By 2040, more than 30 percent of students in the United States will be immigrants or the children of immigrants.

What factors can help these young people thrive in school, despite the many obstacles they face? And how can school staff best support immigrant students academic and personal success?

In Portraits of Promise, educators hear from the ultimate experts successful newcomer students. Drawing on the students own stories, the book highlights the kinds of support and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive...

In this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive but productive. All too often treated as a matter of compliance, student resistance can also be understood as a form of engagement, as young people confront and negotiate new identities in the classroom environment. The focus of teachers' efforts, Toshalis says, should not be about "managing" adolescents but about learning how to read their behavior and respond to it in developmentally productive, culturally responsive, and...