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Topics for TeachersMarch 2016 |
Welcome! Topics for Teachers is a quick summary of titles and resources of interest to teachers and available through the Shared System Library at your school. All you need is your Indianapolis Public Library card! Have a question? Ask your librarian! |
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Lit up : one reporter. three schools. twenty-four books that can change lives
by David Denby
Returning to high school to find out whether or not books can shape lives, a distinguished critic, sitting in on a 10th-grade English class for an entire academic year, presents a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings, but also exciting breakthroughs and the emergence of pleasure in reading. By the best-selling author of Great Books.
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For white folks who teach in the hood-- and the rest of y'all too : reality pedagogy and urban education
by Christopher Emdin
"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in science classrooms as a young man of color, Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on and approach to teaching in urban schools. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike--both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally"
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The math myth : and other STEM delusions
by Andrew Hacker
The best-selling author of Two Nations outlines provocative arguments that the requirement for all students to master advanced algebra regardless of aptitude is doing more harm than good, challenging assumptions about the benefits of advanced math training while proposing educational alternatives. 15,000 first printing.
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Pushout : The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
by Monique W. Morris
The author of Black Stats chronicles the experiences of school age black girls across the United States and discusses how to address policies, practices and a cultural illiteracy that push these students out of school and into unsafe and unstable futures.
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Professional Development CollectionThe most beneficial and most significant collection of full-text education journals in the world. If you're a teacher taking education classes, you NEED this collection to get those papers done - with citations done automatically. If you're a teacher confronted with a new classroom issue, you will find resources here.
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The summer before the war : a novel
by Helen Simonson
Arriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew. By the best-selling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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