This book examines the complexities, losses, and confusion of white racial identities across educational contexts of families and schools, thinking specifically about what this means for educators. It argues that antiracism requires building relationships and story-sharing spaces as a way of living out antiracist commitments.
This book provides an essential critical exploration of how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. It forwards a human rights-focused model of disability that mandates the amelioration of people with disabilities within education.
Talk, Interaction, and the Preschool Teacher Identity
This work examines how preschool teachers construct the preschool teacher identity through everyday practices of teaching and caring. Pruit's analysis of preschool teachers' talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity ......
This book addresses how educators can develop mindful alignment as a foundation for flourishing in schools. It presents three arts of mindful alignment-well-being as wholeness; positive relationships; and living from strengths, passions, and purposes-that can be applied in educators' work and lives.
The development of students' conceptual understanding of the world is vital to their academic success at all grade levels (preschool through high school) and across content areas. This professional resource and course text presents expert perspectives on building conceptual knowledge and vocabulary through reading, writing, and classroom ......
Now revised and expanded, this volume explains how to design, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive, integrated, three-tiered (Ci3T) model of prevention. Rather than presenting a packaged program, the book provides resources and strategies for designing and tailoring Ci3T to the needs and priorities of a particular school or district community. ......
Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly resource has now been revised and updated, and offers expanded coverage of collaborative action research (CAR) and participatory action research (PAR). Preservice and inservice educators get crucial step-by-step guidance for conducting classroom- and school-based studies to ......
