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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.
Introduction: Classroom Life In The Age Of Accountability, Gail M. Boldt, Paula M. Salvio, Peter Taubman
Introduction: Classroom Life In The Age Of Accountability, Gail M. Boldt, Paula M. Salvio, Peter Taubman
Occasional Paper Series
"For this Occasional Paper, we invited teachers to respond to the ways in which proliferation of standards and testing combined with their own loss of professional control is altering the landscape of American education....Our goal is to raise questions about whether and how educators are balancing the demands of high stakes testing, scripted curricula, and a focus on performance outcomes with the emotional complexity of classroom life."--The editors
Squeezed, Stretched, And Stuck: Teachers Defending Play-Based Learning In No-Nonsense Times, Karen Wohlwend
Squeezed, Stretched, And Stuck: Teachers Defending Play-Based Learning In No-Nonsense Times, Karen Wohlwend
Occasional Paper Series
Describes how playful and inquiry-based engagements in kindergarten and first grade classrooms eventually gave way to the demands of district-mandated teacher evaluation plans that called for targeted reading strategies, seatwork, and instruction using basal reading materials. Wohlend describes the resulting impingement on children's emotional lives and the professional authority of teachers in these midwestern classrooms.
In Defense Of Playfulness, Peter J. Nelsen
In Defense Of Playfulness, Peter J. Nelsen
Occasional Paper Series
Nelsen argues that the loss of play has unwittingly provoked a loss of critical thinking and civic engagement.