Schools and pre-schools

The School Leadership Program (SLP) is a federal grant sponsored by the United States Department of Education.

This book explores the many ways and opportunities in which men and women might work together to highlight creative ways as well as examine the role of men in schools, families, and community engagement.

In the book, the author is focusing the importance of play for children from 0 years up to 8-12 years of age, e.

The second edition of The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education has been revised, updated, and expanded since its original publication in 2005.

Built for More, The Role of OST in Preparing Youth for the Future of Work will highlight OST research and illustrative practices and bring forward multi-disciplinary perspectives about future trends, innovations, and the impact of OST on the future workforce.

Imagine a place where passion for learning, authentic connection with colleagues and community, and strengths-based middle grades education thrive.

This volume brings together design thinking, critical social theory, and learning sciences to describe promising learning innovations that foster rights, dignity, and social justice for youth.

Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on post-secondary opportunities and career paths.

The book compares the standardized test scores of both elementary and high schools charter schools with the scores for regular public schools located nearby.

After a recent CUFA conference, many social studies teacher educators came to realize that pre-service teachers are skeptical of calls to integrate sensitive topics in the curriculum because they do not see it in their field experiences.

This edited collection provides middle and high school classroom teachers of English language arts, social studies, and other disciplines the inspiration and insight necessary to utilize an arts integration approach in their teaching.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how schools in America function and what goes on in the typical classroom.

Paulo Freire wrote that "e;sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

Design thinking is a human-centered problem-solving process that organizations can use to address wicked and complex problems of practice.

The Research on Women and Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association presents the third book in its series, Gender and Early Learning Environments.

Two major real-world problems prompted this study: maintaining the Catholic identity of the Catholic schools, and increasing interest in character education.

At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings brings together the voices of over 50 adults and youth to explore both the promises and challenges of intergenerational work in out-of-school time (OST) programs.

While the research on bullying and peer victimization has increased considerably over the past 20 years, a number of studies are emerging that document mixed results of bullying and prevention programs.

This new volume of The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) Professional Book Series is a critical and timely resource that paves the way and guides the future of mathematics teacher education.

Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children's literacy learning are pervasive.

Curriculum can be defined in a variety of ways.

In this book, internationally migrant families invite us to listen to the storylines of their mostly muted voices as they navigate the local schools in their new cultural context.

In classrooms where children's voices are valued, young readers and writers possess power.

This volume explores the impact of research-practice partnerships in education (broadly conceived) on communities in which such partnerships operate.

Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children's literacy learning are pervasive.

This guidebook is designed to be the middle-level teacher's friend in addressing a wide variety of questions regarding the use of educational and instructional technologies.

Child development 'laboratory schools are dedicated to research-based instruction and furthering innovation in education.

The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving.

Paul Diederich worked in five new organizations dedicated to transforming American schools: the Ohio State University lab school, the Eight Year Study, a Harvard institute to revamp English language instruction, the University of Chicago's Board of Examiners, and the Educational Testing Service.

At the time of Obama's draconian anti-immigrant policies leading to massive deportation of undocumented, poor immigrants of color, there could not be a more timely and important book than this edited volume, which critically examines ways in which immigration, race, class, language, and gender issues intersect and impact the life of many immigrants, including immigrant students.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum.

In 2015-16, the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group (MLER SIG), an affiliate of the American Educational Research Association, undertook a collaborative project-the development of a new middle grades education research agenda.

How do Christian higher education institutions orient new faculty members to their role on a Christian campus?

(Orginally published in 2005)This monograph represents the work of many mathematics teacher educators explored the content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge that make up the middle grades learning experience.

What is a charter school?

The focus of this book is on different aspects of leadership and governess for learning in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector, which serves children aged 1-5 years.

The twin objectives of the series Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Issues are: (1) to identify issues in education that are relevant to professional educators and researchers; and (2) to address those issues from research and theory in educational psychology, psychology, and related disciplines.

COVID-19 ravaged the United States and the rest of the world in a similar manner as a Category V hurricane would, leaving no one safe in its wake.

For decades, politicians, businessmen and other leaders have been concerned with the quality of education, including early childhood education, in the United States.

The rationale for the present text, Hollywood or History?

(orginally published by Jossey-Bass 1990)Changing Problem Behavior in Schools presents an innovative approach to dealing with classroom behavior problems that can be used successfully by teachers as all grade levels, counselors, and administrators.

Our fifth book in the International Research on School Leadership series focuses on the use of data in schools and districts as useful information for leadership and decision making.

This volume is directed toward research to practice issues related to partnering with families of children birth through age 5.

Extant literature on evidence-based instructional strategies mediated by elementary and secondary school leaders is surprisingly scant.

As social studies standards shift to place a higher emphasis on critical thinking, inquiry, interaction, and expression, many teachers are scrambling to figure out how to appropriately shift their instruction accordingly.

This book provides a detailed account of an educational experiment in a middle school in Shanghai, China.

Structured Discovery Cane Travel (SDCT) is an Orientation and Mobility (O&M) curriculum which focuses on the foundational techniques necessary to develop future independence for students who are blind or visually impaired.

This guidebook is designed to be the elementary school teacher's friend in addressing a wide variety of questions regarding the use of educational and instructional technologies.

Over the last decade, significant changes have occurred in how schools are organized, how educators are prepared and certified, how accreditation policies have shifted both curriculum and content, as well as changes to the demographics of middle school classrooms.

The scope of the book is an integrated discussion of several aspects of the internationalisation process in secondary education in Europe.