This practitioner-focused guide to creating identity-safe classrooms presents four categories of core instructional practices: - child-centered teaching - classroom relationships - caring environments - cultivating diversity The book presents a set of strategies that can be implemented immediately by teachers. It includes a wealth of vignettes taken from identity-safe classrooms as well as reflective exercises that can be completed by individual teachers or teacher teams.
The second of a two-volume set, Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades 6-12, is a call for educators to come together and realize a vision of schools as transformative places of opportunity and equity for all students.
This guide provides evidence-based strategies that support you as a leader in creating an environment that promotes identity safe students, who experience a challenging curriculum that respects their diverse social identities.
Now in its third edition, this powerful book features timely new content from innovative schools and teachers, focusing on reaching struggling students.
Molnar-Main, S., Bisbing, K., Blackburn, S., Galkowski, L., Garrity, R., Morris, C., ... Singer, J. (2014). Integrating bullying prevention and restorative practices in schools: Consideration for practitioners and policymakers.
“On overcast days, he would turn off the lights to set the mood for Edgar Allan Poe stories on the record player. We shivered as Fortunato was walled up in The Cask of Amontillado and when the murderer's guilty conscience heard the ...
Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future is readable, practical, conversational, and intimate. It will inspire readers to build a just and peaceful world.
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With the powerful ideas in this book, you’ll be able to create the kinds of classroom environments that students deserve.
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This is a masterful volume: comprehensive, accessible, and way overdue.