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  • Why Do We Have To Do Math in Science Class?

    Using a project-based learning approach, this team of high school teachers from different disciplines collaborated to identify an area in which their students needed work, then developed a cross-curricular project to address it.

    Vignette - Lori Griffith, NCLE Staff, NCTAF - Dec 4 2012 - 12:56pm
  • Math in the Margins: Writing across Curricula into Community Heritage

    This article from English Journal describes how two math teachers, two English teachers, and 86 students bridged cultural divides between mathematics and English in urban Massachusetts and rural Iowa.

    Resources - Arthur W. Hunsicker, Bonnie S. Sunstein, Deidra F. Baker, Rossina Zamora Liu - May 8 2013 - 5:49pm
  • Integration of Information Literacy into the Curriculum: Changing Students’ Relationships with the School Librarian

    Motivated by a shared inquiry question, a team of librarians at Deerfield High School (Illinois) gathered data to support a push to integrate information literacy skills into the curriculum, and developed a fruitful collaboration with other departments resulting in a co-taught Medieval...

    Vignette - NCLE Staff - Jun 18 2012 - 11:02am
  • Engaging Students in Literacy at Johnston High School

    Sarah Brown Wessling and her colleagues at Johnston High School, Iowa, saw that some changes were needed in the curriculum to achieve real student engagement, and working together, they found a way to make it happen....

    Vignette - Rex Babiera - Mar 27 2013 - 4:03pm
  • Coresearching and Coreflecting: The Power of Teacher Inquiry Communities

    In this chapter from On Teacher Inquiry, Diane Waff explores how her work as a teacher researcher was influenced by participation in three different teacher inquiry communities—a K–12 community focused on multicultural education, a secondary school community focused on...

    Resources - Diane Waff - Jul 16 2012 - 1:52pm
  • Teachers’ Professional Lives in Effective Schools

    In Effective Literacy Instruction: Building Successful Reading and Writing Programs (NCTE, 2000),Judith Langer draws on her five-year study of classes in twenty-five schools attempting to improve student learning to explore essential features of teachers' professional experiences and...

    Resources - Judith Langer - Aug 17 2012 - 4:11pm
  • How Academic Vocabulary Impacted Student Learning

    Listen to a recording of Matt and Susie discussing their reflections about how their work with Academic Vocabulary impacted the learning of their students.

    Resources - Rex Babiera - Dec 1 2011 - 6:01pm