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10 Great Curricula
Lived Conversations of Progressive, Democratic Curricula in School and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With: Susan L. M. Bartow, Lara A. Chatman, Daniel Ciamarra, Christopher L. Cox, Dawn Mann, Kevin J. Smith, Kevin M. Talbert, Mary A. Webb and Amy Fisher Young. 10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of their engagement...
Cases 'n' Places
Global Cases in Educational and Performance Technology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Practitioners in the field of educational technology require a high level of problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to deal with learning issues that are often complex and multidimensional. Unfortunately, there are few opportunities for providers of learning services and learners...
Journal of Character Education Issue
Vol. 13 #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our...
Improving Schools
Studies in Leadership and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Improving Schools: Studies in Leadership and Culture is the seventh in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. This book is organized around two broad concepts—leadership and culture, which have important...
Advancing Knowledge in ServiceLearning
Research to Transform the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The purpose of this series of books is to advance the knowledge in the servicelearning research field. More importantly, this research is to be used to transform the field. This transformation will come from realizing both the history of servicelearning and trying to imagine what the future may look...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Teacher education has long relied on locallydeveloped assessments that lack reliability and validity. Rigorous performancebased assessments for preservice teachers have been advanced as one possible way to ensure that all students receive instruction from a highquality teacher. Recently, performancebased...
Making a Difference
Action Research in Middle Level Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Volume V of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education highlights action research in middle grades education. As a method of inquiry, action research compels educators to take action and think reflectively about those actions in order to effect positive educational change (Mills, 2000). Teachers,...
Teaching and Learning Chinese
Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The book is linked to the annual theme of the 2008 CAERDA International Conference with contributing authors serving as keynote speakers, invited panelists, paper presenters, as well as specialists and educators in the field. The book provides a most comprehensive description of and a theoretically...
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....
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...