triumphs, connect people, document and preserve memories and help storytellers engage with their lived experiences in powerful ways. The work we do to support strength and resilience in our communities and individuals requires us to have high ethical standards that are flexible and transparent. Here we provide an outline that will inform our conversation about story gathering, sharing and publication ethics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471447914413-DOFUCJRH4Y9E77TZ9TTY/45E8FDE0-7B8E-48EA-8E2C-9614763344CF-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Social Studies for Social Justice: Teaching Strategies for the Elementary Classroom Also available on Amazon Dedication to social justice teaching is important, yet putting one's ideals into practice in American schools is a challenging task. This book goes beyond theory and idealism to fully explore the value and impact of implementing social action and social justice activities in the elementary school classroom. Informed by the experiences of more than forty teachers across the country, this thoughtful resource: (1) examines how elementary teachers, from inner cities to rural towns, use the social studies curriculum to teach about and for social justice; (2) focuses on how teaching social studies for social justice relates to standardized testing, state curricula, and the local challenges teachers face; (3) offers classroom activities and "Reflection Exercises" and "Teaching Ideas" to provide teachers with practical applications for the topics discussed; and (4) includes a list of children's literature books, curriculum materials, and websites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471448043008-9LZLG9G4SCGUCC1IS7NE/E2ADBC84-2213-4F12-8DCB-2C82DF081994-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally Also available on Amazon Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally was written to help teacher candidates and practicing teachers understand mathematics and become more confident in their ability to teach the subject to children in pre-K through eighth grade. Structured for easy reference, offering 23 chapters reflecting the latest research to consult throughout one’s teaching career, the revised edition infuses NCTM and Common Core State Standards with the benefits of problem-based mathematics instruction. The amount of coverage relating to mathematics in early childhood has been increased. More activities infusing technology and samples of authentic student work are introduced. Increased emphasis on formative assessment, showcased with an icon and notes throughout, guide teachers to master this difficult practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471448180001-TDYFVQJ27FB0GKIAIJVY/8B0CC6A1-FF29-4584-B54F-1EFA8662A5BF-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Field Experience Guide for Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally Also available on Amazon The Field Experience Guide, a supplement to Elementary and Middle School Mathematics, 8th Edition, is for observation, practicum, and student teaching experiences at the elementary and middle school levels. The guidebook contains three parts: Part I provides tasks for preservice teachers to do in the field; Part II provides three types of activities: Expanded Lessons, Mathematics Activities, and Balanced Assessment Tasks. Part III of this guide contains a full set of reproducible Blackline Masters referenced in the 8th edition of Elementary and Middle School Mathematics as well as additional Blackline Masters for use with the Expanded Lessons in Part II. A convenient Field Experience Guide Connections section at the end of each chapter in the 8th Edition will help you better integrate the information from the text with the Field Experience Guide to support with your work in schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471448289884-EI8N1BZTTI1OIA7GV3OH/AA7596A8-58CD-4317-B7C3-8782DC1D9010-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Content-Focused Coaching: Transforming Mathematics Lessons Also available on Amazon Content-Focused Coaching offers just such a sustaining system. CFC is a long-range professional development practice in which coaches work individually or with groups of classroom teachers to design, implement, and reflect on rigorous, standards-based lessons that promote student learning. Authored by two educators closely involved with the design of CFC, this book is perfect for K-8 staff developers, teacher leaders, administrators, and others interested in improving mathematics education. Lucy West and Fritz Staub explain the general tenets of CFC and the fundamental foundations upon which it rests. Then they provide a wealth of examples of coaching in action in New York City's Community School District #2, a district known nationally for its progressive, innovative, and rigorous focus on professional development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471448367823-E3QB5SRCZN4CQDEJHIXK/BDC70B8D-2797-4A08-AE4F-DD847A371101-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units Also available on Amazon This guide is intended for K-16 educators either individuals or groups who may have received some training in Understanding by Design and want to continue their work independently; those who've read Understanding by Design and want to design curriculum units but have no access to formal training; graduate and undergraduate students in university curriculum courses; and school and district administrators, curriculum directors, and others who facilitate Understanding by Design work with staff. Users can go through the modules in sequence or skip around, depending on their previous experience with UbD and their preferred curriculum design style or approach. Unit creation, planning, and adaptation are easier than ever with the accompanying downloadable resources, including the Understanding by Design template set up as a fillable PDF form, additional worksheets, examples, and FAQs about the module topics that speak to Understanding by Design novices and veterans alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471448519970-0FE8KDUQ3BSC30JZNMET/F04A6602-F276-4B74-B70A-3FA5D7019616-256.png Instruction and Pedagogy 2 - Constructivist Learning Environments: Case Studies in Instructional Design Also available on Amazon http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/learning-theory daily 0.75 2016-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471532804333-09NDU1N0GV9GH77OM186/23CFCC8D-1529-499B-8F18-BE3B45F6A8B4-256.png Learning Theory - Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step Also available on Amazon The first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented bestseller trains listeners to move beyond a "vertical" mode of thought to tap the potential of lateral thinking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471532804333-09NDU1N0GV9GH77OM186/23CFCC8D-1529-499B-8F18-BE3B45F6A8B4-256.png Learning Theory - Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step Also available on Amazon The first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented bestseller trains listeners to move beyond a "vertical" mode of thought to tap the potential of lateral thinking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471533176691-CD9XHTPV60XHW99AJR6B/A4238100-A8E8-46E1-A34B-2AB25164E192-256.png Learning Theory - Educating the Entire Person Also available on Amazon This book maintains that much of what children and adolescents are taught in school is of limited use to them in succeeding in life. It notes that although most school curricula focus on factual knowledge and cultural enrichment, they fall short in providing students with an education that focuses on individual abilities and inclinations, financial self-sufficiency, moral development, and self-identity. The book advocates a teaching and learning philosophy that makes students largely responsible for their own education and development so that they can function as independent, self-sufficient adults in society. Its central premise is that students need to learn to think for themselves, develop a worthwhile concept of the meaning of life, and learn to maneuver well in their environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471533325790-3Z2QQTTSUTJ4FOP1F84E/ACC84A4F-A45A-4916-9CB7-006D84B1DE5E-256.png Learning Theory - Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning and Teaching Also available on Amazon Elbow explores the "contraries" in the educational process, in particular his theory that clear thinking can be enhanced by inviting indecision, incoherence, and paradoxical thinking. The essays, written over a period of twenty-five years, are engaged in a single enterprise: to arrive at insights or conclusions about learning and teaching while still doing justice to the "rich messiness" of intellectual inquiry. Drawing his conclusions from his own perplexities as a student and as a teacher, Elbow discusses the value of interdisciplinary teaching, his theory of "cooking" (an interaction of conflicting ideas), the authority relationship in teaching and the value of specifying learning objectives. A full section is devoted to evaluation and feedback, both of students and faculty. Finally, Elbow focuses on the need to move beyond the skepticism of critical thinking to what he calls "methodological belief"--an ability to embrace more than one point of view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471533491249-E1439QVLKJ2C0G396BJH/A7754B14-BA24-4D41-9197-A20C8FF3AE65-256.png Learning Theory - Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage Also available on Amazon This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471533882244-TYDJ0AG9LZ43NOXY025G/D141C2F9-182E-4B81-8893-135EFE51339D-256.png Learning Theory - Discourse, Learning, and Schooling Also available on Amazon Discourse, Learning, and Schooling explores theoretical and methodological relationships between childrens' discourse--or socially used language--and their learning in educational settings. Authors in this volume address a range of issues, including literacy, authorship, the construction of self, and classroom interaction. The chapters range from research studies of classroom discourse to essays reflecting on discourse and literacies. Collectively these chapters reflect both sociocognitive perspectives on relations among discourse, learning, and schooling, and sociocultural perspectives on discourse and literacies among diverse cultural groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471534029513-ZKUO6AVPF2EQT6Q1KHU4/B0B99C0B-5622-4EFE-A315-5D56788A4F8E-256.png Learning Theory - How Children Learn Also available on Amazon This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how we can nurture and encourage these natural abilities in our children.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471534130130-IRUI6IVPOFQJ5I8KM0X8/C27FD318-5DBE-4F28-B510-67E6B54EA642-256.png Learning Theory - Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching Also available on Amazon In this study, an experienced classroom teacher takes us into her fifth-grade maths class through the course of a year and shows how classroom dynamics - the complex relationship of teacher, student and content - are critical in improving student performance. Magdalene Lampert offers an original model of teaching practice that casts new light on the ways teachers can successfully deal with teaching problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471534267603-TEKYQHR6MWWRRAQPRISK/EC0A56C9-64B4-4AB7-9C9F-AF29D1E1376F-256.png Learning Theory - Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation Also available on Amazon In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation. Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old timers and about their activities, identities, artifacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalized to other social groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471534400835-F1TYX7JUKXVEWP8L03K7/5F75E914-C43F-444F-8617-39839619B1FD-256.png Learning Theory - Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations Also available on Amazon Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely "inside" a person, irrelevant to the social, physical, and artifactual context in which cognition takes place. This book reexamines the nature of cognition and proposes that a clearer understanding of human cognition would be achieved if it were conceptualized and studied as distributed among individuals; knowledge is socially constructed through collaborative efforts toward shared objectives within cultural surroundings, and that information is processed among individuals and the tools and artifacts provided by culture. The contributors to this thought-provoking text enhance their arguments by offering examples from daily life and educational activities. Researchers in a number of social and scientific fields will welcome this book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471534500558-B38X9PQH22LK1UCLPGWN/86A1B9C0-27B0-4B67-B51D-6288AB69158A-256.png Learning Theory - Thought and Language Also available on Amazon Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press. In this highly original exploration of human mental development, Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought. In 1986, the MIT Press published a new edition of the original translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar, edited by Vygotsky scholar Alex Kozulin, that restored the work's complete text and added materials to help readers better understand Vygotsky's thought. Kozulin also contributed an introductory essay that offered new insight into Vygotsky's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. This expanded edition offers Vygotsky's text, Kozulin's essay, a subject index, and a new foreword by Kozulin that maps the ever-growing influence of Vygotsky's ideas. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/numeracy-1 daily 0.75 2016-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472048522830-5WNCPOJOU4MO1I5OBJXZ/D0EB28BB-80F5-41F7-AADD-6A28F0AF360D-256.png Numeracy - Math Misconceptions, PreK-Grade 5: From Misunderstanding to Deep Understanding Also available on Amazon "In this wonderfully insightful book, Honi, Christine, and Karren not only describe a vast array of perfectly understandable mathematical misconceptions that students have across the elementary curriculum, they also provide numerous practical instructional strategies and activities for helping remediate and "undo" the misconceptions. The classroom vignettes they describe will ring true to everyone who has tried to teach mathematics to young, and not-so-young, children."-Steven Leinwand Children enter school filled with all kinds of ideas about numbers, shapes, measuring tools, time, and money-ideas formed from the expressions they hear...the things they see on television...the computer screen...in children's books...all around them. It's no wonder some children develop very interesting and perhaps incorrect ideas about mathematical concepts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472048522830-5WNCPOJOU4MO1I5OBJXZ/D0EB28BB-80F5-41F7-AADD-6A28F0AF360D-256.png Numeracy - Math Misconceptions, PreK-Grade 5: From Misunderstanding to Deep Understanding Also available on Amazon "In this wonderfully insightful book, Honi, Christine, and Karren not only describe a vast array of perfectly understandable mathematical misconceptions that students have across the elementary curriculum, they also provide numerous practical instructional strategies and activities for helping remediate and "undo" the misconceptions. The classroom vignettes they describe will ring true to everyone who has tried to teach mathematics to young, and not-so-young, children."-Steven Leinwand Children enter school filled with all kinds of ideas about numbers, shapes, measuring tools, time, and money-ideas formed from the expressions they hear...the things they see on television...the computer screen...in children's books...all around them. It's no wonder some children develop very interesting and perhaps incorrect ideas about mathematical concepts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472048601961-UPBP09NSC6HFJAYAKOLX/DDE02005-49FB-4FBE-BBDC-4225ED793959-256.png Numeracy - Get It Together: Math Problems for Groups, Grades 4-12 Also available on Amazon You don't have to learn math by yourself! Solving problems in groups is exciting, effective, and equitableit helps all students succeed in math. Get It Together is a collection of over 100 mathematics problems for groups of 26 students. The problems cover a wide range of math topics such as logic, functions, algebra, geometry, measurement, and number patterns at various levels of difficulty. Each problem has the same format: six clue cards provide the information needed to solve a problem. Since each member of the group has a different bit of information, everyone works together to arrive at a solution. In one problem, only some people get sick after eating a potluck meal. Was it the swamp chicken, the cheesecake, or something else? The group collaborates to discover which food was the culprit. This book is an excellent resource with teacher information on cooperative groups, assessment, problem solving and the use of manipulatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472048842976-2TO1K7I2PVJHTMYHMVKU/32D73131-2985-4ECA-A5AE-63334D8CD11B-256.png Numeracy - Smarter Together! Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom Also available on Amazon One of the boys in the group responded, That s so smart! That s so smart! That s what we should do! Complex Instruction (CI) is a response to the paradox that group work offers much potential but often creates circumstances where few students seem to learn. CI is a set of ideas and strategies that address the problems that confound group work, but that create powerful learning for children. This book offers guidance to readers on how to use these strategies and ideas. The authors describe the lessons they learned using group work, explain how complex instruction helps unsuccessful students, and analyze how to design assignments that support group learning using group-worthy tasks giving readers examples of good tasks and help in adapting math problems from their own curricula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472048914008-E7M2WKBNTEKT16P2869Y/FC816BEE-64E2-4C8C-9CFD-E8F997656E8A-256.png Numeracy - Reading And Writing The World With Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice Also available on Amazon Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either "basic-skills" curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or "standards-based" curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions. And working for fundamental social change and rectifying injustice are rarely included in any mathematics curriculum. Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics argues that mathematics education should prepare students to investigate and critique injustice, and to challenge, in words and actions, oppressive structures and acts. Based on teacher-research, the book provides a theoretical framework and practical examples for how mathematics educators can connect schooling to a larger sociopolitical context and concretely teach mathematics for social justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472049054051-98JNZ2DXDM2FVD053BR6/07FAAD92-DD33-4903-895D-5913B6F343F4-256.png Numeracy - Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers Also available on Amazon In this new expanded and updated edition of Rethinking Mathematics, more than 50 articles show how to weave social justice issues throughout the mathematics curriculum, as well as how to integrate mathematics into other curricular areas. Rethinking Mathematics offers teaching ideas, lesson plans, and reflections by practitioners and mathematics educators. This is real-world math math that helps students analyze social problems as they gain essential academic skills. This book offers hope and guidance for teachers to enliven and strengthen their math teaching. It will deepen students understanding of society and help prepare them to be critical, active participants in a democracy. Blending theory and practice, this is the only resource of its kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472049159053-VON6W6LG74XE5SCYIKZB/FF5350D0-DADD-4B0B-89C0-0A7971243581-256.png Numeracy - Maneuvers with Number Patterns: Teacher Sourcebook Also available on Amazon Includes student lab book, teacher lesson plans, transparency masters, tests and quizzes, enrichment problems for students in grades 5-8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472049251091-HQNMINZDWY32ME39NW3T/4A514127-FAE9-4E8E-BB82-2E3147874526-256.png Numeracy - Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences Also available on Amazon Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it. Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/literacy-2 daily 0.75 2016-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471976772875-QOK0H5B7I55DWU36BNCZ/6577E8D0-BF98-49F4-B140-DA71E38437FD-256.png Literacy 2 - Understanding Reading: A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition Also available on Amazon Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text Smith’s purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading – linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social – and of what is involved in learning to read. The text critically examines current theories, instructional practices, and controversies, covering a wide range of disciplines but always remains accessible. Careful attention is given to the ideological clash that continues between whole language and direct instruction and currently permeates every aspect of theory and research into reading and reading instruction. In every edition, including the present one, Smith has steadfastly resisted giving teachers a recipe for teaching reading, while aiming to help them make their own decisions, based on research about reading, which is accessible to anyone, and their experience and personal knowledge of their students, which only they possess. To aid readers in making up their own minds, each chapter concludes with a brief statement of "Issues." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471976772875-QOK0H5B7I55DWU36BNCZ/6577E8D0-BF98-49F4-B140-DA71E38437FD-256.png Literacy 2 - Understanding Reading: A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition Also available on Amazon Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text Smith’s purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading – linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social – and of what is involved in learning to read. The text critically examines current theories, instructional practices, and controversies, covering a wide range of disciplines but always remains accessible. Careful attention is given to the ideological clash that continues between whole language and direct instruction and currently permeates every aspect of theory and research into reading and reading instruction. In every edition, including the present one, Smith has steadfastly resisted giving teachers a recipe for teaching reading, while aiming to help them make their own decisions, based on research about reading, which is accessible to anyone, and their experience and personal knowledge of their students, which only they possess. To aid readers in making up their own minds, each chapter concludes with a brief statement of "Issues." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471976870555-FOKXE11W9QHXFHEBJY6Y/E59AD45F-E54B-4651-ACB4-42F218D80C5E-256.png Literacy 2 - Unspeakable Acts, Unnatural Practices: Flaws and Fallacies in Scientific Reading Instruction Also available on Amazon At last, noted language researcher and educator Frank Smith weighs in! Using his razor-sharp analytical skills in linguistics and intimate understanding of professional teaching, Smith dismantles the shoddy science undergirding direct, intensive, and early phonics training. His book title is to be taken literally. The very reading instruction that claims to be "scientific," "research based," and "evidence based"-imposed on teachers and enforced through innumerable mandated tests-is founded on activities that are unspeakable and practices that are unnatural. The mandated approach to language teaching is, in fact, linguistically impossible, as Smith proves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471976961495-7UXEP6BJTVZ482K38SDX/D01BD24F-3BDC-4C4E-A961-BAD8B3B11F32-256.png Literacy 2 - Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men Also available on Amazon The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. That situation has changed. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm, two of the most respected names in English education and in the teaching of reading, worked with a very diverse group of young men to understand how they use literacy and what conditions promote it. In this book they share what they have learned. Through a variety of creative research methods and an extended series of interviews with 49 young men in middle and high school who differ in class, race, academic achievement, kind of school, and geography, the authors identified the factors that motivated these young men to become accomplished in the activities they most enjoyed-factors that marked the boys' literate activities outside of school, but were largely absent from their literate lives in school. Their study questions the way reading and literature are typically taught and suggests powerful alternatives to traditional instruction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471977096860-SB4W7VOT8MIPDJ6587AN/7F667DA2-812A-4117-B26D-5D7DAD96D6D8-256.png Literacy 2 - Creating Writers: 6 Traits, Process, Workshop, and Literature Also available on Amazon Creating Writers: 6 Traits, Process, Workshop, and Literature, 6/e, truly puts the six traits of writing in context, showing how they are best taught—within writing workshop and as a way of enriching writing process by combining the elements of traits, literature, workshop, and process. Written by the pioneer of 6-trait writing, this edition organizes all materials by trait, features new one-page writing guides, and offers an increased emphasis on literature, connecting writing to reading as never before. It also provides a clear link between the six traits and the Common Core Standards for Writing and presents new lessons, engaging classroom activities, suggestions for using technology, and an expanded collection of student writing sure to promote lively discussions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471977254010-6LDHS0Z90Q2GUSVXRHLX/8BA9712D-C3DD-4B9F-B9A2-50A5FFC275C8-256.png Literacy 2 - I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers Also available on Amazon I Read It, but I Don't Get It is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement—from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle with the different demands of content-area textbooks and novels. Enter Cris' classroom, a place where students are continually learning new strategies for tackling difficult text. You will be taken step-by-step through practical, theory-based reading instruction that can be adapted for use in any subject area. The book features: anecdotes in each chapter about real kids with real universal problems. You will identify with these adolescents and will see how these problems can be solved;a thoughtful explanation of current theories of comprehension instruction and how they might be adapted for use with adolescents;a What Works section in each of the last seven chapters that offers simple ideas you can immediately employ in your classroom. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/literature-1 daily 0.75 2016-08-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/t/57bdac23f7e0ab7f804a2baf/1471978700710/ Literature - view-source:file:///Volumes/VERBATIM%20HD/deliciouslibrary/lendingliterature.html https://static1.squarespace.com/static/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/57bc9c9febbd1a4bc4fe859d/57bc9ccc29687ffa008768b8/1471978700710/ Literature - view-source:file:///Volumes/VERBATIM%20HD/deliciouslibrary/lendingliterature.