Equity in mathematics education

This book explores the impact of global changes on equity and social justice in math education. It aims to help educators, researchers, and policymakers understand the interplay between school mathematics and socio-political issues, promoting a fairer world. Each chapter offers insights into this...

Conquering academia

This book highlights the experiences of diverse women pursuing doctoral degrees, exploring their challenges and opportunities. Through narratives, it addresses themes of intersectionality, lived experiences, and adopting an academic mindset. Ideal for faculty and staff in academia.

Diversity across the disciplines

This book examines diversity across disciplines in higher education, bringing together contributions from the arts, sciences, and professional fields. It highlights the need for multicultural and interdisciplinary collaboration, focusing on people, process, policies, and paradigms to advance dive...

The contemporary superintendent

(R)Evolutionary Leadership explores how school district superintendents can balance competing commitments by pushing against the status quo while improving educational practices and outcomes. The book highlights leaders who enact radical change and view it as a controlled process.

Convictions of conscience

Convictions of Conscience guides educational leaders in creating socially just schools by challenging neoliberal practices and promoting decolonization. It emphasizes equity, social justice, and advocacy for marginalized communities, urging leaders to reject managerial approaches.

Learning mathematics successfully

This book combines self-efficacy theory with practical strategies for teachers and parents to boost students' math competence. It explores self-efficacy's role in learning math, offering methods to enhance confidence and skills. Suitable for classroom and home use, it aims to support persistent, ...

Visionary evaluation for a sustainable, equitable future

This book envisions 2030 with Visionary Evaluatives promoting a sustainable, equitable future. Guided by principles of equity, sustainability, humility, and compassion, it emphasizes deep praxis and reflection. It explores how evaluations and daily actions can contribute to global well-being.

Misinformation and fake news in education

This book addresses the threat of misinformation and disinformation in education, providing examples and remedies. It explores factors influencing misinformation endorsement and practices to reduce its impact. Topics include "zombie concepts," cognitive biases, misinformation in ASD education, an...

A pathway to pds partnership

This book is a practical guide for creating Professional Development Schools (PDS), offering tools to assess school and university readiness for partnerships. It includes the PDSEA Protocol with surveys and planning templates. The authors share insights from their 13 years of experience in PDS de...

Changemakers! practitioners advance equity and access in out-of-school time programs

This book emphasizes the need for impactful and engaging learning experiences for all youth, especially underserved populations. It highlights the challenges organizations and OST professionals face, such as funding, outreach, and engaging immigrant families, and offers solutions.

Physics teaching and learning

This volume challenges common assumptions in physics education, promoting research-based strategies to enhance learning. It addresses issues relevant to K-16 science teaching, bridging theory and practice. Each chapter includes a research review, original research, and addresses stakeholder conce...

Leading in change

This book examines changes in school leadership preparation in England and the US over the past decade. It explores school corporatization, leadership preparation, and the impact of neoliberal policies. Divided into three sections, it covers key topics and offers strategies for effective school l...

School principals in mexico

The book examines how principals influence success in 14 Mexican elementary schools, highlighting the importance of addressing cultural, social, and academic needs. It focuses on successful leadership in challenging contexts, emphasizing best practices and the need for prepared leaders to improve...

Selected writings from the journal of the saskatchewan mathematics teachers' society

This volume celebrates 50 years (1961-2011) of vinculum journal, featuring 50 articles from each decade. It offers historical context and contemporary views on mathematics education in Saskatchewan, serving as a resource for teachers, educators, researchers, and students.

Identity and lifelong learning in higher education

This series explores the ongoing process of identity and learning in adult development, highlighting the connections between learning and identity through empirical research and narrative essays. Volume One focuses on higher education, featuring chapters by and about post-secondary educators and ...

Transforming schooling for second language learners

This book brings together researchers and practitioners to explore policies, pedagogies, and practices transforming schooling for emergent bilinguals (EBs). It highlights theoretical, methodological, and philosophical frameworks addressing social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions o...

Through the fog

Affolter's book, drawing from 20+ years of teaching, guides teachers in addressing race and racism in schools. It emphasizes inclusive anti-racist teaching, curriculum development, and sustaining this work. It calls on white teachers to examine biases and work towards a just world with support an...

Preparing the next generation of teacher educators for clinical practice

This book addresses the lack of focus on preparing the next generation of teacher educators. It highlights the need for rethinking teacher preparation design and clinical practice. Insights from researchers illustrate the benefits and challenges of educating teacher educators, emphasizing the imp...

Transformative pedagogies for teacher education

This book focuses on action, agency, and dialogue in teacher education, offering strategies for diverse contexts. It explores critical issues, approaches, and perspectives to prepare teacher candidates for a changing world. Useful for professional development and principal preparation programs.

Career development across the lifespan

The second edition of Career Counseling Across the Lifespan provides an in-depth look at career development in community, school, and higher education counseling. It emphasizes career history and theories to prepare students for counseling environments and certification exams.

Curriculum windows

This book examines how curriculum texts and theorists from the 1950s can inform contemporary education. The authors explore how these works offer insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership, helping educators reflect on past and future practices to address current educational challenges.

