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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cooter, Robert B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2004.
Temas:
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.