Our Better Judgment

Chris W Gallagher, Eric D Turley

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• "In this age of 'accountability, ' teachers have been treated as targets of assessment rather than agents of it; assessment is something that is done ... Lees meer

Adventurous Thinking

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Drawing from the work of high school teachers across the country, Adventurous Thinking illustrates how advocating for students' rights to read and wri... Lees meer

Understanding Language

Melinda J McBee Orzulak

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Engaging with critical questions such as What counts as language? and How can I know when a student is struggling with language?, Melinda J. McBee Orz... Lees meer

Adolescents and Digital Literacies

Sara Kajder

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Sara Kajder examines ways in which teachers and students co-construct new literacies through Web 2.0 technology-infused instructional practices. This ... Lees meer

Real-World Literacies

Heather Lattimer

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Our highly technological and increasingly connected world needs more people capable of creative, innovative, and imaginative thinking that crosses dis... Lees meer

Writing in the Dialogical Classroom

Bob Fecho

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• In the dialogical classroom, students use writing to explore who they are becoming and how they relate to the larger culture around them. Dialogical w... Lees meer

Reading Assessment

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Through case studies of individual students and lively portraits of elementary classrooms, editor Diane Stephens and colleagues explore how artful pre... Lees meer

Becoming Writers in the Elementary Classroom

Katie Van Sluys

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• This book illustrates how teachers of elementary-age writers bring their beliefs about teaching and learning to life--through the visions they hold fo... Lees meer

Entering the Conversations

Patricia Lambert Stock, Trace Schillinger, Andrew Stock

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• The authors of Entering the Conversations invite us into their classrooms and professional development workshops to see how students at all levels of ... Lees meer

Writing Can Change Everything

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Writing Can Change Everything invites all of us to consider how the principles outlined in NCTE's Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing p... Lees meer

Connected Reading

Kristin Hawley Turner, Troy Hicks

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• As readers of all ages increasingly turn to the Internet and a variety of electronic devices for both informational and leisure reading, teachers need... Lees meer

Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom

Maisha T Winn, Hannah Graham

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• How do teachers educate responsibly in an age of mass incarceration? And why should English teachers in particular concern themselves with unequal tre... Lees meer

Digital Reading

William L Bass II, Franki Sibberson

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Many of our young students come to school with vast experience in the digital world but too often use digital tools in limited ways because they view ... Lees meer

Beyond "teaching to the Test"

Betsy Gilliland, Shannon Pella

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• The word accountability is everywhere in education today, but it means different things to different people. Speaking directly to teachers who work cl... Lees meer

Adolescent Literacy at Risk?

Rebecca Bowers Sipe

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• As teachers, we live in a world of standards. From local administration to national education policy, standards permeate every aspect of our teaching ... Lees meer

Community Literacies En Confianza

Steven Alvarez

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Most teachers of English language learners are not fluently bilingual, and many don't receive formal professional development in teaching emergent bil... Lees meer

Writing Across Culture and Language

Christina Ortmeier-Hooper

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Imagine being asked to write an essay in a language you don't know well or at all, to have to express yourself--your knowledge and analysis--grammatic... Lees meer

In the Pursuit of Justice

Benelly Alvarez

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Even from the earliest grades, children have the rights to read and write--not just in dominant American English, but also in their own languages and ... Lees meer

Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading

Deborah Appleman

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Reading is interpreting; interpreting is reading, which is why it's more crucial than ever to ensure that our students are able to make meaning as the... Lees meer

Teaching Reading with YA Literature

Jennifer Buehler

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Jennifer Buehler knows young adult literature. A teacher educator, former high school teacher, and host of ReadWriteThink.org's Text Messages podcast,... Lees meer

Beyond Standardized Truth

Scott Filkins

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Beyond Standardized Truth , included in the Principles in Practice imprint, is the result of the author's own efforts to bridge the gap between valuin... Lees meer

Going Public with Assessment

Kathryn Mitchell Pierce, Rosario Ordonez-Jasis

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• The authors share classroom vignettes, strategies, and resources for "going public" with literacy assessment through teacher collaboration with collea... Lees meer

Rethinking the Adolescent in Adolescent Literacy

Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides, Robert Petrone

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• At the heart of Rethinking the "Adolescent" in Adolescent Literacy is a call to English language arts teachers to examine the very assumptions of adol... Lees meer

Doing and Making Authentic Literacies

Linda Denstaedt, Laura Jane Roop

• Paperback | Engels | Principles in Practice
• Too many students don't see themselves as "doers" and "makers" of authentic work in any of the disciplines of high school. No wonder, then, that they ... Lees meer