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Transforming Mathematics Teacher Education: An Equity-Based Approach
Tonya Glau Bartell, Corey Drake, Amy Roth McDuffie, Julia M. Aguirre, Erin E. Turner, and Mary Q. Foote
This book builds on the Teachers Empowered to Advance Change in Mathematics (TEACH Math) project, which was an initiative that sought to develop a new generation of preK-8 mathematics teachers to connect mathematics, children’s mathematical thinking, and community and family knowledge in mathematics instruction – or what we have come to call children’s multiple mathematical knowledge bases in mathematics instruction, with an explicit focus on equity. Much of the work involved in the TEACH Math project included the development of three instructional modules for preK-8 mathematics methods courses to support the project’s goals. These activities were used and refined over eight semesters, and in Fall 2014 shared at a dissemination conference with other mathematics teacher educators from a variety of universities across the United States. Chapter contributions represent diverse program and geographical contexts and teach prospective and practicing teachers from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, in particular providing accounts of supports, challenges, and tensions in implementing equity-based mathematics teacher education. The chapters supply rich evidence and illustrative examples of how other mathematics teacher educators and professional developers might make the modules work for their unique practices, courses, workshops, and prospective teachers/teachers. It promises to be an important resource for offering guidance and examples to those working with prospective teachers of mathematics who want to create positive, culturally responsive, and equity-based mathematics experiences for our nation’s youth.
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Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader
M. Billye Sankofa Waters, Venus E. Evans-Winters, and Bettina L. Love
Includes bibliographical references.
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The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in the 1940s: Literature for the High School Classroom
Rachel Endo
Rachel Endo offers new ways to talk and teach about the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II through the selected works of critically acclaimed Japanese American authors Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Hisaye Yamamoto.
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Developing and Supporting Critically Reflective Teachers
Frank Hernandez and Rachel Endo
Given the changing demographics and political landscape of US PK-12 education especially since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there is a great moral imperative to develop and support critically reflective teachers who will be able to survive and thrive in a contested sociopolitical climate. Arguably one of the most urgent issues confronting US PK-12 education is the widespread public perception that those who are involved with the education of children and youth are not responding to the needs of an increasingly diverse student population.
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Merrell's Strong Kids, Grades 6-8: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann, Laura L. Feuerborn, Barbara A. Gueldner, Oanh K. Tran, and Kenneth W. Merrell
Teach social-emotional competence--the foundation of school and social success--with the NEW editions of the Strong Kids--Grades 6-8 curriculum! Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life. Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is: Low cost and low tech; Proven to help increase students' knowledge of healthy behavior; Easy to implement with no training required; Brief enough to use with any program. Through engaging, thought-provoking classroom activities, students learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. This scientifically-based curriculum runs for 12 weeks, and lessons are easy to fit into your existing schedule (especially with the new options for breaking them into smaller chunks). Partially scripted lessons, handouts, and worksheets are included--all photocopiable and available as downloads--so teachers have everything they need to implement the program with little added cost or preparation-- Strong Kids--6-8 is a research-based curriculum for educators that can be used across all developmental levels to promote social-emotional skills and competencies. This innovative social and emotional learning curriculum is filled with engaging, thought-provoking classroom activities that help students develop vital life-long skills, including understanding emotions, managing anger, relieving stress, solving interpersonal problems, and more. The curriculum runs between 10 to 12 weeks and takes approximately 45 minutes per lesson. Schools will benefit from the lasting effects of resilient students with fewer mental health and behavioral programs and better academic outcomes. Major revisions to this second edition include a crosswalk for each lesson with the five social emotional learning objectives from CASEL, a fidelity checklist, information on how the curriculum fits into the RTI/MTSS framework in tiers 1 and 2, shorter scripts, and directions on how to chunk lessons into more manageable parts. These revisions were informed by extensive customer reviews of the first edition.
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Merrell's Strong Kids, Grades 3-5: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann, Kenneth W. Merrell, Laura Feuerborn, Barbara A. Gueldner, and Oanh K. Tran
Teach social-emotional competence—the foundation of school and social success—with the NEW editions of the Strong Kids™—Grades 3–5 curriculum! Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life. Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is
- Low cost and low tech
- Proven to help increase students' knowledge of social and emotional concepts and decrease their emotional and behavioral problems
- Easy to implement with no mental health training required
- Brief enough to use with any program
Through engaging, thought-provoking classroom activities, students learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. This scientifically-based curriculum runs for 12 weeks, and lessons are easy to fit into your existing schedule (especially with the new options for breaking them into smaller chunks). Partially scripted lessons, handouts, and worksheets are included—all photocopiable and available as downloads—so teachers have everything they need to implement the program with little added cost or preparation.
