Take a look at the Heinemann professional books publishing in 2025. Check back regularly for updates on cover and author photos! For a list of professional books published in 2024, check out this post.
Last updated on October 21, 2024.
Spring Books
- Teach Like an MC: Hip Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom, by Edmund Adjapong
In Teach Like an MC, Edmund Adjapong creates a framework informed by hip-hop culture that supports educators who have also become teachers to stop the cycle of poor teaching and to nurture positive educational experiences for all youth, with special attention to youth with culturally diverse backgrounds who also deserve positive and affirming educational experiences. Inspired by his own negative educational memories of being labeled a “child with a problem”, Edmund’s story serves as a poignant reminder of the profound impact that community, race, and education have on students’ lives. He emphasizes the need for educational systems that are not only inclusive and understanding of students’ diverse backgrounds but also capable of nurturing and celebrating the unique identities of every student. Throughout the text, Edmund draws from the frameworks of culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining pedagogies, identifies Hip-Hop pedagogy and the transformative nature of hip-hop culture and its potential in providing joy, love, and liberation for students.
- The Artful Approach to Exploring Identity and Fostering Belonging, by Rebecca Bellingham and Veronica Scott
The arts move us, sustain us, and awaken us. In their book, Rebecca Bellingham and Veronica Scott outline ways to engage in conversations about identity and belonging using the lens of the arts. The authors encourage educators and educational leaders to expand their awareness of the structural and historical context that has led to inequity in our classrooms and communities. Our classrooms can and should be a hub of connecting and creating. When we invite the arts into our school day, we can help students learn how to pay close attention and listen generously, how to speak up when it matters, even how to find their own brief moments of beauty and joy when they need them the most.
- The New Teacher Handbook: 107 Strategies to Problem-Solve the Hard Parts of Teaching, by Berit Gordon
The news is full of teacher shortages, districts desperate to fill classrooms with qualified educators, and rising teacher burnout. We need ways to keep teachers in classrooms and feeling good while they’re there. One of the leading factors for new teachers leaving is feeling so overwhelmed that they lose the energy to find answers and problem-solve. Berit Gordon’s latest book equips new teachers with 107 strategies to address inevitable challenges, from lack of time and resources, to classroom management and building relationships with families, administrators, and colleagues.
- AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance, by Dennis Magliozzi and Kristina Peterson
Ignoring the immense presence and promise of AI would be the same as closing our eyes to the start of the internet or the mass production and availability of graphing calculators. Even though it may seem we have an option to resort to pen-and-paper, it is not an either-or decision. New authors Dennis Magliozzi and Kristina Peterson noticed that teaching students how to leverage the power of AI in the writing workshop can greatly improve their thinking and writing. Through the lens of their own classroom units, they detail with various clear examples how teachers can use AI to aid both students and teachers in the classroom.
- The Literacy Playbook, from Fountas & Pinnell
Fall Books
Descriptions to come.
- The Critical Literacy Trellis, by Justine Bruyère
- Difference is Not Deficit, by Bibi Piryayesh
- The Art of Reality Pedagogy by Chris Emdin
- SEL Strategies by Stacy Simonyi and Tania Campanelli
- The Leader’s Playbook by Penny Kittle and Elaine Millen
