The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools
How a con artist "reformer" shaped America's modern public schools. Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize their public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. ......
Integrating Nature-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom
The first comprehensive and practical all-in-one curriculum resource to integrate social-emotional learning, citizenship, children's cognitive development, and science education standards into nature-based learning for future and current PK-5 teachers.
Integrating Nature-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom
The first comprehensive and practical all-in-one curriculum resource to integrate social-emotional learning, citizenship, children's cognitive development, and science education standards into nature-based learning for future and current PK-5 teachers.
This successful guide--now in a revised and expanded second edition--gives teachers effective strategies to support adolescents development of relevant literacy skills in specific disciplines.
Building Blocks provides a framework for successful and meaningful inclusion of young children in inclusive settings. Like the first three editions, the fourth edition offers pre- and inservice teachers three types of practical, evidence-based inclusion strategies: curriculum modifications, embedded learning opportunities, and child-focused ......
Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling
Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today's students--climate fiction and protest poetry, fiction and documentary films, video games and social media. The stories are used as exemplars, from ......
Disruption, Innovation, and What Schools Need to Move Forward
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education have been pervasive and profound. This engaging book concisely outlines the current crisis in schools in the core areas of student learning, student and teacher mental health, and teacher burnout. Synthesizing original research, David T. Marshall and Tim Pressley offer in-depth descriptions of ......
The Two-Hundred-Year Fight for School Vaccinations
The first comprehensive history of efforts to vaccinate children from contagious disease in US schools. As protests over vaccine mandates increase in the twenty-first century, many people have raised concerns about a growing opposition to school vaccination requirements. What triggered anti-vaccine activism in the past, and why does it continue ......
The curriculum is the driving force for excellent teaching and learning in any school. Yet, in primary schools, the curriculum is often led by class teachers who have little or no time to give to this vital part of their role. Schools seeking to develop distributive leadership can find that many barriers arise for middle leaders. Subject leaders ......
