Tag Archives: teaching

Helping students in a volatile world

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Bookworm

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, students’ well-being was an increasingly prominent concern among educators, as issues related to mental health, global crises, and social media became impossible to ignore. But what, exactly, does well-being look like, and why is it … Continue reading →

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Key to student engagement

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Bookworm

Education experts Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves have written a new book aimed at educators looking to promote active engagement in the classroom and improve student learning. Based on examples from seven years of research, Five Paths of Student Engagement: … Continue reading →

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Pandemic parenting

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Bookworm

Education professors from across the country who have been parenting school-aged kids during COVID contributed first-person essays for a new book, co-edited by Lynch School of Education and Human Development Professor Rebecca Lowenhaupt and George Theoharis of Syracuse University. According … Continue reading →

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Teacher education book honored

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Bookworm

Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education (Teachers College Press, 2018), whose nine authors are all BC Lynch School of Education and Human Development faculty or alumni, was named this year’s Outstanding Book by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. … Continue reading →

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Nurturing critical consciousness in schools

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Bookworm

In their new book, Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice (Harvard Education Press, 2020), authors Scott Seider, an associate professor in the BC Lynch School of Education and Human Development, … Continue reading →

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Clearly

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Bookworm

In Make Yourself Clear: How to Use a Teaching Mindset to Listen, Understand, Explain Everything, and Be Understood (Wiley, 2019) co-authors Reshan Richards and Stephen J. Valentine, a BC graduate, apply lessons learned from teaching to the business world. Through … Continue reading →

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Award for Hargreaves

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Bookworm

Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and his co-author Michael Fullan have been named recipients of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education from the University of Louisville for the ideas expressed in their book, Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School (Teachers … Continue reading →

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Book award for Hargreaves

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Bookworm

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has announced that they will honor Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and co-author Michael Fullan with its 2014 Outstanding Book Award for their book Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School. The … Continue reading →

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One of the best: Ingrid Hillinger

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Bookworm

A new book published this month by Harvard University Press takes a look at the strategies and personal traits of 26 of the best law school professors across the country, the culmination of a four-year study that identified extraordinary law … Continue reading →

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