Moving from Crisis Response to Positive School Culture
This much-needed book provides a practical framework for implementing school-wide restorative justice practices to enhance students' social emotional readiness. Amidst today's uncertainty and social unrest, this book offers teachers and students hope in the underlying principles of restorative justice that challenge us to be our best selves. ......
Innovative Approaches to Early Childhood and Teacher Education
Readers will find compelling perspectives on the world-renowned Reggio Emilia Approach (R) to early childhood education, with a unique focus on inspiring teacher preparation. This collection shares valuable learning experiences from graduates of the school-university partnership between University of Colorado Denver and Boulder Journey School. ......
Innovative Approaches to Early Childhood and Teacher Education
Readers will find compelling perspectives on the world-renowned Reggio Emilia Approach (R) to early childhood education, with a unique focus on inspiring teacher preparation. This collection shares valuable learning experiences from graduates of the school-university partnership between University of Colorado Denver and Boulder Journey School. ......
7 Community-Building Workshops for Teaching Language Arts (Grades 6-12)
The guided workshops depicted in this book offer seven, ready-to-implement instructional units that walk secondary language arts teachers through practical, day-one engagements to get writers collaborating and connecting with one another. By focusing on texts from a writer's point of view, Writer to Writer offers a humanizing and fresh vision for ......
Community-Engaged Learning in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights Education
This comprehensive book offers both theoretical and practical guidance for understanding and enacting community-engaged learning through peace, social justice, and human rights education. With a focus on new directions in peace, social justice, and human rights education, this book examines how local communities engage in collaboration with ......
Practices for Equitable Student Participation in ELA Classrooms
This practical book explores evidence-based practices that K-12 educators can use to encourage and support the participation of all students in classroom discussion. Research shows that when students participate in classroom discussions they grow cognitively, socially, and academically. Let's Discuss offers guidance for creating classrooms ......
Supporting Diversity and Enhancing Democracy in Education
Many of the nation's most eminent education scholars and researchers describe constructive and effective ways to respond to and resist the attacks on diversity and multicultural education and to support democracy. In this timely volume, James A. Banks and a stellar group of contributors push back on the national and cogent attacks on diversity ......
Supporting Diversity and Enhancing Democracy in Education
Many of the nation's most eminent education scholars and researchers describe constructive and effective ways to respond to and resist the attacks on diversity and multicultural education and to support democracy. In this timely volume, James A. Banks and a stellar group of contributors push back on the national and cogent attacks on diversity ......
Successful Teachers of African American Children, Comic Edition
This graphic novel is a beautiful reimagining of the classic text about reaching and teaching African American children. The Dreamkeepers has been a perennial favorite with teachers and programs of teacher education for over 30 years. Like the original work, this comics version blends scholarship and storytelling to document the practices of ......