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This engaging book shows how teachers and schools are creating emergent, democratic, progressive education amidst the current context of high stakes accountability. In this follow-up to his bestseller, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Schultz explores how today’s rhetoric and restrictive mandates result in curriculum that fails to capture the attention of students. For meaningful learning that develops transferable skills and engages students, teachers and sometimes whole schools need to find spaces to “teach in the cracks” so that students can connect with issues relevant to their lives. Teaching in the Cracks provides both a theoretical and practical foundation for incorporating an action-focused curriculum that meets academic standards and provides students with opportunities for agency and to use their voices in their own learning.

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...it is full of vivid examples of actual current practices...this book provides a small, yet reliable, hope for most field educators who, like me, aspire to create a more learner-led class environment. --Reflective Teaching Teaching in the Cracks creates a 'big tent' for 'student-centered, action-focused curriculum.' Teachers will likely find some version of their school context portrayed to help them imagine how social action curricula could take root in their classrooms. --Urban Education

It does an exceptional job of providing information on progressive education and is a welcome contribution to the field...I recommend this book for any progressive minded educator...The book is succinct, efficient, and bursting with actionable implementation suggestions. --Mid-Western Educational Researcher ...it is full of vivid examples of actual current practices...this book provides a small, yet reliable, hope for most field educators who, like me, aspire to create a more learner-led class environment. --Reflective Teaching Teaching in the Cracks creates a 'big tent' for 'student-centered, action-focused curriculum.' Teachers will likely find some version of their school context portrayed to help them imagine how social action curricula could take root in their classrooms. --Urban Education

Teaching in the Cracks creates a 'big tent' for 'student-centered, action-focused curriculum.' Teachers will likely find some version of their school context portrayed to help them imagine how social action curricula could take root in their classrooms. --Urban Education It does an exceptional job of providing information on progressive education and is a welcome contribution to the field...a tight and efficiently written exploration of progressive teaching in action...(the book) presents many dynamic thoughts for how to educate and prepare students to participate actively in a democratic society. --Mid-Western Educational Researcher Schultz acknowledges that his proposal sounds great on paper but is hard to implement in the classroom, and so throughout he offers numerous practical examples of proposed curricula and how they are working around the nation. Examples vary, covering everything from a single classroom, the entire school's curriculum, forming close partnerships with surrounding communities, and specific topics, to teacher preparation. Together they make this book an invaluable reference for field educators. --The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching

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Brian D. Schultz is Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor and department chair of educational inquiry and curriculum studies at the Daniel L. Goodwin College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He is the author of Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom.

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