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Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction
In Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction, Barbara King-Shaver and Alyce Hunter summon the latest research and share effective, essential differentiation practices. With more than 30...
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Becoming a Successful Urban Teacher
What every urban teacher should know could take years of experience and plenty of mistakes, discouragement, and frustrations along the way. Or it could simply mean learning from other teachers who...
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Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension
Topics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students’ lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we...
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Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Realities of Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Young Learners, K-6
You have culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in your classroom. Some or all are underachieving. You’re told you should teach differently, test more. You should make a stubborn...
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Bullying Hurts: Teaching Kindness Through Read Alouds and Guided Conversations
We believe focused read aloud experiences with carefully selected children’s literature followed by guided conversations is one way you can create a climate in your classroom, school, or district...
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Calm, Alert, and Learning / Ready to Learn
Recent research tells us that one of the keys to student success is self-regulation – the ability to monitor and modify emotions, to focus or shift attention, to control impulses, to tolerate...
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Celebrating City Teachers : How to Make a Difference in Urban Schools
You rarely hear about the success stories—stories in which teachers, community organizers, and other urban warriors are working at the front lines in support of equal educational opportunity and...
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Classroom Management Matters: The Social--Emotional Learning Approach Children Deserve
By Gianna Cassetta, Brook Sawyer Foreword by Carmen Farina "We can do better, but expectation alone is not enough. We need answers and examples like the ones Gianna and Brook provide with great...
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Creating Safe and Welcoming Classrooms for LGBTQ+ Students
Creating Safe and Welcoming Classrooms for LGBTQ+ Students offers practical strategies, reflective questions, real classroom examples, and insights from educators doing this work every day. Dr. Scott...
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Designing Intentional Classrooms
A classroom isn’t just a room—it’s a living ecosystem that shapes how students learn, feel, and belong. Designing Intentional Classrooms invites K–6 educators to reimagine their learning spaces with...