Offers a compelling picture of education today. Chapters highlight essays written by a diverse group of K-12 classroom teachers who share their vision for education and describe their empowering classroom practices.

Discover new strategies to create equitable, engaging, interactive classroom environments where students from all backgrounds are motivated to take risks, share their unique perspectives, and develop their own identities as powerful life-long learners.

Nieto and Lopez document their reasons for becoming teachers and share some of the most important lessons they have learned along the way. Using journals, blogs, current writings, and their research, they explore how their views on curriculum, pedagogy, and the field of education itself have evolved over the years.

In schools serving high concentrations of bilingual learners, it can be especially challenging for teachers to maintain commitments to equity minded instruction while meeting the demands of new educational policies, including national standards. This book details how one school integrated equity pedagogy into standards-based curriculum and produced exemplary levels of achievement.

Traditional dissertations aiming to illuminate the landscapes of education are often too turgid and poorly written to have far-reaching readership. This book examines the inner workings of a doctoral course focused on teaching qualitative researchers strong narrative writing.

Approaching the Holocaust in your classroom can be a difficult, often daunting task. Using anecdotes and empirical data, this practical guide offers advice for teaching the Holocaust in a way that is nuanced, socially responsible, and historically accurate.