Full Description
After a decade as an education professor, Greg Michie decided to return to his teaching roots. He went back to the same Chicago neighborhood, the same public school, the same grade level and subject he taught in the 1990s. But much had changed—both in schools and in the world outside them. Same As It Never Was chronicles Michie's efforts to navigate the new realities of public schooling while also trying to rediscover himself as a teacher. Against a backdrop of teacher strikes and anti-testing protests, the movement for Black lives and the deepening of anti-immigrant sentiment, this book invites readers into an award-winning teacher's classroom as he struggles to teach toward equity and justice in a time where both are elusive for too many children in our nation's schools.Book Features:
A follow-up to the author's bestseller, Holler If You Hear Me, a long-time staple in teacher education programs.
An examination of current issues, such as the importance of teacher unions, anti-racist/culturally relevant teaching, resistance to standardized testing, teacher evaluation, and the political nature of teaching.
A rare memoir of a professor returning to public school teaching that will inform and inspire a broad audience.
Contents
Foreword Gloria Ladson-Billings
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
1 Same as It Never Was
2 A Strike of Choices
3 Seeing My Students (Again)
4 Hellos and Goodbyes
5 Not Highly Qualified
6 On the Importance of Mirrors—and Windows
7 Test and Punish
8 When the World Hands Us Curriculum
9 Stupidity and Evaluation
10 Unfolding Hope
11 What Sammy Taught Me
12 The Class Takes a Knee
13 On the Side of the Child
14 Uncertain Certainty
15 Do Not Forget to Reach
Notes
References
About the Author
