The New Teacher Book: Finding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine. Publication Date: March 8, 2019. ISBN: 9780942961034. 3rd edition.
Dr. Shutkin Chapter 1: Starting Strong, pages 3-25 1. Creating Community Out of Chaos By Linda Christensen 2. A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son By Dyan Watson 3. Honor Their Names By Linda Christensen 4. Name By Hiwot Adilow 5. Uchinaaguchi The language of my heart By Moé Yonamine | |
Learning Circle One Chapter 1: Starting Strong, pages 26-49 1. Uncovering the Lessons of Classroom Furniture You are where you sit By Tom McKenna 2. Getting Your Classroom Together By Bob Peterson 3. 12 Suggestions for New Teachers By Larry Miller 4. How I Survived My First Year By Bill Bigelow | |
Learning Circle Three Chapter 2: Teaching for Social Justice, pages 53-73 1. Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice By Rethinking Schools Editors 2. Black Is Beautiful By Kara Hinderlie 3. Seeing Ourselves with Our Own Eyes By Katy Alexander | |
Learning Circle Five Chapter 2: Teaching for Social Justice, pages 74-93 1. Presidents and Slaves Helping students find the truth By Bob Peterson 2. Medical Apartheid Teaching the Tuskegee Syphilis Study By Gretchen Kraig-Turner 3. Q/A: I hate the textbook I’ve been given to use. What can I do? By Rita Tenorio, 4. Rachel Cloues, and Bill Bigelow | |
Learning Circle Seven Chapter 3: Challenges and Opportunities, pages 165-188 1. How Do I Stay in a Profession that Is Trying to Push Me Out? By John Terry 2. Dear White Teacher By Chrysanthius Lathan 3. Restorative Justice Starts in the Classroom By Camila Arze Torres Goitia 4. Q/A: What are restorative practices and why are they important? By Bob Peterson 5. Girls Against Dress Codes By Lyn Mikel Brown | |
Learning Circle Two Chapter 3: Challenges and Opportunities, pages 189-206 1. Inclusivity Is Not a Guessing Game By Chelsea Vaught 2. “I Believe You” Responsive teacher talk and our children’s lives By Michelle Strater Gunderson 3. On Behalf of Their Name Using they/them pronouns because they need us to By Mykhiel Deych | |
Learning Circle Four Chapter 4: Measuring What Matters, pages 207- 228 1. Time to Get Off the Testing Train By Stan Karp 2. What’s Wrong with Standardized Tests? By FairTest 3. Authentic Assessment for Learning 4. Fourteen Days SBAC Took Away By Moé Yonamine 5. Testing Assumptions By Claudierre McKay, Aaron Regunberg, and Tim Shea | |
Learning Circle Six Chapter 4: Measuring What Matters, pages 229-248 1. My Dirty Little Secret: I Don’t Grade Student Papers Helping students find their passion helps them learn how to write well By Linda Christensen 2. Taking Teacher Quality Seriously A collaborative approach to teacher evaluation By Stan Karp 3. Beyond Test Scores Introducing the MCIEA school quality measures By James Noonan | |
Learning Circle Eight Chapter 5: Beyond the Classroom, pages 249-272 1. Moving Beyond the Classroom By Stan Karp 2. Q/A: As a new educator why should I be concerned about school privatization? 3. School Funding Basics By Stan Karp 4. Why Teacher Unions Matter By Bob Peterson 5. New Teachers to the Union: Count Us In! By Gabriel Tanglao |