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At the Heart of Teaching
Featuring engaging narratives, this how-to book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process, including protocols for handling many different circumstances. Written by public school teachers who offer lessons learned and strategies that work, this volume: provides insights to help teachers build reflective practice with their students, including protocols for classroom problem solving; presents scenarios for individual students, their parents, and teachers to talk together about a student's performance, including protocols for conducting family meetings; shows what can happen when teachers come together to share stories of their daily lives, including protocols for conducting a focus group; and offers advice for reflecting alone and with a group, including protocols for both types of reflection.
Where Storms Are Beautiful
Where Storms are Beautiful is a personal narrative of Grace Hall McEntee and her husband, two teachers, who commuted in a small boat from their home on an island to their work on the mainland.Grace and Matt live on the edge. Their home sits at the top of an embankment facing north. Like harbor seals and goldeneyes, they are migrational creatures; seasons and storms shape their travel on the water. Where they live and how they travel has changed them. The island is their place to dwell as well as their place to grow and thrive.Storms is the story of their experiences and their learning. Each day they launched themselves into an adventure, through which they gained practical knowledge and understanding. On the water they maneuvered through fog and ice. On the island they engaged in communal problem solving. In the process of traveling on the water every day and living in their island community, they discovered that storms are beautiful.
Tossed and Shaped by the Distant Sea
Tossed and Shaped by the Distant Sea: To Live and To Love is a collection of fifty linked stories and poems about life, love, loss and challenge. Set on Harmony Island, most stories emerge from the island itself. You will read a personal narrative about the challenge of crossing from mainland to island in a small boat on a stormy winter night. Two stories explore the event of an elderly neighbor's wandering away into the woods and the community's response. “Without Him” captures in poetry the rhythms of a CPR rescue. “She Talks to Flowers” is a whimsical poem about a life-altering relationship with plants. Once, the author and her husband missed the signals that a storm threatened: “Hurricane Jeanne” tells of their struggle in wild seas to save their boat. A few writings are set elsewhere: Paris, a classroom, a child's room. A friend wrote: “What stays with me is…that the book is really a love story –– of you and Matt, the island, what grows on it, the community… and the sea.”
Home at Last
What is it like to live on an island without a bridge? For some, the commute over Narragansett Bay by ferry is a daily reunion with island neighbors. For others of us, piloting a small boat challenges our skills and surprises us with unexpected adventure. Separation from daily life on the mainland breeds a unique culture. Here on Prudence Island we have our own lingo and our island ways. Our language is sprinkled with references to wind direction, temperature, tides and time. We savor night walks on the beach, a run on a dirt road, and stopping to talk to a turtle. Kids and adults build relationships, unique friendships that leap barriers that ordinarily separate us from those who might become our friends. Home at Last emanates from Prudence Island an island without a bridge the place where we live.
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The Power of Protocols
This important professional development tool describes nearly 30 protocols or "scripts" for conducting meetings, conversations, and other learning experiences among educators--in one, easy-to-use resource. For anyone working with collaborative groups of teachers on everything from school improvement to curriculum development this book features: -Protocols for working together on problems of practice, for studying together, for organizing many different kinds of meetings, and for looking together at student work.-A thorough text that describes each protocol, provides a rationale for using them, explains the particular purpose each protocol was designed for, discusses the value that educators have found in using them, and offers helpful tips for facilitators.-Valuable appendices that list relevant resources, such as websites, contact addresses, and training opportunities, and a table that lists all of the protocols with suggestions for cross-use.-A free supplement on the Teachers College Press website with "Abbreviated Protocols" that can be downloaded and customized to suit each facilitator's needs.
Powerful Conversations: K-16 Writing and Inquiry Partnerships
Collection of essays from university and K-12 faculty who worked in a year long K-16 partnership study.
Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes
What sources of inspiration help sustain teachers' commitments, motivations, and care for their work? How do teachers use their ideals to inform their practice and their learning? The author proposes that many teachers have images of ideal classroom practice which she calls "teachers- vision". In this book, Karen Hammerness uses vision to shed light on the complex relationship between teachers' ideals and the realities of school life. Through the compelling stories of four teachers, she reveals how eacher educators can help new teachers articulate, develop, and sustain their visions and assist them as they navigate the gap between their visions and their daily work. She shows us how vision can illuminate those emotional and passionate moments in the classroom that enrich and enliven their work as teachers, explain what teachers learn about their students, their teaching, and their schools, and reveal why some teachers choose to stay in teaching and others leave the profession.
Failing at School
Roughly half of all incoming ninth graders across urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them but because high schools were designed to stratify achievement and let only the top performers advance to higher levels of education. This design is particularly detrimental for low-income, racial/ethnic minority students. To get different results, Farrington proposes fundamental changes based on what we now know about how students learn, what motivates them to engage in learning, and what kinds o...
