Kirsten Cole lays out a roadmap for educators who are striving to integrate anti-racist teaching into their programs...Drawing on interviews with twenty-seven early childhood teachers based in New York City and working in a variety of settings, including Head Start Programs, independent preschools, and public schools, the book offers vignettes from the teachers’ classrooms as well as their perspectives on the joys, challenges, and necessity in addressing these topics.
Red Leaf Press - December, 2025
Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction
In Teaching from an Ethical Center, Cara E. Furman proposes a process for bringing philosophical inquiry into teacher education and adopting it as a centering tool to enrich teaching practice and help teachers act justly….Furman's tools and methods offer continuous opportunities for reflection and affirmation, enhancing educators’ ability to adapt to new challenges and, when necessary, to resist.
Harvard Education Press - May, 2024
This book by María Cioè-Peña takes a distinctive approach to exploring the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is labeled as both an emergent bilingual and dis/abled…Treating the mothers as experts, this book uses testimonios to explore not only what mothers know but also how they develop funds of knowledge and how they apply them to their child’s education.
Multilingual Matters - May, 2021
Cecilia Espinosa and Laura Ascenzi-Moreno demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students who speak two or more languages in their daily lives thrive when they are able to use “translanguaging” to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires…The core of this approach is honoring and leveraging the language and cultural resources emergent bilinguals bring to school and rooting instruction in their strengths. Includes a foreword by Ofelia Garcia.
Scholastic - March, 2021