Books published by Teachers' College Press

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.

Explains brain development from prenatal to age 8 with suggestions for activities educators and caregivers can use to foster children's cognitive growth. The authors begin with the basics of brain development, and the issues that affect it, and then provide information specific to infant, toddler, preschool, and kindergarten to primary age levels.

Captures the core ingredients of leadership. Joseph Murphy, a preeminent scholar of leadership, has compiled this book of short and thoughtful lessons designed for today's busy professional. The lessons come from reading, seeing, and hearing about leadership in various sectors of practice.

Drawing from over two decades of research, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a systemic form of everyday racism commonly experienced by People of Color. The authors make a unique contribution to the study of racial microaggressions by using Critical Race Theory to develop the concepts, frameworks, and models provided in this book.

Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing up to make sweeping changes in urban education. More than a new edition, this sequel has been substantially revised to include insights from new research, recent demographic trends, and emerging political realities.

Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing up to make sweeping changes in urban education. More than a new edition, this sequel has been substantially revised to include insights from new research, recent demographic trends, and emerging political realities.

Starting from the premise that children learn better when their learning community respects their families and cultures, this thought-provoking resource shows what it means-and what it takes-to include today's diverse parents in their children's learning.

The second edition of the seminal text designed to empower educators with an innovative conceptual framework for teaching. The book is grounded in the synergy of five big ideas for connecting mind, brain, and education research to classroom practice: neuroplasticity, potential, malleable intelligence, the Body-Brain System, and metacognition.

The second edition of the seminal text designed to empower educators with an innovative conceptual framework for teaching. The book is grounded in the synergy of five big ideas for connecting mind, brain, and education research to classroom practice: neuroplasticity, potential, malleable intelligence, the Body-Brain System, and metacognition.

Use this practical guide to develop collaborative and interactive online experiences for teacher candidates. The author examines methods for integrating evidence-based practices into online teaching environments, including think alouds, case-based instruction, peer feedback, and field experience.

Many American schools continue to struggle with segregation. This important book tells the story of how two school districts - one a predominantly White and wealthy suburban community and the other a more diverse and urbanized community - were merged into a single district to work toward a solution for school segregation.

Many American schools continue to struggle with segregation. This important book tells the story of how two school districts - one a predominantly White and wealthy suburban community and the other a more diverse and urbanized community - were merged into a single district to work toward a solution for school segregation.

Learn how to integrate lessons about good digital citizenship into the early childhood classroom. Based on reviews of empirical research, this book addresses the need for a new educational paradigm that will enable educators to help young children develop the skills and ethical behaviours to thrive in both the real and digital worlds.

Presents a range of perspectives to offer practical steps and policy options for creating campus structures that are fair and inclusive to students of all races and social statuses. This book demonstrates the power and value of principled non-violent activism to provoke change and provides strategies to help manage conflict and racial tension.

Examines what it means to be present in one's teaching. The book begins with an in-depth definition of presence from several different angles. The text goes on to delineate what a teacher may be present to, providing a map for useful discussions among teachers and between teachers and students.

Brings together the expertise of scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the current state of racial heterogeneity, data practice, and educational inequality. They offer recommendations to guide future research, practice, and policy with the goal of better understanding and meeting the needs of diverse student populations.

Maguire-Fong has updated her groundbreaking book designed to assist pre- and inservice professionals working with infants and their families. Each chapter draws from research and real-life infant care settings to provide valuable insights into how to design an infant care program, plan curriculum, assess learning, and work with families.

Maguire-Fong has updated her groundbreaking book designed to assist pre- and inservice professionals working with infants and their families. Each chapter draws from research and real-life infant care settings to provide valuable insights into how to design an infant care program, plan curriculum, assess learning, and work with families.

This practical resource will help K-5 teachers incorporate digitally supported disciplinary literacy practices into their classroom instruction. The authors present Planning for Elementary Digitally-supported Disciplinary Literacy - a framework that introduces an approach for integrating disciplinary literacy into instruction using digital tools.

In this guide, the authors outline a program of collaboration to enable novice teachers to gain insight from their experienced colleagues. The book argues that ""epistemic empathy"" is a core attribute to develop in practitioners at all levels of experience in order to apply principles of special education practice in thoughtful and innovative ways.

Explores how educational institutions have failed to recognise and effectively address the symptoms of trauma in students of all ages. Gross argues that it is time for educational institutions and those who work within them to change their approaches and responses to traumatic symptoms that manifest in students in schools and colleges.

This practical resource will help K-5 teachers incorporate digitally supported disciplinary literacy practices into their classroom instruction. The authors present Planning for Elementary Digitally-supported Disciplinary Literacy - a framework that introduces an approach for integrating disciplinary literacy into instruction using digital tools.

How can early and preservice teachers master the complex practice of teaching? This clearly written, research-based guide shows how to successfully navigate coursework, build relationships with mentors, and negotiate fieldwork and student teaching while developing metacognitive thinking skills.

What can today's educational leaders do to create schools that are purposeful, moral, and successful? In this book, Glickman and Mette provide a powerful set of guidelines that will lead to true school renewal.

Uses the best of emerging Internet applications (Web 2.0) to capture the interest of today's students who have grown up using diverse technologies and multiple applications such as podcasts, social networks, social bookmarks, digital curation, and blogs.

Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies, and offers significant insights into complex forms of educational exclusion.

Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies, and offers significant insights into complex forms of educational exclusion.

Through ideas and practices straight from the classrooms of outstanding teachers, this lively resource illustrates writing that makes an impact on a reader, a writer, or a cause - writing that everyone wants to read. The book is rich with student work that shows how writing can make things happen in the world.