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Title Practicing what we teach : how culturally responsive literacy classrooms make a difference / by Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Althier M. Lazar, editors ; foreword by Patricia Edwards ; preface by Lee Gunderson.

Imprint New York : Teachers College Press, ©2011.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  370.117 P895P    Check Shelf
Description xix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The need for culturally responsive literacy teachers. Access to excellence: Serving today's students through culturally responsive literacy teaching / Althier M. Lazar -- Centering students in the curriculum. From Nightjohn to Sundiata: a heritage-based approach to engaging students in literacy / Tara Ranzy -- Driving in both lanes: Practicing culturally responsive literacy teaching while addressing standards and accountability / Amelia Coleman-Brown -- It all came down to this: "Know thyself, understand others" a first-year teacher's journey through a new world / Jamie Gartner -- Taking risks: Building bridges with students in an alternative school / Crystal Ponto and Tanja Cosentino -- Reading about the Negro Leagues through the lens of critical literacy: a springboard to straight talk about race / Kristin R. Luebbert -- Building relationships with students and caregivers. Extending a lifeline by extending oneself / Gurkan Kose -- From pasta to poets: Creating a classroom community through cultural sharing / Kevin Salamone -- Communities as resources: Two teachers' reciprocal learning from nondominant cultural communities / June Estrada, Ernie Estrada, and Guofeng Li -- Learning from and with immigrant and refugee families in a family literacy program / Jim Anderson and Fiona Morrison -- Building on students' linguistic strengths. Teaching through language: Using multilingual tools to promote literacy achievement among African American elementary students / Heidi Oliver O'Gilvie, Jennifer D. Turner, and Harry Hughes -- Working with diverse language speakers in an early childhood setting / Sunita Singh -- Cross-cultural connections: Developing teaching principles through stories / Mario E. López-Gopar -- The words we need: A culturally responsive approach to scaffolding English Learners' vocabulary development / Julie Coppola, Maryellen Leelman, Roseanne Barbacano -- Becoming culturally responsive literacy teachers. Encountering the ABCs and meeting the challenges / Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Fernando Rodriguez, and Laura Sandroni -- Unlearning color blindness and learning from families / Julie K. Kidd -- Socially responsive literacy teaching in the midst of a scripted curriculum: A novice teacher's story / Kathryn S. Pegler -- Becoming a teacher for all children: A teacher's story / Jiening Ruan and Brandi Gomez.
Part I. The Need for culturally responsive literacy teachers -- Part II. Centering students in the curriculum -- Part III. Building relationships with students and caregivers -- Part IV. Building on students' linguistic strengths -- Part V. Becoming culturally responsive literacy teachers.
Subject Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
English language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Foreign speakers.
Linguistic minorities -- Education -- United States.
Education, Bilingual -- United States.
Education, Bilingual. (OCoLC)fst00902886
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. (OCoLC)fst00911692
Linguistic minorities -- Education. (OCoLC)fst00999180
Teachers -- Training of. (OCoLC)fst01144404
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Schmidt, Patricia Ruggiano, 1944-
Lazar, Althier M.
ISBN 9780807752203 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0807752207 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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