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Epic and Readworks.org for modified assessments!

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Epic and Readworks.org for modified assessments!

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On Facebook Join: The Science of Reading What I Should Have Learned in College 

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On Facebook Join: The Science of Reading What I Should Have Learned in College 

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https://storylineonline.net/

read alouds by celebs!

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Freerice.com

This is great for students who are fast finishers and need a little extra practice with vocabulary and other subjects! The students will be tested on vocabulary while earning rice for those in need! Each time you play, you’re helping the United Nations World Food Programme provide food to those around the world.

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When I get bogged down by the work this book helps to restore and refresh

https://rethinkingschools.org/books/the-new-teacher-book-3rd-edition/

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"I wish I had had The New Teacher Book when I started. But I have it now. We all have it now. Read it. Learn from it. Use it to change the world."
Lily Eskelsen Garcia
President, National Education Association

"This new edition of The New Teacher Book delivers powerful stories and lessons that will help new teachers infuse social justice ideals in their classrooms every day."
Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers

" The New Teacher Book offers a roadmap for sustaining a career as a social justice educator. It's the kind of vision we need to fill classrooms with learning and hope."
Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University

"This book shows how teachers can work with compassion, creativity, and a commitment to social justice. For teachers who seek to make a difference, it will be a source of inspiration and a guide for how to sustain yourself during these difficult times."
Pedro Noguera
Distinguished Professor of Education, UCLA

"Rethinking Schools is an invaluable teaching, union, and movement resource, and The New Teacher Book shows the way."
Alex Caputo Pearl
President, United Teachers of Los Angeles

"My first year of teaching at an urban high school was trial by fire, and in my attempts to teach my students well, I was always looking for books that would illuminate my experience and hone my teaching practice. Most books were fine; there was nothing necessarily wrong with them. But they always seemed to neglect the things that mattered most.

The New Teacher Book is an outlier in that it is solely comprised of what matters most in education today. From how to set up a classroom to what to teach inside of it, The New Teacher Book covers the questions that confound and dilemmas that paralyze new teachers from a holistic, anti-racist, student-centered perspective. It strikes the perfect balance of pieces that comfort and pieces that challenge."
Rose Peterson
High School English Teacher, Milwaukee, WI

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Starting Strong
Chapter Introduction 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
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
Chapter Introduction 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
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
ELL 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? Resources on Teaching Students Learning English as an Additional Language in ESL and Bilingual Programs English as a Second Language and Bilingual Program Types Q/A: My students don't bring back their homework. Should I keep assigning it?
Promoting Social Imagination Through Interior Monologues
By Bill Bigelow and Linda Christensen
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
Resources from Rethinking Schools
Chapter 3: Challenges and Opportunities
Chapter Introduction 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
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
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

Chapter 4: Measuring What Matters
Chapter Introduction 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
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
Chapter Introduction 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
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
Action Education
By the editors

Introduction

When the editors of Rethinking Schools first conceived of this book, we thought back to our days as new teachers. We hoped to create the book we needed in those sometimes exhilarating, sometimes lonely, often hard first days of our teaching careers. This book is meant as a conversation among colleagues. We hope it is a conversation that helps you keep your vision and values intact as you struggle in institutions that may or may not be those citadels of idealism where you imagined yourself teaching.

We wrote this book because it's important for the profession that new teachers with social justice ideals stay in the classroom. Our communities need teachers who see the beauty and intelligence of every student who walks through their doors and who are willing to keep trying to reach those who have already been told they aren't worthy. Our students need teachers who value students' home languages and who know how to build academic strength from those roots.

We need teachers who learn how to develop curriculum that ties students' lives, history, and academic disciplines together to demonstrate their expertise when top-down curriculum mandates explode across a district. Our school districts need teachers who can advocate against the dumbing-down of curriculum, against testing mania, and against turning our classrooms over to corporate-created curriculum. Our country needs teachers who understand the connections between race, class, and tracking. How else do we make a lasting change?

