JoBeth Allen

Lois Alexander

This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues, such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the effects of poverty, and respect for people with disabilities. The book shows how a group of teachers worked together to develop a critical content framework using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Chapters highlight lively classroom and community action projects.

A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

Barbara Michalove

Betty Shockley

Information collected during a three-year longitudinal research project to examine the effects of whole language instruction on six children.

Community and Chaos in the Lives of Young Literacy Learners

Engaging Children

Marilynn Cary

Lisa Delgado

Detailing an examination of language, literacy and school reform, this work provides an inside view of how teacher research and reform can positively change both teachers and students, making then better readers, writers and learners.

Literacy Reform, School Change, and the Creation of Learning Communities

Exploring Blue Highways

This book goes beyond traditional parent involvement programs to offer ways in which teachers and parents together can explore their diverse cultural perspectives, establish and sustain genuine dialogue at open houses and through classroom projects, and collaborate for democratic schools.

JoBeth Allen

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