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Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 18 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The authors of the nine other chapters in this book have struggled with the issues discussed above in several different ways. The chapter authors represent a wide range of views and expertise within the field of social studies. Some have been leading social studies scholars for three or four decades....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Over the past thirty years, student assessment has become an increasingly important component of public education. A variety of methodologies in testing have been developed to obtain and interpret the wealth of assessment outcomes. As assessment goals are getting increasingly multifaceted, new testing...
Deep Change
Cases and Commentary on Schools and Programs of Successful Reform in High Stakes States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This book presents cases of schools (Part One) and programs at the district level and beyond (Part Two) in which reform, while driven by highstakes accountability, became larger and deeper through datadriven dialogue, culture change, organizational learning, and other elements of high performing cultures....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Lack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students’ learning outside school has contributed to the difficulties educators encounter when trying to embrace cultural diversity. Many educators do not have the knowledge base about immigrant and minority children’s culturallyspecific ways of learning...
Getting to the Common Core
Using Researchbased Strategies that Empower Students to Own Their Own Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The Common Core Standards have recently been adopted in most states across the nation and teachers are in the process of getting to the core of these standards. Teaching to standards is not a new concept; teachers have adapted to new standards every few years for quite some time. And teachers are adaptable,...
Charting a New Course
Reinventing High School Classes for the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The purpose of this book is to encourage teachers and administrators to move beyond traditional course structures and to ask them to consider designing experiential curriculum that is interdisciplinary and focused on solving real world problems. Why do this? Both authors believe that the current model...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children’s literacy learning are pervasive. Teachers of young children are asked to teachtothe test in ways that take away opportunities for holistic, thoughtful, playoriented practices that allow children...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children’s literacy learning are pervasive. Teachers of young children are asked to teachtothe test in ways that take away opportunities for holistic, thoughtful, playoriented practices that allow children...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The goal of this volume is to begin to create those critical linkages between positive psychological attributes and relevant research areas. Undoubtedly, there are many topics in positive psychology that could not be covered in just one volume, and many more topical linkages to business ethics and...
Immigration and Schooling
Redefining the 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
At the time of Obama’s draconian antiimmigrant policies leading to massive deportation of undocumented, poor immigrants of color, there could not be a more timely and important book than this edited volume, which critically examines ways in which immigration, race, class, language, and gender issues...
Success Stories From a Failing School
Teachers Living Under the Shadow of NCLB
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book tells stories of life in a “failing” school. These are insider stories of the daily lives of children and educators in an urban school during a time when accountability weighs heavy on both teachers and students. Most educators are in favor of accountability. The kind and amount of testing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Radical Thoughts on Ethical Leadership, provides contributions from established scholars with fresh perspectives on ethical leadership, with challenging viewpoints that have been given little coverage in the literature to date. Radical Thoughts on Ethical Leadership includes theoretical perspectives...
Independent Movement and Travel in Blind Children
A Promotion Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of Developmental O and M, independent movement and travel in blind children. Unlike many books and articles on orientation and mobility (O&M) for blind children, this one is not about the effect of blindness on movement. Such an inquiry is...