Through wrenching tragedy and tense, even life-threatening challenges, Michael Sadowski comes to understand his identity and his place within his dysfunctional family and grasps the trauma caused by toxic masculinity. By turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false selves we create and the price we pay to maintain them.
Adolescents at School brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents' emerging identities. This third edition includes new chapters on boys' emotional lives, risk and resilience in girls, the experiences of undocumented immigrant students, Muslim-American youth, and income inequality, features on "teaching while white", and an extensively updated chapter on LGBTQ+ stu...
Michael Sadowski is an Assistant Professor in the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program, based in New York City and Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He is also the editor of Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education. A former high school teacher, he was also an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, editor of the Harvard Education Letter, and vice-chair of the Massachusetts Governor's Commis...
By 2040, more than 30% of students in the US will be immigrants or the children of immigrants. What factors can help these young people thrive in school? And how can school staff best support immigrant students? Drawing on the students' own stories, this book highlights thesupport and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive peer networks, form strong bonds with teachers, manage competing expecta...
By 2040, more than 30% of students in the US will be immigrants or the children of immigrants. What factors can help these young people thrive in school? And how can school staff best support immigrant students? Drawing on the students' own stories, this book highlights thesupport and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive peer networks, form strong bonds with teachers, manage competing expecta...
Illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. Using examples from classrooms and schools, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive, and providing adults who can act as mentors.
A uniquely practical, insightful, and jargon-free volume, Adolescents at School points to ways to foster the success of every student in our schools and classrooms. Drawing from the perspectives of teachers researchers, and administrators - and adolescents themselves - it examines the complex, changing identities young people manage while they confront the challenges of school.
