Books published by Teachers' College Press

Addresses issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research on students' development of moral understandings and concerns for human welfare in order to address societal conventions, norms, and institutions.

Brings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. In this collection of her seminal essays on critical race theory, Gloria Ladson-Billings seeks to clear up some of the confusion and misconceptions that education researchers have around race and inequality.

Discover the language and learning possibilities of young children's active engagement with book experiences, in which they talk with one another as they make meaning from literature centred around their lives and interests.

An accessible guide to help studio art and design professors transform their curriculum and pedagogy so that it is relevant to today's learners. Situating contemporary college teaching within a historic art and design continuum, the author provides a practical framework for considering complex interactions within art and design pedagogy.

Walks readers through the stages of the high school college prep pipeline that introduces interlocked structural barriers to students. The author shows how these barriers reinforce segregated structures that unfairly distribute the public good of education to some students and not others.

In this timely and inspirational volume, authors from diverse disciplines consider and affirm the many places across curriculum and context where hope and joy are or can be strong and vibrant. Drawing on the life-affirming ideals of education philosopher Daisaku Ikeda, this book will reenergize educational research, theory, and practice.

Features a collection of short stories told in collaboration with five Native families that speak to the everyday aspects of Indigenous educational resurgence rooted in the intergenerational learning that occurs between mothers and their children.

The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. In this third edition, Pasi Sahlberg updates the story of how Finland sustains its exemplary educational performance, including how it responds to turbulent changes.

Young people are facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions - yet no one is taking action. Children are born as active, curious, imaginative beings with a built-in physical identity. Survival of the Fit offers a new and revelatory plan to nurture this identity and save the health of youngsters.

Highlights the value of open questions for differentiating instruction in the K-8 virtual environment; shows teachers how to adapt the materials that they are already using; illustrates how students can incorporate items from their home environment into math lessons; demonstrates how to maintain community with students online; and much more.

How do you know which college is right for you? And what should you do during college to make the most of your time there? In Doing College Right, dean of undergraduate studies Joe O'Shea helps readers to both choose a college and make key decisions throughout their higher education journey.

Over 400 schools across the world have adopted Invitational Education to foster innovative thinking, sustained positive action, and the creation of socially and emotionally safe schools. As educators are now involved in an epic rethinking of what they do and how they do it, this book provides a dependable guide for improvement.

Offers a necessary intervention to help progressive educators and advocates take back public education. This book highlights how the broader Left are often talking about the "problem" in ways that were framed by forces counter to the goals of democracy and justice, and in so doing, advancing "solutions" that cannot help but be counterproductive.

Offers a necessary intervention to help progressive educators and advocates take back public education. This book highlights how the broader Left are often talking about the "problem" in ways that were framed by forces counter to the goals of democracy and justice, and in so doing, advancing "solutions" that cannot help but be counterproductive.

Offers a critique of recent efforts to reform Indigenous education in public schools. John Hopkins centres his critique on Montana State's innovative and bold multicultural education policy called Indian Education for All, and demonstrates why Indigenous education reforms must decolonize the curriculum and pedagogy.

Presents the Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science instructional model to help teachers craft practices that will encourage students to apply science concepts beyond defined school boundaries. This practical resource includes detailed vignettes, classroom examples, and guidance for trying out strategies.

Provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities of culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning, chapters specifically demonstrate how arts integration strategies and formative assessment can be a catalyst for change in the classroom.

Offers the tools teachers need to get started with a more thoughtful and compelling approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives today, and meets social studies 3C standards and most state standards (grades 6-12).

How might school funds be spent more effectively in today's uncertain environment? This up-to-date volume explores a range of ideas to help schools and districts better manage their resources. This is a valuable guide for how to spend budgets wisely and well.