Teaching Community

Ten years ago, Bell Hooks astonished readers/listeners with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites listeners to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and nationality beyond the classroom into everyday situations of learning. Bell Hooks writes candidly about her own experiences.

Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing professional learning community (PLC). The powerful audiobook edition of this comprehensive action guide from experts Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, and Mike Mattos updates and expands on new and significant PLC topics.

For too long, White educators have relied on people of color to make change to a relentlessly racist school system. Racial equity will not come until White educators recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices, and take responsibility for dismantling them.

50 Things to Know About Teaching at a Community College by author Valerie Jean Kline offers a unique approach to what you should know before you decide to start your career teaching at a community college. Most books on education tell you about the logistical and theoretical aspects of teaching. They focus on the history and groundwork. Believe this. Inspire that. Although there is nothing wrong with that and all teachers should begin with a foundation of belief and passion, Valerie Jean’s take on community college teaching is realistic and straight to the point.

A full seminar in 10 parts, with bonus questions and answers for reflection, by award-winning educator, Dr. Ed Frierson. Learn how to build learning communities in the school classroom that enrich, empower, energize, embrace, encourage, enable, enhance, enlighten, and ennoble students with enduring impact for kids of all ages and abilities. A wonderful educator, Dr. Frierson, shares out-of-the-box ideas to change the world one classroom at a time.

Our Teaching is an abridged version of the teaching of the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as laid down in his book Kashti-e-Nuh [Noah’s Ark]. This book is addressed primarily to members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community for their moral and spiritual education. Its contents, however, are so spiritually-inspiring that anyone in search of truth and spirituality can derive benefit from it. It is a must listen for anyone who wishes to understand the essence of Ahmadiyya beliefs.