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This practical book shows today's educators how to design a sustainable classroom architecture that maximizes student engagement, learning, and belonging .
Based on the authors' collaborative work with K-12 public school teachers, this practical book offers an invitation to create dynamic learning opportunities in classrooms designed to challenge and support all learners.
Because teaching contexts are always unique and shifting, we cannot rely primarily upon scripts, recipes, "best practices," and prescribed curriculum. Rather, based on teachers' analysis of their own contexts, the authors describe and show how today's educators can curate strategies, curriculum, and methods to design a sustainable classroom architecture that maximizes student engagement, learning, and belonging.
Attending to principles of culturally sustaining pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning, and "backwards design," Be the Architect of Your Inclusive Classroom focuses on curriculum design, classroom behavior, and building relationships with students, colleagues, families, and communities. Readers will come to understand why this kind of teaching is both complex and inherently rewarding.
Book Features:
Celia Oyler ended her long career in education as vice dean for teacher education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Erika Hughes Hooper is an educational consultant and coach affiliated with Inclusive Classrooms Collective. Britt Hamre is a lecturer in the Elementary Inclusive Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.