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Becoming A Teacher Leader Within Your Classroom: A Dialogue, Jill Stacy, Nayantara Mhatre
Becoming A Teacher Leader Within Your Classroom: A Dialogue, Jill Stacy, Nayantara Mhatre
Occasional Paper Series
Describes a spontaneous relationship that has equal measures of mentoring, peer coaching, and teaming.
Across Classrooms: School Quality Reviews As A Progressive Educational Policy, Doug Knecht, Nancy Gannon, Carolyn Yaffe
Across Classrooms: School Quality Reviews As A Progressive Educational Policy, Doug Knecht, Nancy Gannon, Carolyn Yaffe
Occasional Paper Series
Knecht, Gannon, and Yaffe, former New York Department of Education administrators, describe their work adding a quality review process to the accountability system for city schools. Positing that the quality review is itself a progressive process, they argue that it can help schools to focus more on the lived experiences of their students and less on high stakes moments.
“We All Is Teachers”: Emergent Bilingual Children At The Center Of The Curriculum, Ysaaca D. Axelrod
“We All Is Teachers”: Emergent Bilingual Children At The Center Of The Curriculum, Ysaaca D. Axelrod
Occasional Paper Series
Incorporating data from an ethnographic case study of a bilingual (Spanish/English) Head Start program serving the children of Dominican and Mexican immigrants, Axelrod explores the tensions in parents’, teachers’, and administrators’ beliefs about language use and the role of play.
Beyond Child-Centered Constructivism: A Call For Culturally Sustaining Progressive Pedagogy, Alisa Algava
Beyond Child-Centered Constructivism: A Call For Culturally Sustaining Progressive Pedagogy, Alisa Algava
Occasional Paper Series
Algava argues that twentieth-century constructivist pedagogies are not sufficient to fulfill progressive education's inherently political, activist and democratic potential. She calls for a culturally sustaining progressive pedagogy that critically engages questions of power with both children and teachers.
The Center For Inquiry: Anatomy Of A Successful Progressive School, Christine H. Leland, Amy Wackerly, Christine Foxen Collier
The Center For Inquiry: Anatomy Of A Successful Progressive School, Christine H. Leland, Amy Wackerly, Christine Foxen Collier
Occasional Paper Series
Describes the work of the Center for Inquiry Schools in Indianapolis, Indiana. Authors Leland, Wackerly, and Collier were part of the original cohort of teachers and university faculty who founded a progressive magnet school. Premised on inquiry-based teaching and learning, the Center for Inquiry has grown from one to four schools.
City-As-School: Internship-Based Learning In New York City Public Schools, Rachel Seher, Melissa Birnbaum, Alan Y. Cheng
City-As-School: Internship-Based Learning In New York City Public Schools, Rachel Seher, Melissa Birnbaum, Alan Y. Cheng
Occasional Paper Series
Paints a portrait of a high school with experiential learning at its core; at City-As-School in New York City, internships take the place of many classroom-based courses.
Now Is The Time, Jonathan Silin, Meredith Moore
Now Is The Time, Jonathan Silin, Meredith Moore
Occasional Paper Series
In an era when intense pressure has been brought to bear on educators at all levels to “fix” education, Progressive Practices in Public Schools is designed to shine a light on the programs and pedagogy that are too often hidden from public view. The goal is to highlight what is hopeful by identifying educators who model rich, complex, and compelling alternatives to what is on offer from many contemporary “reformers.”
Beyond The Lone Hero: Providing Supports For New Teachers In High-Needs Schools, Sarah Elizabeth Barrett, Donna Ford, Carl James
Beyond The Lone Hero: Providing Supports For New Teachers In High-Needs Schools, Sarah Elizabeth Barrett, Donna Ford, Carl James
Occasional Paper Series
This essay examines the activities and challenges encountered in a partnership between a faculty of education and a local school board in Toronto, Canada. The goal was to address concerns over a 40% drop-out rate amongst Black students in the Toronto District School Board.
Teachers were to identify areas of concern, and to use university resources to investigate and improve work with students. Initially, findings were disappointing, teachers often felt isolated working on their own, and some administrators perceived the project as disruptive to the overall running of the school.
