This book focuses on preparing culturally competent educators who use culturally sustaining practices and culturally relevant curricula and instruction to reach and teach all students with disabilities, including those with multiple social identities, through a varied multi-cultural lens. Today's diverse classrooms require that educators possess ......
What are the real goals behind the push for rapid social change in race, education, and culture in America today? History is being rewritten, norms upended, and public discussion silenced. America Challenged stresses the need to counter the forces that seek to transform Americ...
This book addresses how educators create more inclusive K-12 classrooms for African-born students in American schools. The authors analyze how gender, spirituality, colonization, and religious affiliation as well as American-rooted factors complicate the integration of these students into the educational school system in the United States.
This book explores to how involved African American fathers are in their children's schooling. The author purposefully and unapologetically focuses on the contributions African American fathers make in their children's educational and personal lives, highlighting their unique parenting styles.
The Work: Achieving Equity and Justice in Education offers a new way of thinking about how to address the deep disparities between Black and White children within our nation's school. The focus of the work going forward must be on dismantling inequitable policies and practices...
This book, written by the faculty and students of The George Washington University Refugee Educational Advancement Laboratory (REAL), examines the experiences of refugees settled in the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia area (DMV) during the last ten years and their pathways back to access and success in education.
Practical Philosophy, Useful Tools, and True Stories
Down-to-earth guide to implementing restorative justice in schools, with concrete tools and real-world stories to help. It is packed with expertise on everything from restorative circles to understanding the importance of conflict, and the authors demonstrate throughout the value of a restorative approach in bringing out the best in your school.
This original book makes a moral case for play as an essential role for character development, sparking curiosity, wonder, imagination, and teamwork beyond recess and throughout academia based on both library and school centered research in non-sectarian and faith-based K-12 institutions.
Create an inclusive classroom for all through engaging maths activities such as Shape Bingo, Cake Splat! and Fruity Fractions, all of which have been matched to the UK National Curriculum P Levels 4 - 8. Tailored to the specific P Level, each lesson plan includes a learning objective, the resources needed, the main activity, a plenary and a ......
