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.
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Current Connections One
| Chapter 1: Starting Strong David Page 3 Creating Community Out of Chaos By Linda Christensen A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son By Dyan Watson Honor Their Names By Linda Christensen Name By Hiwot Adilow Uchinaaguchi The language of my heart By Moé Yonamine |
| CC1.LC3 Page 26 Uncovering the Lessons of Classroom Furniture You are where you sit By Tom McKenna Getting Your Classroom Together By Bob Peterson 12 Suggestions for New Teachers By Larry Miller How I Survived My First Year By Bill Bigelow |
Chapter 2: Teaching for Social Justice CC1.LC4 Page 53 Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice By Rethinking Schools Editors Black Is Beautiful By Kara Hinderlie Seeing Ourselves with Our Own Eyes By Katy Alexander |
| CC1.LC1 Page 74 Presidents and Slaves Helping students find the truth By Bob Peterson Medical Apartheid Teaching the Tuskegee Syphilis Study By Gretchen Kraig-Turner Q/A: I hate the textbook I’ve been given to use. What can I do? By Rita Tenorio, Rachel Cloues, and Bill Bigelow |
| CC1.LC2 Page 94 Students Bring the World to Our Classrooms By Kim Kanof Speak Freely By Lynsey Burkins Q/A: How can I teach both content and language to English learners? Types of English as a Second Language and Bilingual Program Q/A: My students don’t bring back their homework. Should I keep assigning it? Rita Tenorio Promoting Social Imagination Through Interior Monologues By Bill Bigelow and Linda Christensen |
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| CC2.LC3 Page 119 The Read-Around A reading and writing strategy By Linda Christensen Role Plays: Show, Don’t Tell By Bill Bigelow From Theme and Evidence Wall into Essay By Linda Christensen |
Chapter 3: Challenges and Opportunities CC2.LC4 Page 141 Mexican Education By Alexander Jimenez What I Wish I Had Said By Anita Stratton “How Could You Let This Happen?” Dealing with 2nd graders and rape culture By Zanovia Clark Howling at the Ocean: Surviving my first year teaching By Jaydra Johnson |
| CC2.LC1 Page 165 How Do I Stay in a Profession that Is Trying to Push Me Out? By John Terry Dear White Teacher By Chrysanthius Lathan Restorative Justice Starts in the Classroom By Camila Arze Torres Goitia Q/A: What are restorative practices and why are they important? By Bob Peterson Girls Against Dress Codes By Lyn Mikel Brown |
| CC2.LC2 Page 189 Inclusivity Is Not a Guessing Game By Chelsea Vaught “I Believe You” Responsive teacher talk and our children’s lives By Michelle Strater Gunderson On Behalf of Their Name Using they/them pronouns because they need us to By Mykhiel Deych |
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| Chapter 4: Measuring What Matters CC3.LC3 Page 207 Time to Get Off the Testing Train By Stan Karp What’s Wrong with Standardized Tests? By FairTest Authentic Assessment for Learning Fourteen Days SBAC Took Away By Moé Yonamine Testing Assumptions By Claudierre McKay, Aaron Regunberg, and Tim Shea |
| CC3.LC4 Page 229 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 Taking Teacher Quality Seriously A collaborative approach to teacher evaluation By Stan Karp Beyond Test Scores Introducing the MCIEA school quality measures By James Noonan |
| Chapter 5: Beyond the Classroom CC3.LC1 Page 249 Moving Beyond the Classroom By Stan Karp Q/A: As a new educator why should I be concerned about school privatization? School Funding Basics By Stan Karp Why Teacher Unions Matter By Bob Peterson New Teachers to the Union: Count Us In! By Gabriel Tanglao |
| CC3.LC2 Page 273 From Outrage to Organizing Building community ties through education activism By Ikechukwu Onyema Why Community Schools? Public schools as greenhouses of democracy Q/A: How can I decide if a school reform project is worth supporting? “Aren’t You on the Parent Listserv?” Working for equitable family involvement in a dual-immersion elementary school By Grace Cornell Gonzales Blood on the Tracks Why are there so few Black students in our science classes? By Amy Lindahl Little Kids, Big Ideas Teaching social issues and global conflicts with young children By the editors of Rethinking Schools |
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