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Merrell's Strong Teens, Grades 9-12: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann, Kenneth W. Merrell, Laura Feuerborn, Barbara A. Gueldner, and Oanh K. Tran
Teach social-emotional competence—the foundation of school and social success—with the NEW editions of the Strong Teens™—Grades 9–12 curriculum! Strong Teens is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life. Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is
- Low cost and low tech
- Proven to help increase students' knowledge of social and emotional concepts and decrease their emotional and behavioral problems
- Easy to implement with no mental health training required
- Brief enough to use with any program
Through engaging, thought-provoking classroom activities, students learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. This scientifically-based curriculum runs for 12 weeks, and lessons are easy to fit into your existing schedule (especially with the new options for breaking them into smaller chunks). Partially scripted lessons, handouts, and worksheets are included—all photocopiable and available as downloads—so teachers have everything they need to implement the program with little added cost or preparation.
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We Can Speak for Ourselves: Parent Involvement and Ideologies of Black Mothers in Chicago
M. Billye Sankofa Waters and George W. Noblit
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Whiteness Is the New South Africa: Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism
Christopher B. Knaus and M. Christopher Brown II
In 1994, the world joined South Africa in celebration of the results of its first democratic election. The results, emblazoned on the world's memory with President Nelson Mandela waving to a multiracial crowd, signified the end of apartheid and an emerging new era of hope. However, Mandela's recent death has given birth to a more critical view of his "Rainbow Nation". No matter how examined, education in South Africa remains steadfastly unequal, with many White children retaining the educational privileges inherent to apartheid. White children in South Africa overwhelmingly attend wealthy, fully resourced schools, while the vast majority of Black and Coloured children attend woefully underresourced schools. Based upon three sets of studies in schools in and around Cape Town, Whiteness Is the New South Africa highlights drastic racial disparities, suggesting that educational apartheid continues unabated, potentially fostering future generations of impoverished Black and Coloured communities. This book suggests that South Africa remains committed to stifling the intellectual, emotional, and economic development of Black and Coloured youth, while simultaneously investing in White children.
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The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices
Julia Aguirre, Karen Mayfield-Ingram, and Danny Martin
Each teacher and student brings many identities to the classroom. What is their impact on the student s learning and the teacher s teaching of mathematics?
This book invites K8 teachers to reflect on their own and their students multiple identities. Rich possibilities for learning result when teachers draw on these identities to offer high-quality, equity-based teaching to all students. Reflecting on identity and re-envisioning learning and teaching through this lens especially benefits students who have been marginalized by race, class, ethnicity, or gender. The authors encourage teachers to reframe instruction by using five equity-based mathematics teaching practices:
Going deep with mathematics Leveraging multiple mathematical competencies Affirming mathematics learners identities Challenging spaces of marginality Drawing on multiple resources of knowledge
Special features of the book: Classroom vignettes, lessons, and assessments showing equity-based practices Tools for teachers self-reflection and professional development, including a mathematics learning autobiography and teacher identity activity at nctm.org/more4u Suggestions for partnering with parents and community organizations End-of-chapter discussion questions.
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Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing that Counts in Urban Schools
Christopher Bodenheimer Knaus
Less than fifty percent of African American students graduate from high school. Their educational failure is built into the racial structure of curriculum, standardized testing, teacher preparation programs, and even teacher recruitment pathways. Shut Up and Listen argues that African American students should be taught to navigate and resist the racism perpetuated in every aspect of society and schools, and that to do so requires the development and expression of a culturally-rooted voice as a foundation for multicultural, multilingual, democratic communities. Shut Up and Listen focuses on the voices, perspectives, and experiences of urban African American students - and on their writing, to remind educators of the power of voice, and how far schools are from addressing the reality of racism.
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Bodies Out of Control: Rethinking Science Texts
Matthew Weinstein
What is the cultural politics of science, health, and disease in the U.S.? Bodies Out of Control explores this question through a series of case studies. From its in-depth examination of the discussions of sickle-cell anemia, schistosomiasis, and cancer in middle school and high school textbooks to its analysis of the news coverage of the anthrax attacks of 2001, the book reveals the entanglements of science, colonialism, nationalism, and identity. The book also explores how the meaning of science itself is worked through in public discourses, offering alternatively medical salvation, confusion, and a vision of a world without pleasure. Finally, to explore what agency and a critical practice of engaging science in classrooms and elsewhere might look like, the book turns to the writings of politicized human research subjects, which demonstrate a spectrum of possibilities for more democratic engagements with science. As a whole, the book emphasizes the importance of engaging texts critically in science education and the ways that the cultural politics of science works through images of human and institutional bodies in and out of control.