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471978949960-4XSOAV66KB0JVQJ95GY1/FA1833B3-408D-4C2D-B56F-24DF08E9979A-256.png Literature - Voice of the Turtle Also available on Amazon "Paula Gunn Allen has been at the heart of a literary movement that has made Native American literature a part of the canon.... Voice of the Turtle is a collection of stories that will transform readers, offering an opportunity to understand the diverse literary traditions of American native peoples." --Clifford Trafzer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471979307712-PEMK3XEIZCHHH5590YVU/6EB8BA78-1947-4820-894D-20C248D29902-256.png Literature - The Souls of Black Folk Also available on Amazon This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy advanced by Booker T. Washington, then the most influential black leader in America, would only serve to perpetuate black oppression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471979471423-TBGWYTFU2G65RA41X5HI/77BF300F-2BF2-4643-B19D-3E4ECD47E55A-256.png Literature - Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home Also available on Amazon Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine years of immersion in a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, she found comfort in the funeral home, and soon has the run of the place, from its sacred chapels to the terrifying embalming room. This vibrant tour of a macabre world reveals an urban funeral culture where photo-screened memorial T-shirts often replace suits and ties and the dead are sent off with a joint or a fifth of cognac. Nine Years Under offers readers an unbelievable glimpse into an industry in the backdrop of all our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471980129602-7YK0RXM2APS5CCMCILF8/9ACAC9B9-57CA-43DC-9BDE-57F503E175AC-256.png Literature - Selected Poems Also available on Amazon The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471981003365-OCS4ZEHK8GOTRHVCAZLH/D5D2607A-4D88-49F4-8ABF-220731864BED-256.png Literature - The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood Also available on Amazon An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471981113854-V420ICT0FQ8LLB8XZ2NN/75F5E764-3D16-4195-86C9-1837ACA7D7A4-256.png Literature - Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing Also available on Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471981299340-MYGIVR94GCSZY74KBS05/6F24C06F-3765-4B6B-BA68-C0213756870E-256.png Literature - American Indian Myths and Legends Also available on Amazon This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent anthropologist, and Richard Erdoes, an artist and master storyteller, Indian voices in the best folkloric sources of the nineteenth century to make this the most comprehensive and authentic volume of American Indian myths available anywhere. With black-and-white drawings throughout. This book is part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471981900844-FPYTPQG1E8YF6U7Y7I7U/16E2F26F-EB9D-42B7-AF18-6CAEBCE8DAD1-256.png Literature - Lesson Before Dying Also available on Amazon A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting—and defying—the expected. Ernest J. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, highly praised works of fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471982094015-JDKFS561Z78DD60N7CJ5/28D8EA56-808C-4222-907F-7608591F8BBE-256.png Literature - Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling Also available on Amazon Compilation of tales from Afro-American folklore. Among the storytellers included are Zora Neale Hurston, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Leadbelly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471982190106-SBO608EFTPVDEG8AJFY8/83F70B0E-FCD4-4F1B-AE8C-6A3D319F5089-256.png Literature - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist Also available on Amazon A child of slaves, Harry Haywood became a pioneer theorist of Black Power and a leader of the communist movement in the thirties. Black Bolshevik is a dramatic and personal narrative of fifty years of the Black struggle and the American left, including first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the defense of the Scotsboro Boys, organizing sharecroppers in the South, and the Spanish Civil War. Author of the classic 'Negro Liberation,' member of the Communist Party's Politburo and head of its Negro department in the thirties, Haywood was expelled as a dissident in the fifties. Amiri Baraka called this a 'powerful political journal... The sweep of history and event contained in this book will fascinate any serious reader.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471982648336-YICYQBGN9GT60T5M2OOP/2F0777BF-11DE-433E-91E1-13461533E587-256.png Literature - Art on My Mind: Visual Politics Also available on Amazon In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471982761804-QP8B2U3BQ2LKFTDN4OKA/FA2F63FD-7760-4808-AC78-C9906E0F2D6C-256.png Literature - Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest Also available on Amazon Poems and prose writings published between 1925 and 1957 cover the full spectrum of Black feelings toward white domination in America   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471982928190-DF3XWYJTY075YFMUIVPR/3A3AA714-BFF7-4AFC-B061-508429642361-256.png Literature - The Short Stories of Langston Hughes Also available on Amazon This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963—the most comprehensive available—showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471983517770-FR7FM1IORSFFC79GZQW5/37ABC67A-A83A-40E0-9E01-9CA66E11B41F-256.png Literature - The Known World: A Novel Also available on Amazon In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471983612479-4H6L28841T3LS9ZI3TDL/09EF2320-9A58-4DC9-A783-D777DB841961-256.png Literature - The Black Unicorn: Poems Also available on Amazon The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet."Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America, beyond the North American earth, to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons. These are poems nourished in an oral tradition, which also blaze and pulse on the page, beneath the reader's eye." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471983697113-B7GD3L24HKQ7S9YAZDGR/EDBB0A7D-94DF-4A2C-810F-B6BBE45E69C7-256.png Literature - Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter Also available on Amazon Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer. A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1471983850096-TMZQQ5GD3P0KM2T6XDA1/39FBC3F3-20FE-46C1-93F0-A6901982B535-256.png Literature - Song Yet Sung Also available on Amazon From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and armed with “the Code,” a fiercely guarded cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. Liz’s flight and her dreams of tomorrow will thrust all those near her toward a mysterious, redemptive fate. Filled with rich, true details—much of the story is drawn from historical events—and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472047145112-IAW1EXHPDHAVFUE1YD8I/6A1DCDFE-BD5C-4936-86F7-3B9AC13CBD0E-256.png Literature - Love: A Novel Also available on Amazon Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison’s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey’s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny, erotic, and heart wrenching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472047216198-FU6HQTOJKUH4SLP8JE00/850EF55B-C0AC-486E-B726-481B6EE89417-256.png Literature - Jasmine Also available on Amazon When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her — our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. "Rich…one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American." — The New York Times Book Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472047549483-4YMDWYJCOKYI0N5RW3RK/A794B0BC-98F5-4ACF-9674-209AECE4BA1B-256.png Literature - The Merchant of Venice Also available on Amazon "The Merchant of Venice" is the story of Antonio, the drama's title character, and his friend Bassanio. Bassanio is in need of money so that he may woo Portia, a wealthy heiress. Bassanio asks Antonio for a loan and Antonio agrees to this loan, however all his money is tied up in shipping ventures. Together the two go to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, to request a loan for Bassanio to be guaranteed against Antonio's shipping ventures. Shylock agrees to the loan at no interest in the condition that if the debt is not repaid Shylock may collect a pound of Antonio's flesh. At the same time Portia, who is being wooed by various suitors, is upset over a curious stipulation in her father's will regarding the man that she may marry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472047746534-X7Z6JBDQO5CL5M33ML2Y/38CE7DDF-4352-4D5D-8605-C8D89455BA29-256.png Literature - And Quiet Flows the Don Also available on Amazon Sholokhov's book introduces the reader to a New World that is not merely the Don Region, but the world of the author's inimitably poetic prose; giving fifteen years of his life to the creation of And Quiet Flows the Don. He began the first book at the age of twenty, in 1926. The last was finished in 1940. While Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace (1863-69) immortalized the Napoleonic campaigns to the eve of the Decembrist revolt, And Quiet Flows the Don showed the destruction of the Cossacks and the birth of a new society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472047890659-GO2AD974RSAE4WQFTQQ0/A594A0A6-58ED-4FFC-A3CE-68F0C8EAFCC9-256.png Literature - Walden Two Also available on Amazon This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of life. Not only can we not face the rest of the world while consuming and polluting as we do, we cannot for long face ourselves while acknowledging the violence and chaos in which we live. The choice is clear: either we do nothing and allow a miserable and probably catastrophic future to overtake us, or we use our knowledge about human behaviour to create a social environment in which we shall live productive and creative lives and do so without jeopardising the chances that those who follow us will be able to do the same. Something like a Walden Two would not be a bad start. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472047969415-KIGKZ417FAG4OHE595Z4/7ECC231B-78DB-43E6-A897-805841FF749D-256.png Literature - Fences Also available on Amazon The 1987 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical acclaim including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle” plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s... a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can...a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472048108046-OWUCESUBZ3YHMOBF6FIY/98FA6183-0F0A-4F21-9E55-D05E4EBCED27-256.png Literature - Black Boy Also available on Amazon Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-96 daily 0.75 2016-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472057828560-I7IWWW09FYJ9XG17YX3C/003D657F-8580-49A3-812E-2C2BAEAFC4CE-256.png raceandmulticulturaleducation - More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City Also available on Amazon A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and the fragmentation of the African American family. Though the discussion of racial inequality is typically ideologically polarized. Wilson dares to consider both institutional and cultural factors as causes of the persistence of racial inequality. He reaches the controversial conclusion that while structural and cultural forces are inextricably linked, public policy can only change the racial status quo by reforming the institutions that reinforce it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472057828560-I7IWWW09FYJ9XG17YX3C/003D657F-8580-49A3-812E-2C2BAEAFC4CE-256.png raceandmulticulturaleducation - More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City Also available on Amazon A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and the fragmentation of the African American family. Though the discussion of racial inequality is typically ideologically polarized. Wilson dares to consider both institutional and cultural factors as causes of the persistence of racial inequality. He reaches the controversial conclusion that while structural and cultural forces are inextricably linked, public policy can only change the racial status quo by reforming the institutions that reinforce it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472057914087-LV8XTY07H5MDHBD7P7Q4/D715D9DA-37AD-467E-AC3A-E4B5FEB8909B-256.png raceandmulticulturaleducation - Dialects in Schools and Communities Also available on Amazon This book describes dialect differences in American English and their impact on education and everyday life. This resource is intended for use by teacher interns and practicing teachers in elementary and secondary education, specialists in reading and writing, speech/language pathologists, and special education teachers. In most of these fields, information about dialects is considered to be an important part of professional preparation, but until now, there has been no text specifically designed to address this need. Practitioners and students of education will find this volume indispensable to understanding the central principles of dialect diversity and to addressing dialect differences in instruction. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/research-methodology-1 daily 0.75 2016-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472058407876-PXVOUESLW1TXA957VTM4/7DB46CFD-D71E-4670-A702-AA1FFBAC71EF-256.png Research Methodology - Puzzling Moments, Teachable Moments: Practicing Teacher Research in Urban Classrooms Also available on Amazon In her new book, bestselling author Cynthia Ballenger explores the intellectual strengths of students that teachers find puzzling poor, urban, immigrant, or bilingual children who do not traditionally excel in school. Ballenger challenges the assumption that these children whose families in many cases have less formal education, read fewer storybooks, and talk less with their children about school-like topics have fewer intellectual or academically relevant experiences. This practical book offers a detailed roadmap for traversing the daily work of teaching today s diverse population, helping educators to refine their work as it unfolds in the classroom. Ballenger guides the reader as she analyzes what the children said, what this indicates about their thinking, and how her dialogues with them informed her teaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472058407876-PXVOUESLW1TXA957VTM4/7DB46CFD-D71E-4670-A702-AA1FFBAC71EF-256.png Research Methodology - Puzzling Moments, Teachable Moments: Practicing Teacher Research in Urban Classrooms Also available on Amazon In her new book, bestselling author Cynthia Ballenger explores the intellectual strengths of students that teachers find puzzling poor, urban, immigrant, or bilingual children who do not traditionally excel in school. Ballenger challenges the assumption that these children whose families in many cases have less formal education, read fewer storybooks, and talk less with their children about school-like topics have fewer intellectual or academically relevant experiences. This practical book offers a detailed roadmap for traversing the daily work of teaching today s diverse population, helping educators to refine their work as it unfolds in the classroom. Ballenger guides the reader as she analyzes what the children said, what this indicates about their thinking, and how her dialogues with them informed her teaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472058476094-JXS4H8P6HQ39URONB4U4/5AA14460-EE11-421F-888B-591359D22FAA-256.png Research Methodology - Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion Also available on Amazon Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people. Revolutionizing Education makes an extraordinarily unique contribution to the literature on adolescents by offering a broad framework for understanding this research methodology. With an informative combination of theory and practice, this edited collection brings together student writings alongside those of major scholars in the field. While remaining sensitive to the methodological challenges of qualitative inquiry, Revolutionizing Education is the first definitive statement of YPAR as it relates to sites of education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472059684520-CSBGIDB3SID557L96O5S/6CFC7B66-AA34-4C9E-877E-D8185E1874AE-256.png Research Methodology - Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches Also available on Amazon In this Third Edition of his bestselling text John W. Creswell explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. In his signature accessible writing style, the author relates research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry. He compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative, and verifying results. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472059789220-TVAT7U54CCFEKY06GKF4/CB44E94C-43AA-404B-80B8-C6A4B7335EAA-256.png Research Methodology - Youth-Led Community Organizing: Theory and Action Also available on Amazon Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Melvin Delgado and Lee Staples, recognized leaders in social work macro practice and community organization, have produced the first comprehensive study of this dynamic field. Their well-organized book takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472059987240-X0DG5QGSOHAU7TEND0RV/B6241715-7388-4912-96F3-9B5634710A79-256.png Research Methodology - Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes Also available on Amazon Drawing on years of teaching and field research experience, the authors develop a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice about how to write useful field notes in a variety of settings, both cultural and institutional. Using actual unfinished, "working" notes as examples, they illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working field notes into finished texts. They discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies, including evocation of sensory detail, synthesis of complete scenes, the value of partial versus omniscient perspectives, and of first person versus third person accounts. Of particular interest is the author's discussion of note taking as a mindset. They show how transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but more crucially from learning to envision scenes as written. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472060124481-2ZL004S3DGJUEQ03H5AB/5345BB7D-2203-48C4-BFB8-DF6CC9EF16BD-256.png Research Methodology - The Interpretation of Cultures Also available on Amazon In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472060262155-HBTFVXA1FBJK951622RZ/10F6BA63-5DA6-4726-B432-5E284845EB9D-256.png Research Methodology - Oral History: An Introduction for Students Also available on Amazon A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the "how to" books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students. Useful in courses devoted entirely to oral history, the book also addresses the wider audience of students who may choose to do oral research in the context of otherwise traditional courses. The emphasis is on humanistic, imagininative, and intellectual challenge for students in integrating oral accounts with written documents. Only by achieving such flexibility, argues the author, can oral history fully realize its potential as a learning and teaching technique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472060743642-PVRY09YAZODKG9RLEBXN/B9FE8030-8465-4AB0-929C-F24BEEC850E5-256.png Research Methodology - Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History Also available on Amazon In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives―autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs―are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor history and class analysis, feminist sociology, race relations, and anthropology to demonstrate the value of personal narratives for scholars and students alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472060916589-B9DGGYJIJ61I0CT6DUAF/51C809D0-F41D-4FC4-A0C5-E063F2782FF5-256.png Research Methodology - Participatory Action Research Also available on Amazon Participatory Action Research (PAR) introduces a method that is ideal for researchers who are committed to co-developing research programs with people rather than for people. The book provides a history of this technique, its various strands, and the underlying tenets that guide most projects. It then draws on two PAR projects that highlight three integral dimensions: the meaning of participation; the way action manifests itself; and the strategies for gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-88 daily 0.75 2016-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472049931221-0FBK4RPC7Z88V01PWVA9/6D1DB486-1F19-41D6-BAAC-729E9779F5EE-256.png Race & Multi Education - Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice Also available on Amazon This new and expanded edition collects the best articles dealing with race and culture in the classroom that have appeared in Rethinking Schools magazine. Moving beyond a simplistic focus on heroes and holidays, and foods and festivals, Rethinking Multicultural Education demonstrates a powerful vision of anti-racist, social justice education. Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, Rethinking Multicultural Education reclaims multicultural education as part of a larger struggle for justice and against racism, colonization, and cultural oppression in schools and society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472049996825-5GMBLCWFU2NJZN28FGT1/B2F67307-3C4B-4348-873F-C5051C037C84-256.png Race & Multi Education - High Schools, Race, and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community Also available on Amazon In High Schools, Race, and America's Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives. Blum, an acclaimed moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects with candor, insight, and humor on the challenges and surprises encountered in teaching the unexpected turns in conversation, the refreshing directness of students questions, the aha moments and the awkward ones, and the paradoxes of his own role as a white college professor teaching in a multiracial high school classroom. High Schools, Race, and America's Future provides an invaluable resource for those who want to teach students to think deeply and talk productively about race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472050248047-VBIAEA6812KKWBUCL4AF/642C5FF1-617F-4D99-95FF-DD25A1F4ECED-256.png Race & Multi Education - "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children Also available on Amazon Lisa Delpit’s Other People’s Children—which has sold more than a quarter-million copies to date—is a paradigm-shifting, highly acclaimed exploration of the cultural slippage between white teachers and students of color. In her long-awaited and now bestselling second book, "Multiplication Is for White People," the award-winning educator reflects on the last fifteen years of reform efforts—including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movement—that have left a generation of poor children of color feeling that higher educational achievement is not for them. From K-12 classrooms through the college years, Delpit brings the topic of educating other people’s children into the twenty-first century, outlining a blueprint for raising expectations based on a simple premise: that all aspects of advanced education are for everyone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472051727791-J1Y54AV52GPWSXC5XCJ2/7FCD5C25-EF82-4415-B61E-27FE322A6963-256.png Race & Multi Education - The Skin That We Speak : Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom Also available on Amazon The author of Other People's Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom. The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms and presents today's teachers with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English that we speak, in what Black Issues Book Review calls "an essential text." Edited by bestselling author Lisa Delpit and education professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, the book includes an extended new piece by Delpit herself, as well as groundbreaking work by Herbert Kohl, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Victoria Purcell-Gates, as well as classic texts by Geneva Smitherman and Asa Hilliard. At a time when children are written off in our schools because they do not speak formal English, and when the class- and race-biased language used to describe those children determines their fate, The Skin That We Speak offers a cutting-edge look at crucial educational issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472051809310-P7U6QFVDU8Y7P41LJ7VZ/C153EC58-F41B-4A59-9D21-B0BDE6610F41-256.png Race & Multi Education - Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom Also available on Amazon By the year 2000, nearly 40 percent of the children in America's classrooms will be African American, Hispanic, Asian American, or Native American, yet most of those children's teachers will be white. In a radical and piercing analysis of what is going on in American classrooms today, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit suggests that many of the academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication as schools and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics of inequality plaguing our system. Winner of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, the American Education Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, and one of Teacher Magazine's Great Books of 1995. Delpit is also a contributor to Racism Explained to My Daughter (New Press: June 1999). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472051884462-BR72J6ET7WKN584E6GEW/93D49EE7-3C71-495E-9C87-9C9CCD979948-256.png Race & Multi Education - Teaching / Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach Also available on Amazon This exciting new book is an indispensable guide for teachers, trainers, and anyone interested in fighting racism. Asa G. Hilliard, III, writes in the foreword: "I do not know if the virus of racism/white supremacy can be eliminated. I believe that if I can, it will be in large measure because of the type of work presented here.: Pub: 9/97. