This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew out of Rethinking Schools workshops with early career teachers. It offers practical guidance on how to flourish in schools and classrooms and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.

The New Teacher Book: Finding Purpose, Balance and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom

Education & Teaching

Linda Christensen

Bob Peterson

Stan Karp

Moé Yonamine

Schools & Teaching

Rethinking Schools

An anthology of more than 60 articles documenting the history and the how-tos of social justice unionism. Together, they describe the growing movement to forge multiracial alliances with communities to defend and transform public education.

Teacher Unions and Social Justice

Business & Money

Jesse Hagopian

Michael Charney

Economics

A collection of newspaper articles about teaching children that it was not Columbus who first discovered America.

Rethinking Columbus

Other Contributor-Bill Bigelow

Rethinking Schools, Ltd.

This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular 1991 booklet that changed the way "the discovery of America" is taught in classroom and community settings. The new edition has over 100 pp. of new material, including a role-play trial of Columbus, materials on Thanksgiving Day, resources, historical documents, poetry, and more. It will help readers replace murky legends with a better sense of who we are and why we are here -- and celebrates over 500 years of the courageous struggles and lasting wisdom of native peoples.

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years

Bill Bigelow

In this new expanded and updated edition of Rethinking Mathematics, more than 50 articles show how to weave social justice issues throughout the mathematics curriculum, as well as how to integrate mathematics into other curricular areas. 
 Rethinking Mathematics offers teaching ideas, lesson plans, and reflections by practitioners and mathematics educators. This is real-world math math that helps students analyze social problems as they gain essential academic skills. 
 This book offers hope and guidance for teachers to enliven and strengthen their math teaching. It will deepen students understanding of society and help prepare them to be critical, active participants in a democracy. Blending theory and practice, this is the only resource of its kind.

Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers

Science & Math

Eric (Rico) Gutstein

Mathematics

Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution--as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions. Chapter 1: The Whole Thing Is Connected We can continue the enclosure of the commons, begun so long ago the privatization and commodification of nature or we can recognize the fundamental truth that we are all connected and that there is nothing private about how we treat the Earth, or each other. Chapter 2: Grounding Our Teaching Grounding our students in their communities doesn t just connect them to nature; it also connects them to the ways their communities have been battered by powerful interests, and how race and class have shaped those communities. Chapter 3: Facing Climate Chaos Articles in this chapter will help students recognize the significance of the climate crisis and see that the people being hit the hardest are the ones least responsible. Through various activities students consider root causes of the crisis in order to critically think about the deep social changes we will need to respond fairly and decisively. Chapter 4: Burning the Future Burning the Future has a metaphorical ring, but it s no metaphor it s literally true: We are burning the future. This chapter deals with the overall issue of fossil fuels and then is divided into three sections: coal, oil, and natural gas and fracking. Yes, we are burning the future. But nothing is inevitable. This is a key lesson from history, and from the activities included in this chapter. Chapter 5: Teaching in a Toxic World Articles in this chapter describe how toxic trespass happens in far too many ways in our lives here and around the world. Because of the intimate nature of the toxic trespass, students first reaction may be self-protection or individual consumer choices, rather than collective action. This chapter provides abundant evidence that people are taking collective action. Chapter 6: Food, Farming, and the Earth Food embodies many of the ecological problems and social injustices highlighted throughout the book. And similarly, it calls out for activism that recognizes the interconnectedness of these issues.

A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching About the Environmental Crisis

David Suzuki

Winona LaDuke

Ann Pelo

Larry Miller

bill-mckibben

Tim Swinehart

Van Jones

Vandana Shiva

Amy Lindahl

Hardy Thames

Jeff Goodell

Robert Kunzig

Sandra Steingraber

Tony Marks-Block

Earth Sciences

Rhythm and Resistance offers practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, and construct stronger literacy skills across content areas and grade levels from elementary school to graduate school. Rhythm and Resistance reclaims poetry as a necessary part of a larger vision of what it means to teach for justice.

Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice

Patricia Smith

Renée Watson

Dyan Watson

Kelly Norman Ellis

Elizabeth Schlessman-Barbian

Katharine Johnson

Shwayla James

Heidi Tolentino

Willie Perdomo

Kelly J. Gomes

Tom McKenna

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media begins from the premise that the popular is political. Whether it s Disney and Barbie, or Snapchat and Vine, youth navigate, shape, and repurpose popular culture. This updated collection of teaching articles and critical commentary is written by and for educators. The authors consider the role in students lives of films, music, and books, as well as popular culture artifacts like toys, and how these materials teach children. In each article, authors critique and rethink the connections among race, class, gender, sexuality, power, and schooling. The second edition includes revised articles, nine new articles, and an updated list of resources. Chapters are organized into four major themes to make the text more streamlined: Part 1: Commercialism, Corporations, and Youth Part 2: Politics, Violence, and Sanitized History Part 3: Texts, Toys, and Representation Part 4: Teaching, Talking Back, and Taking Action

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media Second Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

HERBERT KOHL

Grace Cornell Gonzales

Elizabeth Marshall

Özlem Sensoy

Rachel Cloues

Margot Pepper

Sudie Hofman

Social Sciences

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