Books published by Teachers' College Press

These field-tested resources from Consortium Schools in NYC-small schools with a big presence among educators nationwide-have been widely used in professional development sessions with both new and experienced teachers. This engaging approach focuses on making teaching and learning more inquiry-based and student-centered, while also developing the students' skills in reading, critical analysis, writing, speaking, and listening that are necessary for achievement. This classroom-based resource explores how both teachers and students learn the skills of discussion in content areas across the disciplines. Student reflections and teacher talk provide live examples of how discussion plays a pivotal role in inquiry-based classrooms, developing students' basic skills of critical analysis and helping them become lifelong learners, able to confront and research any topic.

This powerful collection will inspire new and veteran teachers to "make space" for children's interests, for teaching as relational and intellectual work, and for new insights and ideas. The authors introduce the Prospect Center's Descriptive Review of Practice, a collaborative inquiry process that provides an opportunity for teachers to examine their practice and gain new perspectives from other participants. The contributors to this volume respond to each child's modes of thinking as they develop curriculum or find "wiggle room"; in curricula they are given. By demonstrating how it is possible to pursue careful knowledge of craft, this book offers ways of teaching that allow for continuing growth and change.

Two of the most respected voices in education identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. Berliner and Glass argue that many citizens' conception of K-12 public education in the United States is more myth than reality.

This comprehensive account of bilingualism examines the importance of using students' native languages as a tool for supporting higher levels of learning. The authors highlight the social, linguistic, neuro-cognitive, and academic advantages of bilingualism, as well as the challenges faced by English language learners and their teachers in schools across the United States.

Provides an introduction to the author's writings and includes a chapter on critical exploration in the classroom. Touching on many subjects, the essays in this work support the author's belief that ""the having of wonderful ideas is the essence of intellectual development,"" and that the focus of education should be on the learner's point of view.

How can educators understand writing assessment as and with technology in the 21st-century classroom? Thisl contends that new technologies are neither the problem nor the solution. Instead, educators need to tap into digital resources only inasmuch as they promote writing and its assessment as rhetorical with authentic purposes, audiences, and contexts.

Of all the school readiness domains, approaches to learning is perhaps the least understood but the important. Research shows that positive approaches to learning improve both social - emotional and academic outcomes. This resource helps early childhood professionals implement strategies to support young children's positive approaches to learning.

Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children's understanding of picture storybooks. This volume includes examples of children's responses and how teachers scaffold the children's interpretation of stories. It is suitable for contemporary young children with various ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

This volume emphasizes early childhood settings, and focuses on those skills that enable the observer to make appropriate, valid inferences and to arrive at decisions based on objective observation data gathered in natural learning environments and diverse educational settings.

Shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of fractions by focusing on the most important fraction ideas that students need to grasp. The book is organised by grade level beginning with Grade 1, where the first relevant standard is found in the geometry domain, and ending with Grade 7, where the focus is on operations with rational numbers and proportional thinking.

Provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators, their performance and ultimate effects on student learning. The authors focus on assisting teachers in developing awareness in their own ability to make effective judgments based on all their capabilities and experiences.

Formative and design experiments represent a methodology suited for educational research in general and literacy research in particular. This work addresses questions like what is the origin of formative and design experiments and how do they compare to other approaches to investigating interventions in classrooms?

This resource for secondary school ELA and ELL teachers brings together compelling insights into student experiences, current research, and strategies for building an inclusive writing curriculum. It expands the current conversation on the literacy needs of adolescent English learners by focusing on their writing approaches, their texts, and their needs as student writers.

This is a collection of first-person accounts by some of the best-known founders of new schools in America. Providing the kind of knowledge that only experience can teach, it is an invaluable resource for anyone in the process of or thinking about opening a new school, as well as those interested in the politics of today's era of new school development.

Presents contributions from renowned teachers, educators, and activists. Each provides a personal tribute to Nel Noddings, highlighting stories of her lived experience and drawing on her writing and teaching. This unique volume includes an interview with Noddings by Lynda Stone that provides historical context for Noddings' work and that imagines possible future spaces for her legacy.

Research has found that effective administrative practices are crucial for ensuring beneficial program outcomes for children and families. The Program Administration Scale (PAS) is designed to reliably measure and improve the leadership and management practices of center-based programs-the only instrument of its kind to focus exclusively on organization-wide administrative issues.

A book about what it takes to be an exceptional early childhood teacher. It examines various classroom scenarios and describes how teaching was done well or how it could be done better. It includes: an overview of the stages of early childhood development; and, descriptions of high-quality early childhood education settings and materials.

Using the experiences and words of seven public school principals who came to the field of administration committed to advancing social justice in their schools, this book presents a framework and 7 'keys' to social justice leadership (SJL).

Looks at the state of character education. This book assesses its strengths and weaknesses and finds fault with leading advocates for failing to respond to sound critiques of their work. It argues that contemporary character education can be improved by using key principles from established theories and research on developmental psychology.

How is compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized curriculum? This book presents stories which illustrate ways that early childhood values and practices have been sustained and promoted in elementary schools, exemplary teaching practice, and democratic participatory teaching.