This practical volume addresses teachers’ most immediate and constant wish—to engage students in meaningful learning. Written by teachers affiliated with the National Writing Project, this engrossing collection presents examples of classroom-based community studies projects that showcase teachers’ reflective practice in action, models for professional growth, collaborative staff development programs, and much more. Features: • Replicable projects emphasizing approaches to doing research and writing that are both engaging for students and academically rigorous. • Comprehensive curricular models for building energetic, public connections between the classroom and the larger community. • Chapters that connect the standards-based classroom work...
How can teachers—in whatever setting they work— effectively facilitate their own professional develo...
Rachel and Joelle explore strategies to build collaborative interactions between students of differe...
When teachers write, good things can happen; writing helps educators to better understand themselves...
Emphasizing writing and student inquiry, this rich collection offers teachers ready-to-use classroom...
This book highlights the work of talented teachers and tutors who connect theory and practice with t...
ABSTRACT: A professional development initiative in writing provided a context in which teachers coul...
Schooling in these contemporary times is a highly contested issue, launching many reform efforts aim...
Over the course of seven years, professional learning communities were formed in Southfield and Wate...
Modeling the processes of effective teaching through cooperative learning, creating a community of l...
Although the idea that “writing teachers must write” is pervasive, little is known about how teacher...
This article describes an effort to create a teacher learning community in which university and loca...
Are classrooms preparing students with the literacy skills they need for school, work, and life? Wh...
This practitioner research study has sought to understand what happens when a high school English te...
This article describes an effort to create a teacher learning community in which university and loca...
This book: Models techniques for improving achievement in literacy, vocabulary, studen writing, and ...
How can teachers—in whatever setting they work— effectively facilitate their own professional develo...
Rachel and Joelle explore strategies to build collaborative interactions between students of differe...
When teachers write, good things can happen; writing helps educators to better understand themselves...
Emphasizing writing and student inquiry, this rich collection offers teachers ready-to-use classroom...
This book highlights the work of talented teachers and tutors who connect theory and practice with t...
ABSTRACT: A professional development initiative in writing provided a context in which teachers coul...
Schooling in these contemporary times is a highly contested issue, launching many reform efforts aim...
Over the course of seven years, professional learning communities were formed in Southfield and Wate...
Modeling the processes of effective teaching through cooperative learning, creating a community of l...
Although the idea that “writing teachers must write” is pervasive, little is known about how teacher...
This article describes an effort to create a teacher learning community in which university and loca...
Are classrooms preparing students with the literacy skills they need for school, work, and life? Wh...
This practitioner research study has sought to understand what happens when a high school English te...
This article describes an effort to create a teacher learning community in which university and loca...
This book: Models techniques for improving achievement in literacy, vocabulary, studen writing, and ...
How can teachers—in whatever setting they work— effectively facilitate their own professional develo...
Rachel and Joelle explore strategies to build collaborative interactions between students of differe...
When teachers write, good things can happen; writing helps educators to better understand themselves...