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472051984905-V61787FXXNY8LTJZB0MN/9D9F6765-FE0E-4B91-B53D-335EF4379FD1-256.png Race & Multi Education - What Does it Mean to be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy Also available on Amazon What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most whites cannot answer that question. Robin DiAngelo argues that a number of factors make this question difficult for whites miseducation about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; defensiveness; and a need to protect (rather than expand) our world views. These factors contribute to what she terms white racial illiteracy. Speaking as a white person to other white people, Dr. DiAngelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of white socialization. She describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard for whites to see, identifies common white racial patterns, and speaks back to popular white narratives that work to deny racism. Written as an accessible introduction to white identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean To Be White? is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472053608662-MTBI3OJOH982GAL1YVZC/85E87A0F-47C5-424E-BC4F-432EFB7E2A0C-256.png Race & Multi Education - The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial Also available on Amazon With our nation's urban schools growing more segregated every year, Susan Eaton set out to see whether separate can ever really be equal. The Children in Room E4 is the compelling story of one student, one classroom, and one indomitable teacher, Ms. Luddy. In the midst of Band-Aid reforms and hotshot superintendents with empty promises, drug dealers and street gangs, Ms. Luddy's star student, Jeremy, and his fellow classmates face tremendous challenges both inside and outside of a school cut off from mainstream America. Meanwhile, across town, a team of civil rights lawyers fight an intrepid battle to end the de facto segregation that beleaguers Jeremy's school and hundreds of others across America.From inside the classroom and the courtroom, Eaton reveals the unsettling truths about an education system that leaves millions of children behind and gives voice to those who strive against overwhelming odds for a better future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472053679897-IN3WZ0EYLPC72UO885PC/F010415E-B0D8-488F-BCC5-E44707E45810-256.png Race & Multi Education - Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High Also available on Amazon This innovative portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students, exploring the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigating the price students pay for attaining it. Signithia Fordham's richly detailed ethnography reveals a deeply rooted cultural system that favors egalitarianism and group cohesion over the individualistic, competitive demands of academic success and sheds new light on the sources of academic performance. She also details the ways in which the achievements of sucessful African-Americans are "blacked out" of the public imagination and negative images are reflected onto black adolescents. A self-proclaimed "native" anthropologist, she chronicles the struggle of African-American students to construct an identity suitable to themselves, their peers, and their families within an arena of colliding ideals. This long-overdue contribution is of crucial importance to educators, policymakers, and ethnographers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472053969585-V4DPPSFZTVC6QJ7LFROP/B0813A08-5EEA-4621-B850-7BF8B4F3C6A1-256.png Race & Multi Education - Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice Also available on Amazon The achievement of students of color continues to be disproportionately low at all levels of education. More than ever, Geneva Gay’s foundational book on culturally responsive teaching is essential reading in addressing the needs of today’s diverse student population. Combining insights from multicultural education theory and research with real-life classroom stories, Gay demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through their own cultural experiences. This bestselling text has been extensively revised to include: expanded coverage of student ethnic groups; a new section on standards and diversity; new examples of culturally diverse curriculum content; more examples of programs and techniques that exemplify culturally responsive teaching; an emphasis on positive, action-driven possibilities in student–teacher relationships; and new material on culturally diverse communication, addressing common myths about language diversity and the effects of “English Plus” instruction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472054091446-V02PZ2AT888IIY4B3MQU/A1A67BD4-1A22-4FF8-85A4-C13084F064B6-256.png Race & Multi Education - The Mirror Of Language: The Debate On Bilingualism Also available on Amazon A leading Yale psycholinguist separates myth from fact in the first comprehensive account of the psychological, linguistic, educational, and social aspects of bilingualism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472054234378-OBDQS0PJT5TNWELFWM1L/35C6CB40-8729-4EB0-90BD-4AB5C71BDD8D-256.png Race & Multi Education - Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children Also available on Amazon In Learning While Black Janice Hale argues that educators must look beyond the cliches of urban poverty and teacher training to explain the failures of public education with regard to black students. Why, Hale asks simply, are black students not being educated as well as white students? Closing the achievement gap of African American children, she writes, does not involve better teacher training or more parental involvement. The solution lies in the classroom, in the nature of the interaction between the teacher and the child. And the key, she argues, is the instructional vision and leadership provided by principals. To meet the needs of diverse learners, the school must become the heart and soul of a broad effort, the coordinator of tutoring and support services provided by churches, service clubs, fraternal organizations, parents, and concerned citizens. Calling for the creation of the "beloved community" envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hale outlines strategies for redefining the school as the Family, and the broader community as the Village, in which each child is too precious to be left behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472054324612-0G61PPNBU4Z9WQ7CX0L9/7EB58A5F-7F23-4BBA-9901-7B66DC661E09-256.png Race & Multi Education - White Talk, Black Talk: Inter-racial Friendship and Communication amongst Adolescents Also available on Amazon This book studies the relations between black and white adolescents in an urban environment (South London); the processes by which racism is relayed within adolescent communities, and the strategies which subvert or encourage them. More specifically Hewitt examines the sociolinguistic impact of the 'London Jamaican' creole used by young black Londoners on the language and culture of young whites. Basing his work on extensive fieldwork amongst racially mixed groups in youth clubs, schools and 'street corner' contexts. Hewitt is able to examine the way racial attitudes and cultural allegiances are expressed in, and affected by, inter-racial friendships. White Talk Black Talk is a uniquely ethnographic account which places the use of black language forms in the speech of whites firmly in its social and political setting: integrating disciplines in a creative way, Hewitt sites a practical sociolinguistic study within a much wider and systematic sociological context of group interaction. This study will be of special interest within sociolinguistics, the sociology of race relations and of youth culture, and urban anthropology, but its rich and fascinating ethnographic detail will also make it of interest to the non-specialist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472054446974-WA1BT890XAMYFZ30OLY0/95419C0C-2943-4D20-B70D-6AA3B5E57AE2-256.png Race & Multi Education - Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males Also available on Amazon Beating the Odds tells their remarkable stories and shows us what African American families have done to raise academically successful sons, sons who are among the top two percent of African American males in terms of SAT scores and grades. The result of extensive and innovative research, Beating the Odds goes beyond mere analysis—and beyond the relentlessly negative media images—to show us precisely how young Black men can succeed despite the roadblocks of racism, the temptations of crime and drugs, and a popular culture that values being "cool" over being educated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472054536864-72318M1Q4ANGEEVAKZH4/CB51E838-0423-43B7-B78E-A576C3B2C06C-256.png Race & Multi Education - Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women Also available on Amazon Based on interviews with many of these successful young women and their families, Overcoming the Odds provides a wealth of information about how and why they have succeeded—what motivates them, how their backgrounds and family relationships have shaped them, even how it feels to be a high academic achiever. They also discuss the challenges of moving into African American womanhood, from maintaining self-esteem to making the right choices about their professional and personal lives. Most important, the book offers specific and inspiring examples of the practices, attitudes, and parenting strategies that have enabled these women to persevere and triumph. For parents, educators, policy makers, and indeed all those concerned about the education of young African American women, Overcoming the Odds is an invaluable guidebook on creating the conditions that lead to academic-and lifelong-success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472054646420-OWJCBNMX6PST52GRWY7Z/B54A04D4-5B24-4260-A0B4-38F65E80ED12-256.png Race & Multi Education - English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States Also available on Amazon In this bestselling textbook, Rosina Lippi-Green scrutinizes American attitudes towards language. Using examples drawn from a variety of contexts: the classroom, the court, the media and corporate culture, she exposes the way in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. English with an Accent: focuses on language variation linked to geography and social identity looks at how the media and the entertainment industry work to promote linguistic stereotyping examines how employers discriminate on the basis of accent reveals how the judicial system protects the status quo and reinforces language subordination. This fascinating and highly readable book forces us to acknowledge the ways in which language is used to discriminate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472054874248-L4O7OJFVNPMW2LMP6LFR/1A4DBD9E-288E-46E8-BB75-A7090577A95B-256.png Race & Multi Education - Do You Speak American? Also available on Amazon Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472055085733-VX0NV3WGOXH0SB6Z1KZ3/C8A06748-D037-47B8-84AA-B7A7474BE709-256.png Race & Multi Education - American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass Also available on Amazon This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to "hypersegregation." This book is a sober challenge to those who argue that race is of declining significance in the United States today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472055170538-COO524N3ACI9V33TSYKK/2BCFFB5D-6334-420A-AD69-51B0647A1805-256.png Race & Multi Education - Race, Identity, and Representation in Education Also available on Amazon This stunning new edition retains the book's broad aims, intended audience, and multidisciplinary approach. New chapters take into account the more current backdrop of globalization, particularly events such as 9/11, and attendant developments that make a reconsideration of race relations in education quite urgent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472055360890-JYG8GZDALHJVSD6S4IQJ/F51B2718-931F-4A62-A588-6FC1FDB5941B-256.png Race & Multi Education - Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice Also available on Amazon This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the country. Drawing on the work of four ESL teachers who developed antiracist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching, the author provides a compelling account of how new teachers might gain agency for culturally responsive teaching in spite of school cultures that often discourage such approaches. She combines current research and original analyses to shed light on real classroom situations faced by teachers of linguistically diverse populations. This book will help pre- and inservice teachers to think about such challenges as differential achievement between language learners and ''native-speakers;'' hierarchies of languages and language varieties; the difference between an accent identity and an incorrect pronunciation; and the use of students' first languages in English classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472055468759-7PGSP5WLSZB6BPQ05E35/A9DCDCBB-FFE7-47A6-8EEA-2BDE70CBBCB6-256.png Race & Multi Education - Perspectives on Elementary Education: A Casebook for Critically Analyzing Issues of Diversity Also available on Amazon This supplemental text provides a collection of three dozen real-world case studies in diversity that foster discussion-based, active learning pedagogy designed to guide students in problem analysis and problem solving. The cases explore a wide-range of diversity issues at the elementary (Pre-K-5) level, including culture, academic performance and expectations, safety and prosocial behaviors, social issues, special needs, and issues surrounding the family. The approach organizes discussion around defining problems, identifying alternatives, and proposing solutions to the issues presented in the case. The goal of the text is not to pose a single solution, but rather to learn how to analyze situations involving diverse individuals, evaluate a variety of solutions, and evaluate the consequences of those solutions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472055552759-MVMMNY8L4S41O5XM0GIM/5B69AC00-5C7C-4FA3-837E-C69DF22BD035-256.png Race & Multi Education - White Teacher Also available on Amazon Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a "white teacher." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472055653045-24CS9Q2Y5VEE3V607QO5/613B029F-EE71-46C3-92EA-C879E5B855C9-256.png Race & Multi Education - Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students Also available on Amazon Young, Gifted, and Black sets out to reframe the terms of that debate. The authors argue that understanding how children experience the struggle of being black in America is essential to improving how schools serve them. Taking on liberals and conservatives alike, Theresa Perry argues that all kinds of contemporary school settings systematically undermine motivation and achievement for black students. She draws on history, narrative, and research to outline an African-American tradition of education for liberation and to suggest what kinds of settings black children need most. Claude Steele reports stunningly clear empirical psychological evidence that when black students believe they are being judged as members of a stereotyped group rather than as individuals, they do worse on tests. He calls the mechanism at work “stereotype threat,” and reflects on its broad implications for schools. Asa Hilliard ends the book with an essay on actual schools around the country where African-American students achieve at high levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472055809631-AK04ZSWY0QZKWD83DLEG/9FC2E56E-9BC8-4A52-AA3E-FE9F74D07DC8-256.png Race & Multi Education - Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School Also available on Amazon Which acts by educators are "racist" and which are "antiracist"? How can an educator constructively discuss complex issues of race with students and colleagues? In Everyday Antiracism, leading educators deal with the most challenging questions about race in school, offering invaluable and effective advice. Contributors including Beverly Daniel Tatum, Sonia Nieto, and Pedro Noguera describe concrete ways to analyze classroom interactions that may or may not be "racial," deal with racial inequality and "diversity," and teach to high standards across racial lines. Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the "n-word" to valuing students' home worlds, dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children. For educators and parents determined to move beyond frustrations about race, Everyday Antiracism is an essential tool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472056022546-GSY5408U9KHQMEIR3I1B/E36D8E25-9515-4622-A995-6D1458324008-256.png Race & Multi Education - Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society Also available on Amazon Renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy. Culled from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way toward healing ourselves and securing our future. Racing to Justice challenges us to replace attitudes and institutions that promote and perpetuate social suffering with those that foster relationships and a way of being that transcends disconnection and separation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472056201410-ZRJN9NCR54WRA0MQGVTP/2E26D3BC-55C6-4E69-BB8B-E5A65756E1CE-256.png Race & Multi Education - Education That Works: An Action Plan for the Education of MinoritiesEducation That Works: An Action Plan for the Education of Minorities Also available online This report presents a plan for improving the education of minority students in the United States. Section 1 is an introduction. Section 2 presents the goals for improvement of minority education by the year 2000. Section 3 discusses why the United States needs an educational system that works for all students. Section 4 discusses the minority experience in American education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472056348550-N66YJ12L68RDU5SVMQQX/87AF4349-AB4D-4EC2-B1D1-6CE33464492D-256.png Race & Multi Education - The Wrong Kind of Different: Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms Also available on Amazon How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of ''colorblind multiculturalism.'' She unearths a hierarchy of acceptance and legitimacy that excludes most poor Black students and favors certain immigrant minorities. In addition, she discovers how some teachers distinguish their support for certain forms of student diversity from curriculum diversity, such as accommodating bilingual education, which they find burdensome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472056768044-ZZ85VDAG6RT4T8ZGLQ4I/B2438171-7792-4595-9271-AE23691A86C9-256.png Race & Multi Education - Education As My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools Also available on Amazon When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472056920146-50812AQ3T0H9WKFKOFT4/ECD67B97-28ED-4DBD-B4A3-4DB60B3B5324-256.png Race & Multi Education - Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race Also available on Amazon Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should try to fix, or a coping strategy we should support? How can we get past our reluctance to talk about racial issues to even discuss it? And what about all the other questions we and our children have about race? This remarkable book, infused with great wisdom and humanity, has already helped hundreds of thousands of readers figure out where to start. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472057080467-APA0KCOE9U4QPBGY7N4C/69B79588-5E08-49EE-A711-795AC7D1B1AE-256.png Race & Multi Education - Through Ebony Eyes: What Teachers Need to Know But Are Afraid to Ask About African American Students Also available on Amazon In this book, Gail L. Thompson takes on the volatile topic of the role of race in education and explores the black-white achievement gap and the cultural divide that exists between some teachers and African American students. Solidly based on research conducted with 175 educators, Through Ebony Eyes provides information and strategies that will help teachers increase their effectiveness with African American students. Written in conversational language, Through Ebony Eyes offers a wealth of examples and personal stories that clearly demonstrate the cultural differences that exist in the schools and offers a three-part, long-term professional development plan that will help teachers become more effective. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/school-reform-2 daily 0.75 2016-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472143517119-4NVRGNB4IXC2WQNP1GIN/975E8EF1-7ECF-408A-A4C2-188D09DC69F6-256.png School Reform 2 - The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem Also available on Amazon "The founder and principal of excellent small schools in East Harlem . . . Meier wants to make all students capable of participating in and sustaining a democracy. . . . Doubters must read Deborah Meier to take a look at that success up close, to watch it begin and grow and flourish." —Lorene Cary, The New York Times Book Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472143517119-4NVRGNB4IXC2WQNP1GIN/975E8EF1-7ECF-408A-A4C2-188D09DC69F6-256.png School Reform 2 - The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem Also available on Amazon "The founder and principal of excellent small schools in East Harlem . . . Meier wants to make all students capable of participating in and sustaining a democracy. . . . Doubters must read Deborah Meier to take a look at that success up close, to watch it begin and grow and flourish." —Lorene Cary, The New York Times Book Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472144392540-UL8K9O8WO5Z9DBM1NHQP/4EC2B96E-DB73-4947-BB86-B20416F52091-256.png School Reform 2 - Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers Also available on Amazon Since its initial publication and multiple reprints in hardcover in 2005, Teachers Have It Easy has attracted the attention of teachers nationwide, appearing on the New York Times extended bestseller list, C-SPAN, and NPR's Marketplace, in addition to receiving strong reviews nationwide. Now available for the first time in paperback, this groundbreaking book examines how bad policy makes teachers' lives miserable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472145010836-3B9NRLBVTFND1K0KILW6/62415554-467A-4D9F-BC87-841ABF47C4EB-256.png School Reform 2 - Badass Teachers Unite! Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism Also available on Amazon In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education “reform” policies that undermine their power and creativity. Naison shows how dominant education policy systematically hurts the very children it claims to support and instead forces them to “race to the top.” He exposes the Duncans, Rhees, and Gateses for schemes that intensify racial and economic inequality. And he refocuses the conversation on teaching and organizing strategies that should be implemented in communities everywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472145174462-PZGSUGHBV9WRUIQ2F1T4/6E075043-E672-4670-A8C0-A2F4CA1B8032-256.png School Reform 2 - Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing Also available on Amazon Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing is a book about the English boarding school Summerhill School by its headmaster A. S. Neill. It is known for introducing his ideas to the American public. It was published in America on November 7, 1960, by the Hart Publishing Company and later revised as Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood in 1993. Its contents are a repackaged collection from four of Neill's previous works. The foreword was written by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, who distinguished between authoritarian coercion and Summerhill. The seven chapters of the book cover the origins and implementation of the school, and other topics in childrearing. Summerhill, founded in the 1920s, is run as a children's democracy under Neill's educational philosophy of self-regulation, where kids choose whether to go to lessons and how they want to live freely without imposing on others. The school makes its rules at a weekly schoolwide meeting where students and teachers each have one vote alike. Neill discarded other pedagogies for one of the innate goodness of the child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472145483615-O3YV2M54BANZKI6JE698/DF9ED54B-8C1A-4181-8B5B-5E62D3BA1FEF-256.png School Reform 2 - Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, Second Edition Also available on Amazon Selected by the American School Board Journal as a “Must Read” book when it was first published and named one of 60 “Books of the Century” by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its influence on American education, this provocative, carefully documented work shows how tracking—the system of grouping students for instruction on the basis of ability—reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps to perpetuate them. For this new edition, Jeannie Oakes has added a new Preface and a new final chapter in which she discusses the “tracking wars” of the last twenty years, wars in which Keeping Track has played a central role. From reviews of the first edition:Should be read by anyone who wishes to improve schools.”—M. Donald Thomas, American School Board Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472145683894-KYKG1L8EK6G29MLJYP3Z/6FE2B9F6-5A25-4CA3-ACF3-5818EE208B7A-256.png School Reform 2 - Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1999 Also available on Amazon Orr's book challenges those who argue that social capital alone can solve fundamentally political problems by purely social means and questions the efficacy of either privatization or black community power to reform urban schools. Black Social Capital offers a cogent conceptual synthesis of social capital theory and urban regime theory that demonstrates the importance of government, politics, and leadership in converting social capital into a resource that can be mobilized for effective social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472147208847-Q0NKPLHY19YGUEU13BES/6C31117F-0756-442B-8C1E-3068F7FBA837-256.png School Reform 2 - The Secret of TSL: The Revolutionary Discovery That Raises School Performance Also available on Amazon From the author of the acclaimed and influential Making Schools Work comes Untitled on Education, a guide to the revolutionary reforms that are changing public education in some of the nation’s biggest cities. Builds on the author’s growing reputation. Making Schools Work influenced New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s effort to radically decentralize the nation’s largest school system. Seven of the ten largest school districts in the u.S. have now implemented the decentralization championed in that book. Based on a groundbreaking study by the author. Explains the key to school success. Principals must be given control of their budgets and other authority. When they are empowered, they allocate funds to increase the number of teachers and lower the Total Student Load (TSL) per teacher. TSL is the key factor in school performance. Principals with autonomy invariably lower their school’s TSL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472156840044-LRYFA78C37XY5VTNWSMF/A61AE48E-EB65-4044-AF60-ED64C12B4E19-256.png School Reform 2 - Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice Also available on Amazon This stimulating anthology looks at exemplary practices of teacher unions from the local to the national level. The 25 articles weave together issues of teacher unionism, classroom reform, working with local communities, and social justice. Includes excerpts from local contracts dealing with professional issues; also resources and questions for discussion. A terrific tool for anyone working in or with teacher unions today. Authors of articles include Howard Zinn, Dan Perlstein, Robert Lowe, Herbert Kohl, Ann Bastian, Bob Chase, Sandra Feldman, Bill Fletcher, and many classroom teachers and union activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472156898491-TTRN9R1KROCFNIKHTIDN/B0B79F87-CD5C-4F5E-A07E-C8ABE283FBBE-256.png School Reform 2 - What's Race Got to Do With It?: How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality Also available on Amazon Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are often of two camps. Some focus their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, while others center on racial inequality. These analyses often happen in isolation, continuing to divide those concerned with educational justice into "It's race!" vs. "It's class!" camps. What's Race Got To Do With It? Brings together these frameworks to investigate the role that race plays in hallmark policies of neoliberal school reforms such as school closings, high-stakes testing, and charter school proliferation. The group of scholar activist authors in this volume were selected because of their cutting-edge racial economic analysis, understanding of corporate reform, and involvement in grassroots social movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472156987991-5D0XOVQQ5AOPJVD1034Q/AFBB7BDA-1693-48D0-8419-2F425C28B973-256.png School Reform 2 - The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn Also available on Amazon If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language in classroom and library materials. But according to Diane Ravitch, a leading historian of education, what began with the best of intentions has veered toward bizarre extremes. At a time when we celebrate and encourage diversity, young readers are fed bowdlerized texts, devoid of the references that give these works their meaning and vitality. With forceful arguments and sensible solutions for rescuing American education from the pressure groups that have made classrooms bland and uninspiring, The Language Police offers a powerful corrective to a cultural scandal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157072392-AKOA4C4707ZHUGYTVMJH/00B12A42-0328-411C-AE19-60A42217143E-256.png School Reform 2 - Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools Also available on Amazon n Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement but a concerted effort to destroy public schools in this country. She makes clear that, contrary to the claims being made, public school test scores and graduation rates are the highest they’ve ever been, and dropout rates are at their lowest point. She argues that federal programs such as George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Barack Obama’s Race to the Top set unreasonable targets for American students, punish schools, and result in teachers being fired if their students underperform, unfairly branding those educators as failures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157276442-Z6VEISFHVJULWVHK9DOR/E1BE5C7A-5EEC-400F-A48E-67E877E08C25-256.png School Reform 2 - Lives on the Boundary Also available on Amazon Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157400462-KUWQS4IY0YOA12O5EXQS/75552035-0CEA-4A9D-B71F-7D4E23F41F5B-256.png School Reform 2 - A Chronicle of Echoes: Who's Who in the Implosion of American Public Education Also available on Amazon "Corporate reform" is not reform at all. Instead, it is the systematic destruction of the foundational American institution of public education. The primary motivation behind this destruction is greed. Public education in America is worth almost a trillion dollars a year. Whereas American public education is a democratic institution, its destruction is being choreographed by a few wealthy, well-positioned individuals and organizations. This book investigates and exposes the handful of people and institutions that are often working together to become the driving force behind destroying the community public school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157487568-2NV1HTAVMXPLO8C4AEA8/739BC538-6DE4-48CC-B506-D210535B526F-256.png School Reform 2 - Horace's Compromise Also available on Amazon A classic in the field of educational reform - revealing and often troubling portrait of the current school enviornment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157606357-19LDK0JZHMFB7DEP9BOL/275D2282-0D93-4A49-8C45-0F5EB54A7E28-256.png School Reform 2 - Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools Also available on Amazon Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people’s attention beyond the classroom to the world as it actually is, and to engage them in the process of devising solutions to the social and environmental problems they will confront as adults. This approach can increase students’ engagement with learning and enhance their academic achievement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157700886-T7NWDE3XDHEN2AXO8KBG/4ABA710D-BF44-4E43-ADC2-0C52CB88E9EB-256.png School Reform 2 - Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity Also available on Amazon This volume – a landmark contribution to the burgeoning theory and practice of place-based education – enriches the field in three ways: First, it frames place-based pedagogy not just as an alternative teaching methodology or novel approach to environmental education but as part of a broader social movement known as the "Anew localism", which aims toward reclaiming the significance of the local in the global age. Second, it links the development of ecological awareness and stewardship to concerns about equity and cultural diversity. Third, it presents examples of place-based education in action. The relationship between the new localism and place-based education is clarified and the process of making connections between learners and their wider communities is demonstrated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157806760-U94Z4L7VSH6WW4KWBF98/7C9E8EDE-2C21-46F7-A92C-D860C953A332-256.png School Reform 2 - Real Learning, Real Work: School-to-Work As High School Reform Also available on Amazon The Hands On Manual for Cinematographers contains a wealth of information, theory, diagrams and tables on all aspects of cinematography. Widely recognised as the Cinematographer's Bible the book is organized in a unique manner for easy reference on location, and remains an essential component of the cameraman's box.Everything you need to know about cinematography can be found in this book - from camera choice, maintenance and threading diagrams; to electricity on location, equipment checklists, film stock, lenses, light and colour. Of particular use will be the mathematics, formulae, look up tables and step by step examples used for everything from imperial/metric conversions to electricity, exposure, film length, running times, lights and optics. Sections on special effects and utilities are also included as well as a list of useful websites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472157925980-MQWW70NTN1RR68CTJMIZ/A2C43623-B852-4784-997D-9A364AF267BB-256.png School Reform 2 - Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do Also available on Amazon Drawing on a nationwide survey encompassing all ethnic and socioeconomic groups, Beyond the Classroom identifies the real nature of the education crisis in America. "No one answer is going to reverse the dumbing down of American schools and American kids. But here, at last, is a fresh perspective". -Chicago Tribune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472158025564-XZJ1YR0JL2I3A16J4A4M/1F9B8C54-F85C-40A3-B853-69E3692B16CB-256.png School Reform 2 - Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America Also available on Amazon What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents. Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472158098664-ZFV3AFPNCMWJRL60J6D5/2FEEBB34-339D-4932-BC7F-1CBEBB54991E-256.png School Reform 2 - Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity Also available on Amazon The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other changes. In 2012, Chicago teachers built a grassroots movement through education and engagement of an entire union membership, taking militant action in the face of enormous structural barriers and a hostile Democratic Party leadership. The teachers won massive concessions from the city and have become a new model for school reform led by teachers themselves, rather than by billionaires. Strike for America is the story of this movement, and how it has become the defining struggle for the labor movement today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472158179011-X8Q7VMSL09Q4FSVFHK4F/89353BD5-62D1-4A15-833A-E7DC5B03C74F-256.png School Reform 2 - The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice Also available on Amazon In The Future of Our Schools, Lois Weiner explains why teachers who care passionately about teaching and social justice need to unite the energy for teaching to efforts to self-govern and transform teacher unions. Drawing on research, her experience as a public school teacher, and as a union activist, she explains how to create the teachers unions public education desperately needs. Lois Weiner is a professor at New Jersey City University and has been a life-long teacher union activist who has served as an officer of three different union locals. She is the author of The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472158285929-54ES5FV7OBQOTRYJKOG6/C2360ECE-165E-428A-B783-2DD6F72B9E65-256.png School Reform 2 - Making School Reform Work: Lessons from Educators Also available on Amazon http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-95 daily 0.75 2016-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472087616096-XP1ZXXBCCNH33JAISS97/CAF2EA31-F29E-4943-A29F-9145F0A3641B-256.png School Reform - Aristocracy of Everyone Also available on Amazon In this brilliant, controversial, and profoundly original book, Benjamin R. Barber fundamentally alters the terms of the current debate over the value of opportunity in American education, politics, and culture. Barber argues that the fashionable rallying cries of cultural literacy and political correctness completely miss the point of what is wrong with our society. While we fret about "the closing of the American mind" we utterly ignore the closing of American schools. While we worry about Japanese technology, we fail to tap the more fundamental ideological resources on which our country was founded. As Barber argues, the future of America lies not in competition but in education. Education in America can and must embrace both democracy and excellence. Barber demonstrates persuasively that our national story has always comprised an intermingling of diverse, contradictory, often subversive voices. Multiculturalism has, from the very start, defined America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472087616096-XP1ZXXBCCNH33JAISS97/CAF2EA31-F29E-4943-A29F-9145F0A3641B-256.png School Reform - Aristocracy of Everyone Also available on Amazon In this brilliant, controversial, and profoundly original book, Benjamin R. Barber fundamentally alters the terms of the current debate over the value of opportunity in American education, politics, and culture. Barber argues that the fashionable rallying cries of cultural literacy and political correctness completely miss the point of what is wrong with our society. While we fret about "the closing of the American mind" we utterly ignore the closing of American schools. While we worry about Japanese technology, we fail to tap the more fundamental ideological resources on which our country was founded. As Barber argues, the future of America lies not in competition but in education. Education in America can and must embrace both democracy and excellence. Barber demonstrates persuasively that our national story has always comprised an intermingling of diverse, contradictory, often subversive voices. Multiculturalism has, from the very start, defined America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472087811281-D0KP9WV3XZYLA1L87K6T/5E966369-372B-4CFA-ABF4-CEDF43943EDF-256.png School Reform - Small Schools, Big Ideas: The Essential Guide to Successful School Transformation Also available on Amazon Small Schools, Big Ideas shows how the principle-based and equity-focused model from the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) can be used to redesign existing schools and create new schools that prepare students for this century's challenges and opportunities. These recommendations and proven strategies can help educators transform their schools to become truly equitable, personalized, and academically challenging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472087960998-3QP51APMM1K8FOO89RB8/5A93548B-ABCA-4913-984C-21271010B4AF-256.png School Reform - 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education Also available Amazon This book is guaranteed to spark lively debates and critical thinking in any classroom! Two of the most respected voices in education identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. Berliner and Glass argue that many citizens' conception of K-12 public education in the United States is more myth than reality. Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472090182769-A93ZR84ESYKCLN8UNUKO/A7D1B789-D9F8-4A4C-9DD2-ABBCF3A2DED5-256.png School Reform - Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality Also available on Amazon Are America's schools broken? Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality seeks to address misconceptions about America's schools by taking on the credo 'what can be measured matters.' To the contrary, Dr. Bracey makes a persuasive case that much of what matters cannot be assessed on a multiple choice test. The challenge for educators is to deal effectively with an incomplete accountability system-while creating a broader understanding of successful schools and teachers. School leaders must work to define, maintain, and increase essential skills that may not be measured in today's accountability plans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472090309117-5Y6TTPRT5TOKYZ070165/ACBFF285-257F-4BC2-9B49-1505FC34B603-256.png School Reform - Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago Also available on Amazon In 1988, the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources and authority to reform their schools in dramatic ways. To track the effects of this bold experiment, the authors ofOrganizing Schools for Improvement collected a wealth of data on elementary schools in Chicago. Over a seven-year period they identified one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improved—and one hundred that had not. What did the successful schools do to accelerate student learning? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472090465822-7AND2001VOVHVRYA0CGF/29624439-0A06-4717-8181-DAB0CC7E9D69-256.png School Reform - Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement Also available on Amazon Most Americans agree on the necessity of education reform, but there is little consensus about how this goal might be achieved. The rhetoric of standards and vouchers has occupied center stage, polarizing public opinion and affording little room for reflection on the intangible conditions that make for good schools. Trust in Schools engages this debate with a compelling examination of the importance of social relationships in the successful implementation of school reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472090638191-T04KT67LU4R7KPUBN4CT/BC60F525-DD67-4B51-A993-137109A92CAC-256.png School Reform - How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support Also available on Amazon Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. For many years, marketing has been implemented in school settings with a fragmented, piecemeal approach_only to have disappointing and sometimes expensive results. This book will introduce educators to sound marketing principles and action steps. Full of descriptive, concrete examples, the information is easy to adapt to any educational setting as a workhorse to capture and retain community support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472136182428-VRTG7Y42T3ZGQNTZPRE8/45060042-1766-4A1C-8EEE-F0A9E4704FC5-256.png School Reform - Interest Groups and Education Reform: The Latest Crusade to Restructure the Schools Also available on Amazon During the 1980s, the education policy agenda proceeded from a consensus reached by politicians, the business community and educators to restructure the nation's public schools as a way to improve student achievement. This book begins with a critical examination of the impact of interest groups on American education since the inception of the first school system. Two restructuring proposals became extremely popular in the reform debate but stemmed from different premises about the best way to restructure the schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472136260487-6757E7B7RGOGT6D9A7MF/E7040FDC-BC02-41AC-94C1-F59EC6B5BFBB-256.png School Reform - Keeping the Promise?: The Debate over Charter Schools Also available on Amazon Keeping the Promise? examines one of the most complex reforms in education: charter schools. This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays examines the charter school movement s founding visions, on-the-ground realities, and untapped potential within the context of an unswerving commitment to democratic, equitable public schools. Essays include policy overviews from nationally known educators such as Ted Sizer and Linda Darling-Hammond, interviews with leaders of community-based charter schools, and analyses of how charters have developed in cities such as New Orleans and Washington, D.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472136695913-6RKUNJBE484TKD990YII/1A577439-1626-49A7-9CA3-770EE72BAF50-256.png School Reform - The Schools We Need: Creating Small High Schools that Work for Us Also available on Amazon The Schools We Need offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy. Renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that, by disdaining content-based curricula while favoring abstract--and discredited--theories of how a child learns, the ideas uniformly taught by our schools have done terrible harm to America's students. Instead of preparing our children for the highly competitive, information-based economy in which we now live, our schools' practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472136794381-CMLKVCBYF3LB2E2E7HI9/AA1F4790-57A6-4020-AB27-4CA8FDCA1729-256.png School Reform - The New Meaning of Educational Change Also available on Amazon When Michael Fullan published the first edition of this seminal work in 1982, he revolutionized the theory and practice of education reform. Now, a quarter of a century later, his new fourth edition promises to be equally influential for radical reform in the 21st century. Capturing the dilemmas and leading ideas for successful large-scale systemic reform, Fullan bases his text on practical and fundamental work with education systems in several countries. The New Meaning of Educational Change is your definitive compendium to all aspects of the management of educational change-a powerful resource for everyone involved in school reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472136882211-3CQ3VBURI1Y6YYFE25SB/36D4AC24-792A-40A3-8A4B-C2C54ABBF81F-256.png School Reform - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Also available on Amazon Strong words from the New York State Teacher of the Year! Twenty-six years of award-winning teaching have led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental school does little but teach young people to follow orders. Dumbing Us Down offers a radical critique of public schooling, and suggests a guerilla curriculum of daily involvement in our communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137026659-CJW396FQTRQLY26XL0BE/BCF75859-81C3-4C30-AE82-940DF27A89E9-256.png School Reform - Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty Also available on Amazon A manifesto for today’s broken schools. Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young people fashion an insurgency. That means, at the very least, seeing each student’s rebellion not as violation, but as communication. Jay Gillen writes with passion and compassion about the daily lives of poor students trapped in institutions that dismiss and degrade them. Jay Gillen teaches English in a Baltimore public school and has worked with the Baltimore Algebra Project since 1995, building math literacy among youth of color and youth experiencing poverty in US public schools. Bob Moses is an educator and Civil Rights activist. He founded the Algebra Project in 1982. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137141590-CA64ZICBNLF1TEQRCXB2/411FA85A-49DF-4C20-828A-789DAC635A17-256.png School Reform - Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, &amp; Public Education Also available on Amazon Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade’s growing social disinvestment in youth. The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been under siege, including full-fledged attacks by corporate interests on public school teachers, schools of education, and teacher unions. It also reveals how a business culture cloaked in the guise of generosity and reform has supported a charter school movement that aims to dismantle public schools in favor of a corporate-friendly privatized system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137202749-531OGM9NCKJL7F0YH3AY/D77573E2-1481-471E-A667-B723ED372E37-256.png School Reform - The Quality School Teacher: Specific Suggestions for Teachers Who Are Trying to Implement the Lead-Management Ideas of the Quality School in Their C Also available on Amazon The author of The Quality School shows teachers how to set up the most effective classroom environment for their students, presenting explicit, practical examples for encouraging an atmosphere in which students will want to learn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137275707-8E4HOXTQST7ABWEK4KDE/A7F669DF-715D-473F-87F9-09278651E7B5-256.png School Reform - The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion Also available on Amazon Following on Dr. Demming's principle that "Quality is Job #1," Glasser lays out a practical approach to revitalizing education in the same way that Demming revitalize the Japanese auto industry in post-WWII. By eliminating coersion, and stimulating pride in one's workmanship by emphasizing quality at every level, from student up to superintendent, it is possible improve the quality of education for all students. It is a humane approach to dealing with problems that plague our schools today: apathy, rebelliousness, low skill and so forth. Glasser boldly demands of us to abandon failing boss tactics that riddle our school for something that will bring the best in everyone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137354013-3UKVZ3UTP9Z1UNBEVOAR/B9177B4C-8732-4D07-AA50-F23643C13929-256.png School Reform - Trying Times: How A Teacher Strike Began and Ended Also available on Amazon TRYING TIMES is all about what happens when Raratan School District administration and Raratan school teachers can't reach final agreement on their labor contract renewal. Both sides clam up and tell parents and public almost nothing once the teacher strike begins. In TRYING TIMES our author takes us into the negotiation room and into the caucus rooms where we see both parties and the state-appointed mediator confront and ultimately solve their disputed issues. In between meetings we are given a close look at how the strike impacts the daily lives of all the citizenry of the community, including teachers, parents, school administrators, school board members, cafeteria workers, postal and trades personnel, law enforcement personnel, judges, and the football and other sports teams. This is a one-of-a-kind book. Don't miss it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137452971-85Y5JMJMO3HCMCC3TLUV/1775D65E-F9F9-4F9A-8F47-7CFC08B8E5B0-256.png School Reform - Going Public: Priorities & Practice at the Manhattan New School Also available on Amazon Going Public is a resource that you'll refer to again and again. "Reader's Guides" highlight the priorities and practices contained in every chapter. There are also bulleted lists of important ideas and suggestions, actual letters on a wide range of topics, and illustrative student work. The appendix alone contains dozens of useful and easily reproduced artifacts, including staff meeting conversation starters, interview questions for prospective teachers, and bibliographies of books for children and adults. Teachers, administrators, parents, and staff developers will find Going Public an invaluable guide to creating a school committed to the very best public education has to offer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137545412-A1NQL9VNC9NI9ST129TQ/8F9BA5A5-1D5D-44FA-8605-24FEBBBB553B-256.png School Reform - Choosing Equality: The Case for Democratic Schooling Also available on Amazon Winner of the 1988 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award, American Library AssociationWinner of the 1987 Outstanding Books in Educational Studies, American Educational AssociationThe product of a two-year project developed by the New World Foundation, these essays present a comprehensive critique of education and the current reforms covering instruction and the institution as well as policy and politics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472137906677-FRH8R7OMFTRNKMF2DV9L/5E95FA19-C60C-42BD-BEF2-A997F31D1A4D-256.png School Reform - The Accelerated Schools Also available on Amazon "Hopfenberg and Levin provide a pwerful resource for creating schools grounded in community reflecton, inquiry, and the belief that all children can be smart. . .Here at last is a ?how-to' book on school reform that helps educators confront the values, beleifs, and politics, as well as the practices, that make changing schools so difficult."— Jeannie Oaks, professor of education, UCLA. This resource is the first comprehensive guide to the innovative practices of accelerated schools. It summarizes the lessons learned by the project staff and the family of over 300 accelerated schools working together during a seven-year period. It is designed to be used by a wide variety of participants for training, discussion, and guidance in the move to transform schools nationwide.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472138058324-4N7RS5EB4ES5HLNNGH95/15023DB3-74FF-46E4-8486-5824AFB77607-256.png School Reform - Class Action: An Activist Teacher's Handbook Click here to access it online https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472138153620-7MUPC3IRL4L05PLO3FU9/8132525F-7D84-4EDC-80FA-3D3FEED726F0-256.png School Reform - The Future of School Integration: Socioeconomic Diversity as an Education Reform Strategy Also available on Amazon Almost fifty years ago the Coleman Report, widely regarded as the most important educational study of the twentieth century, found that the most powerful predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status of a child's family. The second most important predictor is the socioeconomic status of the classmates in his or her school. Until very recently, the importance of this second finding has been consciously ignored by policymakers, and the national education debate has centered on trying to "fix" high-poverty schools by pouring greater resources into them, paying educators more to teach in them, or turning them into charter schools. At the local level, however, eighty school districts educating four million students now consciously seek to integrate schools by socioeconomic status. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472140635953-BV2ALKP4HDRVRKT8NKB8/C88330CC-E9FE-4E87-8C10-D5B4FC5CB209-256.png School Reform - Reconstructing American Education Also available on Amazon One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy, education, and the capitalist state. Michael Katz discusses the reshaping of American education from three perspectives. First is the perspective of history: How did American education take shape? The second is that of reform: What can a historian say about recent criticisms and proposals for improvement? The third is that of historiography: What drives the politics of educational history? Katz shows how the reconstruction of America’s educational past can be used as a framework for thinking about current reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472141979249-B7XBB6CUU8RSOUQVUYMZ/03BE82C9-9E29-47F3-A5AA-CD0B6B7FD255-256.png School Reform - Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society Also available on Amazon When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for school reform ran head-on into the neo-conservative takeover of the Department of Education and its No Child Left Behind strategy for school change, a new model of federal power bent on the erosion of public space and the privatization of public schooling emerged. Michael and Susan Klonsky, educators who were among the early leaders of the small-schools movement, tell the story of how a once-promising model of creating new small and charter schools has been used by the neocons to reproduce many of the old inequities. Small Schools is the engaging story of what happens when the small-schools movement meets the Ownership Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472142074793-V4NII4S8APEONT4B6YUA/4CBF5D47-D131-4550-92EB-E20A741B9100-256.png School Reform - Small Schools: The Numbers Tell a Story; A Review of the Research and Current Experiences A compelling body of research shows that when students are part of smaller and more intimate learning communities, they are more successful. The latest research demonstrates that small schools, particularly schools of choice, have a measurably positive impact on inner-city students, especially those from minority and low-income families. The tradeoff for the wider selection of courses offered in large schools has been the sacrifice of coherence, intimacy, security, student choice, and teacher autonomy that a small school can offer. In small schools, the level of participation in all activities tends to be higher, and fewer students are marginalized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472142142753-2WDY7DLXPLHERCK6ESFM/61A5BA29-0090-47E3-A858-1ABFAD54808F-256.png School Reform - Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Also available on Amazon For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening-and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learning-including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students. In Savage Inequalities, Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation's schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472142226833-C61G8O5JTZI3UOLGRNCL/FEC71900-64CC-49A1-A595-C5C202BEDB8B-256.png School Reform - Waging Peace in Our Schools Also available on Amazon Drawing on the latest research into emotional and social learning, this practical guide, filled with stories, voices, ideas, and advice, explains ways in which we can educate children's hearts as well as their minds, as well as techniques to create "peaceable classrooms" where children receive a diverse education free of conflict. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472142327969-BVOBI2VZPPVTAW5TNW75/69E73DF0-2A3B-408A-AF71-EF50AFF84C25-256.png School Reform - Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change Also available on Amazon Rethinking Schools includes sections on rethinking language arts and social studies curricula, testing and tracking, national education policy, antibias and multicultural education, and building school communities. These articles are practical essays by classroom teachers as well as educators such as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Bill Bigelow, Lisa D. Delpit, and Howard Zinn. Resource lists of relevant books, videos, organizations, and materials on each topic make this a powerful tool for implementing successful school reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472142465352-PPXYH3KR0LKK82QU8LDI/C2F7521A-8B30-448D-87C7-73982CA6674B-256.png School Reform - Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality Also available on Amazon In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach in them. Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and power—where most jobs require relatively little education, and the poor enjoy very little political power—money is funneled into educational endeavors that ultimately do nothing to challenge established social structures, and in fact reinforce them. And when educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the ones whom these programs were intended to help end up blaming themselves. Marsh’s struggle to grasp the connection between education, poverty, and inequality is both powerful and poignant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472142667043-MBDAB8JGEQCCPAPKK84X/D240068F-C630-42C5-8441-D29ECFA18D16-256.png School Reform - An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution: United Opt Out's Test of Courage Also available on Amazon This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists interested in reclaiming our public schools and reclaiming the public narrative around education policy. The book infuses research about the recent history of education policy reform, the strategies United Opt Out uses for fighting back against these policies, and proposes solutions that work to create sustainable, equitable, anti-racist, democratic and meaningful public education. This book is for anyone interested in an "insider's look" behind the scene of forming an organization, or leading a resistance. Simultaneously the book provides scholarly-based research about the broader issues, policies and data around education reform, and the opt out movement. Education policy has been heating up ever since NCLB but especially since the roll out of Race to The Top and the Common Core State Standards. