Perspectives on rescuing urban literacy education : spies, saboteurs, and saints /
An exploration of the variables that contribute to the improvement of literacy instruction in large urban school districts. The text grew out of The Dallas Reading Plan - a five-year initiative between area business and corporate interests, philanthropy, and the Dallas Independent School District.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART ONE : PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SPIES
- De Scholarum Natura / John Fullinwider
- Pillars of urban literacy instruction: prerequisites for change / Robert B. Cooter, Jr.
- Change management concepts and models: sponsorship, early adopters, and the development of urban teachers / E.F. Baskin
- Challenges to change: implementing research-based reading instruction in urban schools / Kathleen S. Cooter, Robert B. Cooter, Jr.
- PART TWO : OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF SABOTEURS
- Accountability in Texas: fair or foul? / William J. Webster
- Deep training + coaching: a capacity-building model for teacher development / Robert B. Cooter, Jr.
- Alchemist's tale (or ... The marriage of technology an literacy in trying times) / Lee Allen
- Changing lives on the boundaries / Jeanne Gerlach
- Minimizing the effects of student mobility through teacher and administrator training / Katy Denson
- Model-based mathematical languages as technological literacy: some reflections on an urban school challenge / William F. Tate
- PART THREE : SAINTS AND THEIR RESCUE EFFORTS
- Logistics of systemic change: the reading academy / Georgia J. Thompson
- Mentoring teacher change: even Cinderella had a coach / Jane Moore
- Coaching the coaches: challenges of implementing the lead teacher concept / Barbara Mathews
- Teaching the teacher: reflections of a reading academy laureate / Leigh Walker
- Creating a balanced literacy curriculum: one elementary school principle's perspective / Judy Zimny
- Marry well ... divorce less: helping principals choose effective literacy programs / Kathleen S. Cooter
- Addressing the literacy needs of African-American students and their teachers / J. Helen Perkins
- PART FOUR : SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- Reflections of a reading czar / Robert B. Cooter, Jr.