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With fresh approaches building on the success of the Ready to Teach series, each chapter contains lesson-by-lesson essays and commentaries that enhance subject knowledge on key areas of the text alongside fully resourced lessons reflecting current and dynamic best practice. The book also offers an introduction to the key pedagogical concepts which underpin the lessons and why they are proven to help students develop powerful knowledge and key skills. 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This framework incorporates a constellation of evaluative tools and data, such as faculty self-report, external reviews, and student surveys, and different approaches to evaluation that leaders can adapt to institutional needs.     For administrators and educators seeking to advance modern teaching practices and fair teaching evaluation, this book provides a robust plan for reorienting the faculty reward system toward excellence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARVARD EDUCATION PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857539485748,"sku":"9798895570159","price":78.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9798895570159.jpg?v=1782647657"},{"product_id":"9780807787328","title":"Resisting Antiblackness in Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eCentered on the vibrancy of Black culture, this book offers an antiracist pedagogical framework for engaging Black youth in educational and community settings.  Resisting Antiblackness in Education refuses the logics of antiblackness that permeate societal and educational structures and, instead, offers an antiracist counter-logic rooted in the aesthetics of Black youth-a historical and ongoing form of cultural expression and perception.  Blending Black studies with critical educational theory, the author offers both a reflective and practical guide to help educators, researchers, community workers, families, and activists engage with Black youth aesthetics in ontologically restorative ways. Through memoir, aesthetic history, cultural critique, and case studies from a decade of research, readers are reoriented toward a pedagogy born from the social, psychic, and material lives of Black urban youth. Going beyond theory, this book includes actions, activities, and reflection questions that can be implemented directly in K-12 classrooms and other educational contexts.  Resisting Antiblackness in Education is a call to embrace an educational approach that is both intellectually stimulating and practically grounded, a critical and creative catalyst in the fight for Black youth and communities everywhere.  Book Features:     Offers a tangible antiracist pedagogical framework for engaging with Black youth in educational and community settings, including content unit designs, lesson plans, projects, school or community initiatives, family activities, and more.  Blends research with personal narrative, along with aesthetic artifacts of youth (e.g., collages, poetry, paintings, clay sculptures, art, public service announcements) to contextualize the pedagogical theory. Connects to Black aesthetic history to give readers an immersive experience so they are better prepared to execute the pedagogy, including many prompts to engage in self-reflection throughout the text. 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Zaloom advocates Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), a holistic framework for K-12 classrooms that addresses the cognitive, emotional, social, and physical aspects of sexuality. The book highlights how CSE scaffolds the sexual development of students as it gradually layers in age-appropriate information, skills, and positive values to practice and prepare for safe and fulfilling relationships, as well as how students can take responsibility for their own sexual health and well-being.     Zaloom draws on the latest research and presents real-world scenarios from classrooms across the country that all educators face in developing students' personal citizenship. With warmth, empathy, and insight, she guides teachers beyond the classroom to the in-between moments of educational spaces: the lunchroom, playground, hallways, and transition periods. She models how educators can deliver developmentally appropriate lessons across grades to inspire personal reflection, integrity, and the capacity to connect with others in community.     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Instead of educational disruption, she found literacy resilience. Families created sophisticated learning environments that challenged assumptions about capabilities during crisis. The Little Shelter That Could reveals extraordinary educational leadership, where children became teachers in hallway spaces and mothers transformed dormitories into literacy-rich environments. Through anonymized, reconstructed narrative case studies based on her research, this book documents how education served as both anchor during crisis and pathway to future possibilities. Rather than focusing on deficits, this work illuminates sophisticated educational knowledge families possess during vulnerable moments. Readers encounter stories of mothers who strategically selected books to accelerate their children's reading while in emergency housing, families who created \"learning corners\" that became the shelter's educational heart, and parents whose daily bus journeys maintained their children's school enrollment. Written for early childhood educators and teacher candidates, this book provides frameworks for recognizing family educational assets invisible to traditional assessments. Dr. Warsi challenges deficit-based approaches, offering asset-based strategies that build on what families already know. Drawing from extensive experience in special education and multicultural competency, Warsi provides trauma-informed approaches that honor family expertise while supporting growth. Twenty-five years after the initial study, these lessons remain urgently relevant, as housing instability affects an increasing number of families. 