New book available

Brad Olsen's recent book, Teaching for Success: Developing your Teacher Identity in Today’s Classroom is available in softcover. Wrapping its research and practice conversations around the core concept of teacher identity, Olsen offers his own professional learning experience: how to recognize, adjust, and maximize the many ways your personal self and your professional self become integrated in your teaching work. Available from Paradigm Publishers

The Teacher’s Toolkit now available

The six books in this new series, written by 13 prominent scholars, present the most successful teacher practices based on the authors’ research, experience, and professional wisdom. The series, edited by Brad Olsen, is designed for teachers, administrators, students, and scholars who are eager to think more deeply, broadly, and practically about the contemporary landscape of teaching. Check it out at Paradigm Publishers

Making a Difference now available in paperback

Making a Difference: Developing Meaningful Careers in Education– by Karen Hunter Quartz, Brad Olsen, Lauren Anderson, and Kimberly Barraza Lyons–examines the lives and work of Los Angeles educators in order to investigate why teachers stay in the urban classroom or shift into other education roles such as school administrator, curriculum coordinator, or teacher mentor. This research book unpacks the complexity of the urban teaching profession and offers a roadmap for how teachers can remain challenged and satisfied without relaxing their commitments to students. Available from Paradigm Publishers

Also available in paperback

Olsen’s (2008) research book Teaching What They Learn, Learning What They Live: How Teachers' Personal Histories Shape Their Professional Development is available in paperback from Paradigm Publishers

Updated 5/4/2011