A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today. Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from school board meetings to TV news reports, ......
A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today. Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from school board meetings to TV news reports, ......
Drawing on archival as well as rich interview material, John F. Lyons examines the role of Chicago public schoolteachers and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in shaping the policies and practices of public education in Chicago from 1937 to 1970. Using political action, public relations campaigns, and community alliances, the CTU successfully ......
A Guide to Organizational Strategies for Thinking and Writing offers teachers and students ten patterns for arranging ideas that will expand their repertoire of organizational skills. Each pattern is illustrated by passages that model the strategy, and each is accompanied by an assignment that invites application and practice.
How Children Thrive with Leadership, Love, Laughter, and Learning
Maximize your child's potential in ways that extend beyond academics alone. Gain a clearer, more cohesive relationship with their teachers. A Teacher's Inside Advice to Parents: How Children Thrive with Leadership, Love, Laughter, and Learning explains how to support and inspire all kids towards success and satisfaction. When parents and teachers ......
Popular workshop presenter and trainer, Martha Kaufeldt has done it again! This first book in her new series, Beginning with the Brain, is what every busy teacher has been waiting for. With an excellent concise summary of recent brain research and its implications for educators, the rationale is clear for how teachers should begin to differentiate ......
Teachers, Mindset, Motivation and Mastery summarizes the research on teaching literacy and then works to make it applicable to the classroom, with charts, examples of effective teacher talk and stories, and explanations from both practitioners and researchers.
Teachers, Mindset, Motivation and Mastery summarizes the research on teaching literacy and then works to make it applicable to the classroom, with charts, examples of effective teacher talk and stories, and explanations from both practitioners and researchers.
Advice and Suggestions from Professors, High School Teachers, and Staf
Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines variously present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide.