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Learning Chinese: Through Festivals and Legends
Belinda Yun-ying Louie and Aki Sogabe
Chinese festivals draw the community together to celebrate the well-loved traditions and to retell the familiar tales. Children love to make lanterns and to decorate dragon boats. Suns being shot down from the sky, a golden dragon springing up from a dry pond, and magpies forming a bridge for the weaver and the cowherd are delightful legends that continue to charm generation after generation. The bilingual texts in this book serve both heritage and non-heritage Chinese language learners in the western world. The intricate paper-cut illustrations invite readers to color the pages as they reflect upon the stories. The traditional crafts will enhance children¹s enjoyment of the festivals. Above all, the stories are here for all to cherish.
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Instructional Practices for Students with Behavioral Disorders: Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Math
Gregory J. Benner, J. Ron Nelson, and Paul Mooney
Presenting a broad range of instructional programs and practices that are proven effective for students with behavioral disorders, this is the first resource of its kind for K–3 teachers and special educators. Described are clear-cut strategies for promoting mastery and fluency in early reading, writing, and math, while tailoring instruction to each student's needs. Grounded in a three-tiered response-to-intervention framework that facilitates data-based assessment, decision making, and progress monitoring, the book includes helpful examples and reproducibles. A special chapter outlines instructional management procedures for enhancing student engagement and promoting positive behavior.
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Learning Chinese: Through Stories and Activities
Belinda Yun-ying Louie and Aki Sogabe
Weighing an elephant, turning an iron rod into a needle, and other authentic stories in this book, which charmed generations of Chinese children in the past, continue to delight young readers today. The English/Chinese bilingual texts allow both novice and advanced Chinese language learners to sharpen their language skills while enjoying the stories. More than just a picture book, the intricate papercut illustrations invite young readers to color the pages and to reflect upon the stories. From making shadow puppets to constructing your own shuttlecock, the Chinese activities and games provide further enrichments to the reading of these traditional tales.
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Strong Teens - Grades 9-12: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
Kenneth Merrell, Laura Feuerborn, Dianna Carrizales, and Barbara Gueldner
Social-emotional competence—it's a critical part of every child's school success, and just like any academic subject, children need instruction in it. Developed by a top expert, these proven curricula will help promote the social-emotional competence and resilience of children and adolescents.
Divided into four age levels from kindergarten through high school, these innovative social and emotional learning curricula are filled with engaging, thought-provoking class activities that help students develop vital skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: understanding emotions, managing anger, relieving stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. Each Strong Kids curriculum is
Easy for non-mental-health experts. Each highly structured, partially scripted curriculum is ready for any professional to pick up and start using. Evidence-based. Field testing shows that these curricula generate positive responses from students and teachers and really help increase students' knowledge of healthy social-emotional behavior. A great way to boost academic skills. Lessons help improve critical literacy, listening skills, and memory skills while they promote social and emotional health. Brief enough to fit into any program. Lessons take just 30 to 45 minutes, and each curriculum is used for a maximum of 10-12 weeks. Age-appropriate. Choose from four curricula, each carefully tailored to the specific needs and experiences of its targeted age group. Effective for all children in any setting. Use Strong Kids with children across ability levels in settings like classrooms, group counseling sessions, and youth treatment facilities. Low-cost and low-tech. Strong Kids costs far less than similar programs and requires few extra resources.
Lessons in each curriculum include optional, easily adaptable scripts, sample scenarios and examples, creative activities, and "booster" lessons that reinforce what students learned.
Every school and early intervention program will benefit from the lasting effect of these four curricula: strong, resilient students with fewer mental health and behavior problems and better academic outcomes.
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Strong Kids - Grades 6-8: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
Kenneth Merrell, Laura Feuerborn, Dianna Carrizales, and Barbara Gueldner
Social-emotional competence—it's a critical part of every child's school success, and just like any academic subject, children need instruction in it. Developed by a top expert, these proven curricula will help promote the social-emotional competence and resilience of children and adolescents.
Divided into four age levels from kindergarten through high school, these innovative social and emotional learning curricula are filled with engaging, thought-provoking class activities that help students develop vital skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: understanding emotions, managing anger, relieving stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. Each Strong Kids curriculum is
Easy for non-mental-health experts. Each highly structured, partially scripted curriculum is ready for any professional to pick up and start using. Evidence-based. Field testing shows that these curricula generate positive responses from students and teachers and really help increase students' knowledge of healthy social-emotional behavior. A great way to boost academic skills. Lessons help improve critical literacy, listening skills, and memory skills while they promote social and emotional health. Brief enough to fit into any program. Lessons take just 30 to 45 minutes, and each curriculum is used for a maximum of 10-12 weeks. Age-appropriate. Choose from four curricula, each carefully tailored to the specific needs and experiences of its targeted age group. Effective for all children in any setting. Use Strong Kids with children across ability levels in settings like classrooms, group counseling sessions, and youth treatment facilities. Low-cost and low-tech. Strong Kids costs far less than similar programs and requires few extra resources.
