Every student deserves to be challenged in all areas of learning. Teaching coach Barbara Blackburn shows how rigor can enhance learning beyond the core content areas with examples from health, physical education, computer science, the performance arts and career technology.
A culturally sustaining and relevant pedagogy for multilingual students assures grade-level academic progress, strengthens first-language usage and sustains cultural connections. Dual language programs are the best path forward, writes language specialist Tan Huynh.
In her first year as a team leader, teacher Katie Durkin understands she has a lot to learn. But sheβs already come to understand that effective leadership means building relationships, trust, and community among colleagues β with student success as the guiding principle.
Students can explore content, tap into their strengths, and learn about themselves when they dive into projects. Teachers Maggie and Piers Blyth offer a framework for planning, implementing, and following up projects to help kids use creative thinking and problem solving.
Patterns of Power for grades 6 β 8 is a teacher-friendly, easy-to-navigate book that uses the invitation process to help students move beyond the traditional study of grammar so they can appreciate the patterns of language and conventions, writes consultant Anne Anderson.
In Identity Affirming Classrooms: Spaces that Center Humanity, Erica Buchanan-Rivera provides teachers with the background knowledge, reflection tools and actionable practices needed to create identity-aware, student-centered environments. For all educators, says Katie Durkin.
Alyssa Hadley Dunnβs Teaching on Days After offers research and narratives on how teachers can respond equitably on days after cataclysmic events so that they and their students βreach the full measure of their humanity.β Sarah Cooper recommends Dunnβs pedagogical strategies.
Digital literacy leader Brett Pierce lays out the elements of digital storytelling and shows how students can take the lead in using digital tools to collaborate, think critically, problem solve, and present publicly, creating digital narratives around core curricular goals.
First and foremost, writes EL expert Valentina Gonzalez, new teachers need to view multilingualism as a student asset. Learn her five proven strategies to achieve teaching success with multilinguals, who need to be valued, respected and supported to master academic content.
Pamela Koutrakosβ example-filled βMentor Texts That Multitaskβ shows teachers how to design lessons that meet multiple instructional priorities. Sherry Liptak found it to be βa great fit for my professional bookshelf β though I think it will spend more time in my hands!β
