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Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools Through Fearless LeadershipMany urban educators live in fear: of their schools being labeled failures, of increasingly punitive sanctions, of loss of respect and livelihood. This fear pervades the entire school community, affecting the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of its members.The authors of this guide to...
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Evanston Speaks: Oral Histories of Transformation and Triumph from a Progressive CityWhat can the stories of community leaders reveal about the spirit and transformation of a city? Evanston Speaks: Oral Histories of Transformation and Triumph from Community Leaders in a Progressive City by Elliott Hurtig brings together powerful personal narratives that illuminate the evolving identity...
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Finding Your Leadership Soul: What Our Students Can Teach Us about Love, Care, and VulnerabilityIn this transformative narrative, Carlos R. Moreno explores what it means to develop Leadership Soul by approaching educational leadership with love, care, and vulnerability.In Finding Your Leadership Soul, Carlos Moreno shares his journey from a challenging childhood in the Bronx, to teaching and advising...
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our CitiesAcross America, universities have become big businesses--and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America's cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new...
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the ClassroomThe classic, groundbreaking analysis of the role of race in the classroom and a guide for teaching across difference, from the MacArthur award-winning educator "Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice." --San Francisco...
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in SchoolsThe "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishing On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing...
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in SchoolsThe "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, revised and updated for its tenth anniversaryOn the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school she was expelled for lashing out at peers who...
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Race, Real Estate and Education: Inventing Gentrification in Philadelphia, 1960-2020Philadelphia's urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, which re-envisioned the city as a residential enclave, were an early example of gentrification. In West Philadelphia in the 1960s, a coalition of universities and hospitals went further, initiating K-12 public school improvements meant to attract an...
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Teaching the Ms. Abbott Way: Lessons in Learning, Leadership, and LifeEven before the hit TV show whose name she inspired ever aired, Ms. Abbott was a larger-than-life figure. The teacher who put the "Abbott" in TV's hit Abbott Elementary is just as serious about education-and caring-as the show is funny. In her classroom, in...
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The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the WorldBe inspired by the magnetic young principal who "stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading." In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade...
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The League of Extraordinary Educators: The Secret Strategies of Transformational TeachersDeliver on the promise of equity and transformational instruction in your classroomIn The League of Extraordinary Educators, veteran educator Dr. Shaun Woodly delivers a rousing narrative designed to take readers on a journey of empowerment, motivation, rich learning experiences, classroom synergy and even secrecy!...
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The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a TimeA Washington Post BestsellerAn entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its "failing schools" In eighth grade, Eric thought he was going places. But by his second...
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We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational FreedomWinner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life's work of...
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