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Black Ants and Buddhists

Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades

By: Mary Cowhey

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Black Ants and Buddhists

Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades

By: Mary Cowhey

What would a classroom look like if understanding and respecting differences in race, culture, beliefs, and opinions were at its heart? If you were inspired to become a teacher because you wanted to develop young minds, but now find yourself limited by "teach to the test" pressures and state standards, Mary Cowhey's book Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades will reignite the passion and remind you that educators provide more than test prep. Starting her career as a community activist, Cowhey shares her roots and how they influenced her Peace Class, where she asks her students to think critically, learn through activism and discussion, and view the entire curriculum through the framework of understanding the world, and what they can do to make it a better place. Woven through the book is Mary's unflinching and humorous account of her own roots as well as lessons from her heroes: Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, Jr, and others. Her students learn to make connections between their lives, the books they read, the community leaders they meet, and the larger world. Black Ants and Buddhists offers no easy answers, but it does include starting points for conversations about diversity and controversy in your classroom, as well as in the larger community. Students and teachers investigate problems and issues together, in a multicultural, antiracist classroom.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003842291

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9781003842293

Families with Power

Centering Students by Engaging with Families and Community

By: Mary Cowhey

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Families with Power

Centering Students by Engaging with Families and Community

By: Mary Cowhey

What if...? That's the question that began Families with Power/Familias con Poder, a grass-roots organization of low-income students and caregivers in Northampton, MA in 2007. What if the families of students most impacted by the "opportunity gap" somehow had the power to organize whatever activities they felt would best help their children succeed? Mary Cowhey, a teacher who co-founded FWP, shares these stories and the voices of her fellow FWP organizers through vignettes and interviews, weaving in the lessons learned along the way. Inspired by Paulo Freire's popular education and the radical tradition of the Highlander Folk School, some Latina and African mothers, a great-grandmother and a couple of teachers founded Families with Power (FWP). Organizing Family Reading Parties in each other's living rooms (instead of meetings at school) to recruit additional families and identify potential leaders, FWP created a Highlander-style residential retreat that employed Freirean culture circles to pose problems and design programs to address them. Readers will get an inside look at the benefits, successes and challenges of more than a dozen years of student and family engagement in the community and school, tackling issues from academics, race and class to immigration and public health"--

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Teachers College Press

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0807766380

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9780807766385

Black Ants and Buddhists

Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades

By: Mary Cowhey

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Families with Power

Centering Students by Engaging with Families and Community

By: Mary Cowhey

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Centering Students by Engaging with Families and Community

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Citizen Justice

By: Mary Margaret McKeown

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Citizen Justice

By: Mary Margaret McKeown

U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was a giant in the legal world, even if he is often remembered for his four wives, as a potential vice-presidential nominee, as a target of impeachment proceedings, and for his tenure as the longest-serving justice from 1939 to 1975. His most enduring legacy, however, is perhaps his advocacy for the environment. Douglas was the spiritual heir to early twentieth-century conservation pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir. His personal spiritual mantra embraced nature as a place of solitude, sanctuary, and refuge. Caught in the giant expansion of America's urban and transportation infrastructure after World War II, Douglas became a powerful leader in forging the ambitious goals of today's environmental movement. And, in doing so, Douglas became a true citizen justice. In a way unthinkable today, Douglas ran a one-man lobby shop from his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court, bringing him admiration from allies in conservation groups but raising ethical issues with his colleagues. He became a national figure through his books, articles, and speeches warning against environmental dangers. Douglas organized protest hikes to leverage his position as a national icon, he lobbied politicians and policymakers privately about everything from logging to highway construction and pollution, and he protested at the Supreme Court through his voluminous and passionate dissents. Douglas made a lasting contribution to both the physical environment and environmental law--with trees still standing, dams unbuilt, and beaches protected as a result of his work. His merged roles as citizen advocate and justice also put him squarely in the center of ethical dilemmas that he never fully resolved. Citizen Justice elucidates the why and how of these tensions and their contemporary lessons against the backdrop of Douglas's unparalleled commitment to the environment.

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U of Nebraska Press

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164012554X

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9781640125544

Many Texts, Many Voices

Teaching Literacy and Social Justice to Young Learners in the Digital Age

By: Penny Silvers,Mary C. Shorey

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Many Texts, Many Voices

Teaching Literacy and Social Justice to Young Learners in the Digital Age

By: Penny Silvers,Mary C. Shorey

On any given day, a visitor to Mary Shorey's classroom will find elementary students using a variety of learning tools, from books to wikis and blogs, to pose critical questions about the world and take action to make a difference in the lives of others. Whether sponsoring a book drive for victims of Hurricane Katrina, using a multimedia presentation to persuade the principal to adopt their recycling plan, or challenging a senior citizen's eviction, it's all in a day's work for Mary's students. Her young learners are becoming conscious consumers, creative thinkers, and effective communicators even while fulfilling the mandated curriculum and Common Core Standards. As Shorey and coauthor Penny Silvers write in Many Texts, Many Voices, "Critical literacy requires that the reader/consumer examine multiple perspectives and ask, 'Whose interests are being served?' and 'Whose voice is heard--or silenced?'...Rather than an addition to a lesson or curriculum, critical literacy is a way of thinking, communicating, analyzing, and living a literate life. Critical literacy also implies the possibility of taking some kind of social action in order to support a belief, make a difference, or simply help during a time of need." Always mindful of what is appropriate for young children, Shorey and Silvers continually search for opportunities to embed critical literacy and inquiry in the everyday lives of primary students. Through a rich array of rubrics, sample lessons, text sets, unit designs, and professional resources, Silvers and Shorey share their reflective practices so that all teachers can use print, visual, and digital tools to transform student learning.

