Teachers College Press: 606 books
After the "At-Risk" Label
Reorienting Educational Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book examines how the use of the “at-risk” category and label creates problems for students and teachers. Drawing from research across various education sites, the author illustrates how educators recognize the label’s potential to redress issues of equity, but warns that it can...
Socially Responsible Literacy
Teaching Adolescents for Purpose and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a new vision for teaching literacy to adolescents that moves beyond reading for its own sake and toward reading as a way to motivate students to connect with their world. The authors draw on the voices of adolescent readers to discover how teachers can encourage their students to...
Harlem on Our Minds
Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“One of the many attributes of this book is the wide range of voices, perspectives, and literacy practices that are brought together to illuminate conditions of living and learning at the intersection of race and place. . . . Harlem is in focus in this book, but it is merely a placeholder...
Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World
Multicultural Education for Young Children, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can we create truly multicultural classrooms? In this new edition of her popular text, renowned early childhood educator Patricia Ramsey draws on a wide range of research and practice from different communities around the world to further explore the complexities of raising and teaching young...
The ELL Writer
Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“By respecting the intelligence of multilingual writers, this book helps teachers capitalize on the resources those students bring into the classroom. District secondary curriculum coordinators should make sure every teacher in every discipline has this book, and every university course about...
Courageous Leadership in Early Childhood Education
Taking a Stand for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this inspiring collection, 13 early childhood leaders take action to challenge and change inequitable educational practices in preschools and elementary schools. For them, educating for social justice is not an empty platitude. Steadfast and resolute, they turn rhetoric into reality as they guide...
Teaching Mathematics to the New Standard
Relearning the Dance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With refreshing candor, Ruth Heaton, an elementary mathematics educator with ten years of experience, describes and traces her efforts to change her teaching practice in response to current national reforms in mathematics education. Part of what makes this account so compelling is that Heaton explores...
Teaching, A Life's Work
A MotherDaughter Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A must-read for new teachers and seasoned practitioners, this unique book presents Sonia Nieto and Alicia López, mother and daughter writing about the trajectories, vision, and values that brought them to teaching, including the ups and downs they have experienced and the reasons why they have stubbornly...
Mi Padre
Mexican Immigrant Fathers and Their Children's Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mi Padre centers on the promise of parent involvement practices that build upon the range of linguistic and sociocultural resources that Latin immigrant students and their families bring to school. Through the experiences of Mexican immigrant fathers and their children, this book illustrates the need...
by Janice A. Dole, Brady E. Donaldson, Rebecca S. Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This teacher-friendly resource addresses one of the most important critical reading skills in the Common Core State Standards—reading across multiple texts. As the world grows ever more complicated, students more than ever need to become skillful at reading multiple sources, comparing, contrasting,...
Schools of Promise for Multilingual Students
Transforming Literacies, Learning, and Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book introduces readers to the inner workings of schools that successfully serve multilingual students, especially those who affiliate as Latinx. Readers will meet administrators, teachers, caregivers, and community members who are working together to advance students’ learning. They do this...
Teaching and Learning in Two Languages
Bilingualism and Schooling in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date volume on the state of bilingual education in the United States and, in particular, on effective curriculum and instructional approaches. Eugene García, a renowned authority on bilingual education, depicts the vast scope and complexity of the problem...
Seeing the Spectrum
Teaching English Language Arts to Adolescents with Autism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With 1 in 59 children being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), odds are that students on the spectrum will be in many classrooms across every subject area.Seeing the Spectrum argues that secondary English teachers are uniquely equipped to prepare students with autism for future success,...
Civic Education in the Elementary Grades
Promoting Student Engagement in an Era of Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As former elementary school teachers, the authors focus on what is possible in schools rather than a romantic vision of what schools could be. Based on a 5-year study of an elementary school, this book shows how civic engagement can be purposive and critical—a way to encourage young people to...