Primary and middle schools

The ability to ask incisive questions is a powerful skill set that children can acquire and develop if the classroom and whole-school environments support it.

This is an essential textbook for teachers and those training to teach on applying research from psychology to education.

Demonstrating the benefits of mindfulness for both educators and students in PreK12, this book presents flexible models for implementing and sustaining schoolwide initiatives.

This is an essential textbook for teachers and those training to teach on applying research from psychology to education.

Educators increasingly recognize the importance of disciplinary literacy for student success, beginning as early as the primary grades.

This insightful book presents and discusses the dialogues that took place in the New Directions in Middle Level Education Research session at the 2022 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference.

This seminal volume responds to the pressing need to prepare all children and young people for a sustainable future in light of the climate crisis, providing clear and accessible information and strategies on how to fully embed sustainability into pedagogy and supporting current and future educators.

This resource bridges the worlds of education, mental health, and the performing arts to offer a comprehensive roadmap for 9-12 theatre educators looking to promote safe, supportive, and creative spaces for their students.

Now in a revised and updated third edition incorporating a decade of additional research and classroom experience, this book has helped over 100,000 primary-grades teachers understand and successfully apply the science of reading in phonics instruction.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this book provides a blueprint for weaving effective word study into the fabric of classrooms and schools.

This resource bridges the worlds of education, mental health, and the performing arts to offer a comprehensive roadmap for 9-12 theatre educators looking to promote safe, supportive, and creative spaces for their students.

This established text--now revised and updated--reveals how spoken language skills are acquired and how they affect children's later reading and writing achievement.

Professional learning (PL) opportunities are essential for PreK12 literacy educators, but too often these efforts fail to help teachers develop and deeply engage with their work.

Providing insights, ideas, strategies and compassion, this book offers a new way of looking at self-care for educators experiencing exhaustion and stress, or who may simply be feeling more tired than they should be.

This edited volume provides readers with a snapshot of some of the current thinking on mathematical modelling education.

This revised edition explains the 'why' and 'how' of adaptive teaching and offers creative strategies for supporting all learners in early years, schools and further education.

This comprehensive, research-based resource illuminates the challenges and benefits of integrating community-based transformational learning (CBTL) experiences of teachers, students, and the community in early childhood settings.

The bestselling, step-by-step guide to the primary school curriculum from Toby Young and Miranda Bondy.

Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5 contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades three, four, and five.

A comparison of the development of expertise in preschool teaching in China, Japan, and the United States.

The promise of a free, high-quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American dream.

"e;Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife,"e; wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society.

A groundbreaking account of how collaborative, expressive learning environments are often denied to children of color Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students' fascination to create unique learning opportunities.

For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white.

Unsettled Belonging tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens.

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to-and often end up becoming active in-urban public schools.

Elementary and Middle School Mathematics illustrates how children in PreK to 8th grade learn math, and then shows the most effective methods of teaching math using problem-based activities.

Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries.

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up-in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives.

Mathematics Teaching On Target is a guidebook for improving mathematics teaching, based on the Teaching for Robust Understanding (TRU) Framework and its five dimensions - The Mathematics, Cognitive Demand, Equitable Access, Agency, Ownership, and Identity, and Formative Assessment.

In Listen Up!

In Listen Up!

The Children's Music Studio provides music teachers, parents and early childhood educators a wealth of materials and a clear roadmap for applying Reggio Emilia principles and practices to preschool and early childhood music education.

Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond focuses on teaching adolescents within the context of a music classroom, regardless of content area (orchestra, band, choir, or general music).

Trans and gender-expansive (TGE) youth deserve a safe and empowering space to engage in high quality school music experiences.

Trans and gender-expansive (TGE) youth deserve a safe and empowering space to engage in high quality school music experiences.

The much admired school system of 19th-century Germany served as a model for the educational systems of many other countries, including Britain and the United States.

This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theoretical framework necessary to understand how children's ability to write is related to their ability to speak a language.

This integrative text spotlights what educators need to know about childrens cognitive development across grade levels (PreK-12) and content areas.

Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries.

For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white.

Have you ever wondered why children behave the way they do or why they can become overwhelmed with emotions so quickly?

The changing adolescent voice counts among the most awkward of topics voice teachers and choir directors face.

The changing adolescent voice counts among the most awkward of topics voice teachers and choir directors face.

In Line by Line, author Stephanie L.

In Line by Line, author Stephanie L.

Learning to Trust describes a constructivist approach to classroom management and discipline that was developed by the Child Development Project, a multiyear research and development project that applied attachment theory, care, and self-determination theories to the elementary school classroom.

Learning to Trust describes a constructivist approach to classroom management and discipline that was developed by the Child Development Project, a multiyear research and development project that applied attachment theory, care, and self-determination theories to the elementary school classroom.

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms.

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms.