We all have stories. We all have experiences to share. A memoir with a call-to-action, The First Five affirms the humanity of all teachers. Patrick inspires you to dream big about what you want for yourself, our students, our schools, and our educational system.

In The First Five, Patrick brings to light the realities of teaching, especially in the first five years. He immerses you in his world with personal stories that lead to lessons, questions, and exercises to help you reflect on your own journey. Each chapter includes interviews with a diverse group of educators.

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With Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers in any school setting stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice. Lorena shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching: student-driven, community centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible. Throughout the book, Lorena shares lesson design strategies that build traditional literacy skills while supporting students in developing their social justice skills at the same time. The actionable strategies Lorena uses to bring Textured Teaching values to life illuminate what is possible when we welcome all types of texts, all types of voices, and all forms of expression into the classroom.

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Are your students ready to become the engaged and informed citizens our democracy needs right now? Your classroom can be a place for them to experience what it means to live in community with others, to balance their own interests with those of the group, to challenge themselves to overcome differences, and to ask the questions that help them understand the crux of an issue.

Powerful reading and writing is fundamentally linked to civic education. The Civically Engaged Classroom is packed with practical guidance designed to support teachers in giving students the skills, knowledge, and tools to be active participants in society. Each chapter describes classroom structures, curricular possibilities, and specific lessons for teaching crucial civic virtues.

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What reading experiences have entertained you, provoked you, taught you, inspired you, helped you to see your own life more clearly, or connected you with others? As teachers, librarians, school administrators, and caregivers who love reading, we know what it feels like to fall into a book and let the world fall away. We have joyous reading memories, and we know how reading can sustain and inspire us.

The Joy of Reading is a guide for teachers, librarians, administrators, and families to create the conditions for joyful reading. Donalyn Miller and Teri Lesesne draw from their decades of work with students, teachers, and librarians, providing practices that nurture joy while identifying factors that destroy joy, all with a clear understanding of the realities of today’s classrooms and libraries.

There’s more to life than school and work. There’s more to reading than school-based value systems for it. We can aim higher than short-sighted measurements and, instead, become reading encouragers, supporters, and role models for lifelong, joyful reading.

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Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It’s not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies.

Comprehension Connections is a guide to developing children’s ability to fully understand texts by making the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental. Tanny’s approach sequences stages of learning for each strategy that take students from a fun object lesson to a nuanced and lasting understanding. Her lessons build bridges between the concrete and the abstract by incorporating writing, discussion, song, art, and movement into a web of creative connections that reinforce each strategy on a variety of levels.

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In Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing.

Through 40 in-depth interviews with student writers as well as teachers of writing, Newkirk builds an argument for bringing fiction back into our writing curriculum as a way to strengthen all writing. He addresses the common obstacles and resistance to fiction and illustrates, through students and teachers’ insights, why keeping fiction writing on the outside of school walls is a missed opportunity. “If reading fiction is humanizing and valuable,” Tom writes, “the same, perhaps even stronger, case can be made for writing fiction.”

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In the audiobook of "Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community," author and educator Liz Kleinrock guides educators on how to incorporate antibias antiracist (ABAR)work into their schools. Kleinrock conveys how essential ABAR work is in preparing every student for a more equitable future. In addition to providing classroom activities for students and educators to discuss their identities, Kleinrock also advises listeners on how to include caregivers and families in ABAR work, why ABAR work is important all classrooms, including predominantly white communities, and how to incorporate ABAR lessons in science and math curriculums.

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Find Liz on Twitter @TeachNTransform and TeachAndTransform.org

In "En Comunidad," teacher-educators Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera provide guidance in centering the voices and experiences of bilingual Latinx students. By placing emphasis on curriculum's "Texts, Topics, and Translanguaging," España and Herrera convey how bilingual students' experiences shape how they learn and the authors provide ways to help them engage more fully in the work. This audiobook includes bonus material--a reflection podcast from the authors exactly 1-year after the print version of En Comunidad was published in 2020. In narrating their own experiences as students and teachers, the authors open up the classroom for bilingual teachers to bring their full selves to their curriculum, providing a community for the celebration and importance of translanguaging en comunidad.

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Find Carla and Luz on Twitter @ProfesoraEspana and @Dra_LuzYadira

Check out their website EnComunidadCollective.com

In the audiobook "Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher's Guide to Learning from Mistakes," author M. Colleen Cruz incorporates her experiences as an educator and research based on mistakes-making in this wonderful book geared toward helping educators not only learn from their mistakes, but also learn how to utilize their mistakes as effective teaching tools. Cruz explores how not all mistakes all equal and how making mistakes shows students how human educators are too, thereby creating an open, creative environment where both students and educators can learn from each other.

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Find Colleen on Twitter @Colleen_Cruz and ColleenCruz.com

In the audiobook "Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers," author Martin Brandt narrates methods of building students' confidence in their essays and conveying their insightful observations. Brandt also provides often humorous but always meaningful anecdotes from his experiences as a teacher, parent, and writer that led him to the relatable techniques that guide his teachings today.

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Find Marty on Twitter @MartinB69967611