Books

Beyond conversations about race: A guide for discussions with students, teachers, and communities invites F–12 teachers and leaders into a respectful dialogue about race that advocates school-changing action. The authors call on their lived experiences and their work with tens of thousands of educators, leaders and students to help all of us do better in our schools and communities.

Bridges out of poverty champions alliances of support and helps individuals and communities that are ready to break free of poverty. Rather than create reliance, Bridges out of poverty communities create new understanding, skills, resources and motivation.

Educator and teacher self-care can be challenging, but embracing a holistic health and wellness plan can improve your physical, mental, emotional and social well-being both inside and outside of school. This reflective journal provides the ideas and guidance you need to support you on your wellness journey.

Can little ones really do cooperative learning? You bet! Take it from Melissa Wincel, a Kagan trainer, who has taught early primary for more than a decade. By implementing Kagan structures in her classroom, she witnessed the miracle of active engagement.

Facilitator notes for Getting Ahead in a just-gettin’-by world reflects the evolution of great ideas supported by a learning experience that truly works for people who are struggling to get by in tough times.

Conflict is natural and normal. But that doesn’t make it comfortable, easy or simple to fix. Finding your way through conflict provides engaging, real-life conflict scenarios to help early childhood educators learn how to engage in and resolve conflict productively to improve work relationships and create a more equitable community for children. With decades of experience in early childhood education programs and conflict resolution, the authors guide educators in developing agency and confidence in conflict. To do that, they equip you with a set of tools, concrete actions, reflective exercises and practical steps to take within conflict and a set of critical stances, attitudes and perspectives that are necessary to cultivate in order to use the tools effectively.

This comprehensive book will help early childhood practitioners consider the 'why' and 'how' of setting up classrooms and other learning spaces to create environments that are most conducive to child development. Using a practice-based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design and what practitioners can do in their own work when creating learning environments for young children. Included are examples from practice, lessons learned, and illustrations and photographs of key aspects of the environments they discuss.

This series offers in-depth research-based instructional strategies that can be used in the classroom to enhance student achievement. Classroom teachers as well as building- and district-level administrators will benefit from sharing the knowledge in this library and building capacity as a staff to implement strategies for school improvement.

ASCD Arias publications provide concise answers to challenging questions that you need to solve today—in a convenient format that you can read in one sitting and immediately put into practice. They’re the next-generation, immediate-need resources for everyone committed to the success of each learner.