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Recognition And Treatment Of Adolescent Substance Abuse: Who Are The Substance Abusers?, Lori Beckwith, Shea Bailey

Perspectives In Learning

There is a serious threat to the health and well being of America today: the threat of substance abuse. It affects everyone on some level: the friend’s child who is always in trouble with the law, the family member whose activities are kept secret, or the work colleague who habitually calls in sick. For many, the abuser lives in their own home. The problem of abuse is not discriminating; it can even start in early adolescence. When the individual who is using is an adolescent, it affects their parents, peers, school, and community. In a study by the U.S. Department …

Journal Of Mathematics And Science: Collaborative Explorations

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Mathematics Teacher Specialists In Virginia: A History, L. D. Pitt

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Designing Professional Development Activities For Mathematics Specialists, V. Bastable, L. Menster

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Math By Design, Dave Burghardt, Christine Krowles

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Imagine a mathematics classroom where students eagerly arrive and do not want to leave, where students help one another, where deep understanding of mathematical concepts occurs, verified by multiple assessments, and where multiple modes of learning are designed into learning experiences. We were able to turn this imagined classroom into reality. How did we do it? Christine Krowles is a fifth grade mathematics teacher and Dave Burghardt a university professor. They co-designed the unit, Christine implemented the unit, Dave periodically visited the class, and they collaborated on the written analysis.

Imagination And Literacy: A Teacher's Search For The Heart Of Learning, Gordon Wells

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Ever since her first book, The Languages of Learning: How children talk, write, dance, draw, and sing their understanding of the world (1994), Karen Gallas has delighted and informed her readers about what primary schoolchildren can achieve when their teacher is genuinely interested in their contributions to classroom activities and, as a teacher researcher, collects and reflects on the data that they so willingly provide. This book continues that tradition, but with a significant addition. In Imagination and Literacy, Gallas continues to draw on her corpus of classroom observational data, but with a difference. Here, her focus is on the …

Front Matter

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Editors' Message

Inner Work: Teaching and Learning (from) Within

”There lives the dearest freshness deep down things,” Gerald Manley Hopkins writes in God’s Grandeur, capturing in this line, as he sought to reveal through the marvelously unique sounds and rhythms of his poetry, the “inscape” or the unique inner essence of all natural things. “The dearest freshness deep down things” is also Parker Palmer’s focus in The Courage to Teach, where he argues for a teacher’s and a learner’s inner work: exploring “the inner landscape of the teaching self” because “[t]he more familiar we are with our inner …

In A Strange Land? Educational Identity And The Market System, Todd Ream

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

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Scholarship And Christian Faith: Enlarging The Conversation, Jim Fereira

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

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Rethinking Student Affairs Practice, Eileen Hulme

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

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Christian World View Integration: "A Believer's Role In Sanctification.", Don Shepson

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

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Serving The Millennial Generation, Todd S. Voss

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

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Creating Flexibility In Teacher-Certification Policy To Ensure Quality And Equity, Flynn Ross

Maine Policy Review

As do many states, Maine has requirements and standards aimed at having “well-qualified” teachers. While few dispute the need for such standards, Flynn Ross brings attention to one case in Portland where use of a standardized exam to certify new teachers was preventing well-qualified—but culturally and linguistically diverse—teachers from becoming certified. She chronicles the successful attempts of one group to petition the Maine State Board of Education to allow greater flexibility in the testing standards. In doing so, she points to a larger truth that well-intentioned policy goals may seek to achieve a greater good, but may at the same …

Active Facilitation: What Do Specialists Need To Know And How Might They Learn It?, D. Schifter, J. B. Lester

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

Sustained, innovative professional development is now widely acknowledged as essential to the improvement of mathematics instruction in the nation’s schools. In recent years, this recognition has prompted the production of a variety of materials designed to support new teacher development programs. However, with the availability of such materials, serious concerns arise as to the kinds of knowledge required of professional development providers, often teachers who have been assigned Mathematics Specialist roles, and the means by which this knowledge is to be acquired. The authors of this paper address such questions in the context of one professional development seminar, Developing Mathematical …