(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in science classrooms as a young man of color, Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on and approach to teaching in urban schools. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Urban schools face a multitude of challenges in the face of staggering inequity and need immediate support. In his book The Brilliance in the Building: Effecting Change in Urban Schools With the PLC [at Work] Process, Bo Ryan presents the ways leaders in urban schools can immediately begin enacting change utilizing the resources currently available to them. Using the Professional Learning Communities at Work (PLC) process, leaders will learn how...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban areas. Drawing upon teachers firsthand experiences in some of today's most demanding schools, leading education experts Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich...
Author
Language
English
Description
Authors Louis and Kruse examine the question: Why do some school communities succeed and others fail? They take a look at five urban schools that have been attempting restructuring for several years - enough time to show results. They describe how the development of a professional community - or the lack thereof - impacts the implementation of change and how teachers' efforts at professionalism can positively affect the process. Focusing on the structural,...
Publisher
C.C. Thomas
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
"This book exposes the complexities and realities facing urbanness and urban schools that are inadequately funded and denigrated, along with students who continue to be misidentified, misassessed, miscategorized, misplaced, and misinstructed by illprepared and unprepared educators and service providers. The text demonstrates the comprehensive nature and connectedness of problems and prospects in urban education. This book will be an added resource...