Full Description
Many teachers leverage their assets to adopt changes using small but meaningful changes that go beyond "box-checking" and encourage authentic learning and engagement. This book celebrates teachers' small steps by sharing examples of these excellent small changes.
Contents
Starting Small: Celebrating First Steps When Adopting Curricular Change K-16
Foreword
By: Lauren Madden
Chapter 1 Little Kids Making Big Decisions
By: Tiffany Robles
Chapter 2 Small Changes, Meaningful Impact: Number Talks in the Elementary Mathematics Classroom
By: Heather West Jerez*, Temple A. Walkowiak*, Briana Pelton, Kristin Hord, & Jennifer Tymkin
* The first two authors are co-lead authors.
Chapter 3 Wonder Walks as Nature Based Teaching Practice
By: Steph N. Dean
Chapter 4 A small step towards a meaningful school: collaboration in experimentality for curriculum integration
By: Ivan Salinas, Natalia Albornoz, & Magnolia Guerrero
Chapter 5 Taking Small Steps Towards Inquiry-Based Science Teaching
By: Zora M. Wolfe
Chapter 6 Creating a Discourse Driven Classroom
By: Jillian Plum
Chapter 7 Stepping Stones on Mount Project-Based Learning (PBL)
By: Maggie Demarse and Anne-Lise Halvorsen
Chapter 8 Stories That Need To Be Told
By: Clancy Bishop, Tiffany Coleman, Nikki Collins, & Melissa Ewing
Chapter 9 The Naughty List—Time for a Change
By: Carolyn Davidson Abel & Tingting Xu
Chapter 10 Nurturing The Writer Within
By: Melissa Ewing, Courtney Kozelski, & Elizabeth Crocker
Chapter 11 Empowering middle school english: Small steps in a journey of literacy transformation
By: Mona B. Zignego
Chapter 12 Beyond Checking Boxes: Enacting Equitable Practices in English Language Arts
By: Katie F. Whitley, Erin Riley-Lepo, & Ashley Pollitt
Chapter 13 Conferencing in the High School STEM Classroom
By: Lauren Bsales & Tanner Huffman
Chapter 14 Creating Multiple Pathways for Outcomes & Unit Themes through Standards
By: Samantha Shane
Chapter 15 Small Steps Towards Amplifying More Voices in Your Social Studies Classroom: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
By: Ashley Wright
Chapter 16 Think Big, Start Small: A Story with Strategies for Curriculum Change
By: Emily S. Meixner & Rachel Scupp-Jorge
Chapter 17: A Simulation Activity: Supporting Pre-service Teachers through the
Response-to-Intervention Process
By: Molly D. Keough
Chapter 18: A "Small but Meaningful" Framework for Improving Post-Secondary Courses
By: Amy L. Clay
Chapter 19: Exploring Cosmopolitan & Critical Perspectives in a Writing Course
By: Grace Y. Kang
Chapter 20: Flip, Switch, Reverse: A New Faculty Member Tackling a New Course and Content Area
By: Abby C. Emerson
Chapter 21: Incorporating Lesson Study: An Improvement Process for Elementary Social Studies Teacher Candidates
By: Alexander S. Butler
Chapter 22: Collaborate with librarians: How adding new and relevant materials matters
By: Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott
Chapter 23 Jagged Learning Profiles for Culturally Responsive Classrooms
By: Serena Morales
Chapter 24 Creating a Classroom Community That Values Disabled School Citizens
By: Steve Singer
