Harvard Education Press: 98 books
Teacher Learning in the Digital Age
Online Professional Development in STEM Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
With an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training, Teacher Learning in the Digital Age examines exemplary models of online and blended teacher professional development, including information on the structure and design of each model, intended audience, and existing...
The Behavior Code Companion
Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Since its publication in 2012, The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students has helped countless classroom teachers, special educators, and others implement an effective, new approach to teaching focused on skill-building, practical interventions,...
A Reason to Read
Linking Literacy and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A Reason to Read is the culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, an ambitious and wide-ranging collaborative that aims to promote literacy through rich and sustained instruction in the arts.
At the heart of the book is the “Performance Cycle,” a flexible framework for curriculum and...
Adolescents at School
Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
As any teacher or parent knows, adolescence is a time when youth grapple with the question, “Who am I?” Issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability can complicate this question for young people, affecting their schoolwork and their relationships with teachers, family,...
Improving the Odds for America's Children
Future Directions in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This landmark volume commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Children’s Defense Fund, which has been an uncompromising champion of American youth for all of those years. Yet the book looks not to the past but at our current circumstances—and at the challenges we must meet now and in the future...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Cage-Busting Teacher adopts the logic of Cage-Busting Leadership and applies it to the unique challenges and opportunities of classroom teachers. Detailed, accessible, and thoroughly engaging, it uncovers the many ways in which teachers can break out of familiar constraints in order to influence...
Manga High
Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City’s largest high schools.
Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manhattan have been creating manga—Japanese...
High Schools, Race, and America's Future
What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
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...
Urban School Reform
Lessons from San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
An indispensable book for administrators, policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, Urban School Reform presents a revealing portrait of reform efforts while identifying the full range of issues that education reformers will need to address in districts across the country in the years ahead.
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From the Courtroom to the Classroom
The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
From the Courtroom to the Classroom examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States.
As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a “general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening...
Ready, Willing, and Able
A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college goers? In Ready, Willing, and Able, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that young people need to develop in order to plan...
Portraits of Promise
Voices of Successful Immigrant Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
By 2040, more than 30 percent of students in the United States will be immigrants or the children of immigrants.
What factors can help these young people thrive in school, despite the many obstacles they face? And how can school staff best support immigrant students’ academic and personal...
Visual Thinking Strategies
Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
"What’s going on in this picture?"
With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method...
Real Leaders, Real Schools
Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Real Leaders, Real Schools tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools through profound and transformative changes. In each of these cases, their efforts resulted in dramatic improvements in student achievement—improvements that occurred within the current environment...