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/special-education daily 0.75 2016-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499128849-NY05MA549S659BK2HB0P/F1670F24-0616-496D-987A-17543EEB736B-256.png Special Education - Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement Also available on Amazon Trust in Schools demonstrates convincingly that the quality of social relationships operating in and around schools is central to their functioning, and strongly predicts positive student outcomes. This book offer insights into how trust can be built and sustained in school communities, and identifies some features of public school systems that can impede such development. Bryk and Schneider show how a broad base of trust across a school community can provide a critical resource as education professional and parents embark on major school reforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499128849-NY05MA549S659BK2HB0P/F1670F24-0616-496D-987A-17543EEB736B-256.png Special Education - Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement Also available on Amazon Trust in Schools demonstrates convincingly that the quality of social relationships operating in and around schools is central to their functioning, and strongly predicts positive student outcomes. This book offer insights into how trust can be built and sustained in school communities, and identifies some features of public school systems that can impede such development. Bryk and Schneider show how a broad base of trust across a school community can provide a critical resource as education professional and parents embark on major school reforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499226656-Y7ILTV72RSIF5S1XUJVC/6DCF7938-59C9-495A-9708-6AA1B3ED87B4-256.png Special Education - Assessment of Children and Youth with Special Needs Also available on Amazon Written in a straightforward, accessible manner, Assessment of Children and Youth, Fourth Edition emphasizes contemporary, practical, and authentic approaches and proven techniques of widely-used tests and measures on special education classroom assessment. Readers will be given the most current information on assessment approaches, research-based practices, and federal mandates related to assessment of students with disabilities, ages 3 - 20. The book is written specifically for pre-service and practicing special educators and other related professionals who, in reading this thoroughly-updated edition, will be exposed to the most prevalent information, knowledge and skills available regarding special education classroom assessment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499326540-QFB4IICVFBEZR3PRXUCP/E3EF5E29-1847-4834-AEE9-E81219E52FDD-256.png Special Education - Special Education In Contemporary Society With Infotrac: An Introduction to Exceptionality Also available on Amazon This engaging text and media package, designed for students of special and general education, provides a rare glimpse into the lives of persons with exceptionalities, their families, and their teachers. Focusing on human exceptionalities across the life span, it employs a traditional organization beginning with four foundations chapters covering such important topics as the historical and legal contexts of special education, service delivery models, cultural and linguistic diversity, and a full chapter on parents and families. Ten "categorical" chapters, each of which share a common organizational format, follow these chapters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499444917-LMY26R84FWM9N8V27OWZ/3ACEC4DC-99E3-4F40-8F91-55192AA97E32-256.png Special Education - Cultivating Social Justice Teachers: How Teacher Educators Have Helped Students Overcome Cognitive Bottlenecks and Learn Critical Social Justice Concepts Also available on Amazon Recognizing these are common experiences for teacher educators, the contributors to this book present their struggles and achievements in developing approaches that have successfully guided students to complex understandings of such threshold concepts as White privilege, homophobia, and heteronormativity, overcoming the “bottlenecks” that impede progress toward bigger learning goals and understandings. The authors initiate a conversation – one largely absent in the social justice education literature and the discourse – about the common content- and pedagogy-related challenges that social justice educators face in their work, particularly for those doing this work in relative or literal isolation, where collegial understanding cannot be found down the hall or around the corner. In doing so they hope not only to help individual teachers in their practice, but also strengthen social justice teacher education more systemically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499533355-YX72C8B1P2UY4R0XXWGW/B5D75E35-2FF3-4619-96AC-F431A47EC6C5-256.png Special Education - New Directions in Special Education: Eliminating Ableism in Policy And Practice Also available on Amazon A comprehensive study that is also practical and realistic, New Directions in Special Education outlines principles for decision making about special education at every level from the family to the classroom, school, and district and for state and federal policy. With this volume, leading scholar and disability advocate Thomas Hehir opens a new round of debate on the future of special education. Extending the conceptual framework developed in his seminal 2002 article in the Harvard Educational Review, Hehir examines the ways that cultural attitudes about disability systematically distort the education of children with special needs and uses this analysis to lay out a fresh approach to special education policy and practice. Hehir traces the roots of ableism—the pervasive devaluation of people with disabilities—and shows how negative attitudes continue to shape debates in the field. He assesses recent trends in special education policy, particularly the shift of emphasis from compliance to outcomes, and discusses in depth the successes and limitations of the inclusion movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499575307-9IEQGY92PPFC3Q2KDLGE/469F1681-97FF-48A4-99D4-313441CC0BA6-256.png Special Education - The PATH & MAPS Handbook: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community Also available on Amazon "Finally, an approach that puts the person at the helm and offers concrete ideas for genuine support, pride, dignity and personalized participation of a labeled person and their support staff. You are going to love this book - and give it to everyone with whom you work."--Publisher's website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472499702767-C22FENCX50H972P29J11/B34258B8-1D57-4973-8EA5-07498708E4AA-256.png Special Education - The Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Effective Instruction Also available on Amazon This text offers a wealth of practical and proven strategies for successfully including students with disabilities in general education classrooms. The text provides targeted strategies for the subject and skill areas, as well as special needs of individual students, with a strong focus on instructional strategies applied to specific student need areas. An overall theme of “effective, differentiated instruction” is infused throughout the text, relating to those practices that are most closely aligned with academic success. The text is unique in its three-part coverage of 1). the fundamentals of teaching students with special needs, 2). effective general teaching practices, and 3).inclusive practices in specific subject areas. With a strong focus on instructional strategies and how they are applied to specific student need areas, the text goes further by featuring more specific strategies than any other text, and extensive information about the most effective strategies available, and when and how to use them. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-80 daily 0.75 2016-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472501944580-3WXJG76LLL2Y12LUTV94/CBD1D1A3-3D81-403E-88A2-1FED9E16BF25-256.png teacher development - City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row Also available on Amazon A classic collection exploding the stereotypes of city schools. City Kids, City Teachers—now reissued with a new introduction by William Ayers that reflects on how improving urban education is more essential than ever—has become a touchstone for urban educators, exploding the stereotypes of teaching in the city. In more than twenty-five provocative selections, set in context by Ayers and Patricia Ford, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, June Jordan, Lewis Lapham, Audre Lorde, and Deborah Meier move from the poetic to the practical, celebrating the value of city kids and their teachers. It is a useful guide as well as a call to action for anyone who teaches or has taught in the city, for those considering teaching in urban schools, and for every parent with children in our schools today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472501944580-3WXJG76LLL2Y12LUTV94/CBD1D1A3-3D81-403E-88A2-1FED9E16BF25-256.png teacher development - City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row Also available on Amazon A classic collection exploding the stereotypes of city schools. City Kids, City Teachers—now reissued with a new introduction by William Ayers that reflects on how improving urban education is more essential than ever—has become a touchstone for urban educators, exploding the stereotypes of teaching in the city. In more than twenty-five provocative selections, set in context by Ayers and Patricia Ford, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, June Jordan, Lewis Lapham, Audre Lorde, and Deborah Meier move from the poetic to the practical, celebrating the value of city kids and their teachers. It is a useful guide as well as a call to action for anyone who teaches or has taught in the city, for those considering teaching in urban schools, and for every parent with children in our schools today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472502041810-SI7U1B2WBA7XITE6ZNVT/D262C189-6E3D-4CA8-8BAC-76C2ECA9BA43-256.png teacher development - To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher Also available on Amazon William Ayers writes, as teacher, parent, student and observer, of the children he has known and of the things that actually happen in the classroom. His collection of vignettes should interest anyone involved in, or concerned with, the art of teaching. "No one since John Holt has written so thoughtfully about the things that actually happen in the classroom. Ayers has been there and he knows, and he shares what he has learned with tremendous sensitivity . . . Ayers writes so beautifully of children he has known—there are so many unforgettable vignettes—that this book will touch the heart of almost anyone who loves the authenticity of oral history."—Jonathan Kozol.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472502151437-EUE9E01FGNIXHLCH98KC/AFFB705B-867A-447A-A249-4439609A5450-256.png teacher development - Practical Strategies for the Teaching of Thinking Also available on Amazon This book describes strategies, techniques, and principles that teachers can use to improve students' thinking skills. The strategies can generally be adaptated for any grade level or subject area. Chapters provide information on: (1) a rationale for the teaching of thinking; (2) thinking and thinking skills; (3) selecting and defining thinking skills and strategies for teaching; (4) organizing for the teaching of thinking; (5) introducing a thinking skill; (6) guiding practice in and applying thinking skills; (7) transferring and elaborating thinking skills; (8) helping students control and direct their own thinking; (9) assessing student thinking; and (10) teaching implications. References are also provided. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472502227509-E9R88MI7CY1T7AWVQUSK/51C8B459-3E69-4C52-8DA5-A93504DE66EF-256.png teacher development - Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Also available on Amazon A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé—as she prefers to be called—does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. Her diary opens a window into a real-life classroom from a teacher’s perspective. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional teacher. Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esmé now shares more of her ingenious and yet down-to-earth approaches to the classroom in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground running. As relevant and iconoclastic as when it was first published, Educating Esmé is a classic, as is Madame Esmé herself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472504055201-9GWH6D0LAZ61QUXO4SED/B42F849B-393B-4ACA-A8BB-956051116B85-256.png teacher development - Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers Also available on Amazon Marva Collins embodies all that is meant by that hallowed word. . .teacher. She gives of herself tirelessly so that those whose minds are supple may grasp knowledge and power through her love. Indeed love, like that of a mother for her children, is the essence of the Marva Collins Way. . .love of learning, love of teaching, and love of sharing. It charges her mission with an incredible power to heal broken spirits. Discover the power to truly teach, whether it be one child or many. Children don't have to be geniuses to be successful. By the power of the extraordinary teacher, each and everyone can achieve extraordinary success. You can be that teacher or parent.In this book, Marva Collins reveals the secret of her success and the principles which will aid you to duplicate her achievements - first within yourself, then within your classroom or in your own home. Here is an opportunity to expand your teaching ability with the aid of one who has stretched the boundary through her own bold experiments. It works. Go for it. Renew your spirit. The Extraordinary teacher is you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472505156085-NXFFGA3XKWWGJVW6CT00/859044CB-D274-4E8A-8733-58D62AFBD803-256.png teacher development - The Education of American Teachers Also available on Amazon The school in the coming decades may develop around one of two visions—as a factory or a temple. If the first vision prevails (and it is the more likely one, given Conant's book and its close relation to current trends), we may envision a fragmentation of the teacher's functions, with the more prosaic tasks being taken over by an army of para-pedagogical personnel. “Master” teachers of various grade levels or subjects will head teams of internes, audio-visual technicians, clerks, programmers, and testers, who will efficiently convey masses of information and concepts to masses of pupils. The alternative is to view the school as temple, as a holy place for forming self-determining individuals. The task of the schools would be to lead the individual child through successive encounters with imaginative and dedicated teachers who would give him an increasingly sophisticated picture of reality and some of the equipment for operating within it. The frightening thing about The Education of American Teachers is the author's inability even to conceive of the school as a temple, which means that his book can lead only to another half-reform that works to prevent achievement of a full one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472505312369-QD80WESKMXC6QD6WOYRR/32DA31CA-98AF-43E1-83ED-3D6736B1D354-256.png teacher development - Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students Also available on Amazon Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen Cushman’s groundbreaking book offers original insights into teaching teenagers in today’s hard-pressed urban high schools from the point of view of the students themselves. It speaks to both new and established teachers, giving them firsthand information about who their students are and what they need to succeed. Students from across the country contributed perceptive and pragmatic answers to questions of how teachers can transcend the barriers of adolescent identity and culture to reach the diverse student body in today’s urban schools. With the fresh and often surprising perspectives of youth, they tackle tough issues such as increasing engagement and motivation, teaching difficult academic material, reaching English-language learners, and creating a classroom culture where respect and success go hand in hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472505504796-NJUM572FTJDX8277NNJZ/63C5C2F7-E84F-4550-AF70-23283FDC0EEA-256.png teacher development - Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers Also available on Amazon The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom—filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers. Following on the heels of the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents, Kathleen Cushman now turns her attention to the crucial and challenging middle grades, joining forces with adolescent psychologist Laura Rogers. As teachers, counselors, and parents cope with the roller coaster of early adolescence, too few stop to ask students what they think about these critical years. Here, middle school students in grades 5 through 8 across the country and from diverse ethnic backgrounds offer insights on what it takes to make classrooms more effective and how to forge stronger relationships between young adolescents and adults. Students tackle such critical topics as social, emotional, and academic pressures; classroom behavior; organization; and preparing for high school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472505583138-VJSMT4AIU1AGVGHMY5L2/70C3E5D4-8837-4415-B10E-4EF83A3C3BA5-256.png teacher development - The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities Also available on Amazon Combining professional learning communities (PLCs) and action research, this step-by-step guide provides coaches, workshop leaders, and staff developers with strategies, activities, and tools to develop inquiry-oriented PLCs. The authors present essential elements of a healthy PLC, case studies of inquiry-based PLCs, and lessons learned for improving coaching practices. Sample projects and reflection prompts will help readers: Organize, assess, and maintain high-functioning, inquiry-oriented PLCsFacilitate the development of study questionsEnable PLC members to develop, analyze, and share research resultsLead successful renewal and reform efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472505659935-TDMW6KM5R7XFCF0AH51I/4DCC5B8F-FC79-428C-B73A-92225A75BDB7-256.png teacher development - Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement Also available on Amazon Professional Learning Communities at Work presents research-based recommendations drawn from the best practices found today in schools nationwide for continuously improving school performance. Coming from the perspectives of both a distinguished dean of education and one of America s most widely acclaimed practitioners, this resource provides specific, practical, how-to information about transforming schools into results-oriented professional learning communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472505735277-IWWU6739G6J3JL29TUSG/0BB376AB-B1E6-4721-83B3-807DED441B0B-256.png teacher development - Trusting Teachers with School Success: What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots Also available on Amazon Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if teachers are the answer and not the problem? What if trusting teachers, and not controlling them, is the key to school success? Examining the experiences of teachers who are already trusted to call the shots, this book answers: What would teachers do if they had the autonomy not just to make classroom decisions, but to collectively—with their colleagues—make the decisions influencing whole school success? Decisions such as school curriculum, how to allocate the school budget, and whom to hire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472505803528-KO41X71N8ITB15LYG5NR/8DB7463D-0D32-40E2-B419-F10346BFBCB4-256.png teacher development - Ten Things New Teachers Need to Succeed Also available on Amazon New teachers are almost always overwhelmed by everything they need to do. Ten Things New Teachers Need to Succeed helps novice educators focus on and excel at the tasks that get them off to a positive start. This is a quick reference tool on everything from writing rubrics to communicating with parents to planning for the unexpected. Filled with words of wisdom, practical advice, and action steps to achieve success, this powerful little booklet distills the teaching and consulting experience of Dr. Robin Fogarty, an international trainer of teachers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472506264855-80SK2588C8JQL7BMXU24/3ACEC4DC-99E3-4F40-8F91-55192AA97E32-256.png teacher development - Cultivating Social Justice Teachers: How Teacher Educators Have Helped Students Overcome Cognitive Bottlenecks and Learn Critical Social Justice Concepts Also available on Amazon Recognizing these are common experiences for teacher educators, the contributors to this book present their struggles and achievements in developing approaches that have successfully guided students to complex understandings of such threshold concepts as White privilege, homophobia, and heteronormativity, overcoming the “bottlenecks” that impede progress toward bigger learning goals and understandings. The authors initiate a conversation – one largely absent in the social justice education literature and the discourse – about the common content- and pedagogy-related challenges that social justice educators face in their work, particularly for those doing this work in relative or literal isolation, where collegial understanding cannot be found down the hall or around the corner. In doing so they hope not only to help individual teachers in their practice, but also strengthen social justice teacher education more systemically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472506339026-C4BDKHJMZW5LNGQA5Z41/8A289B50-BB2A-4618-B8EC-ABCDDEB241DA-256.png teacher development - Doing the Right Thing: A Teacher Speaks Also available on Amazon Who controls today's conversation about what education should be in the classroom? Bill Gates? Arne Duncan? Michelle Rhee? Media? Politicians? Who has gained more and more control of what actually goes on in the classroom? Bill Gates? Arne Duncan? Michelle Rhee? Media? Politicians? Why? Where are the voices of the thousands of talented and loved teachers whose classrooms should be models of what works regardless of the socioeconomic environment they are located. I am but one of many. Each of us has gotten to be who we are as teachers through our own set of circumstances. We, like all other professionals learn our craft through our experiences as well as our academic preparation. Some of us get to pass on what we have learned about our craft by becoming supervisors, mentors, or university lecturers. I have mentored new teachers. I have taught a graduate education class. But those endeavours have reached relatively few. I have even spawned new teachers, inspired by me, but those are even fewer. Initially it is why started writing this book. Much of it started as advice to give to my mentees. Then some suggested to me to write a book. So I did! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472506393175-PFAI38HXAUJ6Z72E0NHR/203AC4D3-2831-47B5-86FB-19C8792724A5-256.png teacher development - Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning Also available on Amazon Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world. The author offers concise and user-friendly summaries of the most successful interventions and offers practical step-by-step guidance to the successful implementation of visible learning and visible teaching in the classroom. Visible Learning for Teachers is a must read for any student or teacher who wants an evidence based answer to the question; ‘how do we maximise achievement in our schools?’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472570381076-ZXABGWWUR2R9WWTLTVWW/6FD3FEEE-658C-4353-9D6F-9853DC08B221-256.png teacher development - Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today's Classrooms Also available on Amazon Start Where You Are, But Don t Stay There addresses a crucial issue in teacher training and professional education: the need to prepare pre-service and in-service teachers for the racially diverse student populations in their classrooms. A down-to-earth book, it aims to help practitioners develop insights and skills for successfully educating diverse student bodies.The book centers on case studies that exemplify the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms. These case studies of white and African American teachers working (and preparing to work) in urban and suburban settings are presented amid more general discussions about race and teaching in contemporary schools. Informing these discussions and the cases themselves is their persistent attention to opportunity gaps that need to be fully grasped by teachers who aim to understand and promote the success of students of greatly varying backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472570510401-KBPUQW03LLUSO3YHRHDM/95F84889-FD21-4964-9D2D-221E892BFF0F-256.png teacher development - Teachers at Work: Achieving Success in Our Schools Also available on Amazon Provides a clear and powerful agenda for school reform and for the role of teachers in it. Captures the world of a bureaucratic school system that discourages good teaching and learning. Will help everyone in the task of school reform. Chapters: teaching -- the privilege and the price; the politics of space and supplies; building bridges between home and school; teaching and learning in a bureaucratic school; the reality of isolation and the search for collaboration; the teacher in governance; forging stronger cultural bonds; investing in teachers1 growth; putting a premium on good teaching; and keeping good teachers teaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472570614221-CVR9J2O2PE9G9J5MMBJK/442D69FF-3CF2-4779-B3DA-69EA9B0093AB-256.png teacher development - Up the Down Staircase Also available on Amazon Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom. Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose dash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents—anyone concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472570741623-EJ9BWZHC9A04RFUCTJIE/D5F8CD9A-ADC0-4779-9DE0-1EA2B33FE015-256.png teacher development - Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next Also available on Amazon In Comprehension Going Forward, you'll meet up with 17 leading practitioners and researchers for an energetic, personal, and frequently irreverent conversation on what great comprehension instruction looks like, what an amazing range of applications it has for all students, and what we can do better. Not only do figures such as Susan Zimmerman and P. David Pearson include their own chapters, but, like any exciting conversation, they point out their favorite parts of one another's chapters-highlighting discussion topics for teacher study groups along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472570820184-3DBX1R97BGOMMCIVR6NF/1C4B98C6-9C79-4D1C-BEBD-61186945D7F4-256.png teacher development - No Place But Here: A Teacher's Vocation in a Rural Community Also available on Amazon Weaving anecdotal narrative with trenchant reflections on his profession, Garret Keizer offers one teacher's answer to the hue and cry over the crisis in education. An English teacher in rural Vermont, he writes of the opposing realities he faces every day: the promise and energy of the young and the oppressive effect of their economic disadvantages; the beauty of the countryside and its people and the harsh, sometimes ugly edge of life there; the need for discipline and the importance of rebellion. In exploring the demands peculiar to his own community, Keizer movingly depicts the difficulties-some triumphantly overcome, some overwhelming-that form the heart of teaching anywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472570920511-IRXUU0H7VYJ8NGEWF55T/949ADDB2-340E-4126-A5C9-67CD582603A8-256.png teacher development - The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other Also available on Amazon For parents and teachers who seek productive dialogues and collaborative alliances in support of the learning and growth of their children, this book will offer valuable insights, incisive lessons, and deft guidance on how to communicate more effectively. In The Essential Conversation, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot brings scholarship, warmth, and wisdom to an immensely important cultural subject—the way we raise our children. With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation—the dialogue between the most vital people in a child’s life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472571010487-H75K42DYP0T2DC5ZKC8X/49F22E4C-565B-4C98-B613-CDC97E3EEF3C-256.png teacher development - Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College Also available on Amazon Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472571132903-ZQRNK6LNT5FA0I417AC0/DC724D74-E715-4155-847B-7184319C2921-256.png teacher development - The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice, Third Edition Also available on Amazon The use of protocols has quickly spread from conferences and workshops to everyday school and university settings. Now in its third edition, this popular bestseller features substantial updates that take into account recent developments in the field of facilitative leadership. The authors have also added 11 totally new protocols, including the ''Peer Review Protocol'' and ''Looking at Student Work with Equity in Mind.'' ''My practice is continuously strengthened by The Power of Protocols, so I greedily picked up this new edition to find out what's new. If you are new to the use of protocols, this book will encourage you to use protocols purposefully. If you have been using protocols for a while, this book will enlarge your thinking about how protocols can help you with change management and issues of equity.'' -- Bena Kallick, Co-Director for the Institute for Habits of Mind and Program Director for Eduplanet21   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472571226766-9MXDGIFBVVVX0VRW63MO/F8B6416A-C3FF-4924-9822-4964BDA7BD6C-256.png teacher development - Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students Also available on Amazon An account of the author's personal awakening as a teacher, interspersed with the first-person stories of his students. It looks at what it means to be a teacher and a student in urban America, and deals with the critical moral issues teachers must face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472571410203-37ATSSG2C2BAHBVKW5AI/F763FEE0-93F1-43F1-9F0B-8EF32C8F6617-256.png teacher development - Classroom Conversations: A Collection of Classics for Parents and Teachers Also available on Amazon In Classroom Conversations, two generations of educators—a mother and daughter—point us to the great thinkers who have shaped their beliefs and practices in education, and who continue to influence teachers today. Nineteen essays by educators from Dewey to Delpit offer parents and new educators an education degree in a nutshell. The Milettas frame these touchstone texts with commentary explaining why these writers resonate for them, sharing not only the personal meanings they have derived from the selections but why these writings have endured in the field over time. Brief biographies set each author in context for the lay reader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472571554036-26Z3CNTPW15Y2CPMF0PL/FE2B6E98-E1C7-4735-A739-4B4E30217958-256.png teacher development - The Complete Teacher's Almanack: A Practical Guide to Every Day of the Year Also available on Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472571786870-4OU5NQR4DKGRSIV2HOPD/4F5C5C41-68D2-4987-B924-B2FC28C38789-256.png teacher development - Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Also available on Amazon The first edition of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to: Prepare for high-stakes situations, Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue, Make it safe to talk about almost anything, Be persuasive, not abrasive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472572326524-9M7JNMUSDUX5WPHZBE74/33988F14-AD4A-4729-A355-1F256E6CE117-256.png teacher development - Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets Also available on Amazon Many teachers enter the profession with a desire to "make a difference." But given who most teachers are, where they come from, and what pressure they feel to comply with existing school policies, how can they take up this charge? Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers’ sense of social justice and activism at various stages of their careers: White pre-service teachers typically enrolled in most teacher education programs, a group of new teachers attempting to integrate social justice into their teaching, and experienced educators who see their teaching and activism as inextricably linked. Teacher educator Bree Picower delves into each of these group’s triumphs and challenges, providing strategies and suggestions for all teachers along with her in-depth analysis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472572396602-RUNYRPDH6SO22A3JAK3P/B8A39089-4CEB-4173-8318-776417651493-256.png teacher development - Mentoring Novice Teachers: Fostering a Dialogue Process Also available on Amazon With suggestions on how to build trust and open lines of communication, this text helps prepare teachers for the important task of mentoring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472572484017-ZMJA5BRAS93WC32ZY8HR/7DF38F3B-982C-455D-A693-B2183F4B4CAD-256.png teacher development - The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching Also available on Amazon Based on The Skillful Teacher framework, this book is targeted to evaluators and supervisors who want a field-tested tool kit of strategies to improve, rather than remove, underperforming teachers. The text includes valuable legal notes and a model contract, case studies, assessment tools, and personal accounts of leaders in action. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/testing daily 0.75 2016-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472574571586-C98S6QMXVIX4EHUZ2T4B/AFFB4F5E-FF77-4611-9349-892DC6BC3107-256.png Testing - Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us Also available on Amazon How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated. Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472574571586-C98S6QMXVIX4EHUZ2T4B/AFFB4F5E-FF77-4611-9349-892DC6BC3107-256.png Testing - Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us Also available on Amazon How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated. Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472574675565-AGIYYQTQM5IHZHUIT9Q1/3E0A6604-ED24-46EB-9733-0816E8417C83-256.png Testing - Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right—Using It Well Also available on Amazon Classroom Assessment FOR Student Learning: Doing It Right–Using It Well is a combination textbook and workbook grounded in research shown to increase student motivation and learning through improved classroom assessment. This user-friendly, practical book is full of real-world examples of what assessment for learning looks like in today’s classrooms. Presented in a format appropriate for use by individuals or collaborative learning teams, the book has an exceptionally strong focus on integrating assessment with instruction through student involvement in the assessment process. Classroom Assessment FOR Student Learning comes packaged with an Activities and Resources CD and a Video Segments: Demonstrations & Presentations DVD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472574798120-E5R7RR1BMUYWC2GE8QXY/711DD2D9-5EEA-4F4F-AC93-200F74F8B65E-256.png Testing - So What Do They Really Know?: Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning Also available on Amazon In So What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Cris struggles to balance her student-centered instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations are realistic and practical; she understands that what isn't manageable isn't sustainable. Cris describes the systems and structure she uses in her own classroom and shows teachers how to use assessments to monitor student growth and provide targeted feedback that enables students to master content goals. She also shares ways to bring students into the assessment cycle so they can monitor their own learning, maximizing motivation and engagement. Teachers will recognize their own students and the challenges they face as they join Cris on the journey to figure out how to raise student achievement. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-70 daily 0.75 2016-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472573131875-X6XZUEMAG4XY0PO4TMII/160DB540-411B-4C9D-B6A6-AD9693E0052D-256.png Teacher Development 2 - Teacher Induction Available on online The following articles are included in this publication on beginning teacher induction: (1) "The Teacher Induction Process: Preserving the Old and Welcoming the New. An Introduction" (Judy Reinhartz); (2) "A Synthesis of Research on Teacher Induction Programs and Practices" (Leslie Huling-Austin); (3) "School-Building-Level Variables and the Induction of New Teachers" (James D. Greenberg and Maurice C. Erly); (4) "Characteristics of Beginning Teachers in an Induction Context" (Sandra J. Odell); (5) "Providing Effective Induction Program Support Teachers: It's Not as Easy as It Looks" (Louise Bay Waters and Victoria L. Bernhardt); (6) "Independent Action: Case Studies of Its Role in Beginning Teachers' Induction (Carol P. Etheridge); (7) "Multiple Support: A Promising Strategy for Effective Teacher Induction" (Marvin A. Henry); (8) "Beginning Teachers: Sink or Swim?" (Leonard J. Varah, and others); and (9) "The Effects of a Planned Induction Program on First-Year Teachers: A Research Report" (Alvah M. Kilgore and Julie A. Kozisek). "Teacher Induction: An Annotated Bibliography" (John M. Johnston) is appended. (JD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472573131875-X6XZUEMAG4XY0PO4TMII/160DB540-411B-4C9D-B6A6-AD9693E0052D-256.png Teacher Development 2 - Teacher Induction Available on online The following articles are included in this publication on beginning teacher induction: (1) "The Teacher Induction Process: Preserving the Old and Welcoming the New. An Introduction" (Judy Reinhartz); (2) "A Synthesis of Research on Teacher Induction Programs and Practices" (Leslie Huling-Austin); (3) "School-Building-Level Variables and the Induction of New Teachers" (James D. Greenberg and Maurice C. Erly); (4) "Characteristics of Beginning Teachers in an Induction Context" (Sandra J. Odell); (5) "Providing Effective Induction Program Support Teachers: It's Not as Easy as It Looks" (Louise Bay Waters and Victoria L. Bernhardt); (6) "Independent Action: Case Studies of Its Role in Beginning Teachers' Induction (Carol P. Etheridge); (7) "Multiple Support: A Promising Strategy for Effective Teacher Induction" (Marvin A. Henry); (8) "Beginning Teachers: Sink or Swim?" (Leonard J. Varah, and others); and (9) "The Effects of a Planned Induction Program on First-Year Teachers: A Research Report" (Alvah M. Kilgore and Julie A. Kozisek). "Teacher Induction: An Annotated Bibliography" (John M. Johnston) is appended. (JD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472573345128-F0HFHKWQZG6I035YXSWB/CEC349D7-25A1-4F4A-B602-0781D57E65DD-256.png Teacher Development 2 - High-Performance Mentoring Facilitator's Guide: A Multimedia Program for Training Mentor Teachers Also available on Amazon This book is part of a multimedia program designed to help school administrators deliver comprehensive mentor teaching training workshops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472573857207-NX4AEOTYMLZKZFVY6Y55/8C485A91-C2E7-45CE-AF54-E12B15F468B8-256.png Teacher Development 2 - Sharing Your Good Ideas: A Workshop Facilitator's Handbook Also available on Amazon More and more teachers are facilitating workshops and planning presentations for their colleagues. Not only are school districts calling upon teachers to provide valuable ideas for staff development, but teachers themselves are becoming more active in sharing and working with others.Sharing Your Good Ideas describes presentation and workshop ideas and strategies designed to help today's educators organize and conduct effective presentations for other teaching adults. It is written for those with little or no experience in workshop facilitation, but even the most experienced presenter will find the ideas valuable. Full of common sense advice and strategies that are practical, useful, and effective, the book provides teachers with presentation guidelines and materials based upon adult education and learning principles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472573963759-2YCPT84119ZNYTZANMLB/C48631C2-ABD7-4E40-ACD2-9160E5F4BCA8-256.png Teacher Development 2 - This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education Also available on Amazon José Vilson writes about race, class, and education through stories from the classroom and researched essays. His rise from rookie math teacher to prominent teacher leader takes a twist when he takes on education reform through his now-blocked eponymous blog, TheJoseVilson.com. He calls for the reclaiming of the education profession while seeking social justice. José Vilson is a middle school math educator for in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED / Future of Teaching, and his work has appeared in Education Week, CNN.com, Huffington Post, and El Diario / La Prensa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472574021463-6EB6U446UDQ3L5CBH57P/C73A81C7-DF72-4A0E-9176-9D7D5FC1D430-256.png Teacher Development 2 - Urban Teaching: The Essentials Also available on Amazon This bestselling guide to urban teaching has been updated and revised to reflect today's challenges, including testing pressures, inclusive classrooms, and helping second language learners. Lois Weiner, a highly regarded teacher with years of experience supervising new teachers in urban and suburban schools, provides invaluable "insider" recommendations for thriving in culturally diverse classrooms and coping with school realities ranging from overcrowded classes and a lack of appropriate materials to frustrating bureaucracy and school violence. This guide is an invaluable resource for teacher educators and essential reading for teachers at all grade levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472574124908-MMMUV2R566ZB2A6PIQWK/329009A6-A4A6-4D3F-9A95-533EFC55235B-256.png Teacher Development 2 - The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher Also available on Amazon Over 3 million copies have been sold of the preeminent book on classroom management and teaching for lesson achievement. The book walks a teacher, either novice or veteran, through the most effective ways to begin a school year and continue to become an effective teacher. This is the most basic book on how to teach. Every teacher and administrator needs to have a copy. The book is used in thousands of school districts, in over 65 countries, and in over 1000 college classrooms. It works and it s inspiring. Included in this 3rd edition is a free 38 minute Enhanced CD, Never Cease to Learn. This bonus CD features Harry Wong with a special introduction by Rosemary Wong. The motivational message delivered is one all educators must hear and see. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/critical-social-theory daily 0.75 2016-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472575929513-73SAOXKTFT3EKHW0QD5V/0AFA8E11-088D-4C82-8F7B-7E45B2F74589-256.png Critical Social Theory - The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood Also available on Amazon The Long Shadow focuses on children who grew up in west Baltimore neighborhoods and others like them throughout the city, tracing how their early lives in the inner city have affected their long-term well-being. Although research for this book was conducted in Baltimore, that city’s struggles with deindustrialization, white flight, and concentrated poverty were characteristic of most East Coast and Midwest manufacturing cities. The experience of Baltimore’s children who came of age during this era is mirrored in the experiences of urban children across the nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472575929513-73SAOXKTFT3EKHW0QD5V/0AFA8E11-088D-4C82-8F7B-7E45B2F74589-256.png Critical Social Theory - The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood Also available on Amazon The Long Shadow focuses on children who grew up in west Baltimore neighborhoods and others like them throughout the city, tracing how their early lives in the inner city have affected their long-term well-being. Although research for this book was conducted in Baltimore, that city’s struggles with deindustrialization, white flight, and concentrated poverty were characteristic of most East Coast and Midwest manufacturing cities. The experience of Baltimore’s children who came of age during this era is mirrored in the experiences of urban children across the nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582017873-68ULF5TU5P1BIZ4ILQM9/06CC226A-2023-436E-A5B7-AE857C795D18-256.png Critical Social Theory - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Also available on Amazon Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582101817-VPZNUPM0H0DRFPHNC9GK/C09CF0DF-B6D4-437A-ABB3-9D38B04CFEED-256.png Critical Social Theory - Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure, and Survival Also available on Amazon In the minds of many, black street speech—the urban dialect of black Americans—bespeaks illiteracy, poverty, and ignorance. John Baugh challenges those prejudices in this brilliant new inquiry into the history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech. In doing so, he successfully integrates a scholarly respect for black English with a humanistic approach to language differences that weds rigor of research with a keen sense of social responsibility. Baugh's is the first book on black English that is based on a long-term study of adult speakers. Beginning in 1972, black men and women in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, and Houston were repeatedly interviewed, in varied social settings, in order to determine the nature of their linguistic styles and the social circumstances where subtle changes in their speech appear. Baugh's work uncovered a far wider breadth of speaking styles among black Americans than among standard English speakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582239981-USJ7MGV8PZU7BNDWPPS1/13B8AF26-2F2E-4103-A125-E2F41A681EBB-256.png Critical Social Theory - I'm Not a Racist, But ...: The Moral Quandary of Race Also available on Amazon Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in the racial domain reduces the term's power to evoke moral outrage. In "I'm Not a Racist, But . . .", Blum develops a historically grounded account of "racism" as the deeply morally charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of color can be racist, defines types of racism, and identifies debased and inappropriate usages of the term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582305273-2Q4U4CONHVQXYE7S5GJP/C44A835F-7EBF-40BC-BB6E-85E8DA474F53-256.png Critical Social Theory - Theatre of the Oppressed Also available on Amazon The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components—imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control—serve up to support the status quo of a society rather than facilitate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582385733-2LB1VVBUPDJHZQT9LDAH/C74891D2-D418-4C83-891D-A83E3F49792F-256.png Critical Social Theory - Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta Also available on Amazon A serious but often overlooked impact of the random, unplanned growth commonly known as sprawl is its effect on economic and racial polarization. Sprawl-fueled growth pushes people further apart geographically, politically, economically, and socially. Atlanta, Georgia, one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, offers a striking example of sprawl-induced stratification."Sprawl City" uses a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze and critique the emerging crisis resulting from urban sprawl in the ten-county Atlanta metropolitan region. Local experts including sociologists, lawyers, urban planners, economists, educators, and health care professionals consider sprawl-related concerns as core environmental justice and civil rights issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582469347-XTTOZ2MQP866V6CKDAX5/C12C5279-8A33-4ACB-99DA-FC9444236EDD-256.png Critical Social Theory - Keywords for American Cultural Studies Also available on Amazon Collaborative in design and execution, Keywords for American Cultural Studies collects sixty-four new essays from interdisciplinary scholars, each on a single term such as "America," "body," "ethnicity," and "religion." Alongside "community," "immigration," "queer," and many others, these words are the nodal points in many of today's most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life, both inside and outside of the academy. Here are essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory. Some entries are explicitly argumentative, others are more descriptive. Throughout, readers will find clear, challenging, critically engaged thinking and writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582529434-AZ1OGELZET4C0DR5RB6O/DD45B3E0-FD4D-4141-B35A-25DE8F5078EA-256.png Critical Social Theory - Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice Also available on Amazon Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582623692-R5D3C5OUWKTROAEN1564/C6CCB3A5-8053-4EE4-A815-22D51C1695DF-256.png Critical Social Theory - Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream Also available on Amazon Bait and Switch highlights the people who’ve done everything right—gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés—yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today’s ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their “surplus” employees—plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly disposable workers—and little security even for those who have jobs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472582729556-DN4EEWXE0C1CG7QEL6ZX/6706323F-6412-45B4-8493-7873D54ACA70-256.png Critical Social Theory - The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults Also available on Amazon New research on unseen members of "Generation X"- Based on interviews with hundreds of African-American, white, and Latino men and women ages twenty-three to twenty-five in two large eastern cities (Buffalo, New York, and Jersey City, New Jersey), The Unknown City introduces members of Gen X who have been overlooked by the media. It describes their views —more often divergent than complementary —on race, affirmative action, jobs, domestic violence, education, and their communities, and reveals their struggles, hopes, and insights. This book will help shape key debates about policy and community."An ambitious look at those members of Generation X who are too often ignored. . . . Without preaching, they give readers a sense of the obstacles faced by Americans who must do without. This bleak and often poignant volume offers important insights into a critical but often overlooked part of our youth culture."—Kirkus Reviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472583090204-NE9UW7VAGSXUXZNFVCN5/77AC3B11-DA5A-46B1-8367-3D19B5B2B25A-256.png Critical Social Theory - Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Also available on Amazon In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472583326628-5DJZMCAMHPGNB1G6FST2/1C414CC5-5721-478B-9716-6E4D7EDD9FEE-256.png Critical Social Theory - Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Also available on Amazon In Power/Knowledge this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent — and terrifying — portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472583397076-7E5U3MNWCR3NI8RI0XO7/D0177D68-BC08-4DDC-AB8C-8BF69C458A57-256.png Critical Social Theory - Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities Also available on Amazon What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other? Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart and the American urban design firm Rothschild Doyno Collaborative as guides, Fullilove takes readers on a tour of successful collaborative interventions that repair cities and reconnect communities to make them whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472583608850-XJ3FCFTIOT1GUKXC5EAT/C1BA35DA-F25D-4B73-887C-8AD1CEC4C030-256.png Critical Social Theory - Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth Also available on Amazon The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people’s educational experience and well being. Inspired by the conviction that urban youth have the right to more equitable educational and social resources and political representation, Beyond Resistance! offers new insights into how to increase the effectiveness of youth development and education programs, and how to create responsive youth policies at the local, state, and federal level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472584110479-RQ7X0LJU3FWEP0QY7ZMO/3705EB1E-3CE4-4405-9C79-2CABBECA8272-256.png Critical Social Theory - Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America Also available on Amazon This book examines the historical and current practices of rebuilding abandoned and disinvested communities in America. Using a community in East Baltimore as an example, Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore shows how the social structure of race and class segregation of the past contributed in the creation of our present day urban poor and low-income communities of color; and continue to affect the way we rebuild these communities today. Specific to East Baltimore is the presence of a powerful and prestigious medical complex which has directly and indirectly affected the abandonment and rebuilding of East Baltimore. While it has grown in power and land over the past 100 years, the neighborhoods around it have decreased in size and capital, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. The author offers a critical analysis of the relationships between powerful private institutions like the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and government and their intention in rebuilding urban communities by asking the question “How do we determine equity in benefit?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472584212668-8F8VOLC3M2DOAOGC7AEO/E7397EC0-1B8C-4B92-AEAA-12B53651C54E-256.png Critical Social Theory - Growing Up Absurd Also available on Amazon Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s surprise success established him as one of America’s most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hands-on way with words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472584421952-37BQS25ZMPPHSNDS31FO/3FD3F96A-8F66-4FD7-ACD8-DA09FD96146A-256.png Critical Social Theory - The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader Also available on Amazon Language, Race and Ethnicity: A Reader an essential resource for all students of sociolinguistics, ethnic studies, linguistics, anthropology and intercultural studies. This accessible Reader collects in one volume the key readings on language, ethnicity and race. Roxy Harris and Ben Rampton introduce students to the current debates surrounding issues of language and diversity, colonialism and migration, identity and appropriation. Invaluable editorial material guides the student through different sections of the book, which look at how language is used in different ethnic groups and how such uses are discussed and reported. Using linguistic and cultural analysis, the Reader explores changing ideas of ethnicity and race around the world, and the ways in which these ideas shape human communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472584536324-KWCNDCBSUWSL5QU8Y2WE/2F6ACA3F-9F3B-4A9A-888F-B87ACE0DC3C2-256.png Critical Social Theory - Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans Also available on Amazon We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)—the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their disembodied expertise to transactions between humans, as in health care, education, customer relations, and human resources management. And yet there are industries with more human approaches, as Head illustrates with specific examples, whose lead we must follow and extend to the mainstream American economy. Mindless illustrates the shortcomings of CBS, providing an in-depth and disturbing look at how human dignity is slipping as we become cogs on a white collar assembly line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472584645368-H23PB57343UOYY2X0OMG/41C281C8-D3B7-4B85-ABF1-337A5A8EB01C-256.png Critical Social Theory - Where We Stand: Class Matters Also available on Amazon Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472584765807-RQI7QTYYEKSE0PBM97QA/A41972F5-259E-405A-80C9-4B847B8EFF1B-256.png Critical Social Theory - There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America Also available on Amazon There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to dodge bullets the way kids in the suburbs learn to chase baseballs. "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," says Lafeyette at one point. That's if, not when--spoken with the complete innocence of a child. The book's title comes from a comment made by the brothers' mother as she and author Alex Kotlowitz contemplate the challenges of living in such a hostile environment: "There are no children here," she says. "They've seen too much to be children." This book humanizes the problem of inner-city pathology, makes readers care about Lafeyette and Pharoah more than they may expect to, and offers a sliver of hope buried deep within a world of chaos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472584864485-UDML13EDKVX6BKEAYGB4/8D7C8BFF-3083-4A9B-960A-BEE971EFBCD8-256.png Critical Social Theory - Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Also available on Amazon Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he also introduces us to devoted and unselfish teachers, dedicated ministers, and—at the heart and center of the book—courageous and delightful children. The children we come to meet through the friendships they have formed with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. Amidst all of the despair, it is the very young whose luminous capacity for love and transcendent sense of faith in human decency give reason for hope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472585186365-VNFPGVQL7KXCRR0AG4DD/DB3EE7F3-4089-4269-AC0B-15E9F3E657D2-256.png Critical Social Theory - Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. 