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Educating Hearts and Minds: A Comprehensive Character Education Framework

Edward F. DeRoche, Mary M. Williams

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This second edition merges new ideas in character education research with best practices in schools and districts. The authors provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive framework for K-12 administrators, educators, and concerned citizens. It offers easy access to what works, supported by in-depth rationale. The authors propose standards, promising practices, and assessment instruments that can be personalized to fit the needs and interests of any school, student population, school district, or community.

Highlighted are keys for success in building a character education program:

• Six sets of standards for character education
• Six tips for leaders
• Five tips to ensure reaching consensus
• Five classroom expectations
• Strategies for school culture and classroom climate
• Steps for developing a values curriculum
• Co-curricular activities
• Teaching principles
• Staff development and personnel training
• Assessment

Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners

Mary Ann Lachat

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Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners explores the issues that must be addressed to ensure the academic success of English Language Learners (ELLs). Providing an overview of what standards-based educational reforms means for the fast-growing population of ELLs in America’s schools, author Mary Ann Lachat offers practical guidelines to help school administrators and classroom teachers implement effective practices for culturally diverse learners.

Concepts examined include

• The characteristics of ELLs in America’s schools
• How language and culture affect learning
• Language development issues for ELLs
• Standards-based learning practices that support the success of ELLs

Becoming a Better Science Teacher: 8 Steps to High Quality Instruction and Student Achievement

Elizabeth Hammerman

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"A very exciting and user-friendly text, dealing with standards and making practical connections to assessment and teaching, and with excellent examples throughout."
-Gary Willhite, Teacher Educator
Southern Illinois University

Create a new vision for high quality science teaching!

In today’s standards-based educational climate, teachers are challenged to create meaningful learning experiences while meeting specific goals and accountability targets. In her essential new book, Elizabeth Hammerman brings more than 20 years as a science educator and consultant to help teachers connect all of the critical elements of first-rate curriculum and instruction.

With this simple, straight-on guide, teachers can analyze their existing curriculum and instruction against a rubric of indicators of critical characteristics, related standards, concept development, and teaching strategies to develop students’ scientific literacy at the highest levels. Every chapter is packed with charts, sample lesson ideas, reflection and discussion prompts, and more, to help teachers expand their capacity for success.

Hammerman describes what exceptional teaching looks like in the classroom and provides practical, teacher-friendly strategies to make it happen. This research-based resource will help teachers:

• Reinforce understanding of standards-based concepts and inquiry
• Add new content, methods, and strategies for instruction and assessment
• Create rich learning environments
• Maximize instructional time
• Ask probing questions and sharpen discussion
• Include technology
• Gather classroom evidence of student achievement to inform instruction

Through a new, clear vision for high quality science teaching, this book gives teachers everything they need to deliver meaningful science instruction and ensure student success and achievement. 

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Using Picture Books to Teach Language Arts Standards in Grades 3-5

Brenda S. Copeland, Patricia A. Messner

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This manual of ideas zeroes in on current picture book titles. It features reproducible worksheets, writing activities, related reading based activities, and technology for grades three through five. The ideas have been tested in the authors' libraries and are linked to national curricular standards. Though school librarians are targeted as the main audience for this book, it also is a valuable resource for the classroom teacher and reading specialist. Librarians will find the ideas and plans valuable as they collaborate with teachers to teach content area standards. The most similar resource to this book of lesson plans is the authors' first book, Linking Picture Books to Standards. This new book has the same format, but focuses on upper- level picture books and activities. It provides the librarian, classroom teacher, or reading specialist with worksheets that are ready to copy and patterns that are easy to follow. There are few resources of a similar genre on the market today--this book should help bridge the gap and provide much needed materials. Grades 3-5.

What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers

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The "standards wars" are another manifestation of the "culture wars." Few educational policy makers understand the many disciplinary, pedagogical, and curricular issues occurring at the heart of the conflicts as states develop or revise their K-12 standards and standards-based assessments in the major subjects. The issues differ from subject to subject. This collection of essays addresses the issues that have arisen in the development and implementation of national and state standards in science, mathematics, history, economics, and the English language arts from the perspective of scholars in those disciplines. These scholars are writing not for other scholars in their field but for those who help shape K-12 educational policy legislators, members of boards of education, and those who teach courses in government or education policy making. The purpose of this collection is to clarify what is at stake in the standards wars and in standards-based systemic reform. Contributors to this volume include: Hung-Hsi Wu, Ralph A. Raimi, Paul Clopton, Wayne Bishop, David Klein, Stan Metzenberg, Alan Cromer, Paul R. Gross, Sheldon M. Stern, Robert M. Costrell, Thomas Carnicelli, Jeanne J. Smoot, Mary Campbell Gallagher, Michael McKeown, and Chris Patterson.

