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  • Bridging Cultures Between Home and School

    A Guide for Teachers

    Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers is intended to stimulate broad thinking about how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society. It is a powerful resource for in-service and preservice multicultural education and professional development. The Guide presents a framework for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school ... Read more

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  • Managing Diverse Classrooms

    How to Build on Students' Cultural Strengths

    How does the home culture of Latino immigrant students differ from the "mainstream" culture of U.S. schools? Why is it important for teachers to understand the differences? How can educators take advantage of students' cultural traits to improve classroom management, student performance, and school-parent relations? Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Elise Trumbull answer these and many other questions by ... Read more

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  • Bridging Cultures in Early Care and Education

    A Training Module

    Bridging Cultures in Early Care and Education: A Training Module is a resource designed to help pre-service and in-service early childhood educators, including infant-toddler caregivers, understand the role of culture in their programs. It is also intended for professionals who work with children and their families in a variety of other roles, such as social workers, special educators, and early ... Read more

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  • Cultural Validity in Assessment

    Addressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achieve cultural validity in assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers – as well as others concerned with fair and valid assessment – provides a thorough grounding in relevant theory, ... Read more

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  • Teacher Effectiveness Training

    The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages

    For nearly thirty years, Teacher Effectiveness Training, or the T.E.T. book, based on Dr. Thomas Gordon’s groundbreaking program, has taught hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world the skills they need to deal with the inevitable student discipline problems effectively and humanely.Now revised and updated, T.E.T. can mean the difference between an unproductive, disruptive classroom and ... Read more

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  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

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  • The Teaching Gap

    Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

    Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom.For years our schools and children have lagged behind international standards in reading, arithmetic, and most other areas of academic achievement. It is no secret that ... Read more

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    The New Empathy and Social Justice

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  • Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces

    Language, Learning, and Love

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