2 Also available on Amazon Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472585323968-870DYOZVSOPCFEARRE6O/F335848B-584A-4B78-9354-67AF0C087454-256.png Critical Social Theory - Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. 3 Also available on Amazon Offers suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, and tells how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472585405957-YPSD8587FWSJ7C9PZZUX/FC813597-10D7-4348-B10C-26CADD876BAE-256.png Critical Social Theory - Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. 4 Also available on Amazon Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472585558382-2DPZJG02XH5LN4PRCUU6/A1489E4B-7485-4FDD-9356-2024594344C7-256.png Critical Social Theory - Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics Also available on Amazon Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable progress (such as scores and levels), and engaging sounds and visuals? These game mechanics would make meetings more effective and more enjoyable — even fun. Lerner reports that institutions as diverse as the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and grassroots community groups are already using games and game-like processes to encourage participation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472585645259-MIVU0BIMCFNV9HN3CNKG/F95E5FB3-1ABF-469F-B70F-6F2FCF5236CC-256.png Critical Social Theory - The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City Also available on Amazon Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are reshaping cities in the United States and around the globe. Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of neoliberal urban policies on housing, economic development, race, and education, Lipman explores larger implications for equity, justice, and "the right to the city". By examining the cultural politics of why and how these relationships resonate with people's lived experience, Lipman pushes the analysis one step further toward a new educational and social paradigm rooted in radical political and economic democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472586031937-4P1HAHMRZA11N77QUF13/A35F8842-53EB-4984-9606-27E985DE0395-256.png Critical Social Theory - White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race Also available on Amazon Exploring the social, and specifically legal origins, of white racial identity, Ian F. Haney Lopez here examines cases in America's past that have been instrumental in forming contemporary conceptions of race, law, and whiteness. In 1790, Congress limited naturalization to white persons. This racial prerequisite for citizenship remained in force for over a century and a half, enduring until 1952. In a series of important cases, including two heard by the United States Supreme Court, judges around the country decided and defined who was white enough to become American. White by Law traces the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non- whiteness of others. Did light skin make a Japanese person white? Were Syrians white because they hailed geographically from the birthplace of Christ? Haney Lopez reveals the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opinion, and, most importantly, popular opinion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472586407587-OAQ3W1D0UNZ41UAHWIB5/E91E49E1-C566-4DC5-B4ED-5B30CE752F0F-256.png Critical Social Theory - Pipe Dream Blues: Racism and the War on Drugs Also available on Amazon Lusane argues that "the federal drug war being waged in the nation's capital is parallel to that waged against other communities nationwide and worldwide."--SF Bay Guardian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472586601046-9XVODKZOKNBW7AW9EE7Q/C2BBC652-1F10-4FDB-95CA-33CE4C4C1DD9-256.png Critical Social Theory - Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, 3rd Edition Also available on Amazon This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain’t No Makin’ It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the “Brothers” and the “Hallway Hangers.” Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic stereotypes. MacLeod’s return eight years later, and the resulting 1995 revision, revealed little improvement in the lives of these men as they struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground economy. The third edition of this classic ethnography of social reproduction brings the story of inequality and social mobility into today’s dialogue. Now fully updated with thirteen new interviews from the original Hallway Hangers and Brothers, as well as new theoretical analysis and comparison to the original conclusions, Ain’t No Makin’ It remains an admired and invaluable text. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472586743001-4EH7I5FQGQYSOM7LLS0B/2DDB7B57-847D-47B0-A3E2-91EB15101AA9-256.png Critical Social Theory - The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods Also available on Amazon The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community. This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/critical-social-theory-2 daily 0.75 2016-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472586958812-XW4Y8W3TOM0HCOB1ZE3F/C60183BE-BFFC-4370-AC1B-25D4BE5776B8-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Planning to Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood Also available on Amazon Planning to Stay offers a practical guide for members of a community to assess the place they live and take control of its development. It includes a total of 130 photos. "William Moorish and Catherine Brown are the most valuable thinkers in American urbanism today." - The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472586958812-XW4Y8W3TOM0HCOB1ZE3F/C60183BE-BFFC-4370-AC1B-25D4BE5776B8-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Planning to Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood Also available on Amazon Planning to Stay offers a practical guide for members of a community to assess the place they live and take control of its development. It includes a total of 130 photos. "William Moorish and Catherine Brown are the most valuable thinkers in American urbanism today." - The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472587319271-WSXUWHB9FAXN69X5UDQM/A0FA9B50-7686-49B4-B956-192DC798D00D-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality Also available on Amazon Orfield's new work, American Metropolitics, applies the next generation of cutting-edge research on a much broader scale. The book provides an eye-opening analysis of the economic, racial, environmental, and political trends of the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the United States—which contain more than 45 percent of the U.S. population. Using detailed maps and case studies, Orfield demonstrates that growing social separation and wasteful sprawling development patterns are harming regional citizens wherever they live. In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities. Through a combination of demographic research, state-of-the-art mapping, and resourceful, pragmatic politics, his groundbreaking book, Metropolitics, revealed how the different regions of St. Paul and Minneapolis pulled together to create a regional government powerful enough to tackle the community's problems of sprawl and urban decay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472587395325-NCCQCGCVMFPXQGXGW2YA/080DF395-09FD-4A2B-AAC0-72D426E44DCE-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City Also available on Amazon Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of "white flight" after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. Mr. Pietila's engrossing story is an eye-opening journey into city blocks and neighborhoods, shady practices, and ruthless promoters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472587513831-07FQUCTEOLVCXGWAE9B6/8B3F8841-8566-4AE5-8D9D-2024EA25CFF4-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America Also available on Amazon "This big-shouldered book, full of ardor...offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be."—The Los Angeles Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472587619701-7OESQ8O4MFXQXHFSKPRR/5EEA77F1-8F73-441A-8141-B449F586565C-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences Also available on Amazon Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472587749495-20KB2AFHXFLM9J31AZ04/DBAAAC0F-26A2-4875-A7C6-C7D40A97D97C-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation Also available on Amazon The Meaning of Difference, is a combined text-reader about the social construction of difference as that operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. It is premised on the conviction that similar processes are operating when we see difference of color, gender, class, and sexuality and that these processes likely also apply to other master statuses such as disability, ethnicity, or national-origin. Three framework essays provide the conceptual structure for the book. Each framework essay is followed by a set of readings that illustrate the concepts developed in the essays. Readings have been selected because they offer analyses that are generalizable to a variety of statuses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472587930574-IHTW76QQNI1FJIQZJWDP/DCC78C3E-1F39-498A-B71D-EADFE40342F9-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - The Working Poor: Invisible in America Also available on Amazon “Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor. They perform labor essential to America’s comfort. They are white and black, Latino and Asian—men and women in small towns and city slums trapped near the poverty line, where the margins are so tight that even minor setbacks can cause devastating chain reactions. Shipler shows how liberals and conservatives are both partly right–that practically every life story contains failure by both the society and the individual. Braced by hard fact and personal testimony, he unravels the forces that confine people in the quagmire of low wages. And unlike most works on poverty, this book also offers compelling portraits of employers struggling against razor-thin profits and competition from abroad. With pointed recommendations for change that challenge Republicans and Democrats alike, The Working Poor stands to make a difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472588060531-XUCBRNOTJSGYE2JBCFHM/B8BEBD9F-B81B-46C4-9EB3-3259CB455C65-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor Also available on Amazon In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto. From women who clean houses and prepare lunches for the local hospital to small-scale entrepreneurs like the mechanic who works in an alley; from the preacher who provides mediation services to the salon owner who rents her store out for gambling parties; and from street vendors hawking socks and incense to the drug dealing and extortion of the local gang, we come to see how these activities form the backbone of the ghetto economy. What emerges are the innumerable ways that these men and women, immersed in their shadowy economic pursuits, are connected to and reliant upon one another. The underground economy, as Venkatesh's subtle storytelling reveals, functions as an intricate web, and in the strength of its strands lie the fates of many Maquis Park residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472588125331-U1CHA08CWKZ1S9D6WHVD/737A754D-D0A6-47D9-B394-C755F8225774-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - The Story of the Negro Also available on Amazon The Story of the Negro is a history of Americans of African descent before and after slavery. Originally produced in two volumes, and published here for the first time in one paperback volume, the first part covers Africa and the history of slavery in the United States while the second part carries the history from the Civil War to the first part of the twentieth century. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery, worked menial jobs in order to acquire an education, and became the most important voice of African American interests beginning in the latter part of the nineteenth century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472588188265-BX41H3H6L1KVO2C7KM9D/F691827B-18AE-4C54-9907-FCF6B8275509-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class, and Gender Among Urban Youth Also available on Amazon There is much talk these days about school and community relations for adolescents, and yet little is known about life at the borders, much less the stories of the youth who sojourn between. This work aims to offer an understanding of the range of spaces within which youth are forming identities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472588331665-IO9F06JGOXO4AHAJ5RQ6/F4B91897-3076-4470-8103-8785D68584DC-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience Also available on Amazon This experiences as an English teacher in a high school in rural Georgia and discusses the development of Foxfire magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472588449064-HZ7RZUENHX2VP1VYA4DW/69022189-C539-4EF3-B3F3-DD8EFE482F39-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - A Short History of Progress Also available on Amazon Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century—a time of unprecedented progress—has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first century: How much longer can this go on? With wit and erudition, Ronald Wright lays out a-convincing case that history has always provided an answer, whether we care to notice or not. From Neanderthal man to the Sumerians to the Roman Empire, A Short History of Progress dissects the cyclical nature of humanity's development and demise, the 10,000-year old experiment that we've unleashed but have yet to control. It is Wright's contention that only by understanding and ultimately breaking from the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we avoid the onset of a new Dark Age. Wright illustrates how various cultures throughout history have literally manufactured their own end by producing an overabundance of innovation and stripping bare the very elements that allowed them to initially advance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472588579598-T1OT4CXEPL8XZ9BPHMR4/E9FDE749-4D52-4942-8390-9636B8BB203E-256.png Critical Social Theory 2 - The Historic Unfulfilled Promise Also available on Amazon His People's History of the United States has sold over two million copies and has altered how we see and teach history. A hero in word and deed, Zinn's views on freedom, fairness, history, democracy, and our own human potential are educational and transformative. In few places is the genius of his voice more crystallized and accessible than in the dozens of articles he penned for The Progressive magazine from 1980 to 2009, offered together here in book form for the first time. Whether critiquing the Barack Obama White House, the sorry state of US government and politics, the tragic futility of US military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, or the plight of working people in an economy rigged to benefit the rich and powerful, Zinn's historical clarity, unflappable optimism, and unshakable questions reverberate throughout The Historic Unfulfilled Promise: "Have our political leaders gone mad?" "What kind of country do we want to live in?" "What is national security?" "Do we have a right to occupy a country when the people of that country obviously do not want us there?" "Is not war itself terrorism?" "Should we not begin to consider all children, everywhere, as our own?" "Has the will of the people been followed?" The Historic Unfulfilled Promise is a genuine work of conscience, rich in ideas, charged with energy; an invaluable introduction for the uninitiated and a must-have for Zinn's fans. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/resources-1 daily 0.75 2024-01-19 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-4 daily 0.75 2017-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486493655660-KRMX9UB2KXC0S9AYXSB9/restorative+practices.jpg Advocacy Home Page - POSITIVE DISCIPLINE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486493655660-KRMX9UB2KXC0S9AYXSB9/restorative+practices.jpg Advocacy Home Page - POSITIVE DISCIPLINE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485884053281-LXCI7GHPOBQ2TCDHV0AP/20150722-DSC_2846.jpg Advocacy Home Page - DEMOCRATIC DECISION MAKING IN SCHOOLS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485541790282-PLDCIKZ3HQMY291N7W44/Umber+Teaching.jpg Advocacy Home Page - ANALYSIS OF TEACHER DEMOGRAPHICS We are in the midst of uncovering why there has been such a steep decline in the population of Black teachers in Baltimore City. Over the past decade the proportion of Black teachers in Baltimore’s teaching force has declined from 67% to 32%. We are analysing this trend using quantitative and qualitative data. Using the Freedom of Information Act, we obtained a database that shows teacher demographics for every teacher hired or employed from 2003 to 2016. TDP staff is working with a data analyst to go through the data on a school by school basis in order to generate ideas for how this trend could be reversed. From a qualitative point of view, TDP is collecting stories and making a video about how this change actually affected people. We have thus far interviewed over 20 teachers, education advocates and academics to determine some of the causes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485541865379-E7M1U8A0CV2M58JBW3RX/Community+School+Image.png Advocacy Home Page - COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Teachers’ Democracy Project got involved in the Community Schools Policy as a way to push for a more empowered model rather than a service provider model. TDP staff and fellows listened to teachers, parents, lead agencies, community schools coordinators and others on their thoughts about what would make this initiative better. We asked that the school system be more inclusive about discussions about school climate and to embrace more democratic decision-making—discussions that include the community schools initiative, but also look beyond the formally designated and funded community schools to look at the kinds of support that all schools need to begin the work of embracing this philosophy. Our ultimate hope was to push people to do the hard work of shifting school culture in the direction of inclusive decision-making; we need services that are integrated into the entire school, that include teachers, and that address deep needs holistically. We believe that the solutions require a move away from a pure service model of community schools to a community-empowered model in which families and teachers are in authentic partnership, and have the power to make decisions about how to address the needs they see in their neighborhood schools. We also acknowledge that this shift necessitates thoughtful processes, which will allow for healing, support and training for community members that bear the scars of generational disinvestment and systemic racism. At the same time, this shift requires a fundamental review of district office policies and procedures across multiple offices, and a willingness to engage in training around racial equity issues and communicating across cultural divides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486409467895-2G20T7B4J34VI3X7MU8I/student+rasing+hand.jpg Advocacy Home Page - Equity of Funding Charters were initially designed to be laboratories to bring innovation to public schools. The challenge is that instead of spreading the learning gained to all schools, they have become an institution that functions as an escape hatch for a small population of kids. TDP believes we instead need to fight for equity and adequacy of funding for every child. We were working alongside other groups, attending hearings and generally helping to get the word out in opposition to legislation that would have given charters more funding and the ability to take teachers out of the union. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485836058144-ULR1NAADGTEEAZ31DOVG/No+Trespassing+Sign.jpg Advocacy Home Page - School Closings In April and May 2015, we fought hard alongside George Mitchell and the Langston Hughes community against the closing of LHE. We fought for this because we had been studying the issue of school privatization and several of our fellows were eager to do more political work. We saw the closing as part of a larger movement to close schools in lower income neighborhoods while at the same time investing in charters. Though we were advocates, we were able to leave the responsibility for organizing to the Baltimore Algebra Project and Leaders for a Beautiful Struggle. Our role focused on raising awareness about the issues through our first major forum called: "The Human Face of Policy" which featured school stories and videos produced by fellows and staff, with a feature video focused on the LHE battle. We still have strong ties to the Park Heights education struggles.   http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/tdp-home-page-news-images daily 0.75 2017-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1500997025395-MR9GBZ8PI0ESCY5OGVQ2/3D3AC762-DD8A-40D5-8A56-6C68A3B3AF1A.JPG TDP Home page News images - Join Our Team - Education Advocacy Director - Full-Time TDP seeks an Education Advocacy Director to listen to and organize teachers, parents and community members around one or two TDP campaigns. Campaigns involve working with a team of teachers on school level projects, and, at the same time linking school level projects to each other, to training opportunities, and to TDP policy work. Current TDP campaigns include: social justice curriculum development, school climate change and restorative practices, democratizing school and district decision making. This position requires researching policy and education history to help inform campaigns, providing support as needed to project teams and attending meetings that occur during the day when team members may be teaching or unavailable, representing team perspectives at meetings, school board meetings and identifying partners and strategic connections. Because TDP has a small staff, this person must also be comfortable assisting with some tasks that pertain to day-to day operations. Apply Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1500997025395-MR9GBZ8PI0ESCY5OGVQ2/3D3AC762-DD8A-40D5-8A56-6C68A3B3AF1A.JPG TDP Home page News images - Join Our Team - Education Advocacy Director - Full-Time TDP seeks an Education Advocacy Director to listen to and organize teachers, parents and community members around one or two TDP campaigns. Campaigns involve working with a team of teachers on school level projects, and, at the same time linking school level projects to each other, to training opportunities, and to TDP policy work. Current TDP campaigns include: social justice curriculum development, school climate change and restorative practices, democratizing school and district decision making. This position requires researching policy and education history to help inform campaigns, providing support as needed to project teams and attending meetings that occur during the day when team members may be teaching or unavailable, representing team perspectives at meetings, school board meetings and identifying partners and strategic connections. Because TDP has a small staff, this person must also be comfortable assisting with some tasks that pertain to day-to day operations. Apply Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1497283327017-A4SXKN83DBMC15ZYS8BU/RP+2.image2.jpg TDP Home page News images - Summer Book Clubs @ the Impact Hub Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World, by Django Paris Thursday, July 27 & Aug. 3 6-7:30pm Facilitated by Sofia Vega-Ormeno The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein (Chapters 1, 2 and 5, epilogue) & other selected readings Thursday, Aug. 10 &17 (additional dates as needed) 5:00-6:30 Facilitated by Helen Atkinson Click here to register https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498774790150-TPBPZ9TP7VN64ONN16Y7/19243273_1961467327424203_6863767960985076406_o.jpg TDP Home page News images - Presentation and resources from 20 Years of Forgotten History Click here for the powerpoint, handouts and resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498772818742-G04C3S65GD0FKFSO3O11/19510510_1961367474100855_4916848444352861398_n.jpg TDP Home page News images - Presentation and notes from 20 Years of Forgotten History Click here for the powerpoint, handouts and resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485451304868-GRLEHT4AQBD6GYDAVE8W/Restorative+Practice.png TDP Home page News images - Training on Restorative Practices - Full!!! More trainings to follow Date: Saturday, Feb 5 from 2-5:30pm Location: Liberty Recreation Center - 3901 Maine Ave, Baltimore, MD 21207 This workshop is designed for teachers who are new to Restorative Practices or for those who want a refresher. The training will begin with an overview of the process and engage with teachers in problem solving and addressing the challenges of implementation. Snacks will be provided. This training is in partnership with Community Conferencing Center. Email democracyproject@icloud.com to learn more about future trainings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498774482451-5VI0VD62OKODWODVM8IK/19243273_1961467327424203_6863767960985076406_o.jpg TDP Home page News images - Presentation and notes from 20 Years of Forgotten History Click here for the powerpoint, handouts and resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498774504554-I41U75I6T520COYC386E/19243273_1961467327424203_6863767960985076406_o.jpg TDP Home page News images - Presentation and notes from 20 Years of Forgotten History Click here for the powerpoint, handouts and resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485452642336-HX9ETC859L3I1H82ZEQ4/RP+2.image.with+layer.png TDP Home page News images - Affective Communication Date: Tuesday Jan. 31 5:30-8pm Location: 1430 Carswell St. Baltimore, MD 21218 Space is limited. RSVP at democracyproject@icloud.com This workshop is designed for teachers to learn how to share observations and feelings in ways that reduce blame and create clear expectations.This training is in partnership with Community Conferencing Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485452163249-UWAH8S5KNH4ZT4WUM1EO/RP+2.image.with+layer.png TDP Home page News images - Affective Communication Date: Tuesday Jan. 31 5:30-8pm Location: 1430 Carswell St. Baltimore, MD 21218 Space is limited. RSVP at democracyproject@icloud.com This workshop is designed for teachers to learn how to share observations and feelings in ways that reduce blame and create clear expectations.This training is in partnership with Community Conferencing Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485452601935-2JTDQJANBUTYCLMYEWLA/RP+2.image.with+layer.png TDP Home page News images - Affective Communication Date: Tuesday Jan. 31 5:30-8pm Location: 1430 Carswell St. Baltimore, MD 21218 Space is limited. RSVP at democracyproject@icloud.com This workshop is designed for teachers to learn how to share observations and feelings in ways that reduce blame and create clear expectations.This training is in partnership with Community Conferencing Center. