An Empty Seat in Class: Teaching and Learning After the Death of a Student

by Rick Ayers

The death of a student, especially to gun violence, is a life-changing experience that occurs with more and more frequency in America's schools. For each of these tragedies, there is a classroom and there is a teacher. Yet student death is often a forbidden subject, removed from teacher education and professional development classes where the curriculum is focused instead on learning about standards, lesson plans, and pedagogy. What can and should...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807756121
• ISBN13: 9780807756126
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 8.8"