The Competent Classroom : Aligning High School Curriculum, Standards, and Assessment--A Creative Teaching Guide

Allison Zmuda, Mary Tomaino

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“Good books have a way of illuminating incidents so that one’s own experiences come in to sharper focus. This was certainly the case for me while reading this accessible and very important book.” --Patricia Wasley, from the Foreword

Written by teachers for teachers, this enlightening book describes the cross-disciplinary journey of two high school teachers trying to align curriculum, assessment, and performance standards in their classrooms. With a focus on the importance of constantly inspiring students, the authors troubleshoot issues surrounding content standards, instructional objectives, and the aims of curriculum. This user-friendly guide:

Helps readers consider the main concepts surrounding creative teaching and ways of helping students take ownership of their learning

Provides insight into what it takes for teachers to learn about, work with, and benefit from standards work

Gives teachers practical advice for achieving greater success in the classroom

Targets the connections between essential questions, content, assessments, and performance standards

This creative and informative guide will inspire any educator who wrestles with how to make classroom learning meaningful to students and who cares about academic achievement and success.

Vision for Arts Education in the 21st Century

MENC: The National Association for Music Education

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Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education Presents the ideas and ideals behind the development of the National Standards for Arts Education.

Informal Learning and Field Trips: Engaging Students in Standards-Based Experiences Across the K-5 Curriculum

Leah M. Melber

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"A highly accessible work of immense value on all facets of informal learning opportunities. The focus on specific content areas is an excellent tool for teachers, and the inclusion of a section related to English Language Learners is especially welcome and unique."
-Robert Rueda, Professor of Education
University of Southern California

"This great resource demonstrates how to gain more meaning from field trips and includes a wealth of tips, suggestions, and rubrics to make it easy to assess student learning. This book shows that just as much-or more-learning can be achieved when not in a classroom setting."
-Mark Johnson, Principal and Curriculum and Assessment Facilitator
Glenwood Elementary School, Kearney, NE

Turn every field trip into a high-quality learning experience!

What youngster isn't excited at the prospect of taking a field trip? Enthusiastic students present teachers with the ideal scenario for creating meaningful out-of-the-classroom encounters and giving students the building blocks to help them become active participants in their own educational process.

This resource helps educators take full advantage of off-site educational opportunities by developing lessons that connect informal learning with content standards. Based on constructivist philosophy and inquiry-based learning, the book provides numerous sample lesson plans and technology tips, and includes:

• Learner-centered activities for language arts, math, science, social studies, and fine art
• Ways to support English Language Learners and special education students
• Guidelines for developing corresponding classroom activities
• Strategies for building partnerships with informal learning sites
• Methods for bringing museum-type activities into the classroom when a trip is not possible

Informal Learning and Field Trips helps enrich students' lives as they explore the world outside the school grounds and gives teachers a prime opportunity to revitalize the learning experience.

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Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards

Richard Sagor

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Are you dragging yourself into school each morning? Are your students complaining about schoolwork and classes? Does the task of meeting mandated standards seem overwhelming? If you aren't excited about school, or your students don't seem eager to learn, consider whether you're missing one or more of these essential motivational factors: competence, belonging, usefulness, potency, optimism.

In this book, Richard Sagor describes how these qualities contribute to every person's well-being and what you can do to develop them in yourself and your students-regardless of their previous school experiences or socioeconomic background. Step-by-step instructions offer ways to make teaching and learning more emotionally and intellectually satisfying for everyone. The result is an environment in which staff and students alike are ready and willing to do the hard work necessary for success.

Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards is a practical guide for teachers, principals, and other instructional leaders who want to take positive steps to help everyone in the school be more successful, more motivated, and more satisfied with their work.

Sagor is director of the Institute for the Study of Inquiry in Education. He is the author of How to Conduct Collaborative Action Research and Guiding School Improvement with Action Research.

Getting the Schools You Want: A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Your Own Curriculum Management Audit

Kimberly M. Logan

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Getting the Schools You Want is a step-by-step guide to school improvement through the use of a curriculum management audit. Use the practitioner-oriented framework, reproducible forms, and survey instruments to save time, prevent headaches, and get results. Curriculum management audits are powerful tools for improving schools and supporting systematic change. At the district level, the curriculum management audit process can provide you with the findings, insight, and recommendations to make meaningful change. Individual schools can also use the internal audit to measure schoolwide efforts and effectiveness. The curriculum audit is organized around five standards: control, objectives, connectivity and equity, assessment, and productivity. These standards are the same regardless of the size, location, community, or history of the district. The audit provides a guide to planning, a vehicle to communicate with staff and the community, and a proven process for improving student achievement. Use this guide to +