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Invested Stayers: How Teachers Thrive in Challenging Times features chapters co-authored by PK-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators from across the U.S. that reflect how they persist, remain, and thrive in the teaching profession. Premised on the idea that co-authors are colleagues and mentors to each other, this book conceptualizes contributors as invested stayers in the education profession.



Chapters feature how particular catalysts, or landmark changes in education, have been productive sites for growth, agency, and even resistance across the arc of contributors’ professional lives. The book recognizes that teacher educators and teachers persist because of multiple and overlapping factors between our professional and personal lives, including the relationships we develop with each other as colleagues and mentors in our professional learning.



In the public sphere, PK-12 educators increasingly face challenges that limit their ability to initiate their own professional learning. In this book, we considered what might occur if educators had space and time to write together and reflect on how they’ve persisted. These authors narrate themselves as invested stayers who invite personal and professional growth through inquiry, creativity, and innovation.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Shelbie Witte

Introduction by Terri L. Rodriguez, Heidi L. Hallman, and Kristen Pastore-Capuana

Section I: Social Landscapes

Chapter 1: Do More, Think Again, Keep Learning: Advocating for Refugee and Immigrant English Learners Through Social Justice Teaching by Terri L. Rodriguez and Lauren Thoma Ergen

Chapter 2: Reciprocity for CriticallycConscious Language Teacher Education by Allison J. Spenader and Leah Shepard-Carey

Chapter 3: Lessons forSpecial Education Teachers toPersist and Thrive by Shelley Neilsen Gatti, Martin Odima Jr., Deeqaifrah Hussein, and L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan

Chapter 4: Rowing Together in the Same Direction: How Entwined Symbiosis Empowers Teachers at all Levels to Embrace Culturally Responsive Teaching by Katharine Covino, Garrett Zecker, and Hannah M. Britten

Section II: Political Landscapes

Chapter 5: Ongoing Transformation: Exploring the Chronologies of Becoming a Teacher by Margaret Flynn and Heidi L. Hallman

Chapter 6: Beyond Reacting: One New Teacher’s Re-envisioning of Top-Down Accountability Initiatives by Meghan A. Kessler and Arpan Patel

Chapter 7: Growing to Thrive: The Story of Two Colleagues Prospering in an Era of Standards-based Education by Eric D. Moffa and Toni M. Poling

Chapter 8: Sustaining Our Voices: Critical Collaboration Through English Teacher Communities of Practice by Kristen Pastore-Capuana and Deborah Bertlesman

Section III: Disciplinary Landscapes

Chapter 9: Persisting in Teaching with a New Vision of Science Education by Elizabeth Xeng de los Santos, Candice Guy-Gaytán, and Sylvia Scoggin

Chapter 10: An Innovative Approach to Improve College Readiness in Mathematics: A Collaborative Project by A. Susan Gay, Christopher W. Carter, and Carrie L. La Voy

Chapter 11: Using Digital Spaces to Foster and Sustain an Informal Professional Learning Community by Joe O’Brien, Brian Bechard, Kori Green, and Nick Lawrence

Chapter 12: Hope as the Catalyst to Thrive in the Profession by Elizabeth Yomantas and Sarah Rosenthal

About the Contributors

Product details

Published Sep 16 2020
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 188
ISBN 9781475852080
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Terri L. Rodriguez

Anthology Editor

Heidi L. Hallman

Anthology Editor

Kristen Pastore-Capuana

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