education

"This edition retains the hallmark features previous editions, including the four agreements, the protocol, activities, reflective prompts and a series of powerful Racial Autobiographies. However, it has been updated to reflect our current sociopolitical environment--especially the current spotlight on racial injustice juxtaposed against a white nationalist backlash. This book has helped equity leaders in K-12 schools as well as other institutions develop their racial consciousness, and guide others to greater understanding and action"--Provided by publisher.

"Vocabulary expert Marilee Sprenger presents the 25 essential words all students must know to succeed academically, along with strategies to teach them effectively"--.

"Education leaders from around the country share their thoughts through essays that explore topics such as: how to achieve equity for all students; creating equity awareness in teachers; working with families and communities to close the opportunity gap; setting high expectations to raise academic achievement; and more"--Provided by publisher.

"Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT inclusive learning in schools, this authoritative guidebook for K-12 teachers provides advice on implementing alterations and updates to policies, curriculums, behaviors and learning environments for LGBT youth in the American education system. This book features real-life situations and scenarios, a glossary, and further resources. It enables professionals in a variety of school roles to integrate foundational concepts into their everyday interactions with students, families, and staff to create an overall school culture that reinforces a welcoming, inclusive, and affirming environment for all"--Provided by publisher.

"This book shows how educators can leverage school culture to implement social-emotional learning and cultivate the Formative Five success skills in the classroom and school"--Provided by publisher.

"This book delivers 24 ready-made, standards-aligned lesson plans. Each lesson focuses on one SEL theme and an AASL Standards Shared Foundation. The lessons guide learners to notice and practice prosocial skills and self-regulation"--Provided by publisher.

Derek W. Black, legal scholar and educational advocate, explains how the public school system as it stands is in trouble. He explains how public education was built into the founding of the nation and became a constitutional right after the civil war, and how today's current schooling trends (defunding of public schools, vouchers, charter schools) are undermining the foundations of the public education system.

"Imagine the most important secret you had to keep was that you were going to school... For many throughout history, getting an education meant relying on underground networks, hidden classrooms, and covert teaching. And for some, it is still a reality. Children and adults around the world have gone to incredible and sometimes dangerous lengths to attend schools that allow them to preserve their culture, resist oppression, fight gender inequality, defend their country, and address a need for change. The fifteen real-life stories in this collection demonstrate the power of education and how far some have had to go to offer it and to access it"--Jacket flap.

An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net; the public school system; was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children to be. They are the best chance many children have at finding basics like eye exams, safe housing, mental health counseling, or simply a caring adult. Flawed, inequitable, underfunded, and segregated, they remain the most important engine of social mobility and the crucible of our democracy.

"[This book] is designed to support the efforts of all educators to increase learning outcomes by engaging with the first and most influential teachers in children's lives: their families. The book is a framework for implementing best practices to increase the likelihood of engaging every family with an emphasis on those families that have been traditionally disengaged and disenfranchised from schools"--Provided by publisher.