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Direct linkMichie, Gregory; Alexander-Tanner, Ryan – Teachers College Press, 2019
This graphic memoir of teaching in urban America is a brilliant reimagining of the classic text by Gregory Michie, "Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students." Michie is joined by illustrator Ryan Alexander-Tanner and 10 artists--most of them young people of color--to bring a fresh, vibrant energy to the original…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Teaching, Racial Bias, Cartoons
Stairs, Andrea J.; Donnell, Kelly A.; Dunn, Alyssa Hadley – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
"Urban Teaching in America: Theory, Research, and Practice in K-12 Classrooms" is a brief yet comprehensive overview of urban teaching. Undergraduate and graduate students who are new to the urban context will develop a deeper understanding of the urban teaching environment and the challenges and opportunities they can expect to face while…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Education
Achinstein, Betty; Ogawa, Rodney T. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This book examines both the promise and complexity of diversifying today's teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of 21 new teachers of color working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book uncovers a systemic paradox that the teachers confront. They are committed to improving educational opportunities for students of color by acting…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Minority Group Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Urban Teaching
Kinloch, Valerie – Teachers College Press, 2012
In her new book, Valerie Kinloch, award-winning author of "Harlem on Our Minds", sheds light on the ways urban youth engage in "meaning-making" experiences as a way to assert critical, creative, and highly sophisticated perspectives on teaching, learning, and survival. Kinloch rejects deficit models that have traditionally…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Current Events, Student Attitudes, Urban Youth
Blake, Robert W., Jr., Ed.; Blake, Brett Elizabeth, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"Becoming a Teacher" revisits the concept of Teacher Lore (Schubert and Ayers, 1992), by providing a cross-disciplinary approach linking elements of narrative theory to all aspects of pre- and in-service teaching. In essence, it embraces the notion that what teachers say matters. The rationale behind this text is the idea that narrative can not…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Story Telling, Special Education Teachers
Peer reviewedPolly, Drew, Ed.; Heafner, Tina, Ed.; Chapman, Marvin, Ed.; Spooner, Melba, Ed. – IGI Global, 2015
School-university partnerships have the potential to greatly benefit teaching and learning in PK-12 environments, as well as educator preparation programs. This collaboration is advantageous to teachers, counselors, and administrators. "Professional Development Schools and Transformative Partnerships" provides a comprehensive look at the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Martino, Wayne; Rezai-Rashti, Goli – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book provides an illuminating account of teachers' own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in elementary schools to address important issues…
Descriptors: Role Models, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Males
Collins, Christina – Teachers College Press, 2011
Why did the New York City school district once have the lowest ratio of minority teachers to minority students of any large urban school system in the country? Using an array of historical sources, this provocative book explores the barriers that African American and Latino candidates faced in attempting to become public school teachers in New…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Race, Public Schools
Wong, Pia Lindquist, Ed.; Glass, Ronald David, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2009
How can we better educate disadvantaged urban students? Drawing on over five years' experience in a broad partnership involving twelve urban professional development schools in five districts, a teachers' union, a comprehensive public university, and several community-based organizations, the contributors to this volume describe how they worked…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Youth, Disadvantaged, At Risk Students
Hutzel, Karen; Bastos, Flavia M. C.; Cozier, Kimberly J. – Teachers College Press, 2012
This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective on urban education, the contributors describe a positive, asset-based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban cities. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this…
Descriptors: Community Development, Urban Schools, Art Education, Educational Change
Weinberg, Paul J.; Weinberg, Carl – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008
The book tracks co-author Paul Weinberg during his first year of teaching as he is introduced to the daily tribulations of an urban Los Angeles high school. Paul's father Carl Weinberg, who fifty years earlier himself began his career in education an urban secondary school teacher, shares his experiences side-by-side with those of his son.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Beginning Teachers
Salili, Farideh, Ed.; Hoosain, Rumjahn, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Democratic political systems and the democratic way of life is aspired by most people around the world. Democracy is considered to be morally superior to other forms of political systems as it aspires to secure civil liberties, human rights, social justice and equality before the law for everyone regardless of their gender, culture, religion and…
Descriptors: Democracy, Multicultural Education, Cultural Differences, Citizenship Education
Steinberg, Shirley R., Ed – Peter Lang New York, 2010
The second edition of "19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City" adds new questions to those in the original volume. Continuing the developing conversation in urban education, the book is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Shirley R. Steinberg and the authors ask direct questions about what…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Critical Theory, Dropouts
Nath, Janice, Ed.; Guadarrama, Irma N., Ed.; Ramsey, John, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Investigating University-School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest examples of practitioner thinking, research, and program design and evaluation in the field at the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Urban Teaching, Professional Development Schools, Mentors
Kincheloe, Joe L., Ed.; Hayes, Kecia, Ed.; Rose, Karel, Ed.; Anderson, Philip M., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by many contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for those teaching in urban schools to be…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Urban Education
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