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Gathering a diverse array of award-winning teachers from a wide range of disciplines and academic levels, Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom will prove to be an invaluable resource for evidence-based effective teaching that cultivates creativity and leads to experiences that will enhance students' opportunities to demonstrate their growth and what they have learned in the classroom and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47243418927156,"sku":"9780253075017","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780253075017.jpg?v=1783376422"},{"product_id":"9780806196534","title":"The Joyful Online Teacher Volume 8","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe happier the teacher, the better the learning experience-for instructor and student alike. 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To that end, her book offers instructors accessible, inspiring, common-sense hacks for connecting with students, finding passion, navigating the structural inequities of higher ed, and more-all with a focus on building rapport and relationships, the central ingredients of happiness and satisfaction. 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Book Features:     Examines how diverse educational spaces are being reimagined through community-engaged partnerships and initiatives, with the goal of creating a more equitable and socially just world. Offers a range of writing, including empirical case studies, research projects, reflective essays, theoretical treatises, and methodological insights. Disrupts top-down initiatives by centering local knowledges in the acts of transformation and liberation. Explores the intersections of critical peace education, social justice education, and human rights education to provide a bridge for those working at the nexus of these fields. 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This groundbreaking book teaches how movement fundamentally shapes brain architecture during the early years, building the neurological foundations essential for cognitive growth, academic success, and social-relational well-being.  Move More, Learn More! bridges the gap between research and practice, offering evidence-based insights in every chapter. By understanding how developmental skills emerge from shared neurological pathways, Pre-K -3rd grade educators can transform their approach to early learning. Educators and clinicians will discover immediately applicable strategies to help children develop healthy brains and bodies during these formative years.  This first-of-its-kind resource will empower readers to harness the transformative power of movement, showing not just what happens when children are physically active, but why it matters so deeply for their development and how to maximize these benefits in educational settings.  Book Features:     Chapters written by international experts in the fields of movement, music, language, and cognition provide activities to strengthen executive function, self-regulation, attention, and sensory-motor development in Pre-K-3rd grade. Over 50 evidence-based activities that specifically target both learning strengths and differences. 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The authors, who have taught and worked with teachers at a wide range of grade levels, highlight core, research-informed strategies from multilingual education, literacy education, arts-education, and disability studies-all adaptable to different age students. This book balances intellectual and theoretical material with practical implementation advice, making it appropriate for education certification and literacy methods courses, as well as in a PLC or professional development context.  Book Features:     Guidance on how to make classroom discussion inclusive, academic, and ambitious. High-leverage practices and concepts that have been widely used and researched in the fields of literacy teaching, multilingual studies, and literacy studies. Helpful \"snapshots\" of teaching practices at different grade-bands, exposing educators to core practices that are transferable across age levels. A strong focus on instructional practices rooted in dialog and dialogic education, such as exploratory talk, question generation, and collaborative reasoning. Appropriate for teachers of diverse populations of students, including multilingual learners and students with disabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47316776484916,"sku":"9780807784242","price":89.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780807784242.jpg?v=1784845200"},{"product_id":"9780807784150","title":"30 Kids, 1 Sink","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first comprehensive guide on classroom management written specifically for K-12 art teachers.  30 Kids, 1 Sink is a must-have classroom management resource written by art teachers for art teachers. The authors focus on proactively planning to help art teachers maximize precious instructional and artmaking time. Harnessing their experiences as pre- and in-service educators, they model how to evaluate a classroom, set it up, create general routines, support lesson implementation, respond to disruptive behaviors, and more. The book includes 100  classroom examples and diagrams that show art teachers how to adapt the ideas to their own teaching style, context, and student needs. This practical resource will help art teachers feel more confident organizing their studio and setting up systems to help students and educators be more successful.  Book Features:     20  downloadable student handouts, forms, and checklists. Shares 12 general routines to maximize instructional time and support student learning. Offers guidance for improving classroom visuals and art demonstrations, developing an inclusive studio classroom, running a student art show, and closing down the art studio at the end of the year. 