"This is a must-read book for any teachers of math." -Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University and author of Mathematical Mindsets Numerical fluency is about understandin
Fresh new cover, same great content! Children want to make their mark-on paper, on any surface, in life. But the difficulties of transferring words to paper can be daunting enough to drown out even th
The idea that students should be "college and career ready" when they leave high school has become a major focus in education, but much of this conversation has been on reading readiness. What about
Curious about inquiry? Hundreds of thousands of elementary teachers are. Smokey Daniels travels the country supporting well planned and organized inquiry teaching, and he gets these two questions most
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 diffic
Battista (mathematics education, Ohio State U.) explains cognition-based assessment (CBA), a framework to support teaching and enable all students to understand, make sense of, and become proficient i
The authors of this book believe that progressive educational principles can and should govern classroom practice. Writing in a style accessible to teachers and administrators, coaches, school board m
Noden, a veteran middle school English teacher, describes an original approach to teaching grammar, called image grammar. The approach involves students studying and imitating the work of various mast
"At a time when so many educational policies fail to recognize and nurture the capacity of teachers to improve instruction, we feel enormously grateful for the learning community lesson study has
"'What Is a Community?' takes children on an exciting tour of different communities around the globe. Simple text and striking images introduce readers to schools, music, markets, games, farms, and ho
"Minilessons for Extending Addition and Subtraction "is one of three yearlong resource guides in "Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction" (K - 3) "Min
Field Trips and Fund-Raisers: Introducing Fractions is one of five units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (4 - 6) The focus of this unit is th
Building learning around rich, instructionally sound contexts was an overarching goal during the development of the Contexts for Learning Mathematics series. Throughout the series context is used to s
Read Kittle's stories of teaching and learning. Then write your own. I plan to. - Tom Romano, author of Crafting Authentic Voice For twenty years Penny Kittle has woven together artful teaching and
"Where do content and pedagogy meet? They converge in these beautifully crafted cases of teaching-richly detailed, deeply interpreted, sensitively glossed, moving effortlessly between written and
Hushed figures wading by the dark of night through infested swamps, scurrying through the densest woods, silently creeping to the next way station in a long journey that could take them to dignity, fr
Daniel Heuser knows that lasting educational reform comes not from the reports of policymakers, but from advances in research and the experiences of classroom teachers searching for a better way to ed
The educational climate for teaching writing is a lot different now than it was in the eighties when much of the groundbreaking research was first published. The contributors to Writing in the Element
The Caribbean has long played a central role in the history of the novel in English. Written as a basic textbook for American and British undergraduate survey courses in Caribbean literature, this boo
In Running Towards Us, 31 contemporary authors offer literary responses to the end of apartheid, demonstrating what the creative imagination in South Africa has to offer at the turn of the 21st centur
Contained in this Guide is suggestions for implementing a Professional Development Program, a selected annotated bibliography, and a selection of resources such as sample workshop agendas and workshee
When Richard Graves set out to create a new edition of Rhetoric and Composition (Boynton/Cook, 1990), he envisioned a comprehensive collection that would chronicle the "birth" of the discipline up unt
When first published in 1991, Literacy con carino introduced us to a group of bilingual students who, although seemingly doomed to failure, ultimately succeeded because they were encouraged to believe
Reviews six texts by African authors that are written or translated into English, accessible in the US, and appropriate for use in a variety of units at the high school level. Provides English and Soc
A recent explosion of volunteerism has occurred in classrooms, libraries, boardrooms, and church basements across the nation - and nowhere has this trend been more keenly felt than in literacy program
Moore (English, Purdue U.) pairs up one young adult novel and one theory in each of his chapters, introducing the basic terms and concepts of theories such as formalism, structuralism, deconstruction,
In How to Survive in Your Native Land James Herndon details classroom life and the inescapable realities of a school situation. This is a compelling vision of what really goes on in school and how the
Developing a sense of adventure in learning can make all the difference between teaching incipient lifelong learners or struggling with apathetic students. In this engaging book, Mary Glover and Beth
