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In her new book, nationally known professional development consultant and literacy expert Socorro Herrera and her colleagues provide a theoretical foundation for culturally responsive teaching that will accelerate literacy development for all students, and particularly for English language learners. Aligned with Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this volume incorporates current research and best practices for developing a classroom community that takes into account students' languages, cultures, and individual biographies. This resource provides proven-effective strategies, tools, and ideas that can be adapted and modified for any grade level and content area. This book features; a demonstration DVD showing the books strategies in action in real classrooms; classroom strategies that align with CCSS and Response to Intervention; guidance to help teachers use grouping configurations to build classroom community and maximize students assets; and a quick-glance overview and an in-depth exploration of each strategy that illustrates each step of implementation. 208 page book and 1-hour DVD
001 – Our Concern as Teachers Educators: The Hegemonic Forces of Dominant Ideology Patrick M. Jenlink 002 – The Challenges of Differentiating Instruction for ELLs: An Analysis of Content-Area Lesson Plans Produced by Preservice Language Arts and Social Studies Teachers Clara Lee Brown and Rachel Endo 003 – Prospective Teachers’ Beliefs in Factors Negatively Influencing African American, Low-income Anglo, and Hispanic Students’ Academic Achievement Maximo Plata, Alaric A. Williams, and Tracy B. Henley 004 – Teachers Matter: The Teacher’s Role in Increasing Working-Class Latina/o Youth’s College Access and Empowerment Leticia Rojas 005 – From “Blissfully Unaware” to “An...
Recent research suggests that good relationships between parents and their children’s providers or teachers could lead to positive outcomes for children and families. Positive, mutually respectful, and collaborative relationships between families and schools and education providers and teachers contribute to young children’s school readiness, increase positive family engagement in children’s programs, and strengthen home-program connection, a critical factor to children’s school success. Bridging Family-Teacher Relationships for ELL and Immigrant Students is a comprehensive reference source that focuses on research-based pedagogical practices for teaching young English language learn...
The first-ever book to tell the stories of over 300 inspiring women who wrote Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals that Publishers Weekly calls "an exhaustive tribute to women whose contributions to Broadway musical history have often been overlooked." Library Journal praises the book, saying, "Tepper has fashioned a winning book on the unsung heroines of Broadway musicals that will be appreciated by readers of women’s studies and theater lore." Kirkus Reviews says it's an "encyclopedic reference" and a "long-overdue tribute to female lyricists and composers." From the composers who pounded the pavement selling their music in Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the twentieth century; to the lyricis...
Essays written by social work master's degree students responding to the categories of psychological diagnosis issued by the American Psychiatric Association.
Previous edition published: New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013, under title Accelerating literacy for diverse learners: strategies for the common core classrooms, K-8.
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957- (also published separately)