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With students enrolled in Montessori training programs to support their understanding of the Montessori curriculum as being both comprehensive and integrated across the learning continuum (infants, early childhood, elementary, secondary classrooms). As a useful tool to support families enrolled in Montessori schools to better understand their child's development and the benefits of this educational model beyond the classroom. To inform state and local policymakers of Montessori education as an empirical solution and proven option for families to meet the needs of all children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47316777173044,"sku":"9780807784112","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780807784112.jpg?v=1782630316"},{"product_id":"9780807783931","title":"Learning with the Pedagogy of Reggio Emilia","description":"\u003cp\u003eReaders will find compelling perspectives on the world-renowned Reggio Emilia Approach (R) to early childhood education, with a unique focus on inspiring teacher preparation.  This collection shares valuable learning experiences from graduates of the school-university partnership between University of Colorado Denver and Boulder Journey School. The chapter authors, all of whom were practicing teachers while enrolled in the Masters in Innovative Early Childhood Education program, invite early childhood practitioners and teacher educators to consider the transformative philosophy of Reggio Emilia for their teaching and learning.  Given the wide range of perspectives, the book will be relevant to educators who work with children (birth to 3rd grade) and families representing diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and ability identities, as well as those who work across different geographic locations.  Book Features:     A deep dive into how Reggio-inspired schools across the U.S. and the globe create learning spaces that foster a sense of belonging for educators, children, and families from diverse backgrounds. Every chapter closes with two sets of Reflective Prompts-one for early childhood educators and another for teacher educators-that will support readers in connecting the book's content to their own experiences and contexts. 40  full-color photos and figures featuring student work, teaching and learning examples, and more. Chapter topics include the value of deep listening, diverse identities and cultures of belonging, inclusive and supportive social learning, languages of expression, children's rights, racial equity, and the value of playful pedagogies. A concluding chapter written by lead faculty partner Lori Ryan proposes a hopeful future for teacher education and professional development grounded in social constructivism, inclusive pedagogies, and the current realities of the early childhood landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47316777205812,"sku":"9780807783931","price":92.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780807783931.jpg?v=1782630316"},{"product_id":"9780807784013","title":"Guided Play Principles and Practices, Pre-K to 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive book reveals how guided play-the sweet spot at which child agency meets adult intention-creates optimal conditions for deep learning while addressing required standards.  The authors present a practical, three-part framework that shows readers how to design responsive environments, facilitate meaningful guided play experiences, and document children's playful learning. Through compelling stories, authentic examples, and strategic advocacy approaches, Guided Play Principles and Practices, Pre-K to 3 demonstrates how guided play simultaneously enhances student engagement and aligns with academic standards. This is essential reading for educators committed to honoring how children naturally learn, while successfully navigating today's demanding educational landscape.  Book Features:     Evidence-Based Framework Based on Real Implementation-provides the first systematic framework for guided play developed through actual classroom implementation and documented success. Free Downloadable Supporting Resources-contains visual documentation from real classrooms, reflection prompts, communication templates, and step-by-step implementation guides. Comprehensive Documentation and Assessment System-features detailed protocols for capturing and analyzing children's learning through play, transforming documentation from simple photo-taking into a powerful tool for assessment, reflection, and advocacy. Multi-Level Advocacy Toolkit-includes strategic advocacy approaches for engaging administrators, families, and policymakers, featuring research summaries and strategies for building institutional support for play-based learning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47316777500724,"sku":"9780807784013","price":89.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780807784013.jpg?v=1782630336"},{"product_id":"9780807784303","title":"The Dreamkeepers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis graphic novel is a beautiful reimagining of the classic text about reaching and teaching African American children.   The Dreamkeepers has been a perennial favorite with teachers and programs of teacher education for over 30 years. Like the original work, this comics version blends scholarship and storytelling to document the practices of eight exemplary teachers who use culturally relevant and intellectually rigorous teaching to foster academic excellence among African American students. Readers will follow Nissa, a young student teacher beginning her placement at Pinewood School. As she observes and experiments with the methods of the eight teachers, Nissa not only grows in her craft but also learns to embrace her identity as a neurodivergent young woman. Her journey highlights the power of culturally relevant pedagogy while modeling how educators can form meaningful connections with all their students. This visually engaging graphic edition of the classic bestseller by distinguished professor Gloria Ladson-Billings offers an inspiring and accessible entry point for educators of all backgrounds.  Book Features:     Case studies and key themes are brought to life by the dynamic drawings of Rachel Branham, author of \"What's So Great About Art, Anyway?\" A Teacher's Odyssey. Depictions of what can be learned from successful teachers about teaching all children, especially African American students. 