Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities
This book speaks to the possibility of involving families and communities in schools for the purpose of transforming education systems towards equity.

Helping students make sense of the world - Developing and Using Models
This book chapter describes the importance of instruction that focuses on the NGSS practice, developing and using models. Includes examples in both elementary and secondary classrooms, tips for getting started, and explicit connections to the other NGSS practices.

Redefining Teaching, Re-Imagining Teacher Education
The authors advocate for a conceptualization of teaching as a complex endeavor where teachers are decision-makers and reflective practitioners, with an accompanying shift of teacher education to emphasize clinical practice and pedagogies of enactment.

Teaching for Transformation: (Re)Designing Sustainability Courses Based on Ecological Principles
This paper describes the Burns model, meant to be used in designing courses where sustainability pedagogy and principles are central. This model is made up of 5 interacting goals.

Those who understand : Knowledge Growth in Teaching
Original writings of Shulman on the development of understanding and Pedagogical Content Knowledge: know what you teach, who you teach and why you teach.

Characterizing STEM teacher education: Affordances and constraints of explicit STEM preparation for elementary teachers
Research study compares teacher self-efficacy, STEM literacy and pedagogical practices of preservice teachers enrolled in a "STEM block" course (combined math/science methods) with PSTs in traditional math & science methods.

Beyond Equity as Inclusion: A Framework of "Rightful Presence" for Guiding Justice-Oriented Studies in Teaching and Learning
This essay presents a rightful presence framework that "highlights the limitations of equity as inclusion" and "orients the field towards the importance of political struggles to make present the lives of those made missing by schooling and discipline-specific norms." This essay includes two STEM classroom vignettes to illustrate this framework's tensions and guiding tenets.

Understanding "Core Practices" and "Practice-Based" Teacher Education: Learning From the Past
Journal article that describes how current trends in practice-based teacher education vary from historical approaches, including competency-based teacher education.

TeachingWorks High-Leverage Practices
A website that identifies 19 "high-leverage practices," fundamental capabilities of teaching that supports students' content and social-emotional learning. These HLPs are not grade- or discipline-specific. This is a good list to spark conversation with colleagues (or yourself) when considering course or program outcomes.

Encouraging More High School Students to Consider Teaching
Article describing and quantifying motivations and deterrents for becoming a teacher, and how to use this information to attract more teacher candidates.