Faculty came to the realization that to help support their …
The Right To Learn: Preparing Early Childhood Teachers To Work In High-Need Schools, Julie Diamond, Fretta Reitzes, Betsy Grob
The Right To Learn: Preparing Early Childhood Teachers To Work In High-Need Schools, Julie Diamond, Fretta Reitzes, Betsy Grob
Occasional Paper Series
Three teacher educators trained in the 1960's reflect on how to ensure educational equity in high-needs schools of today. The article starts with a description of the education the writers want for all children, and outline the processes and practices needed to sustain it. This is followed by a discussion on how schools of education can equip teachers with the values, understandings, and strategies they will need to achieve these goals.
Commentary, Marjorie Siegel
Commentary, Susan Freeman
Commentary, Martha Foote
Toward Meaningful Assessment: Lessons From Five First-Grade Classrooms, Laura Kates
Toward Meaningful Assessment: Lessons From Five First-Grade Classrooms, Laura Kates
Occasional Paper Series
A case study of six first grade teachers' responses to a performance assessment mandated in New York City Public Schools from 1998 to 2003.
The New Orleans Reformed Public School System: National Model?, Raynard Sanders
The New Orleans Reformed Public School System: National Model?, Raynard Sanders
Occasional Paper Series
The author describes what happened to the New Orleans Public Schools after Hurricane Katrina.
Accountability And The Contemporary Intellectual, Greg Dimitriadis, Marc Lamont Hill
Accountability And The Contemporary Intellectual, Greg Dimitriadis, Marc Lamont Hill
Occasional Paper Series
Analyzes the language and values that have framed the accountability movement.
Inclusion: What Came Before, Judith Lesch
Inclusion: What Came Before, Judith Lesch
Occasional Paper Series
Judith Lesch’s firsthand account of her teaching experiences from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s takes us on a journey through the evolving approaches to inclusion.
Front Matter And Introduction, Valentine Burr
Front Matter And Introduction, Valentine Burr
Occasional Paper Series
The writers in this issue of Occasional Papers advocate for models of inclusion that support children’s capabilities and challenge systemic inequities based on ableism and cultural biases. They examine the complex and changing nature of collaboration between general and special educators in inclusion settings. Underlying these essays, though not always explicitly stated, is recognition that the fields of special education and disability studies can deepen and inform each other.
Selected Works By Harriet Cuffaro, Miriam Raider-Roth, Jonathan Silin
Selected Works By Harriet Cuffaro, Miriam Raider-Roth, Jonathan Silin
Occasional Paper Series
Selected works by Harriet Cuffaro.
Changing Through Laughter With “Laughter For A Change”, Laurel J. Felt, Ed Greenberg
Changing Through Laughter With “Laughter For A Change”, Laurel J. Felt, Ed Greenberg
Occasional Paper Series
This paper describes systematic observation, research, and analysis of Laughter for a Change (L4C)’s 2011–2012 after-school improv workshop, revealing the program’s multiple impacts. Our data suggest that improvising creates a “safe space,” a supportive context in which participants feel empowered to take risks and play freely.
Preparing Teachers For Place-Based Teaching, Amy Vinlove
Preparing Teachers For Place-Based Teaching, Amy Vinlove
Occasional Paper Series
This paper begins by offering two portraits of recent teacher education graduates providing place-based teaching in their classrooms, followed by a description of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions teachers (new or seasoned) must possess to effectively teach in a place-based manner. Next is a short discussion of the importance of experience and application of these tenets. Finally, there are three examples of activities and assignments my colleagues and I have developed for our teacher preparation program. We aim for these experiences to help inspire and prepare our graduates to integrate their local communities and places into their own classrooms, whether …
Front Matter And Editors' Notes, Helen Freidus, Mollie Welsh Kruger, Steven Goss
Front Matter And Editors' Notes, Helen Freidus, Mollie Welsh Kruger, Steven Goss
Occasional Paper Series
Cover page, table of contents, editors' notes.