With the increasing amount of diversity taking place in the United States and in our K-12 schools, this book will help school leaders become prepared. It is the school principal who sets the tone for the school culture and provides the vision as to the direction of the organization. Therefore, school principals will ultimately have a great impact in promoting cultural and social diversity. School Leadership in a Diverse Society: Helping Schools Prepare all Students for Success (2nd Edition) will help scholars and practitioners have a better understanding of the increasing amount of diversity that is occurring in American society. This book will give them the tools needed to lead schools to ensure that all students, regardless of their life circumstances and status, are provided a school experience that promotes high academic achievement and a sense of belonging. Today, multiculturalism and diversity preparation are needed in our society, seemingly more so than when schools first made an earnest effort to integrate twenty years after Brown V. Board of Education. Just as it seemed the United States was making significant progress dealing with issues that have plagued this country for hundreds of years, recently, there has been a surge in diversity-related issues (the killing of unarmed African Americans, the unwarranted attacks on Asians, immigration debates, the recent rise of groups thatsupport white supremacy, blackface incidents, increasing wealth divide between the ultra rich and the poor, religious backlash, etc.). These issues should remind us that the struggle for social equity continues into the present moment. Communities must work together to help fight rising intolerance and prejudice within our country and schools.

As social studies standards shift to place a higher emphasis on critical thinking, inquiry, interaction, and expression, many teachers are scrambling to figure out how to appropriately shift their instruction accordingly. This book provides examples and ideas for working with elementary and middle school students to build social studies skills and knowledge in order to become independent learners and thinkers. Teaching these skills helps to support students in ways which are important to them, and to society at large. Real Classrooms, Real Teachers: The C3 Inquiry in Practice is aimed at in-service and pre-service teachers, grades 3-8. This text includes six sections: an introduction, one section for each of the four dimensions of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (National Council for the Social Studies, 2013), and a conclusion. Each chapter begins with a vignette based on a real-life social studies lesson authored by a practicing teacher or researcher. This is followed by a sample lesson plan associated with the vignette and suggestions for appropriate texts and supporting materials, as well as suggestions for modifications.

Vendor Description Learn about the people who run state and local governments! Analyzes the importance of good leadership and the duties of government leaders. This 32-page nonfiction book covers important topics like leadership and democracy. Perfect for use in the classroom or at-home learning to explore the levels of government, types of leaders, and branches of government. Includes a short fiction piece to help students relate to the topic and engaging text features such as a glossary, useful discussion questions, and a Civics in Action activity designed to get students thinking and talking about social issues. Vendor Description Learn about the people who run state and local governments! Analyzes the importance of good leadership and the duties of government leaders. This 32-page nonfiction book covers important topics like leadership and democracy. Perfect for use in the classroom or at-home learning to explore the levels of government, types of leaders, and branches of government. Includes a short fiction piece to help students relate to the topic and engaging text features such as a glossary, useful discussion questions, and a Civics in Action activity designed to get students thinking and talking about social issues. Learn about the people who run state and local governments! Analyzes the importance of good leadership and the duties of government leaders. This 32-page nonfiction book covers important topics like leadership and democracy. Perfect for use in the classroom or at-home learning to explore the levels of government, types of leaders, and branches of government. Includes a short fiction piece to help students relate to the topic and engaging text features such as a glossary, useful discussion questions, and a Civics in Action activity designed to get students thinking and talking about social issues.

This book enriches the discourse around Global Citizenship Education in teacher education through the example of a teacher's experience in a Canada-China Sister School reciprocal learning landscape. Instead of positioning global citizenship teaching and learning as a set of fixed goals to be attained by teachers alone, this book approaches global citizenship teaching and learning as unfinished lifework in progress and as situated curriculum problems to be inquired together by university researchers, school teachers, and students under the spirit of reciprocity and community. This reimagination of narratives, theory, and action start from collaborative and reciprocal learning partnerships among Chinese and Canadian researchers and teachers in the practicality of re-searching and re-enacting the purpose and meanings of twenty-first century education in a Canada-China Sister School setting.