More Books!
Here is my latest in both some new(ish) books that I want to recommend as well as a few older ones that are still worth reading.
The Artisan Teaching Model,
by Kenneth Baum and Daniel Krulwich
by Kenneth Baum and Daniel Krulwich
“Explore a powerful and innovative new approach to leadership development within schools. Based on the authors’ success in a South Bronx school, this book merges the idea of teamwork with the concept of an artisan-apprentice relationship. As in any apprenticeship, newer members of the profession work alongside experts (“artisans”). As apprentices become more skilled, they take on larger and more substantial roles and continue to work alongside, and together with, artisans. Over time, the apprentices become artisans themselves and in turn share the art and craft of teaching with newer teachers.”
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood—and the rest of y’all tooBy Christopher Emdin
“Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. He begins by taking to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning.”
Mismeasuring Our Livesby Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen ad Jean-Paul Fitoussi
On the problems with using GDP for measuring economic process (which is as biased politically as measuring chidren’s education their teachers effectiveness and the school itself) and offers alternatives. (Then reread “Mismeasuring Man” on testing.)
Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play, PreK-2by Renee Dinnerstein
“In her inspirational, well-researched book, Renée describes the kinds of learning opportunities that all parents want for their own children. Her accessible writing style makes it easy to envision the environment, teaching, and community she describes with such clarity you’ll want to get started on her ideas tomorrow.” —Jennifer Serravallo
And go back and read Parental Involvement and the Political Principle by Seymour Sarason, as well as his book Productive Learning with Stanislaw Glazek
Also a reminder of a book I recently reviewed here:
Education and the Commercial Mindset
by Samuel Abrams
On keeping the market place and privatization out of public education.
by Samuel Abrams
On keeping the market place and privatization out of public education.
Meanwhile, please come up with wonderful ideas to protect the vulnerable and rebuild the Democratic Party. (Reminder: the Democratic Party got more votes in both the Presidential race and the senatorial races.)
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