| Elementary
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Impact of Student Motivation, Achievement, and Success in a Self-contained Special Education Classroom by Christine Lancaster
This action research examines how a change in classroom environment can increase the level of success in a self-contained special education classroom. |
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The Power of Peer Tutoring: Success for a Retained Student by Leigh Mesler
During my three short years in the classroom, I had asked many questions about students being left back, or retained. More often than not, retention seemed like a way of punishing students for not working hard enough the year before. |
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A Pile of Apples: How Can Class Meetings Affect the Classroom Community? by Megan Bender
How do classroom meetings affect the classroom community? More specifically, will these meetings be an effective use of time? |
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Coffee Shop Talk: How Can a Community of Practice that Focuses on a Collaborative Team Teaching Classroom Affect My Teaching? by Megan Bender
Working in a CTT classroom is similar to being in a marriage, where two people make joint decisions for student growth and figure out ways to improve classroom practice. |
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A
Trip to Remember by Libby Mackman
If children are given the opportunity
to share common experiences, does it enhance their sense of
belonging? |
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"Stressed" Is "Desserts" Spelled Backwards: Taking
the Responsibility of Discipline Off the Teacher and Placing
It on the Student by
Abby Sipress
How
will implementing the Love and Logic® approach ultimately
affect student discipline? |
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First
Grade Problem Solvers by Katie Peterson
The frequency of physical violence and
aggression that I observed in my classroom motivated me to investigate
interpersonal problem solving skills that I could teach my students. |
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Learning
to Be a Good Guy: Teaching Social Justice in the Primary Classroom
by Liz Goss
What happens when teachers take back some
of their power to make curricular choices and then use this
power with their students to investigate how to create a better
world for all of us? |
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Accountable
Talk by Denise Watson (pdf file) |
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Trouble
in Paradise: A Study of Who is Included in an Inclusion Classroom
by Rachel Zindler |
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Cross-age
Peer Tutoring & Service Learning
by Joseph Gottschalk and Joseph Rafter |
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Visual
Community: An Exploration of Classroom Community Through Pictures
by Bruce Neff |
| Middle
School
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I’m Going to College at 13: The Impact of Middle-School College Tours by Richard Gadsby
My goal was to understand some of the short-term and longer-term effects of the Tour on students’ opinions about college, academic success and actual college attendance. |
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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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Peer
Mentoring in the Middle School by Aimee Holleb &
Susan Williams
What happens when a classmate reaches
out to help another classmate become more organized and succeed
on a daily basis? |
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The
Leftovers: A Middle School Choice Game by Darri Stephens |
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Teaching
to Care: Abolishing Rewards and Punishments in the Inner-City
School by Raymond Lau
Classroom management techniques that rely
on rewards and punishments undermine efforts to create such
an environment—they generate tension and hostility rather
than trust and care. |
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Building
Connectedness: One Strategy to Improve Academic, Social and
Emotional Learning by Kate Lewis |
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Physical
Environment and Student Engagement by Paul Kihn
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Rising
to the Challenge of High Standard by Matt Wayne
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| High
School |
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What Is “Senioritis” in a Portfolio Based High School? by J. Reid Schwebach
This study is an investigation of the senioritis phenomenon and an attempt to begin to develop a coherent understanding of the phenomenon.
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The Big Picture: Building Student-Teacher Relationships by Sara Falls
Educators across the country are looking at ways to address the achievement gap between low-income students of color and their more affluent counterparts, yet it is not enough to point out the inequity; schools must be looking at what we can do to address the needs of a diverse population. |
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Being
Known: A Pilot Advisory Program by Leslie Jirsa
Would a small, intimate “advisory”
group help my students with no history of academic success graduate
from high school? |
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Walkthrough
Supervision by Helen E. Gieske
How
does a policy of short, frequent visits by administrators affect
student achievement? |
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It's
More than Throwing Out the Ball by
Carolann Space
Do
children who are physically active during the school day perform
better in school than those who are not?
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All
in the Family? A Look at New Teachers, Veteran Teachers, and
the Environment at Howard High School of Technology
by Cary Brandenberger
Does
the state-mandated mentoring program help to retain new teachers?
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Investigation
into the Effectiveness of a Mentoring Program by
Christine Bowe and Marsha Evans
Does
mentoring borderline sophomore students make a difference in
their academic outcomes? |
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Being
Known: A Pilot Advisory Program by Leslie Jirsa |
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Been
There, Done That: Student Inquiry of High School Dropouts
by Erik Shager (pdf file.
Need Adobe Acrobat?
Click here.) |
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Lumps
in the Melting Pot: What Happens When Diversity Isn't Enough?
by Jeremy Copeland and Jen Dryer |
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Student
Discussions in the Social Studies Classroom: An Action Study
by Nora K. Flynn |
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From
Theory to Practice: Making Networks Happen in Schools
by Sally Roderick |
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Adolescent
Literacy by Carol Tureski |