Lessons in each curriculum include optional, easily adaptable scripts, sample scenarios and examples, creative activities, and "booster" lessons that reinforce what students learned.
Every school and early intervention program will benefit from the lasting effect of these four curricula: strong, resilient students with fewer mental health and behavior problems and better academic outcomes.
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Strong Kids - Grades 3-5: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
Kenneth Merrell, Laura Feuerborn, Dianna Carrizales, and Barbara Gueldner
Social-emotional competence—it's a critical part of every child's school success, and just like any academic subject, children need instruction in it. Developed by a top expert, these proven curricula will help promote the social-emotional competence and resilience of children and adolescents.
Divided into four age levels from kindergarten through high school, these innovative social and emotional learning curricula are filled with engaging, thought-provoking class activities that help students develop vital skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: understanding emotions, managing anger, relieving stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. Each Strong Kids curriculum is
Easy for non-mental-health experts. Each highly structured, partially scripted curriculum is ready for any professional to pick up and start using. Evidence-based. Field testing shows that these curricula generate positive responses from students and teachers and really help increase students' knowledge of healthy social-emotional behavior. A great way to boost academic skills. Lessons help improve critical literacy, listening skills, and memory skills while they promote social and emotional health. Brief enough to fit into any program. Lessons take just 30 to 45 minutes, and each curriculum is used for a maximum of 10–12 weeks. Age-appropriate. Choose from four curricula, each carefully tailored to the specific needs and experiences of its targeted age group. Effective for all children in any setting. Use Strong Kids with children across ability levels in settings like classrooms, group counseling sessions, and youth treatment facilities. Low-cost and low-tech. Strong Kids costs far less than similar programs and requires few extra resources.
Lessons in each curriculum include optional, easily adaptable scripts, sample scenarios and examples, creative activities, and "booster" lessons that reinforce what students learned.
Every school and early intervention program will benefit from the lasting effect of these four curricula: strong, resilient students with fewer mental health and behavior problems and better academic outcomes.
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Race, Racism and Multiraciality in American Education
Christopher Bodenheimer Knaus
This research monograph analyses and describes what multiracial undergraduates have come to think of in terms of their own lives and issues of race and racism. Race is often construed by others as a mono-racial taxonomy (black/white, etc). This work describes the multiracial populations, discusses critical analysis of race and racial identity theory for tertiary education. Dynamics and suggestions for educators as well as a review of current literature. Index and robust bibliography.
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Designing Effective Mathematics Instruction: A Direct Instruction Approach
Marcy Stein, Diane Kinder, Jerry Silbert, and Douglas W. Carnine
For courses in Mathematics in Special Education. Providing teachers with the information needed to design supplemental mathematics instruction and to evaluate and modify commercially developed math programs, Designing Effective Mathematics Instruction, Fourth Edition, gives teachers systematic procedures and teaching strategies to augment instruction. The new edition discusses the history and components of the direct instruction approach to teaching mathematics, as well as relevant and current research skills and techniques required for effective mathematics instruction, including strategies for pacing lessons, correcting errors, and diagnosing and remedying error patterns. Designing Effective Mathematics Instruction also contains Instructional Sequence and Assessment Charts for primary, intermediate, and remedial teachers, which serve as diagnostic tests or as a basis for constructing goals and objectives for students.
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The Helping Relationship: Process and Skills
Lawrence M. Brammer and Ginger MacDonald
The Helping Relationship is a book for learning and teaching basic philosophy, helping skills, and processes that are essential grounding for most professions and for all human-contact occupations. The Helping Relationship presents and illustrates skills in the order in which they are used in the helping process. The primary emphasis in the helping process is to promote self-help, such as coping competence, to solve one's own problems and draw on one's own inner strengths. For social workers, counselors, business managers, nurses and anyone involved in the helping professions.
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Robot World: Education, Popular Culture, and Science
Matthew Weinstein
How do goals of education and entertainment conflict in popularizations of science? In schools? Robot World explores these questions through a case study of a hands-on science museum/theme park in a tourist center in the upper Midwestern United States. Mixing ethnography, autobiography, and science fiction, this book examines science's public cultures. In unraveling this dual interest of education and entertainment, it looks at how the association of wonder and science works ideologically. It explores how the technologies in the museum become props in specific racial and gender identity formations, and it examines the experiences of the body in the hands-on museum as the ultimate science lesson.
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