Books: Winter 2018

Learning for Careers
Robert Schwartz and Nancy Hoffman
Learning for Careers by Senior Research Fellow Robert Schwartz, C.A.S.’68, and Nancy Hoffman is an account of the Pathways to Prosperity Network, a national initiative focused on helping more young people either complete high school, go to college, or get started in a career. It includes not only a historical look at the origins of the network and how it expanded over time, but also a look at the movement it helped spark that is helping young people obtain important skills early on, as well as transition from school to the labor market fully prepared to be successful.

The First Years Matter
Carol Pelletier Radford
Nearly a decade ago, Carol Pelletier Radford, Ed.D.’96, program director of Project SUCCESS at the University of Massachusetts, wrote the first edition of her book for helping new teachers. The title was The First Year Matters. Over time, she realized something important: “By adding an s to years, we are noting that the first years matter to novice teachers.” Teaching is an ongoing process, she writes, not one you can master in a single year. This new edition includes a 12-month curriculum and sections for setting goals. Radford also has a companion book, Mentoring in Action.

How to Create the Conditions for Learning
Ann Jaquith
Ann Jaquith, Ed.M.’97, starts her book with the question, “What does it take to create the conditions required to provide high-quality instruction every day to every student in our nation’s classrooms?” Drawing on real-life examples, research, and her own experience, Jaquith, the associate director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, weaves in practical case studies and shows how conditions for improving instruction can be created at every level: classroom (teachers), school (principals), and the central office (teams of district administrators responsible for groups of schools).

Powerful Partnerships
Karen Mapp, Ilene Carver, and Jessica Lander
Written with teachers and principals in mind, Powerful Partnerships by Senior Lecturer Karen Mapp, Ed.M.’93, Ed.D.’99, and two current teachers, Jessica Lander, Ed.M.’15, and Ilene Carver, is a user-friendly guide to creating better (and more equal) partnerships with families, filled with tips and first-person stories from both educators and parents. In collaboration with Scholastic, the book also offers links to short online clips on topics such as examining your core beliefs as a teacher about communities and families and the impact of family engagement on student success.

November Third
William Lewers
In this sequel to the novel Gatekeepers of Democracy about elections and poll keepers, William Lewers, M.A.T.’66, looks at the struggle that his main Gatekeeper protagonists face when they realize something is amiss with the voting machines in their district and they need to do something about it. Although a work of fiction, November Third is an education in elections and what it’s like to be a “rover” — a special election officer who tests voting machines and helps at various precincts on election day (a job Lewers has held over the years).

Full list of books by the HGSE community:

Beyond Testing, Matthew Knoester, Ed.M.’01, and Deborah Meier

Holistic Education and Embodied Learning, John Miller, M.A.T.’67

How to Create the Conditions for Learning, Ann Jaquith, Ed.M.’97

Investigating Disciplinary Literacy, Christina Dobbs, Ed.M.’06, Ed.D.’13; Jacy Ippolito, Ed.M.’01, Ed.D.09; and Megin Charner-Laird, Ed.M.’02, Ed.D.’10

Learning for Careers, Robert Schwartz, C.A.S.’68, and Nancy Hoffman

Mentoring in Action, Carol Pelletier Radford, Ed.D.’96

November Third, William Lewers, M.A.T.’66

One Student at a Time, Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88

Powerful Partnerships, Karen Mapp, Ed.M.’93, Ed.D.’99; Jessica Lander, Ed.M.’15; and Ilene Carver

Startups Demystified, Barbara Hou, Ed.M.’14, Ed.D.’19

The First Years Matter, Carol Pelletier Radford, Ed.D.’96

The Other Peach Process, Ronald Kronish, Ed.D.’79

Wilhelmina’s Alabaster Box, Helaine Daniels, Ed.D.’81