July 2021
Authentic Voices: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
Edited volume
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publications, Inc.
December 2018
Schools of Promise for Multilingual Students: Transforming Literacies, Learning, and Lives
Edited volume with Althier Lazar,
New York, NY: Columbia University Teacher College Press
December 2015
Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Muliculturalism and Pluralism.
Edited volume with Althier Lazar,
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publications, Inc.
July 2013
Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World: Justice in Jesuit Higher Education.
Edited volume with Mary Beth Combs,
New York, NY: Fordham University Press
December 2011
Practicing What We Teach: How Culturally Responsive Classrooms Make a Difference.
Edited volume with Althier Lazar,
New York, NY: Columbia Teachers College Press
July 2006
ABC’s of Cultural Understanding and Communication: National and International Adaptations
Edited volume with Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner,
Kassel University,Germany. Greenwich CT: Information Age Publications, Inc.
Nominated for the Fry NRC Book Award
April 2006
50 Literacy Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching: K-8
With Dr. Wen Ma, Assistant Professor, Le Moyne College,
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press
Nominated for the Oscar Causey NRC Book Award
March 2005
Preparing Educators for Family and Community Engagement
Greenwich CT: Information Age Publications, Inc.
The book was created by the Syracuse University New York Higher Education Support Center
for Systems Change and Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, with funding from the
U.S. Department of Education awarded to Syracuse University
under Grant #H027A020104, CFDA #84.027
to the New York State Department of Education
August 2001
Exploring Values: Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events.
Co-Editor with Dr. Ann Watts Pailliotet,Whitman College
Selected as the August 2001 IRA Book of the Month
July 2001
Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Pluralism and Multiculturalism.
Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publications, Inc.
Co-Editor is Dr. Peter B. Mosenthal, Reading and Language Arts Center,
Syracuse University, 2000-2001,
President of the National Reading Conference
February 1998/2002
Cultural Conflict and Struggle: Literacy Learning in a Kindergarten Program.
New York: Peter Lang Publishing Co.
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