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Brigham, Nancy

Social Sciences

Hastings House, Publishers

Visionary Middle Schools: Signature Practices and the Power of Local Invention

Take an up-close look at inclusive urban schools that work. This important new book addresses head-on the critical national concern of educating an ever-more diverse student population. Visionary Middle Schools describes how three schools developed unique local solutions that were responsive to their particular students, to their cultures, and to their district and state mandates. Each school is organized around a different school-wide instructional practice—a "signature practice"—that reflects that school’s particular beliefs about learning. Despite obstacles such as poverty, low English-language proficiency, and new immigrant status, each of these schools is the strongest performing in their respective districts and presents approaches and lessons of relevance to urban schools across the country. 
* Introduces the concept of "signature practices" in schools and provides working models of what is possible for urban education. * Demonstrates how school-wide, culturally responsive practices were created in schools where all members of the faculty shared a sense of moral imperative. * Brings together classroom instruction, organizational structures, and leadership, showing how they can work together to achieve academic success for all students

Education & Teaching

Morocco, Catherine Cobb

Aguilar, Cynthia Mata

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Take an up-close look at inclusive urban schools that work. This important new book addresses head-on the critical national concern of educating an ever-more diverse student population. Visionary Middle Schools describes how three schools developed unique local solutions that were responsive to their particular students, to their cultures, and to their district and state mandates. Each school is organized around a different school-wide instructional practice - a signature practice - that reflects that school's particular beliefs about learning. Despite obstacles such as poverty, low English-language proficiency, and new immigrant status, each of these schools is the strongest performing in their respective districts and presents approaches and lessons of relevance to urban schools across the country.

Biographies & Memoirs

A Fragile Enterprise recounts true stories the front lines of the struggle between the entitled few and the marginalized many in America’s public schools. In this book, you'll learn about the national narrative of education from the viewpoint of students and their families. You'll discover: 
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<li>That despite the massive expenditure of public funds, large-scale national education improvement efforts have largely failed</li>
<li>That failing schools seldom have the resources and skills to implement the programs that are thrust upon them.</li>
<li>That the charter school solution leaves behind the students who need help the most.</li>
<li>How seldom families are involved in meaningful ways in the education of their children.</li>
<li>What the best teachers do and why they do it that way.</li>
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A Fragile Enterprise: Yesterday’s Schools and Tomorrow's Students

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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