What Is It about Me You Can't Teach?: An Instructional Guide for the Urban Educator

Formerly a SkyLight publication

Gangs, drugs, poverty, shootings, lack of materials, dilapidated classrooms, lack of support? Urban teachers sometimes deal with issues like these on a daily basis. In spite of these intense obstacles, teachers must stay focused on one goal--getting through to the students.

What Is It About Me You Can′t Teach?: An Instructional Guide for the Urban Educator arms educators with new knowledge, skills, and ideas to enhance teaching techniques. Teachers will gain a fresh view of goal setting, sharing behaviors, self-control, reciprocal teaching, and self-change--everything needed to be a more effective urban teacher and make students better prepared for life.

James Bellanca is a life-long advocate for the principles and practices created by Reuven Feuerstein. As a Senior Fellow for the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, he created and edits the innovative P21Blogazine. He is the editor of a series of 21st Century Deeper Learning collections, has authored more than a dozen how-to books aimed to infuse critical and creative thinking across the curriculum and is President of the Illinois Consortium for 21st Century Schools.

Eleanor Renée Rodriguez, PhD, a professional developer with Rodriguez and Associates, has provided consulting services and training to school districts, national associations, and state departments in 48 of 50 states and abroad. Her concentration is on research-based teaching and leadership strategies. She has served in positions from substitute teacher to superintendent, with assign­ments that included preK through adult education and with an emphasis on meeting the needs of students with special needs. In addition, she has directed, reviewed, and evaluated seminars and institutes for the American Association of School Administrators. Her mission is to eliminate the achievement gap and to help educators believe, behave, and achieve so all truly means all.