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  How Multiple Intelligences Theory Can Guide Teachers' Practices: Ensuring Success for Students with Disabilities

  1/5/09 - Edward Garcia Fierros, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This On Point was produced by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). It is about the Gardner's multiple intelligences (MI) theory and it is implications for Special Education. This On Point applies to all students having Special Education services and families and teachers of people with disabilities. In MI theory, Gardner indicated that the intelligence of children (i.e., thinking, problem solving, and creating) is valued differently depending on the family and...

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  Principals of Inclusive Schools

  1/10/09 - Christine Salisbury , Gail McGregor, Equity Alliance at ASU

  School leaders play an important role in promoting and sustaining change in schools. Without their efforts, schools cannot change or improve to become places where all students are welcome, and where all students learn essential academic and non-academic lessons in preparation for life in the community. Nowhere is this initiative more important than in urban schools where many students have been left behind, shunted aside, or asked to learn with poor or inadequate buildings, materials, and...

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  School Improvement Survey

  1/26/07 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This survey helps schools measure how individuals associated with the school disclose their perspectives of how an ideal school would operate and compare it to the degree to which the school accomplishes the statement. Questions are categorized into: teacher and school practices, school climate, and school/community partnerships. This survey tool is also available to take online at http://niusi.edreform.net/login.html.

• Closing the Achievement Gap Through Teacher Collaboration: Facilitating Multiple Trajectories of Teacher Learning

  1/1/07 - Levine, Thomas H., Marcus, Alan S.

  How should district and school leaders improve education for students traditionally underserved by public education: by increasing control over teaching and curriculum, or by empowering groups of teachers to have more collective autonomy, responsibility, and opportunities for professional learning? The second approach-promoting multiple trajectories of learning among groups of teachers-has advantages, as well as some challenges, as a means of closing various achievement gaps. Sociocultural...

• Closing the achievement gap through teacher collaboration: Facilitating multiple trajectories of teacher learning

  1/1/08 - Levine, Thomas H., Marcus, Alan S.

  How should district and school leaders improve education for students traditionally underserved by public education: by increasing control over teaching and curriculum, or by empowering groups of teachers to have more collective autonomy, responsibility, and opportunities for professional learning? second approach--promoting multiple trajectories of learning among groups of teachers--has advantages, as well as some challenges, as a means of closing various achievement gaps. Sociocultural...

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  Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Futures: A Judge's Guide

  1/30/09 - Eva J Klain, Lisa Pilnik, Erin Talati, Candice L Maze, Kimberly Diamond-Berry, Lucy Hudson

  "Very young children develop within the context of their primary relationships. They are hurt and healed within that context. Science teaches us that the quality and reliability of those first relationships forms the actual physical architecture of the baby’s brain. Since first relationships are primary, we must take a relational approach to case planning for infants and toddlers, by helping parents learn how to have a reciprocal loving relationship with their child. Since first...

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  Helping Children Understand Routines and Classroom Schedules

  1/18/09 - M. M. Ostrosky , E. Y. Jung, M. L. Hemmeter, D. Thomas

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Scheduling refers to deciding who will do what...

• Research-based strategies for dropout prevention: TELESEMINAR

  12/10/08 - Rumberger, R.

  For society as a whole, helping youth stay in and complete high school is a worthwhile objective. To enable schools across America to achieve this objective, practical recommendations and strategies based upon the best research evidence available are necessary. In September 2008, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance’s released a practice guide entitled “Dropout Prevention.” Relying heavily on research studies that...

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  State Child Care Assistance Policies 2009: Most States Hold the Line, but Some Lose Ground in Hard Times

  1/23/09 - Karen Schulman, Helen Blank

  "Child care helps children, families, and communities prosper. Children in child care have the opportunity to learn and develop skills they need to succeed in school and in life. Parents with dependable child care have the support and peace of mind they need to be productive at work. And child care helps our nation stay competitive, with a stronger workforce now and in the future. In this time of great economic challenge and uncertainty, child care assistance that helps families afford the...

• A new wave of evidence

  1/1/02 - Anne T. Henderson & Karen L. Mapp

  Many policymakers, administrators, and funders ask for evidence that parents' involvement helps student achievements, including test scores. This report provides some useful answers.

• A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION FOR 2007: INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF ADOLESCENT LITERACY TO HELP CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP

  1/1/07 - Donlevy, Jim

  The academic Achievement Gap persists even as calls intensify to close it. One fruitful area for helping to address achievement disparities is adolescent literacy. Although a great deal is known about teaching reading in the early grades, not as much is known about middle and high school literacy, areas where the Achievement Gap becomes more pronounced. This article reviews previous New Year's resolutions, calls for greater understanding of adolescent literacy, and describes some...

• A New Year's Resolution for 2007: Increase Understanding of Adolescent Literacy to Help Close the Achievement Gap

  1/1/07 - Donlevy, Jim

  The academic Achievement Gap persists even as calls intensify to close it. One fruitful area for helping to address achievement disparities is adolescent literacy. Although a great deal is known about teaching reading in the early grades, not as much is known about middle and high school literacy, areas where the Achievement Gap becomes more pronounced. This article reviews previous New Year's resolutions, calls for greater understanding of adolescent literacy, and describes some...

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  A User's Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning

  1/30/09 - Julia Coffman

  A User's Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning was developed for advocates, evaluators, and funders who want guidance on how to evaluate advocacy and policy change efforts. This tool takes users through four basic steps that generate the core elements of an advocacy evaluation plan, including what will be measured and how. The tool helps users: Identify how the evaluation will be used and who will use it to ensure the evaluation delivers the right kind of information when it is needed; Map...

• Accountability Standards, and the Growing Achievement Gap: Lessons from the Past Half-Century

  1/1/06 - Harris, Douglas N., Herrington, Carolyn D.

  The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady improvement in outcome equity. This article explores the policies that helped to reduce the achievement gap before 1990, the effects of the subsequent shift toward accountability, and what can be learned from past successes to guide the future development of accountability systems. An extensive review of research...

• Accountability, Standards, and the Growing Achievement Gap: Lessons from the Past Half-Century

  1/1/06 - Harris, Douglas N., Herrington, Carolyn D.

  The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady improvement in outcome equity. This article explores the policies that helped to reduce the achievement gap before 1990, the effects of the subsequent shift toward accountability, and what can be learned from past successes to guide the future development of accountability systems. An extensive review of research...

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  Achieving Gender Equity in Public Education: A Scenario Planning Resource for Advocates, Policymakers and Practitioners

  1/16/10 - Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation, The Schott Center for Public and Early Education

  "This report reflects our recent efforts to understand how to ensure that the next generation of girls and boys enjoy respectful schools and classrooms in which they can grow and succeed. We want all children to have the benefits of an education that provides them with a full range of life options and helps them become decisionmakers and leaders. We hope this publication will serve as a useful discussion tool for organizations, foundations, and individuals interested in creating more...