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“cheryl jones walker”

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  • Identity Work in the Classroom

    Successful Learning in Urban Schools

    by Cheryl Jones-Walker ...
    This book provides classroom examples to demonstrate how identity-making is integral to the teaching and learning process. Responding to school reform efforts that focus on top-down reform measures, this book proposes “identity work” as an alternative approach. The author argues that efforts to improve urban schools should recognize the importance of relational change that focuses on deepening ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Transforming the Academy

    Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy

    by Sarah Willie-LeBreton, Michael D. Smith, Eve Tuck, Dela Kusi-Appouh, H. Mark Ellis, Cheryl Jones-Walker, Patrick "Pato" Hebert, Anita Chikkatur, Kristin Lindgren, Anna Ward0, Betty Sasaki1, Aurora Camacho de Schmidt2, Daphne Lamothe3, Theresa Tensuan4 ...
    In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities that plague our universities? And how might we articulate the value of diversity in the first place ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

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    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape" (**The New York Times)."Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subiect of urban poverty."—Chicago TribuneThe story of two remarkable ... Read more

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  • The Will to Lead,The Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level

    Transforming Schools at Every Level

    by Anthony Muhammad, Sharroky Hollie ...
    Series series Essentials for Principals
    School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools, and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute ... Read more

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  • Other People's Children

    Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

    by Lisa Delpit ...
    The classic, groundbreaking analysis of the role of race in the classroom and a guide for teaching across difference, from the MacArthur award–winning educator"Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice." — San Francisco Review of BooksIn this groundbreaking, radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur award–winning author Lisa ... Read more

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  • The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861

    Enriched edition. A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War

    by Carter Godwin Woodson, Logan Lambert ...
    Carter Godwin Woodson's "The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861" meticulously details the oppressive educational landscape faced by African Americans before the American Civil War. Through a blend of historical analysis and narrative, Woodson elucidates the systemic barriers and societal attitudes that stunted educational opportunities for Black individuals. His scholarly approach is underscored ... Read more

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  • Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind

    Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement

    by Eric Jensen ...
    In this galvanizing follow-up to the best-selling Teaching with Poverty in Mind, renowned educator and learning expert Eric Jensen digs deeper into engagement as the key factor in the academic success of economically disadvantaged students.Drawing from research, experience, and real school success stories, Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind reveals* Smart, purposeful engagement strategies that ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Ordinary Resurrections

    Children in the Years of Hope

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago.Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace, this work also takes place in New York's South Bronx; but it is a markedly different book in ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice

    In Our Mother's Voice

    Edited by Maenette K.P. A Benham, Joanne Elizabet Cooper ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    What is the philosophy that should drive native education policy and practice? In July 1997 a group of native educational leaders from the United States (including Alaska and Hawai'i), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gathered to define a potential solution to this question. This book passes on the individual educational philosophies of the participants and captures the essence of each in a ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time

    by Jane E. Pollock, Sharon M. Ford, Margaret M. Black ...
    The achievement gap is a persistent and perplexing challenge for educators. While school- and system-level reforms continue to be discussed in statehouses and district offices, individual teachers are challenged to do something now to help students who are falling short of standards, including students who are English language learners and receiving special education services.A companion to the ... Read more

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  • In the Sun's House

    My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation

    by Kurt Caswell, Rex Lee Jim ...
    In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the ... Read more

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  • Maker City

    A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities

    by Peter Hirshberg, Dale Dougherty, Marcia Kadanoff ...
    The Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City Playbook is committed to going beyond stories to find patterns and discern promising practices to help city leaders make even more informed decisions.Maker City PlaybookChapter 1: Introduction and a ... Read more

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