Full Description
As editors of Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2010) and Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2011), we have explored innovative practices, many of which represent issues of diversity from multiple perspectives and schools of thought. As we have considered relevant factors, problems, and circumstances that influence effective education, we most readily recognize that within the twenty-first century, issues of diversity have become even more profound.
This book, the third in the Breaking the Mold series, was conceptualized with the hope that by sharing compelling stories of successful innovation, advocacy, and social justice, more children and their families will be affected in positive ways. The narratives presented in this volume are rooted in classrooms, districts, communities, teacher preparation programs from around the United States and many corners of the world. The unique initiatives portrayed here represent collaborative efforts by students, teachers, administrators, professors, parents, boards of education, and global citizens who believe in change and transformation for the betterment of education.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I: Social Justice and Advocacy
1.Social Justice Leadership for Hispanic Youth: Addressing the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
2.Teacher's Pet Projects Versus Real Social Justice Teaching
3.Teaching for Transformation: Responsive Program Planning and Professional Development Aimed at Justice and Equity in Urban Settings
4.Restorative Justice: A Model for Meeting the Needs of LGBTIQ Youth
5.Collaborative Teaching and Research for Cultural Congruence in New Zealand
6.Diversity as Strength: How Higher Performing Schools Embrace Diversity and Thrive
7.From Classroom to Community: Motivating Preservice Teachers in the Art of Teaching about Social Justice
Section II: Family and Community Involvement
8.Full-Service Community Schools: A District's Commitment to Educating the Whole Child
9.Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Tapping Into the Strengths of Families
10.We Make the Road by Walking: The Family Leadership Initiative in Las Vegas, Nevada
11.Preparing Chinese Immigrant Parents of Children with Disabilities to be Schools' Equal Partners
12.What if Every Day was American Indian Day?
13.Languages and Cultures Crossing Paths in Frontier Communities
14.Innovations in Mentoring: The Many Faces of Chosen to Achieve
15.Community-based Pedagogies: Projects and Possibilities in Colombia and the US
Section III: Culturally Responsive Practices in Classrooms, Schools, and Districts
16.Just Don't Quit On Us: The Paradox of Motivating and Engaging African American Males at a Single Gender Middle School
17.Scaling and Sustaining Cultural Proficiency: The Case of Wichita Public Schools
18.Expanding the Voices of Literacy: Bringing Students' Language and Culture to the Fore
19.Considerations About Bringing a Deaf Student into a Community of Learners in a Mainstream Classroom
20.Integrating Culture-Based Arts Education Across Subject Area Boundaries
21.Encouraging Student Legislators in the Process of Participatory Democracy and Social Advocacy
22.Teaching our Tongues: Student-run Language Classes as a Celebration of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Schools
23.Seeing English Language Learners' Perspectives on School: Using Photography to Improve Diverse Students' Writing Self-efficacy and Achievement
Section IV: Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education for Diversity
24.Teacher Education that Works: Collaboration Between TESOL and Content-Based Education Faculty to Better Prepare Future Teachers
25.Empowering Diverse Teachers for Diverse Learners: A Program in International Studies in Education and its Implications for Diverse School Settings in Iceland
26.Sophisticated Sisters in Vegas: What Happens with Service-Learning Stays in Multicultural Teacher Education
27.A Praxis-Based Experience in Preparing Critical Bilingual Teachers in the Borderlands
28.The Challenges and Rewards of Reciprocal Intercultural Mentoring
29.From Co-Teaching Partnership to Mentoring: Innovative Ways to Build Teacher Capacity
30.CLASSIC© Professional Development for Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
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