Elementary
School |
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How Can Teachers Form Healthy Relationships with Parents? by Barbara Golub
Parents are one part of a teacher’s job that teachers are rarely prepared for. This research contends there are four components that every teacher must employ, if a collaborative relationship is to occur: diplomacy, support, empathy, and reflection. |
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English Learners, Language Development, Systematic Support by Holly Link
What changes in practice are required to support English language development for English learners in second grade within a two-way immersion program? |
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Empowering
Parents of Color-A Moral Obligation by Barb Rubin
How can we replicate, throughout a school
district, parent empowerment groups that have grown and are
thriving at an elementary school? |
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Can
We Better Communicate With Our Allied Drive Area Families?
by Karen Myers
Dividing the neighborhood among three
different schools meant that a student with a friend living
across the street might not necessarily go to the same elementary
school. |
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Looping.a
Loopy Idea? by Candice Hopkins
Does
looping increase student achievement?
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Planting
the Seeds for Success: Preschool to Kindergarten and Beyond
by Dawn Martinez
How
can we reach disadvantaged families and preschoolers with information
concerning kindergarten preparedness? |
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Pullout
or Structured Immersion by Gemma Cabrera
What
instructional setting can provide the most integrated learning
experience for English Language Learner students? |
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Understanding
the American Writing Process by Margie Rogasner
My immigrant families are very concerned
about the education of their children, though many are not familiar
with our education system or its expectations. |
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Breakfast
& Book: The Importance of Making Home-School Connections
by Nicole Nadeau |
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Opportunities
for Learning and Interactions that Promote Literate Actions
and Practices: An Ethnographic Study of a Family Literacy Program
by Sandra Bravo |
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Family
Literacy and Parent Support by
Quynh Vu |
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Accountable
Talk by Denise Watson (pdf file) |
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Play
Matters by Susan Courtney
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Trouble
in Paradise: A Study of Who is Included in an Inclusion Classroom
by Rachel Zindler |
Middle
School |
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Making 37 ½ Minutes Count: Teaching Learning-Disabled Middle School Students in a Pull-Out Program by Amy Kopchains
Does teaching learning disabled students in a pull-out program under current conditions work? |
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Writing
Uphill by Shirley Chin
How does “shared interactive writing”
impact English language learners’ (ELLs) writing performance? |
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Closing
the Achievement Gap by Chris McLean
Would
an ethnocentric curriculum raise the achievement levels of my
struggling minority students? |
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The
Mother
Tongue by Lara Goldstone |
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A
Quiet, Well-Lighted Place with Books by Lara Goldstone
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Benefits and Challenges to Service-Learning with First Generation Immigrant Students by Shahzia Pirani-Mellstrom and Laura Berson
What are the benefits and challenges service-learning curriculum presents to first generation immigrant students? |
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Closed Mouth Doesn't Get Fed: Talking About Parent Involvement
by Richard A. Gadsby
I believe it takes three essential elements
to fully educate a child – the school fulfilling its obligations,
the family fulfilling theirs and the child doing his/her part. |