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/resources-2 daily 0.75 2017-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486401262045-TZ5MPD76WKSGKTJE4JFO/Balto_ed_building.jpg Resources - Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486401262045-TZ5MPD76WKSGKTJE4JFO/Balto_ed_building.jpg Resources - Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486400755695-LY393MJEH5K9QDRDU2P2/man-hands-reading-boy.jpg Resources - News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485834291567-3NXN0HOK6C1FAVP584MR/IMG_7495.jpg Resources - Readings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485833076208-DLUQWEULCYJ5CZVDVCTQ/Screen+Shot+2016-09-06+at+4.14.22+PM.png Resources - Teachers' Democracy Projects Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485833174029-H7QT8824X03J5ZGLC92E/HousesAndMoney-1+%281%29.jpg Resources - Baltimore Grassroots Curriculum Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485833285000-52XOJ6HHT986BQ105GYR/IMG_7726.png Resources - Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485880582971-0DXWSC1RTXXW9HSHFYVP/IMG_7169.JPG Resources - Our Videos http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/fellows-1 daily 0.75 2018-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485461457394-4OD4R0LHE9B9VKA56ED6/Natalia.JPG Fellows - Natalia Bacchus Natalia is focusing on creating a policy platform around restorative practices. She is doing work on designing an equity framework with other equity policy fellows who are advocating for a policy that requires the district to use an equity framework when developing policy and when making all major decisions so that sufficient resources are available to all students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485461457394-4OD4R0LHE9B9VKA56ED6/Natalia.JPG Fellows - Natalia Bacchus Natalia is focusing on creating a policy platform around restorative practices. She is doing work on designing an equity framework with other equity policy fellows who are advocating for a policy that requires the district to use an equity framework when developing policy and when making all major decisions so that sufficient resources are available to all students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1516414788127-IXU7ZATSX8JAKI5EYN7V/Jen+VanAusdall+Formal+photo+%282%29.jpg Fellows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1513693088291-G9SOAO7I3OT8367F0NYI/IMG_0005.jpg Fellows - Tyrone Barnwell Tyrone is working with a team at Alexander Hamilton to solidify the PTO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1516414847086-QL6D953BJ4K8LJAY6PTW/Jen+VanAusdall+Formal+photo+%282%29.jpg Fellows - Jennifer VanAusdall Jennifer is working with Jesse Shneiderman at Douglass High School on school climate issues. They are in charge of implementing a school-wide advisory period that contains community building circles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485461358697-KS0CKNFROEU3GJMZOG9U/Natalia.JPG Fellows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1513693187613-5KK3KVP7CFWO4JRJZMQF/IMG_0005.jpg Fellows - Tyrone Barnwell Tyrone is working with a team at Alexander Hamilton to solidify the PTO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485463476199-5VST7X7OTY8X18K4R9TF/Jamar.JPG Fellows - Jamar Day Jamar is doing work on designing an equity framework with other equity policy fellows who are advocating for a policy that requires the district to use an equity framework when developing policy and when making all major decisions so that sufficient resources are available to all students. He is focusing on creating a policy platform around community involvement in schools and wrap around supports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1510975037122-WCUBISJ42EC2QXZRU3GP/Edwin.JPG Fellows - Edwin Green Jr. Edwin is working to design an equity framework with other equity policy fellows who are advocating for a policy that requires the district to use an equity framework when developing policy and when making all major decisions so that sufficient resources are available to all students. He is conducting research around equity as it pertains to recruiting, retaining and supporting high quality teachers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485463884550-U1LYOCMMNYRUOHZEZ6UE/Keysha.JPG Fellows - Keysha Goodwin Keysha is a parent at Leith Walk Elementary. She is Vice President of the schools Parent Teacher Organization. She and have been working hard on recruitment of parents and raising awareness in the community about the PTO. They are now focused on gathering volunteers and parents to be a presence in the school so they can assist with behavior issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485465461994-4ZUKM15YBI3SH7T6MASE/Rosalyn.jpg Fellows - Rosalyn Taylor Roslyn is a parent at Leithwalk Elementary. They are the president and Vice President of their schools Parent Teacher Organization. They have been working hard on recruitment of parents and raising awareness in the community about the PTO. They are now focused on gathering volunteers and parents to be a presence in the school so they can assist with behavior issues.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485463316500-DFSTVLHEV0J6N2MIQRBU/Christyn.JPG Fellows - Christyn Wallace Christyn is working on creating a math curriculum about lead-- it's history, characteristics, statistics and its impact on the Baltimore community. She plans to engage her students in a year-long project focused on studying the lead issue specifically as it relates to lead levels in the drinking water of public schools. Students will conduct research, test water lead levels and engage in advocacy around lead in water quality for youth in Baltimore City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1509854201755-IJ8L573CY6ZYFVAZ6JP9/Kris+Sieloff.jpg Fellows - Kris Sieloff Kris is an ESOL teacher at Digital Harbor High School. She is conducting research to develop innovative methods to incorporate social justice themes and concepts into every-day lessons for low-level English Language Learners. She is exploring the impact of photography and other visuals that will increase learning and create a culturally relevant social justice curriculum for her students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1509854751306-2HSVGG1URNOL4BI11J7S/Bard_0.jpg Fellows - Patrick Oray Patrick is a teacher at Bard High School. He is working on a civic engagement curriculum that will provide opportunities for students to learn about the importance of civic engagement. Students will engage in weekly meetings, speaker series, and internships to connect with social justice projects in Baltimore. He is partnering with students to create a hub where Bard students, faculty, and families can get a practical education in effecting social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1510974896277-YNYVPC1T9OOCB18YIPQ6/Diamonte.JPG Fellows - Diamonte Brown Diamonte is working with Corey to tackle education funding inequity against Baltimore City Public Schools. Her work focuses on modifying current legislation, specifically House Bill 684, to ensure that educational funds promised to supplement district funding aren't being used instead to replace district funding, further enhancing decades long underfunding of city schools. She's partnering with fellow members of teacher's caucus BMORE and with equity policy fellows to conduct research and develop strategies around addressing adequate educational funding for city schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1511403939749-5IK8J4XG7JWV5VVVNQWK/IMG_8397.jpg Fellows - Trish Garcia Pilla Trish is working with a team focused on developing an equity policy. Her issue area is equity issues surrounding charter schools. Her research is part of a larger project that we hope will be implemented by the district https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1515708204345-8RZOFPHWW7VFSVXUWLAX/Screen+Shot+2017-11-24+at+9.01.43+AM.png Fellows - Corey Gaber Corey is working with Diamonte to tackle education funding inequity in Baltimore City Public Schools. His work focuses on modifying current legislation, specifically House Bill 684, to ensure that educational funds promised to supplement district funding aren't being used instead to replace district funding, further enhancing decades long underfunding of city schools. He's partnering with members of the teacher union caucus called BMORE and with TDP equity policy fellows to conduct research and develop strategies around addressing this issue of adequate educational funding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1513400765451-FC6X1FRVDOTFQYUAMU8G/Janice.jpg Fellows - Janice Hyman Janice is President of the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at Liberty Elementary School. Her fellowship is focused on bringing in more parents to help run the after school program, the food program and to meet other needs of students and families in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1513400816927-XF2MXCNQS1CH9V65L2DT/ZIta.jpg Fellows - Zita Harris Zita is Vice President of the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at Liberty Elementary School. Her fellowship is focused on bringing in more parents to help run the after school program, the food program and to meet other needs of students and families in the community. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-gallery-5 daily 0.75 2021-01-28 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/team daily 0.75 2019-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485879892170-XV8CE9UXR2XHOCIQ7596/banner+edited.jpg Our Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1541359131888-1W5YVSL4O6OTRKKYZZ9W/rebecca+yenawine+portrait+w+tulips.jpg Our Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1541358709257-AP9BC7QTUHNHJ25W1T6B/IMG_9159.JPG Our Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1541358386221-D6ZNVGS435O712IASVHF/IMG_1636.JPG Our Team http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/get-involved daily 0.75 2018-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1455944089377-2D1J09BXB8SKZW0GO4AL/story+circle+at+applebees.png Get Involved http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/curriculum-cui-bono daily 0.75 2016-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468507688678-1HWZ446UI2FTT8NTAN96/CurriculumPage.png Cui Bono? (Johns Hopkins and the Middle East neighborhood) http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/curriculum-houses-money daily 0.75 2016-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468507760479-0NME7TAXMXO5123RG90T/CurriculumPage.png Houses & Money https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468870676564-O30M84U1TKRO4YPKRMUC/image-asset.png Houses & Money http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/curriculum-urban-planning daily 0.75 2016-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468507881800-37ZSKVOAFDOHKTXXMJBG/CurriculumPage.png Urban Planning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468513914070-X45X0KTTMGAYC7EE8J3D/image-asset.jpeg Urban Planning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468513996782-SSRZ2SC7DGNUVNFTT43M/image-asset.png Urban Planning http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/curriculum-segeration daily 0.75 2016-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468507813523-IVU3MJKGGDCCMVHOCVEZ/CurriculumPage.png Segregation (Historical overview and news articles) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468512610688-2VA2ATINRHX4PNKR09JA/image-asset.jpeg Segregation (Historical overview and news articles) http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/curriculum-local-history daily 0.75 2016-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468507843862-8HJMAXFQKEIUB1AZUKP0/CurriculumPage.png Adventures in Local History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468513305276-VIL4MCHGEZNNSJULV4Z7/image-asset.jpeg Adventures in Local History http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/online-resources daily 0.75 2017-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1468507910804-L7O1W2BZ665DNL53YUCI/CurriculumPage.png Online Resources http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/gender-and-education daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472590863024-W83Y7R56JKAGXG2XMTTL/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Gender and Education http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/educational-psychology daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472590819681-K2D7MA3L480I3WEV9VE5/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Educational Psychology http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/test-page daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472590758420-BEJAIUX316QUHYVIWBPV/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Education Theory and History http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/guidance-and-counseling daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472590906531-JZFBDKLDYR2OXA9UJZ5K/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Guidance and Counseling http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/learning-theory-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472643979058-1AUAYC0S9IQ59K65D76R/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Learning Theory http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/instruction-and-pedagogy-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472590963523-MGIVT62DLHQWRI9D9Q84/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Instruction and Pedagogy http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/leadership-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472643823044-5R039CVVSLLMOGWW1KY5/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Leadership http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/literacy-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644019725-9D6CFRRDLSS95IW9I2YV/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Literacy http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/fellows daily 0.75 2018-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486142266221-IQV0O26AAWGI5HNDNU4J/Fellow+banner+edited.jpg Fellow Profiles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1545018713770-RRU8B3W4UBCJ8ZPRCGG3/Parent+Power+team.JPG Fellow Profiles Parent Fellows are learning about education policy, attending district events and speaking out about issues that concern them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1545150437875-4PW09LEQ176SGJI3O0YP/IMG_8046.JPG Fellow Profiles Teachers are writing week-long curriculum for the Black lives matter week of action which will be taught on February 3-10, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1545151351252-V705H1LDZR8BTKG179M2/Screen+Shot+2018-12-18+at+11.31.47+AM.png Fellow Profiles Educators, administrators and one parent come together to deepen practice and to think about how to deepen the work across the district. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/literature daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644049716-TPQJQ4FJV9ZTITT2Z1K9/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Literature http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/numeracy daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644085576-4QMSQSNM7P4UK5HRZI1D/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Numeracy http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/race-and-multicultural-education daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644129932-53HX507SUX1LYZ2UO31I/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Race and Multicultural Education http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/library-welcome daily 0.75 2017-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472588819968-GEBJ75VGOMU7GBLFMTBP/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg TDP Lending Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472834728112-8BM7OE3K4Y6FGYABD27V/IMG_7726.jpg TDP Lending Library http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/research-methodology daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644168362-UU0MS30K0AHSD7P5JTL9/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Research Methodology http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/school-reform daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644207139-WADSQB35MJVL7CWBK97S/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg School Reform http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/teacher-development daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644272405-VHSKCBGNZLTTOK6SYWBY/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Teacher Development http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/special-education-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644241432-H4GFZMYNTUKGOTEJVDGM/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Special Education http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/testing-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472644314167-VEEZ551M2W6BKH16LT50/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Testing http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/library-critical-social-theory daily 0.75 2016-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1472590312153-89JK0QWANMO0F1P08C42/IMG_7726+copy.+web.jpg Critical Social Theory http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/policy daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486401445516-8Z1SVVW395SEDB9GKSLT/board+banner.jpg Influencing District Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1499435042368-XHVSL2ARW1XILFJAQB2L/19511398_1960740420830227_5963512093793440663_n.jpg Influencing District Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1499960614571-EKWHFKKJLS8T1N5T5F9M/Corey.jpg Influencing District Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486489884518-JJ0VH746DQX5TAKJGMU1/main-qimg-7a789944486ef0f4308f33478210d970.jpeg Influencing District Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1475685659377-JJ6B9ABFNSBVQPWK7AA1/bal-md-msa-fort-worthion20110629185201.jpg Influencing District Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486489959275-NWLJVJ8P9LIMKTOQOHRW/baltimore-city-public-schools-administrative-offices.jpg Influencing District Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1475694985109-XBYP82KSP2TO5KXMWGHQ/footer_02.jpg Influencing District Policy http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/curriculum-from-new-york-city daily 0.75 2016-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1478106329937-L8Q0WTYM6XKFPBSSLMIF/CurriculumPage.png Curriculum from New York City http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/what-we-do daily 0.75 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485813047164-E6EY8A1FEL44LA3DPM6F/maha%27s+group.JPG What we do/Mission http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/tdp-fellows daily 0.75 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486158558592-F2RL47B9SVUB0PX8J0LN/Larry+and+group+darker.jpg Fellows Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485838427785-7QMNSQI9EYP6Q5YPHHTZ/IMG_0524.JPG Fellows Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485882847113-2A9YSA9VB508T3VEAJF8/DSC_1062.JPG Fellows Overview Fellows Application http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/equity-of-funding daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485840352334-64ZPVW4RBZHACPQYF44H/IMG_0418.JPG Equity of Funding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1705682602072-3FYIU3V5WMBP68TV68OM/image-asset.jpeg Equity of Funding - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/race-and-education daily 0.75 2017-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486406879422-O15OKQNWMI18UYSJEDJL/old+photo+of+black+students.jpg Race and Education http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/charter-schools daily 0.75 2017-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486407424820-0SDVYF4H9JOGP20KFX79/student+rasing+hand+edited.jpg Charter Schools http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/donate daily 0.75 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486743531321-ML4IMSVSKWNEHKBHJLFK/IMG_7700.JPG Donate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486743651007-6HL9HLD7A8X0ZHMNY02V/image-asset.jpeg Donate http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/20-years-of-forgotten-history daily 0.75 2017-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498776309680-MKHC550ICXMB1WYMVW16/Screen+Shot+2017-06-29+at+6.03.46+PM.png 20 Years of Forgotten History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498773190319-PYF463KLVSE2S60GVB2E/Screen+Shot+2017-06-29+at+5.51.37+PM.png 20 Years of Forgotten History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498776434211-F06P6Y74G6OOLCDXY2GR/Screen+Shot+2017-06-29+at+6.46.54+PM.png 20 Years of Forgotten History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498836894082-X1JD3LOW9V3HWYI1AZCS/image-asset.jpeg 20 Years of Forgotten History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498773669814-LY7SUFQD8WBAMSBM92GL/BTS+Nights+-+BEC+Ltr+to+Principals+-+June+2017.jpg 20 Years of Forgotten History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1498776892911-L7N3T3J336AE74I4HSNZ/image-asset.png 20 Years of Forgotten History http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/home-test-page daily 1.0 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485831121812-MXY11J6VGNQJW9SLET39/bird+telephone+line+full+pole+with+color+birds.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/7e314260-b68f-458f-8ec9-cbd20e9e0ab1/Family+Teacher+Partnerships+Spring+26.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/ceb1e94f-47a1-4b6a-ba68-60d9463a0f04/Parent+Power+Spring+26.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/3d54573d-0d97-4820-a3a8-3aa5e74d3f12/AROS+meeting+postcards.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485811621699-FXGX7NYAKYLRFPCHWMD3/fellows+meeting+1 Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1485829739280-AK6G9ZN8DP4S0N3H1JU1/12002600_1682007835370155_476300009801708078_o.jpg Home http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/high-school-circles daily 0.75 2018-07-12 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/education-issuesone-pagers-1 daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1538673457320-I0K43LXHOZSE5RTK1RSK/african_ethnicity_alone_black_boy_college_education_guy_head-959430.jpg%21d.jpeg Education Issues At a Glance http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/other-education-events-in-baltimore daily 0.75 2019-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1541388054126-2VSTFTF8AH3VTGAKJEHZ/IMG_7478.jpg Other Education Events in Baltimore http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/tdp-events daily 0.75 2021-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1537375822526-LN303CFNJOFDDEL9KIDT/IMG_7530.jpg Upcoming TDP Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1610044546200-7BHP0NCDT13GWC84R0V4/Copy+of+REopening+%2811%29.png Upcoming TDP Events http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/black-teachers daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1541385640667-TUBQGFTDQKJHUZO9H6GS/IMG_0740.JPG Black Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/e7ecbe15-13b7-454c-adca-9adad011e1ce/Image-12+%281%29.jpg Black Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/advocacy-overview daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1545152675573-MVA1L0I0V89S5WP39SWF/crowd%2Bduring%2Bintro.jpg Advocacy Overview http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/blm2021 daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645721899029-9NQMW6MT6V91O1ILB651/black-lives-matter-rally-near-white-house-photo-men-woman-holding-up-black-lives-matter-banner-123614296.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1705261073975-Z69TR94YWUJG2BREMISU/image-asset.jpeg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1705264701064-TM6M58XEWS6OLQHCKD80/image-asset.jpeg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1705265633182-65X1XIIC2SVVH1IBSRT5/image-asset.jpeg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1569522937757-MKX73KVKTMRQILIWWH51/12759716373_dcce49ff80_o.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1550025911411-VLK3EGO5OWZXKUNOX90H/equity+graphic+girl+reads.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1705267157346-LMFY5JJLTQ5D7X4YGT8T/image-asset.jpeg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1705267439300-1MG62IOIBFH68KH89QW5/image-asset.jpeg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611689548279-W9FUFY01QWRXLYJS8KAP/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-01-26%252Bat%252B2.17.39%252BPM.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611689133476-815E14V7KT6WFEHYGYAK/Screen+Shot+2021-01-26+at+2.25.08+PM.png Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611759662018-XV4TBVOC4B8IPIHID5C9/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-26%2Bat%2B2.30.58%2BPM.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611866115966-1PUEQMY6VAYUE1WV82F1/Screen+Shot+2021-01-28+at+11.46.40+AM.png Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611927286532-IVWYTL3LK3CVXZCLP66V/unnamed.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1612191804118-BH0UQ053O5EZPGW3ND0O/Screen+Shot+2021-02-01+at+10.02.57+AM.png Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1612386340919-76425UY24BH8TXEJ5P1D/Screen+Shot+2021-02-03+at+4.04.59+PM.png Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1612386058188-02R0702W1SINSVQO3XFH/Screen+Shot+2021-02-03+at+3.54.02+PM.png Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645720404536-XRZG1BFYS2IAX9T36OH1/Copy%2Bof%2B%252522Mother%2Bto%2BSon%252522%2Bby%2BLangston%2BHughes%2B%2528Grd%2B5%2529%252C%2B%2BBrown%2BBear%252C%2BBrown%2BBear%2B%2528K%2529%252C%2BGraffiti%2Bin%2BBaltimore%2B%2528Grd%2B6%2529.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645725086220-47SKPEMQYKUNOHW6Y4YF/istockphoto-1174987998-170667a.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645721899029-9NQMW6MT6V91O1ILB651/black-lives-matter-rally-near-white-house-photo-men-woman-holding-up-black-lives-matter-banner-123614296.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645721998183-LPVG513U0Z8PVO3C4FWB/istockphoto-1278055903-170667a.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645722231287-OW4X9VTES7VZ59V4WUWD/black-history-month-phila-gov-mural-arts.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645723782524-3WREXPK4DT52HDKF7IO3/Brown+Bear.+png.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1645722875825-BJYFZYAZJVOK652VU30J/istockphoto-1286506258-612x612.jpg Black Lives Matter Curriculum for Teachers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-28 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/blm2021-1 daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611689548279-W9FUFY01QWRXLYJS8KAP/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-01-26%252Bat%252B2.17.39%252BPM.jpg BLM Curriculum 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611689133476-815E14V7KT6WFEHYGYAK/Screen+Shot+2021-01-26+at+2.25.08+PM.png BLM Curriculum 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611759662018-XV4TBVOC4B8IPIHID5C9/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-26%2Bat%2B2.30.58%2BPM.jpg BLM Curriculum 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611866115966-1PUEQMY6VAYUE1WV82F1/Screen+Shot+2021-01-28+at+11.46.40+AM.png BLM Curriculum 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611927286532-IVWYTL3LK3CVXZCLP66V/unnamed.jpg BLM Curriculum 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1612191804118-BH0UQ053O5EZPGW3ND0O/Screen+Shot+2021-02-01+at+10.02.57+AM.png BLM Curriculum 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1612386340919-76425UY24BH8TXEJ5P1D/Screen+Shot+2021-02-03+at+4.04.59+PM.png BLM Curriculum 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1612386058188-02R0702W1SINSVQO3XFH/Screen+Shot+2021-02-03+at+3.54.02+PM.png BLM Curriculum 2022 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/parent-resource-room daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1497283327017-A4SXKN83DBMC15ZYS8BU/RP+2.image2.jpg Restorative Schools and Restorative Parenting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611927286532-IVWYTL3LK3CVXZCLP66V/unnamed.jpg Restorative Schools and Restorative Parenting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/parent-resource-room-copy daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1545152675573-MVA1L0I0V89S5WP39SWF/crowd%2Bduring%2Bintro.jpg Organizing at Schools http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/restorative-schools-and-restorative-parenting-copy daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1704990061485-2IA7AE2TUHSPTCBITHV4/00sl-active-bystander-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1611927286532-IVWYTL3LK3CVXZCLP66V/unnamed.jpg Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1499435042368-XHVSL2ARW1XILFJAQB2L/19511398_1960740420830227_5963512093793440663_n.jpg Overview http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/reports daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1531407203524-SBD3A0UKAEVSPUP6G6MD/IMG_0922.JPG Authentic Engagement in Decision Making http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1541385970014-ISU5RHJ12WGYH4O7X139/3D3AC762-DD8A-40D5-8A56-6C68A3B3AF1A.JPG School Closings http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/parent-and-teacher-relationships-1 daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1569522937757-MKX73KVKTMRQILIWWH51/12759716373_dcce49ff80_o.jpg Parent and Teacher Relationships https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1537375822526-LN303CFNJOFDDEL9KIDT/IMG_7530.jpg Parent and Teacher Relationships - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/people daily 0.75 2024-02-08 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/tdp-product daily 0.75 2017-02-10 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/tdp-product/tdp-tee-shirt monthly 0.5 2017-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486756119066-H8BIMLJS0A59T34UUHKR/IMG_8705-1.JPG TDP product - TDP Tee Shirt http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/tdp-product/the-privatization-of-schools-101 monthly 0.5 2017-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486756051709-YI8F0G43B16JT6NB7M5J/13516416_1781047782132826_85750206798180967_n.jpg TDP product - The Privatization of Schools: 101 http://www.tdpbaltimore.org/tdp-product/buttons monthly 0.5 2017-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/569fe03a05f8e2445cd4bfc9/1486755810438-9I63JXJ6EUSEID6KB08Z/IMG_7894.JPG TDP product - Buttons