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The authors, who have taught and worked with teachers at a wide range of grade levels, highlight core, research-informed strategies from multilingual education, literacy education, arts-education, and disability studies-all adaptable to different age students. This book balances intellectual and theoretical material with practical implementation advice, making it appropriate for education certification and literacy methods courses, as well as in a PLC or professional development context.  Book Features:     Guidance on how to make classroom discussion inclusive, academic, and ambitious. High-leverage practices and concepts that have been widely used and researched in the fields of literacy teaching, multilingual studies, and literacy studies. Helpful \"snapshots\" of teaching practices at different grade-bands, exposing educators to core practices that are transferable across age levels. 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Chaterji carries lessons from restorative justice in high-level harm, such as victim offender dialogue, to the classroom through exercises that foster tenderness, self-reflection, and skillful attention on how to \"make it right.\" The text includes classroom-tested strategies and activities that the author developed over eight years of work with students in high schools across the Bay Area.  Book Features:     Vivid case studies, anecdotes, and practitioner's notes from extensive restorative justice work in schools and prisons. Robust collection of supplemental materials, including activity descriptions, worksheets for classroom use, lesson plans, and curricular sequences (reproducible documents in an online appendix). Spanish language materials for teaching concepts in restorative justice, including circle-keeping scripts, sample agendas, and activity descriptions. A teacher-centered approach to implementing restorative justice through concrete lessons, thematic areas, and activities that foster greater trust, connection, and healing. A connection to SEL core competencies of responsible decision-making, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, and self-management.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47316778713140,"sku":"9780807783801","price":256.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780807783801.jpg?v=1784845198"},{"product_id":"9780807783504","title":"30 Kids, 1 Sink","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first comprehensive guide on classroom management written specifically for K-12 art teachers.  30 Kids, 1 Sink is a must-have classroom management resource written by art teachers for art teachers. 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Offers guidance for improving classroom visuals and art demonstrations, developing an inclusive studio classroom, running a student art show, and closing down the art studio at the end of the year. Provides advice for planning the crucial first 6 weeks of the school year to minimize disruptive behaviors later in the year. Includes resources and tips for Art-on-a-Cart teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47316778811444,"sku":"9780807783504","price":104.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780807783504.jpg?v=1782630330"},{"product_id":"9780807783580","title":"Maximizing Opportunity to Learn","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnsure all students have the best opportunity to achieve academic success by using instructional approaches proven to have the most impact, while also avoiding common practices that ultimately hinder student learning.  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In addition to providing proven-effective practices, the authors also challenge the efficacy of some common instructional practices, such as questioning and differentiation, illustrating how they often undermine equity rather than promote it.  Book Features:     Explains how reducing variation in instructional quality and variation in student experience are the keys to achieving effective, equity-centered instructional improvement. Explains what instruction that supports every student looks like, as opposed to an ineffectual equity-neutral instructional approach or culturally relevant pedagogy that can be framed as only relevant to students of Color. Demonstrates why several common instructional practices that are still heavily promoted in the field are counter to the goal of equity and do not lead to improved outcomes for all students. 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Comprehensive Documentation and Assessment System-features detailed protocols for capturing and analyzing children's learning through play, transforming documentation from simple photo-taking into a powerful tool for assessment, reflection, and advocacy. 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Through curricular sequences, lesson plans, case studies, and narrative examples, Chaterji maps the terrain for learning and practicing empathy, studying models of repair and accountability, and creating conditions for trust and vulnerability.  While much of restorative justice in schools is responsive to incidents that have already occurred, this book argues for robust prevention and culture-building through students' personal and conceptual exploration of pain, loss, oppression, and other emotionally charged topics. Chaterji carries lessons from restorative justice in high-level harm, such as victim offender dialogue, to the classroom through exercises that foster tenderness, self-reflection, and skillful attention on how to \"make it right.\" The text includes classroom-tested strategies and activities that the author developed over eight years of work with students in high schools across the Bay Area.  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Chapters from educators, artists, researchers, students, and community-based organizations from across the globe highlight the challenges and possibilities of implementing community-engaged praxis in diverse sites and contexts. The authors conceptualize community-engaged partnerships in many ways, including collaborative participation in social movements, school programs, extracurricular clubs, research projects, arts initiatives, youth development opportunities, higher educational initiatives, and civic actions. The volume provides a broad array of community-based exemplars to illustrate the varied ways in which peace and human rights education can positively transform communities locally and globally.  