Transformative education for the second renaissance

This book follows John PW Hudson's journey in education, highlighting the need for changes in educational practice, particularly assessment. It explores history, philosophy, research, and politics, emphasizing the shift from analog to digital and transformative learning. Hudson aims to spark disc...

Contemporary perspectives on research on child development laboratory schools in early childhood education

This volume explores the history and evolution of child development laboratory schools, which are dedicated to research-based instruction and innovation in education. It reviews their role in promoting teaching, research, and service in early childhood education.

Funding public schools in the united states and indian country

Funding Public Schools in the United States and Indian Country by NEFA provides a practical guide on P-12 education funding in the U.S. Each chapter covers a state's aid formula, support programs, supplemental funding, compensatory and categorical programs, transportation, facilities, and other s...

The middle-level teacher technology guidebook

This guidebook helps middle-level teachers navigate educational technologies, offering strategies for effective use in classrooms. It shares experiences and recommendations from U.S. teachers, focusing on collaboration with stakeholders. The guide emphasizes adaptable strategies over specific tools.

The transformative power of adult education

How adult basic education strengthens families and builds capacity for community change — transforming society from the ground up.

Standing still is not an option

This book explores how children in U.S. public schools use art to address injustices. It highlights the impact of artmaking on promoting social justice in K-12 communities, especially amid demographic shifts. Authors call for equal access to art spaces to foster social change and equity.

Algebra for the middle grades

This pre-Algebra book prepares middle school students for Algebra 1 by focusing on linear equations, graphs, problem-solving. It uses a highly visual approach, integrating algebra tiles, graphs and ratio grids to build understanding. By emphasizing numerical and geometric concepts first, it lays...

Turning social

How can music mediation foster social cohesion and dialogue? A critical exploration of its social-transformative potential.

Contemporary perspectives on research in motivation in early childhood education

This volume explores various approaches to understanding motivation, including physiological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. It examines the relationship between motivation and cognition, focusing on young children (ages 0 to 8), and reviews and analyzes literature on motivational...

Global perspectives on issues and solutions in urban education

This book, inspired by the International Conference on Urban Education, addresses multifaceted aspects of urban education. It focuses on common issues and solutions like family engagement, academic achievement, teacher preparation, and more.

Discrete mathematics for teachers

This book addresses the need for deeper mathematics exposure for middle-grades and elementary teachers. It fills the gap in text materials for junior-senior and graduate courses, focusing on discrete mathematics. The book aligns with NCTM standards, emphasizing problem solving, reasoning, and com...

Preschoolers at play

Excel Awards Gold Winner for Technical bookThe research is clear: Play is a critical part of the learning process for young children. Early childhood educators have the opportunity to deeply and meaningfully scaffold children’s learning by curating and organizing the “stuff” children love to play...

Transforming teaching

Child-centered lesson planning provides a system to strengthen teaching. Great lesson planning helps teachers to choose a range of strategies that match what children are learning and doing-- from directed mini-lessons to facilitated group activities.

Young architects at play

More than 20 children's construction play activities to encourage STEM learning and the power of stories.

Powerful interactions

Make your everyday interactions with children intentional and purposeful with these steps: Be Present, Connect, and Extend Learning.

Leaving academia

An indispensable guide for grad students and academics who want to find fulfilling careers outside higher educationAn estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won’t get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the o...

1620

Peter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times’ 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower Compact in 1620."1620 is a dispassionate, clear reminder that the best in America’s past is still ...

Changing the game for generation alpha

Valora Washington invites readers to consider the new challenges and opportunities of raising Generation Alpha and offers support to families and early childhood educators to advocate for young children.

The essentials

This book answers the question what do early childhood educators need to understand to better address the linguistic, cognitive, and socioemotional needs of all DLLs in their classrooms.

Lived experiences of ableism in academia

Demands for excellence and efficiency have created an ableist culture in academia. What impact do these expectations have on disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent colleagues? This important and eye-opening collection explores ableism in academia from the viewpoint of academics' personal an...

Advancing equity and embracing diversity in early childhood education: elevating voices and actions

Together, the voices of early childhood educators, scholars, and professionals can sound the call to advance the profession toward more equitable educational experiences, systems, and practices for all children. This book showcases many of these voices from across the field of early childhood edu...

Higher expectations

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and incr...

Debating education in india

The essays in this book highlight how education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue.

Algorithmic and aesthetic literacy

This book presents a wide array of transdisciplinary perspectives on computational and aesthetic practices and thinking. Drawing on computer and educational science, artistic research, designing, and crafting, this collection delves deeply into social and educational challenges in the wake of the...

Academia, inc.

Work-based learning in tertiary education in europe – examples from six educational systems

This research project investigates implementation of work-based learning elements in tertiary education programs in England, France, Ireland, Norway, Austria, and Poland, seeking to contribute to the greater visibility of such education and to facilitate a more critical debate about the issue of...

Grad school life

With fresh insights, concrete suggestions and exercises, and helpful lists of resources, this book gives grad students a new roadmap for not only surviving but thriving—both in school and in the real world.