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Stenhouse Publishers

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1571108750

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9781571108753

Developing Children's Critical Thinking through Picturebooks

A guide for primary and early years students and teachers

By: Mary Roche

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Developing Children's Critical Thinking through Picturebooks

A guide for primary and early years students and teachers

By: Mary Roche

This accessible text will show students and class teachers how they can enable their pupils to become critical thinkers through the medium of picturebooks. By introducing children to the notion of making-meaning together through thinking and discussion, Roche focuses on carefully chosen picturebooks as a stimulus for discussion, and shows how they can constitute an accessible, multimodal resource for adding to literacy skills, while at the same time developing in pupils a far wider range of literary understanding. By allowing time for thinking about and digesting the pictures as well as the text, and then engaging pupils in classroom discussion, this book highlights a powerful means of developing children’s oral language ability, critical thinking, and visual literacy, while also acting as a rich resource for developing children’s literary understanding. Throughout, Roche provides rich data and examples from real classroom practice. This book also provides an overview of recent international research on doing ‘interactive read alouds’, on what critical literacy means, on what critical thinking means and on picturebooks themselves. Lecturers on teacher education courses for early years or primary levels, classroom teachers, pre-service education students, and all those interested in promoting critical engagement and dialogue about literature will find this an engaging and very insightful text.

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Routledge

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131764266X

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9781317642664

Designing Socially Just Learning Communities

Critical Literacy Education Across the Lifespan

By: Rebecca Rogers,Mary Ann Kramer,Melissa Mosley,The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group

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Designing Socially Just Learning Communities

Critical Literacy Education Across the Lifespan

By: Rebecca Rogers,Mary Ann Kramer,Melissa Mosley,The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group

Demonstrating the power and potential of educators working together to use literacy practices that make changes in people's lives, this collaboratively written book blends the voices of participants in a teacher-led professional development group to provide a truly lifespan perspective on designing critical literacy practices. It joins these educators’ stories with the history and practices of the group - K-12 classroom teachers, adult educators, university professors, and community activists who have worked together since 2001 to better understand the relationship between literacy and social justice. Exploring issues such as gender equity, linguistic diversity, civil rights and freedom and war, the book showcases teachers’ reflective practice in action and offers insight into the possibilities and struggles of teaching literacy through a framework of social justice. Designing Socially Just Learning Communities models an innovative form of professional development for educators and researchers who are seeking ways to transform educational practices. The teachers' practices and actions – in their classrooms and as members of the teacher research group – will speak loudly to policy-makers, researchers, and activists who wish to work alongside them.

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Routledge

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1135840938

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Parkview

A St. Louis Urban Oasis 1905-2005

By: Mary Henderson Gass,Jean Fahey Eberle,Judith Phelps Little

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Parkview

A St. Louis Urban Oasis 1905-2005

By: Mary Henderson Gass,Jean Fahey Eberle,Judith Phelps Little

Beautiful new editor of Urban Oasis, first published in 1979. The book has been entirely redone in order to expand upon and continue the story of the social and architectural history of Parkview, Julius Pitzman's last and largest neighborhood in St. Louis. New maps, text, historic photos and directory have been added. Book is hardcover with color dust jacket.

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236

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Virginia Publishing

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1891442406

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9781891442407

Scientists and World Order

The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations

By: Ernst B. Haas,Mary Pat Williams,Don Babai

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Scientists and World Order

The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations

By: Ernst B. Haas,Mary Pat Williams,Don Babai

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

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0520321480

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Mary

By: Mary E. Mebane

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Mary

By: Mary E. Mebane

The life story of a woman who refused to accept life in one of the traditional roles assigned to Black women profiles her background on a poor North Carolina farm and chronicles her road to success

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Fawcett Books

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0449700259

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9780449700259

Mary's Call to Her Loving Children

By: Mary (the Virgin ).

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Mary's Call to Her Loving Children

By: Mary (the Virgin ).

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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232

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Palala Press

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1378520297

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9781378520291

LIFE IN JESUS

By: Mary Forbes 1774-1854 Winslow,Octavius Memoir of Mrs Mary W. Winslow

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LIFE IN JESUS

By: Mary Forbes 1774-1854 Winslow,Octavius Memoir of Mrs Mary W. Winslow

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446

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Wentworth Press

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1363765051

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9781363765058

Sit Down

By: Mary Manz Simon

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Sit Down

By: Mary Manz Simon

Retells for beginning readers the Bible story about Mary and Martha.

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0570050545

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Forgetting's No Excuse

The Autobiography of Mary Stott

By: Mary Stott

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Forgetting's No Excuse

The Autobiography of Mary Stott

By: Mary Stott

The first volume of her autobiography in which Mary Scott describes her life as a distinguished journalist, including her time as women's editor in The Guardian, 1957-72.

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Virago Press

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1853811025

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9781853811029

Book's by Mary Cowhey

Black Ants and Buddhists

Black Ants and Buddhists

Families with Power

Families with Power

Black Ants and Buddhists

Black Ants and Buddhists

Families with Power

Families with Power

Citizen Justice

Citizen Justice

Many Texts, Many Voices

Many Texts, Many Voices

Developing Children's Critical Thinking through Picturebooks

Developing Children's Critical Thinking through Picturebooks

Designing Socially Just Learning Communities

Designing Socially Just Learning Communities

Parkview

Parkview

Scientists and World Order

Scientists and World Order

Mary

Mary

Mary's Call to Her Loving Children

Mary's Call to Her Loving Children

LIFE IN JESUS

LIFE IN JESUS

Sit Down

Sit Down

Forgetting's No Excuse

Forgetting's No Excuse

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