Challenges current notions of what it means to be a “highly qualified teacher”, and demonstrates the depth of commitment and care teachers bring to their work with students, families, and communities. This sequel to Nieto’s popular book, Why We Teach, features powerful stories of classroom teachers from across the country as they give witness to their hopes and struggles.

Provides research-based instructional routines to support adolescents as they learn and use new words in their disciplinary learning. The book explores how academic vocabulary can position students as 'insiders' or 'outsiders', and how culturally sustaining instruction can welcome all students into discovering and using language.