NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Source
Teachers College Press13
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 20011
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 13 results Save | Export
Pacino, Maria A., Ed.; Warren, Susan R., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Learn how to create culturally responsive, socially just school-family partnerships that positively impact student learning outcomes. Responding to the current rise in White supremacy in America, a surge in hate crimes against BIPOC students and families, and the gaping digital divide exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this book addresses the need…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Family School Relationship, Outcomes of Education, Racism
Edwards, Patricia A.; McMillon, Gwendolyn Thompson; Turner, Jennifer D. – Teachers College Press, 2010
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In "Change Is Gonna Come", the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K-12 literacy educators can use to transform their schools. The text…
Descriptors: African American Students, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Access to Education
Lazar, Althier M.; Edwards, Patricia A.; McMillon, Gwendolyn Thompson – Teachers College Press, 2012
"Bridging Literacy and Equity" synthesizes the essential research and practice of social equity literacy teaching in one succinct, user-friendly volume. Extraordinary K-12 teachers show us what social equity literacy teaching looks like and how it advances children's achievement. Chapters identify six key dimensions of social equity teaching that…
Descriptors: Literacy, Equal Education, Social Justice, Academic Achievement
Schmidt, Patricia Ruggiano, Ed.; Lazar, Althier M., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This readable book features K-12 teachers and teacher educators who report their experiences of culturally responsive literacy teaching in primarily high poverty, culturally nondominant communities. These extraordinary teachers show us what culturally responsive literacy teaching looks like in their classrooms and how it advances children's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
Wong, Shelley, Ed.; Gosnell, Elaisa Sánchez, Ed.; Luu, Anne Marie Foerster, Ed.; Dodson, Lori, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2017
Learn how to engage and advocate for undocumented children and youth with this new resource written by and for teachers. "Teachers as Allies" provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their American-born siblings and peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences. The…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Advocacy, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship
Kinloch, Valerie – Teachers College Press, 2012
In her new book, Valerie Kinloch, award-winning author of "Harlem on Our Minds", sheds light on the ways urban youth engage in "meaning-making" experiences as a way to assert critical, creative, and highly sophisticated perspectives on teaching, learning, and survival. Kinloch rejects deficit models that have traditionally…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Current Events, Student Attitudes, Urban Youth
Collins, Christina – Teachers College Press, 2011
Why did the New York City school district once have the lowest ratio of minority teachers to minority students of any large urban school system in the country? Using an array of historical sources, this provocative book explores the barriers that African American and Latino candidates faced in attempting to become public school teachers in New…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Race, Public Schools
Genishi, Celia; Dyson, Anne Haas – Teachers College Press, 2009
In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of young children as they learn language and literacy in our diverse times. Despite burgeoning sociocultural diversity, many early childhood classrooms (pre-K to grade 2) offer a one-size-fits-all curriculum in which learning is too often assessed by standardized…
Descriptors: Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Literacy
Meier, Daniel – Teachers College Press, 2011
In his latest book, Daniel Meier highlights the critical importance of integrating content and mechanics for successful and engaged writing at the K-4 level. Featuring the teaching philosophies and strategies of seven exemplary teachers, and a discussion of relevant research and theory, Meier provides a fresh, practical, and much-needed…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Teacher Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy, Writing Instruction
Gay, Geneva – Teachers College Press, 2010
The achievement of students of color continues to be disproportionately low at all levels of education. More than ever, Geneva Gay's foundational book on culturally responsive teaching is essential reading in addressing the needs of today's diverse student population. Combining insights from multicultural education theory and research with…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, American Indians, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education
Charity Hudley, Anne H.; Mallinson, Christine – Teachers College Press, 2010
In today's culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book helps classroom teachers become attuned to these differences and offers practical strategies to support student achievement while fostering positive…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Standard Spoken Usage, Discussion, Language Variation
Yermanock Strieb, Lynne – Teachers College Press, 2010
Teachers need to read books by other teachers, yet there are few available on the important subject of parent-teacher relationships. Lynne Yermanock Strieb fills the gap with this engaging account of her 30-year career teaching children in urban classrooms. Drawing on an extensive archive of documents she kept as a first- and second-grade …
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Urban Schools, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Torres-Guzman, Maria E., Ed.; Gomez, Joel, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2009
In this timely volume, international scholars examine how multilingual schooling is handled in schools across the world with a series of case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Germany, Colombia, Slovakia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Presenting new contributions arising from the varied contexts of multilingualism today, this collection urges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Case Studies, Bilingualism