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Review Of The Kindergarten Book: A Guide To Literacy Instruction, Marcy B. Zipke Apr 2006

Review Of The Kindergarten Book: A Guide To Literacy Instruction, Marcy B. Zipke

Marcy B Zipke

Reviews the book The Kindergarten Book: A Guide to Literacy Instruction.


Information Commons: Staff Models & Staff Training, D. Russell Bailey Jan 2006

Information Commons: Staff Models & Staff Training, D. Russell Bailey

D. Russell Bailey

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Challenging The Status Quo: Campus Community School, Marcy B. Zipke Jan 2006

Challenging The Status Quo: Campus Community School, Marcy B. Zipke

Marcy B Zipke

Campus Community School is a 300-student charter school in Dover, DE, which serves children in grades 1 through 8. As a new charter school the founders have had the opportunity to build our ideal school, from designing a constructivist project-based curriculum, to implementing site based management, and focusing heavily on parent participation. This essay illustrates how well the charter school model can work. As the administrator and one of the founding members of CCS, I describe our challenges and hurdles as well as successes.


Designing Ics As Dynamic Learning Spaces For The Net Generation, D. Russell Bailey, Barbara Tierney Jan 2006

Designing Ics As Dynamic Learning Spaces For The Net Generation, D. Russell Bailey, Barbara Tierney

D. Russell Bailey

Library and Information Commons spaces and furnishings need to match the habits of a Net Generation student body by being as adaptable and flexible as the students who occupy them. Relaxed discussion and study areas, workspaces that expand or contract depending on need, and private or collaborative spaces with computers and other equipment can coexist in the same space.