Those Who Can

Tanya Merriman holds her doctorate in curriculum and teacher leadership and an MAT in teaching English. She has been teaching for nearly two decades and has worked across grade levels and in many different kinds of schools. She now teaches graduate level, pre-service teachers. She brings this experience and a panoramic view of education to her writing and her teaching.

• Introduction – Teaching in the Fray – How to Use This Book: You Don’t Have to Read the Whole Thing, but Please Read This – A Brief History of the Public School – Why This Matters Now More Than Ever – Coming Full Circle—Thinking Through My Own Experience – Methodology—Constructing Meaning Through My Own Experience – The Power of the Teacher – Ten Responsibilities for Those Who Can – Reflection – An Examination of My Own Practice: A Reflection in Two Parts – Planning and Learning—From Cognition to Culture – Teaching—The Performative Nature and Potential of Curriculum – Teaching—Looking at Text – Possibilities for a Social Reconstruction – Every School, Every Subject—STEM and Classroom Culture – Lesson Plan: How Do We Get From Here to There? – Lesson Plans: Poetry Lesson: How to Write the Great African-American Novel: Reading for Information – A Thoughtful Timeline – Reconstruction Concepts: Glossary and Annotated Bibliography.