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A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

By: JoBeth Allen,Lois Alexander

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A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

By: JoBeth Allen,Lois Alexander

This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues, such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the effects of poverty, and respect for people with disabilities. The book shows how a group of teachers worked together to develop a critical content framework using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Chapters highlight lively classroom and community action projects.

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0807772305

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Family Dialogue Journals

School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning

By: JoBeth Allen,Jennifer Beaty,Angela Dean,Joseph Jones,Stephanie Smith Mathews,Jen McCreight,Amber M. Simmons,Elyse Schwedler

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Family Dialogue Journals

School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning

By: JoBeth Allen,Jennifer Beaty,Angela Dean,Joseph Jones,Stephanie Smith Mathews,Jen McCreight,Amber M. Simmons,Elyse Schwedler

This honest, clearly written, and accessible book shows how to use Family Dialogue Journals (FDJs) to increase and deepen learning across grade levels. Written by K–12 teachers who have been implementing and studying the use of weekly journals for several years, it shares what they have learned and why they have found FDJs to be an invaluable tool for forming effective partnerships with families. Learn from first-hand accounts how students write weekly about one big idea they have studied, ask a family member a related question, and then solicit their writing in the journal. Through these journal entries, they share their family knowledge with classmates while actively engaging with the curriculum. In turn, teachers extend the academic discussion by writing to each family and incorporating their funds of knowledge into classroom lessons—writing about everything from the use of thermometers to life in Michoacán, Mexico. Family participation in the FDJs is remarkably high across ages, ethnicities, and economic realities. “This is an incredibly readable book that is highly useful for teachers, teacher educators, and university researchers interested in this powerful practice. The descriptions of the classrooms are riveting and exemplify the kind of teaching we would all like to see in every classroom.” —Kathy Schultz, dean and professor, Mills College “Family Dialogue Journals is a beautiful, socially conscious book offering so much wisdom for curriculum, classroom norms, and creating learning-focused contexts. Readers will be immersed in classroom contexts, teachers’ decisionmaking processes, and practical advice about how to foster a humble, genuine, ongoing dialogue built upon mutual respect and openness with their students and students’ families. Family Dialogue Journals doesn’t just demonstrate the power of interpersonal relationships, it links those dialogues and relationships directly to curriculum and supporting students’ critical literacies of both community and academic ways of knowing and being Family Dialogue Journals is a beautiful, socially conscious book offering so much wisdom for curriculum, classroom norms, and creating learning-focused contexts.” —Stephanie Jones, professor, University of Georgia

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A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

By: JoBeth Allen,Lois Alexander

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Family Dialogue Journals

School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning

By: JoBeth Allen,Jennifer Beaty,Angela Dean,Joseph Jones,Stephanie Smith Mathews,Jen McCreight,Amber M. Simmons,Elyse Schwedler

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School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning

By: JoBeth Allen,Jennifer Beaty,Angela Dean,Joseph Jones,Stephanie Smith Mathews,Jen McCreight,Amber M. Simmons,Elyse Schwedler

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Exploring Blue Highways

Literacy Reform, School Change, and the Creation of Learning Communities

By: JoBeth Allen,Marilynn Cary

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Literacy Reform, School Change, and the Creation of Learning Communities

By: JoBeth Allen,Marilynn Cary

Detailing an examination of language, literacy and school reform, this work provides an inside view of how teacher research and reform can positively change both teachers and students, making then better readers, writers and learners.

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A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

Family Dialogue Journals

Family Dialogue Journals

A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

Family Dialogue Journals

Family Dialogue Journals

Exploring Blue Highways

Exploring Blue Highways

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