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Resources - Michael Palmisano - May 18 2012 - 2:09pm - 2 comment(s)
This excerpt from Michael Palmisano's Taking Inquiry to Scale: An Alternative to Education Reform (in development) discusses the differences between collaborative inquiry and traditional forms of professional development.
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Perspective - Tom McCann - Sep 28 2012 - 10:58am - 2 comment(s)
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Perspective - Juan Araujo - Nov 6 2012 - 5:21pm - 1 comment(s)
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Perspective - Millie Davis - May 9 2013 - 2:52pm - 1 comment(s)
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Perspective - Anne DiPardo - May 2 2013 - 12:00pm - 1 comment(s)
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Resources - Cathy Tower - Aug 24 2012 - 12:03pm
In this Language Arts (July 2005) article, educator Cathy Tower makes the point that if we understand the ideas that students bring (and/or the ideas that they glean during instruction) about purpose, audience, the use of visuals, and other genre and discourse-related concerns, then...
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Resources - Gretchen Owocki, Kathryn F. Whitmore, Prisca Martens, Yetta Goodman - Aug 17 2012 - 12:43pm
This article from Language Arts (March 2005) summarizes research and critical lessons from a transactional perspective on how young children develop literacy, arguing that "children need to value and be valued for who they are and where they come from; they need to control their...
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Resources - NCLE - Mar 19 2013 - 4:38pm
Making Room for What WorksToday there is growing agreement that literacy is at the center of all learning. The National Center for Literacy Education, a coalition of...
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Vignette - Carmen Jimenez, Cotsen - May 26 2012 - 4:46pm - 1 comment(s)
A mathematics learning team finds positive growth through the sharing of research based journal articles.
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Vignette - Cotsen, Lila Daruty - May 26 2012 - 4:46pm - 1 comment(s)
This vignette highlights the challenges associated with moving from an effective inquiry group focused on student engagement to a schoolwide focus.
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Perspective - Catherine Nelson - May 15 2013 - 5:03pm
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Resources - Mary Beth Schaefer - May 17 2013 - 4:10pm
The author of this Voices from the Middle (Sept 2011) article is a seventh-grade English language arts teacher who engaged in teacher research in order to become a more understanding, responsive, and confident instructor.
Systematic inquiry into her own practice revealed a conflict...
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Perspective - Juan Araujo - Mar 5 2013 - 10:47am
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Perspective - Tom Carroll - Feb 28 2013 - 1:22pm
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Resources - Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey - Nov 6 2012 - 12:55pm - 1 comment(s)
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey talk about text complexity, an important element of the Common Core State Standards, and about the implications for educators.
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Perspective - Lara Hebert - Apr 25 2013 - 3:06pm
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Resources - George Herrera, KaiLonnie Dunsmore, Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis - May 13 2013 - 2:57pm
In this article from Language Arts (May 2013), the authors look at how a community of practice in one midsize urban K–12 school district engaged in a community-mapping process to discover, gather, and analyze a rich array of community and home resources in order to create...
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Resources - NCLE Staff - Apr 27 2012 - 5:13pm - 2 comment(s)
Literacy is the ability to use available symbol systems that are fundamental to learning and teaching – for the purposes of comprehending and composing—for the purposes of making and communicating meaning and knowledge. —...
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Resources - NCTE - May 10 2013 - 12:34pm
This NCTE policy research brief outlines some of the key features, benefits, and challenges faced by communities of practice, as well as some of the ways that institutions can support school-based communities of practice. NCTE Policy Research Briefs are available at...
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Resources - Barbara Moss - May 10 2013 - 12:20pm
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This article from Voices from the Middle (May 2013) provides an overview of the Common Core text exemplars and gives examples of ways teachers can group text exemplars and other trade books in ways that will support middle graders’ understanding of complex texts. -
Resources - Dianna Townsend, Lisa Larson, Temoca Dixon - May 10 2013 - 11:26am
The purpose for this action research study was to answer the question: How can we enhance students' active engagement with academic vocabulary in social studies classes?
In this article from Voices from the Middle (May 2013), the authors share the strategies they...
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Resources - Arthur W. Hunsicker, Bonnie S. Sunstein, Deidra F. Baker, Rossina Zamora Liu - May 8 2013 - 5:49pm
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.
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Resources - Corey Drake, Lori Norton-Meier, Mary Tidwell - Apr 30 2013 - 2:44pm
Elementary school classrooms and preservice teachers rarely perceive math as a form of communication or as a foundation for community. Instead, it often takes the shape of numbered problems with very specific answers compiled into textbooks and worksheets. In an effort to make connections...
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Resources - Susan I. McMahon - Apr 30 2013 - 2:41pm
The author of this Voices from the Middle article, Susan I. McMahon, adopts the stance that, even though strategy use should be taught to help learners monitor their comprehension, such instruction is not sufficient to ensure transfer or ownership. Further, such instruction often...
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Resources - Mary Ann Reilly - Apr 30 2013 - 2:49pm
Educator Mary Ann Reilly has used art conversations as an instructional method with several hundred students and their teachers. In this Language Arts article, she describes a project in which middle school students learning English engaged in dialogue about the topic of journeys,...
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Resources - Donna E. Alvermann - Apr 30 2013 - 2:37pm
In this Voices from the Middle article, former social studies teacher and current teacher educator Donna E. Alvermann poses the question, What are some principled practices for engaging students’ literacy learning at the middle level, especially in content area classes where...
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Resources - Leonora Rochwerger, Shelley Stagg Peterson - Apr 30 2013 - 2:22pm
This article describes how teacher educator and researcher Shelley Stagg Peterson works with eighth-grade science teacher Leonora Rochwerger, who believes that writing is a learning tool that will enable her students to become scientifically literate. The article outlines an action research...
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Resources - Sandra Abell - Nov 28 2011 - 2:18pm
In this article, Sandra K. Abell reflects, "Why use writing in science? Many teachers use writing in science as a recording tool (science notebooks) or to find out what students have learned (constructed response tests). Yet writing experts Judith Langer and Arthur Applebee (1987) tell us...
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Perspective - Kent Williamson - Mar 28 2013 - 4:38pm - 1 comment(s)
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Resources - Charlene Klassen-Endrizzi - May 10 2012 - 12:01pm
This resource from Becoming Teammates: Teachers and Families as Literacy Partners focuses on an opening engagement as well as on an event that allows families to examine teachers' literacy knowledge in comparison to their own literacy experiences.