Book Features:     Examines how diverse educational spaces are being reimagined through community-engaged partnerships and initiatives, with the goal of creating a more equitable and socially just world. Offers a range of writing, including empirical case studies, research projects, reflective essays, theoretical treatises, and methodological insights. Disrupts top-down initiatives by centering local knowledges in the acts of transformation and liberation. Explores the intersections of critical peace education, social justice education, and human rights education to provide a bridge for those working at the nexus of these fields. 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Describes evidence-based strategies and practices that strengthen equitable education access for students experiencing poverty. Incorporates narrative case scenarios that help readers practice recognizing subtle bias and inequity in common viewpoints and programs. 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This groundbreaking book teaches how movement fundamentally shapes brain architecture during the early years, building the neurological foundations essential for cognitive growth, academic success, and social-relational well-being.  Move More, Learn More! bridges the gap between research and practice, offering evidence-based insights in every chapter. By understanding how developmental skills emerge from shared neurological pathways, Pre-K -3rd grade educators can transform their approach to early learning. Educators and clinicians will discover immediately applicable strategies to help children develop healthy brains and bodies during these formative years.  This first-of-its-kind resource will empower readers to harness the transformative power of movement, showing not just what happens when children are physically active, but why it matters so deeply for their development and how to maximize these benefits in educational settings.  Book Features:     Chapters written by international experts in the fields of movement, music, language, and cognition provide activities to strengthen executive function, self-regulation, attention, and sensory-motor development in Pre-K-3rd grade. Over 50 evidence-based activities that specifically target both learning strengths and differences. 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The chapter authors, all of whom were practicing teachers while enrolled in the Masters in Innovative Early Childhood Education program, invite early childhood practitioners and teacher educators to consider the transformative philosophy of Reggio Emilia for their teaching and learning.  Given the wide range of perspectives, the book will be relevant to educators who work with children (birth to 3rd grade) and families representing diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and ability identities, as well as those who work across different geographic locations.  Book Features:     A deep dive into how Reggio-inspired schools across the U.S. and the globe create learning spaces that foster a sense of belonging for educators, children, and families from diverse backgrounds. Every chapter closes with two sets of Reflective Prompts-one for early childhood educators and another for teacher educators-that will support readers in connecting the book's content to their own experiences and contexts. 40  full-color photos and figures featuring student work, teaching and learning examples, and more. Chapter topics include the value of deep listening, diverse identities and cultures of belonging, inclusive and supportive social learning, languages of expression, children's rights, racial equity, and the value of playful pedagogies. 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The book explores in detail the role of one teachers' union, the Washington Teachers' Union and its parent organization, the American Federation of Teachers, and their priorities as a roadmap for how other teachers' unions might pursue these goals and the hazards they might face. The author discusses major educational issues such as teacher evaluation, merit pay for teachers, standardized testing, and community schools and warns about the dangers of vouchers and charter schools.     Beyond Compensation is a volume in The Badass Teachers Association Education Series. The series serves to contribute to educators' and educational leaders' understandings of the need for teacher education, activism, and leadership in these areas. It will provide a place for future and current educators to learn more about these issues and how they can build their classrooms and communities into the spaces all students deserve. 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This book presents a vision of what it means for students to truly engage with religious education: grappling with philosophical and ethical questions, engaging critically with beliefs and worldviews, and expressing informed responses with accuracy and purpose. Joe makes the case for the importance and value of RE, alongside tips for effective practice in all areas of a RE teacher's role, such as approaches to curriculum design, teaching disciplinary knowledge and handling controversial topics.  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New and experienced teachers will find inspiration, concrete tools, and renewed purpose in this curriculum designed to reduce planning time and resist burnout, allowing you to reclaim the joy of teaching ELA.  Book Features:     A holistic, relational vision for ELA curriculum: seven distinct workshops on writer's notebooks, place-based poetry, narrative, speculative fantasy, novel study, literary analysis, and argument writing. Ready-to-use, teacher-friendly features: guided lessons in \"instructional invitations,\" peer conferring protocols, write-in activities, mentor text suggestions, assessment tools, and celebration practices. An innovative integration of joy and critical justice: practical teaching routines blended with critical pedagogies such as grammar as linguistic justice, place-based poetry, and writing speculative futures to promote equitable instruction. 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