Teaching Resources

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Foundational Texts for Teaching

• Thinking Strategies for Student Achievement: Improving Learning Across the Curriculum, K-12
  
  Denise Nessel and Joyce Graham 2007 (Second Edition)
  Corwin Press 1-800-818-7243 ISBN: 1-4129-3881-3

• Writing As Learning: A Content Based Approach
  
  Andrew and Evelyn Rothstein and Gerald Lauber 2007 (Second Edition)
  Corwin Press 1-800-818-7243 ISBN:1-4129-4961-0
  
  
  
• Write for Mathematics
  
  Andrew and Evelyn Rothstein and Gerald Lauber 2007 (Second Edition)
  Corwin Press 1-800-818-7243 ISBN: 1-4129-3994-1
  
  
  
• Thinking Maps:  Tools For Learning
  
  David Hyerle
  Thinking Maps. Inc. 1-800-243-9169
  (Three Ring Binder you receive when you go through the training). For more info go to www.thinkingmaps.com

• Phonics and Vocabulary Building Guidebook
  
  Augusta Mann
  Mann’s Intensified Accelerated Reading System 1-800-893-3073
  For more information go to the website at www.successfulteachers.com
  
  

Foundation Texts to Learn and Discuss Issues of Racial Equity

• Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
  
  Lisa Delpit
  New Press, New York ISBN: 1-56584-180-8
  
  
  
• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
  
  Gloria Ladson-Billings
  Jossey-Boss, San Francisco, California, 1994 ISBN: 0-7879-0338-8
  
  
  
• Shooting For Excellence: African American and Youth Culture in New Century Schools
  
  Jabari Mahiri
  Teachers College Press, New York, New York, 1998
  ISBN: 0-8141-4463-2
  
  
  
• Accommodating and Educating Somali Students in Minnesota Schools
  
  Mohamed Farid and Don McMahan
  Hamline University Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2004
  ISBN: 0-9723721-4-8

Foundation Texts for Learning and Brain Research

• Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind
  
  Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick
  ASCD, Alexandria, Virginia, 2000
  ISBN: 978-0-87120-368-7
  
  
  
• Teaching with the Brain in Mind 2nd Edition
  
  Eric Jensen
  ASCD, Alexandria, Virginia, 2005
  ISBN: 978-1-4166-0030-5
  
  
  
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
  
  John D. Bransford et al.
  National Research Council
  National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 2000
  ISBN: 0-309-07036-8