About the Book
Inspirational stories of engaging, real-life educational experiences Everyone has a personal learning story, a time when they became actively engaged in their own education. Maybe it was an especially challenging teacher, or a uniquely supportive environment, or a collaborative classroom. In Faces of Learning, both well-known public figures, such as Arne Duncan and Al Franken, and ordinary Americans recall the moments when they truly learned something.
Includes stories from people of all different backgrounds and from all over the country
The stories are grouped into categories by theme like "relevant" and "experiential" to help reveal the common characteristics of what works in education
Each chapter ends with five things you can do to improve your own learning, that of your students, and of all Americans
Readers can visit the companion website www.facesoflearning.net to share their own stories of educational success and find out what else they can do.
Table of Contents:
Introduction 1
Chapter One Challenging
1. Jenna Fournel (Alexandria, Virginia) 6
2. Mark Rockeymoore (Montreal, Quebec) 8
3. Jan Resseger (Cleveland, Ohio) 10
4. Gloria Ladson-Billings (Madison, Wisconsin) 12
5. Loretta Goodwin (Washington, D.C.) 14
6. Bruce Deitrick Price (Virginia Beach, Virginia) 16
7. Arne Duncan (Washington, D.C.) 17
8. Angela Valenzuela (Austin, Texas) 19
9. Carl Glickman (Athens, Georgia) 21
10. Andrew Margon (Brooklyn, New York) 23
Challenging: Five Things You Can Do 24
Chapter Two Engaging
11. Renee Moore (Cleveland, Mississippi) 30
12. Amy Estersohn (Chicago, Illinois) 32
13. Maritza Brito (Brick, New Jersey) 34
14. Kevin McCann (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 36
15. Margaret Owens (Palo Alto, California) 38
16. Larry Mya_ (Boston, Massachusetts) 40
17. John Goodlad (Seattle, Washington) 42
18. Sitembiso Ncube Maduma (San Bernardino, California) 44
19. Elijah Cummings (Baltimore, Maryland) 46
20. Jill Vialet (Oakland, California) 48
Engaging: Five Things You Can Do 51
Chapter Three Supportive
21. Al Franken (Washington, D.C.) 56
22. Jenifer Fox (Austin, Texas) 58
23. Michelle Durange (Littlestown, Pennsylvania) 60
24. Zainab Ali (Los Angeles, California) 62
25. Susan Oliver (Waterford, Virginia) 64
26. Gary Cohen (Wayzata, Minnesota) 66
27. Chantale Soekhoe (Brooklyn, New York) 68
28. Emily Gasoi (Washington, D.C.) 70
29. Cassandra Carland (Keene, New Hampshire) 73
30. Carrie A. Rogers (Rancho Cucamonga, California) 75
Supportive: Five Things You Can Do 77
Chapter Four Relevant
31. R. Dwayne Betts (Washington, D.C.) 82
32. Robert McLaughlin (Concord, New Hampshire) 84
33. Deborah Meier (Hillsdale, New York) 86
34. Jamal Fields (Livermore, California) 88
35. Jenerra Williams (Boston, Massachusetts) 90
36. Patrick Ip (Chicago, Illinois) 92
37. Gerlma A. Johnson (Detroit, Michigan) 94
38. Anonymous 96
39. Ahniwake Rose (Washington, D.C.) 97
40. James Comer (New Haven, Connecticut) 98
Relevant: Five Things You Can Do 100
Chapter Five Experiential
41. Joel Ellio (Limpopo Province, South Africa) 106
42. Terry Pickeral (Bellingham, Washington) 109
43. Elizabeth Rogers (South Portland, Maine) 111
44. Steve Moore (Kansas City, Missouri) 112
45. Jill Davidson (Providence, Rhode Island) 115
46. Rachel Barnes (Chatham, Massachusetts) 117
47. Stedman Graham (Chicago, Illinois) 119
48. Stephen Vick (Chicago, Illinois) 121
49. Liz Lerman (Baltimore, Maryland) 123
50. Maya Soetoro-Ng (Honolulu, Hawaii) 125
Experiential: Five Things You Can Do 128
Epilogue George Wood
Ted Sizer (Harvard, Massachusetts) 133
About the Editor 135
About the Campaign 137
Acknowledgments 149
About the Author :
THE EDITOR
SAM CHALTAIN (www.samchaltain.com) is a Washington DC-based writer, educator, and strategic consultant. Sam has also been a classroom teacher; the national director of the Forum for Education and Democracy, an education advocacy organization devoted to restoring the public purpose of public education; and the founding director of the Five Freedoms Project, a national program that helps K-12 principals create more democratic learning communities. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community.