We wrote this book because we want you to hold on to those impulses that brought you to teaching: a deep caring for students, the opportunity to be the one who sparks student growth and change, as well as the desire to be involved in work that matters. We need teachers who want to work in a place where human connections matter more than profit.

We wrote this book because we have had days many days where our teaching aspirations did not meet the reality of the chaos we encountered. We have experienced those late afternoons crying-alone-in-the-classroom kind of days when a lesson failed or we felt like our students hosted a party in the room and we were the uninvited guests. We wrote this book hoping it might offer solace and comfort on those long days when you wonder if you are cut out to be a teacher after all.

We also wrote this book because we understand the connection between what happens behind the classroom door and what happens outside of it. A key skill for new teachers is to see ourselves as defenders of public schools getting involved in our local and national education unions, connecting with allies among parents, community groups, other unions, everyone who has a stake in fighting privatization and corporate rule.

Given the full court press against public schools, we need to remind all teachers to not be so classroom-focused that we don't pay attention to the larger political context that is shaping our lives in the classroom. The other reason to open the classroom door and peer outside is that new teachers' survival often depends on connecting with other teachers for support and assistance for social, political, and pedagogical reasons. Isolated new teachers are bound to burn out.

There is a huge difference between having lots of book knowledge about a given area literature, history, math, science and knowing how to translate that knowledge into lessons that help students learn. All teachers, new and veteran, need skills to develop curriculum that celebrates the delightful aspects of our students' lives. And we need strategies that address the tragedy of some students' lives and the tragedy that the world delivers: misogyny, racism, homophobia, poverty, war. We need to discover ways to weave these into our curriculum. That takes time.

Rethinking Schools editors have assembled numerous books that focus on creating social justice curriculum: from Rethinking Columbus to Rethinking Mathematics to Teaching for Black Lives to Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. We hope you will look to them for curricular help. In all of our books, and in our quarterly Rethinking Schools magazine, we celebrate the lessons and units and strategies that worked for our students, that created days when we walked out of the building celebrating the joy of teaching.

And what we know from our years in the classroom is that we only get good at it when we do it year after year. So we wrote this book to assure you that you will get better as the years move on if you continue to study your classroom, hone your craft, read professional literature, keep up with news, and connect with your colleagues and communities. Teaching is an art. Keep practicing.

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The New Teacher Book-3rd Edition - Rethinking Schools

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"I wish I had had The New Teacher Book when I started. But I have it now. We all have it now. Read it. Learn from it. Use it to change the world." Lily Eskelsen Garcia President, National Education Association "This new edition of The New Teacher Book delivers powerful stories and lessons that will help new teachers infuse social justice ideals in their classrooms every day."

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I find this book very helpful and a handy book to reference every so often. It has a lot of basic information that is nice to use to refresh my memory.
ISBN-13: 978-0134695747

ISBN-10: 0134695747

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Social Studies

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Day 38-40 Create your Own Constitution.docx

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Epic, Lalilo, Newsela and definitely GoGuardian 

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Epic, Lalilo, Newsela and definitely GoGuardian 

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How to plan differentiated reading Instruction grades k-3 

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How to plan differentiated reading Instruction grades k-3 

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It is a book but they have youtube videos of Sharon Walpole teaching the lessons so you can see how it looks and sounds.

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http://fractiontalks.com/

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https://theteachersinstitute.org/curriculum-units/units/?seminarorder=1

I wrote a unit on the Water Cycle for the program Teacher Institute of Philadelphia. Feel free to use it in your classroom. You can find other fantastic units for free on this link!

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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Commonlit and NewsELA for grade level passages with comprehension questions.

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Commonlit and NewsELA for grade level passages with comprehension questions.

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I use EpicBooks for independent reading all the time and PearDeck for checks for understanding or exit tickets.

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Reading Choice Board for Informational Writing

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Reading Choice Board for Informational Writing

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1 - Common Core Reading Choice Boards {Informational_ 3rd Grade}

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Share a great resource that you have found to be helpful in your teaching this year. After you have shared your resource, you will scroll through other participants and steal away!!!!