“Poetry, picture books, portraits, mapping, caminatas, comics, icebreakers, and narrative writing are used not only to provide the rich educational context that emergent bilinguals deserve, but also to brave up and clearly reveal the strength of diverse students that traditional schools have hidden for so long.” —From the Foreword by Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkLearn how to enact curricular, pedagogical, ...

This practical book shows how veteran, justice-oriented social studies teachers are responding to the Common Core State Standards, focusing on how they build curriculum, support students’ literacy skills, and prepare students to think and act critically within and beyond the classroom. In order to provide direct classroom-to-classroom insights, the authors draw on letters written by veteran teachers addressed to new teachers entering the field. The first section of the book introduces the ...

Over thousands of years, the art of Chinese paintings has been refined into an exquisitely developed system of visual representation. But until the publication of this volume, there was no single source that bridged the gap between the philosophical and imitative methods of instruction. Alison Stilwell Cameron, daughter of famed World War II General Joseph Stilwell, spent her early childhood and teenage years in China where she studied under two renowned Chinese artists — Yu Fei-am and Pri...

Since the invention of photography there has not been a history of fashion completely illustrated by photographs — until this one. Photography historian Alison Gernsheim first studied Victorian and Edwardian fashion in order to be able to date photographs in her collection. Of course the photos soon proved to be the best of all fashion plates — authentic, detailed, as decorative and charming as top fashion illustration. When united with identifications and descriptions of the chief costume...

Capture a glimpse of yesteryear from these 165 studio photos of American and European children from the 1860s to the 1920s.