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<b>Wisdom that's been inspiring, motivating, and guiding teachers for two decades</b> <p><i>The Courage to Teach</i> speaks to the joys and pains that teachers of every sort know well. Over the last 20 years, the book has helped countless educators reignite their passion, redirect their practice, and deal with the many pressures that accompany their vital work. <p>Enriched by a new Foreword from Diana Chapman Walsh, the book builds on a simple premise: good teaching can never be reduced to technique. Good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher, that core of self where intellect, emotion, and spirit converge&#8212;enabling 'live encounters' between teachers, students, and subjects that are the key to deep and lasting learning. Good teachers love learners, learning, and the teaching life in a way that builds trust with students and colleagues, animates their daily practice, and keeps them coming back tomorrow. <ul> <li>Reclaim your own vision and purpose against the threat of burn-out</li> <li>Understand why good teaching cannot be reduced to technique alone</li> <li>Explore and practice the relational traits that good teachers have in common</li> <li>Learn how to forge learning connections with your students and &#34;teach across the gap&#34;</li> </ul> <p>Whether used for personal study, book club exploration, or professional development, <i>The</i> <i>Courage to Teach</i> is rich with time-honored wisdom, and contemporary clarity about the ancient arts of teaching and learning.

<b>A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers.</b> <p><i>Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher</i> is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield shows how you can uncover and assess your assumptions about practice by viewing them through the lens of your students' eyes, your colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and research, and your own personal experience. Practicing critical reflection will help you&#8230; <ul> <li>Align your teaching with desired student outcomes</li> <li>See your practice from new perspectives</li> <li>Engage learners via multiple teaching formats</li> <li>Understand and manage classroom power dynamics</li> <li>Model critical thinking for your students</li> <li>Manage the complex rhythms of diverse classrooms</li> </ul> <p>This fully revised second edition features a wealth of new material, including new chapters on critical reflection in the context of social media, teaching race and racism, leadership in a critically reflective key, and team teaching as critical reflection. In addition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to align with today's classrooms, whether online or face-to-face, in large lecture formats or small groups. <p>In his own personal voice Stephen Brookfield draws from over 45 years of experience to illustrate the clear benefits of critical reflection. Assumptions guide practice and only when we base our actions on accurate assumptions will we achieve the results we want. Educators with the courage to challenge their own assumptions in an effort to improve learning are the invaluable role models our students need. <i>Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher</i> provides the foundational information and practical tools that help teachers reach their true potential.

In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young “troublemakers,” challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small.

Information Architecture for Everybody. Based on a book by Information Architect, Abby Covert.

Jesse is an author, speaker, and teacher with a focus on education, critical digital pedagogy, ungrading, composition, and documentary film.

Discover Situated Learning, 1st Edition, Jean Lave, HB ISBN: 9780521413084 on Higher Education from Cambridge

The founders of our Republic envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe we must have universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education we must have democracy. But since the founding of our country the study and practice of democracy in our schools has weakened. We must return to the primary purpose of education and ensure that it is indeed for everyone. The Agenda for Education in a Democracy proposed by the authors is more than an effort to simply revitalize a faltering civics curriculum. It is about restoring a shared humanity to the educational process. It is about the need to make caring, compassion, freedom, dignity, and responsibility central to the mission of schooling. It is about placing power and responsibilitya concept more demanding of the individual than is accountabilityin the hands of those who need and deserve it. It is about taking the idea of excellence seriously. It is about taking democracy seriously. It is about having real faith in real people to do what is right, just, and honorable.

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