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- catalog abstract ""Crossing Over to Canaan tells the story of eight novice teachers working in urban, elementary school settings. It details their struggles and triumphs as they confront challenges in the classroom and respond with innovative strategies that turn cultural strengths into academic assets. Gloria Ladson-Billings offers a model of teaching that focuses on academic achievement, cultural competence, and socio-political consciousness." "Drawing from her own experiences as a young African-American teacher working in Philadelphia, she successfully weaves together narrative, observation, and scholarship to create an inspirational and practical book that will help teachers everywhere as they work to transcend labels and categories to support excellence among all students."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12241540.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Crossing Over to Canaan tells the story of eight novice teachers working in urban, elementary school settings. It details their struggles and triumphs as they confront challenges in the classroom and respond with innovative strategies that turn cultural strengths into academic assets. Gloria Ladson-Billings offers a model of teaching that focuses on academic achievement, cultural competence, and socio-political consciousness."".
- catalog description ""Drawing from her own experiences as a young African-American teacher working in Philadelphia, she successfully weaves together narrative, observation, and scholarship to create an inspirational and practical book that will help teachers everywhere as they work to transcend labels and categories to support excellence among all students."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The author -- Introduction -- Can anybody teach these children? -- Sojourners -- They're supposed to learn something -- Nobody wants to be Urkel -- Apathy is not an option -- A vision of the Promised Land -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: The teach for diversity program -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 172 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Crossing over to Canaan.".
- catalog identifier "0787950017 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Crossing over to Canaan.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Jossey-Bass education series".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : Jossey-Bass,".
- catalog relation "Crossing over to Canaan.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "371.829/96073 21".
- catalog subject "African American students Case studies.".
- catalog subject "African American students Education Case studies.".
- catalog subject "First year teachers Training of United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "LC2717 .L32 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The author -- Introduction -- Can anybody teach these children? -- Sojourners -- They're supposed to learn something -- Nobody wants to be Urkel -- Apathy is not an option -- A vision of the Promised Land -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: The teach for diversity program -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog title "Crossing over to Canaan : the journey of new teachers in diverse classrooms / Gloria Ladson-Billings.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".