Written by teachers for teachers, Capstone contains ready-to-implement materials derived from decades of experience in the classroom. The authors share authentic narratives of failure and success to encourage teachers who are engaged in the risks and rewards of deep learning.
Through stories about the professional rapper who founded the first hip-hop school and the aspiring artists currently enrolled there, Hip Hop Genius delivers a vision for how hip-hop's genius can lead to a fundamental remix of the way we think of teaching, school design, and leadership.
Successful students use comprehension skills and strategies throughout the school day. This book presents ways to support reading comprehension across content areas and the full K-12 grade range.
This volume explores music education locally and globally, and critically investigates where music education has come from, where it is, and where it may be going in the future, as well as what this means to us in the twenty-first century.
Creating Meaningful Museum Experiences for K-12 Audiences: How to Connect with Teachers and Engage Students is the first book in more than a decade to provide a comprehensive look at best practices in working with this crucial segment of museum visitors. With more than 40 contributors from art, history.
Arts educators have adopted social justice themes as part of a larger vision of transforming society. Social justice arts education confronts oppression and inequality arising from factors related to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, ability, gender, and sexuality. This edition of Common Threads investigates the intersection of social ......
Explores the educational value of a curriculum rooted in the pursuit of wisdom, and advocates the enshrinement of such a curriculum as the central concern of an academic institution.
Rather than being seen as a data-driven machine, a school should be seen as an organic entity, with the central idea being to free the child to be his ......
Designed to balance theory and praxis, this book offers opportunities for teachers to begin building integrated critical literacy curricula that prioritizes the lived experiences and insights of their students.
This book is designed to expand a student's music study experience by learning about the parts of the double bass and how it works, how to Care for it, how it is made, its history, useful accessories, and how to plan practice sessions.
The Influence of Dramatic Arts on Literacies for Black Girls in Middle School demonstrates the impact that practicing drama strategies has on foundational, digital, and identity literacies for middle school Black girls.
In this book, you will learn how practicing teachers in diverse school and classroom contexts have implemented successful strategies to create and maintain a positive classroom climate that enables ALL students to thrive.
In this book, you will learn how practicing teachers in diverse school and classroom contexts have implemented successful strategies to create and maintain a positive classroom climate that enables ALL students to thrive.
Fueling the Journey with Collective Efficacy and Systems Thinking
This book challenges the current culture of constant change while providing a framework, the tools and the right conversations to support educators and school leaders in improving student outcomes.
Fueling the Journey with Collective Efficacy and Systems Thinking
This book challenges the current culture of constant change while providing a framework, the tools and the right conversations to support educators and school leaders in improving student outcomes.
This book deals with some of the most contentious media issues today-media violence, violent video games, cyberbullying, sexting, gaming addiction, fake news, and use of media in the classroom.
How to Develop & Evaluate Educational Programs in a Nutshell
Updated and revised to meet all current standards, this is a concise step-by-step guide for novice nurse educators on the development of new programs and curricula or the revision of existing ones. The second edition of this quick-access guide is updated to meet all new and revised standards for program approval and covers the full scope of the ......
