In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit--joy--to her groundbreaking instructional model. She defines joy as more than celebration and happiness, but also as wellness, beauty, healing, and justice for oneself and across humanity. She shows how teaching from cultural and historical realities can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and-indeed-joy for all students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world. Dr. Muhammad's wise implementation advice is paired with model lessons and assessment tools that span subjects and grade levels.

Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students who speak two or more languages in their daily lives-- thrive when they are able to use translanguaging to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires.

Additionally, the authors present rich and thoughtful literacy practices that propel emergent bilinguals into reading and writing success. The core of this approach is honoring and leveraging the language and cultural resources emergent bilinguals bring to school-- and rooting instruction in their strengths. Knowing more than one language is, indeed, a gift to the classroom! Includes a foreword by Ofelia Garcia.

Engaging families in education not only improves student achievement, but also strengthens families, boosts teacher effectiveness, and builds community. Everyone wins! In this easy-to-use guide, a Harvard-based team uses the latest research to help teachers, administrators, and FACE coordinators design and implement programs wisely and with confidence that all students will benefit.

When educators place love at the center of their work, they change lives--and that is precisely what the authors of this remarkable book aim to do. Drawing from years as researchers and teachers, they share ways they've overcome challenges and demonstrate how to engage in ongoing self-reflection and examine common but harmful practices that narrow the curriculum for all children. They offer:

• Practices that affirm and celebrate all students' identities, languages, and cultures--building a community of engaged and thoughtful learners.
• Hands-on tools for examining yourself, your systems, and your instruction.
• Effective ways to engage with students, families, and communities.
• Ideas for transforming reading and writing workshop to work for all children.
• Guidelines for selecting diverse children's books and using them to help children become kinder and more empathetic, as they become more proficient readers and writers.

If you want to create a vibrant classroom community that honors the funds of knowledge that children of color bring, this book is for you.

Fifty award-winning literacy educators contribute more than thirty-five engagements--student-focused, classroom-tested instructional and assessment actions--to strengthen the reader in every child, while reinforcing one essential fact: reading is about constructing meaning. The book is organized in a four-part framework: Knowing Reading, Knowing Readers, Engaging Readers, and Knowing the Language to Use.

Each engagement includes:

• A brief introduction
• Why?--Benefits of the engagement
• Who?--Students that would benefit most from the engagement
• How?--Materials and instructions for effective implementation
• Closure/Stepping Back--Concluding the engagement
• How's It Going? Informal Assessment
• Sources for more information

In this timely, trailblazing book, three teacher educators show how to create environments that nurture young Black children's brilliance. Their revolutionary love approach helps early childhood educators take practical steps to counteract the negative impacts of systemic racism on children's academic, social, and emotional development.

The authors provide powerful ideas to ensure the wellbeing of all children--from creating safe and joyful play spaces to honoring African American Language to integrating Black culture and history into lessons and across the curriculum. By organizing each chapter according to their Believe-Know-Do framework, they not only show teachers how to implement ideas, but also why implementing them is critical to the success and happiness of their students.

Literacy intervention should be swift and powerful-and this approach by Jan Richardson and Ellen Lewis provides fast results!

After only 6-8 weeks of intervention, students can gain the confidence, proficiency, and skills they need to excel as readers and exit intervention! Based on Jan's bestselling The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading, this companion volume is intended to be used together in order to best implement the RISE framework. The Next Step Forward in Reading Intervention offers intensive, short-term, targeted instruction in reading, writing, word study, and comprehension. It's a step-by-step handbook for literacy teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists who are looking for a proven reading invention program that really works.