In this extensively revised and expanded second edition, we find updated descriptions of progressive teaching in six subject areas: reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.

Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools, Second Edition

Education & Teaching

Daniels, Harvey

Zemelman, Steven

Hyde, Arthur

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

With Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools, authors Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde highlight the consensus among the many recent national standards documents: all the experts are calling for schools that are more challenging, authentic, and collaborative. Drawing on these three core principles, their book offers ideas, strategies, and examples of exemplary programs to achieve better teaching and learning. But Zemelman, Daniels, and their colleague Marilyn Bizar didn't stop there. They helped start a new inner-city high school that puts Best Practice into action. This video offers an insider's look at this new, complex, and emerging school.Zemelman, Daniels, and Bizar take us directly into the classrooms at Best Practice High School, where real kids and teachers are cocreating a rich curriculum and a supportive community. You'll observe teachers frankly discussing the challenge of standards and change, and the rewards Best Practice offers. You'll see kids involved in some key innovative structures - integrated curriculum, peer mediation, flexible scheduling, weekly internships, inclusion special education. There are also helpful discussions of the practical, everyday procedures that make Best Practice work, and of the ways students make choices and take on responsibilities on a daily basis. Teachers, principals, and administrators will be inspired and engaged by this practical look at what can be achieved by a group of dedicated educators, students, and community members. They'll also discover how - despite the typical constraints of district mandates, required curriculum, and standardized tests - we can all achieve higher standards and a new vision for schools across the nation.

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Action

Bizar, Marilyn

We've read educational essays packed with ideas, and we've read narrative accounts of individual schools. Rethinking High School is a rare and delightful marriage of the two. . . . It's hard to imagine anyone involved with high schools who won't come away from this book both impressed and enlightened. - Alfie Kohn, Author of The Case Against Standardized Testing and The Schools Our Children Deserve 
 Rethinking High School is an important book for anyone who has ever wondered about what high schools could look like at their best. . . . This is a book for dreamers and doers, a book that shows us that ordinary people working together can accomplish the extraordinary. Daniels, Bizar, and Zemelman show us how. - William Ayers, Professor of Education, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Coeditor of A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools 
 Secondary educators will cherish this book, as it will promote important conversations in their staff rooms and improved practice in their classrooms. The authors help us reimagine public education with page after page of practical and simultaneously profound ideas. Readers will wish Best Practice High School were just around their corner. - Shelley Harwayne, Acting Superintendent, Community School District Two, Manhattan 
 Anyone who seriously wants to make high schools better should start right here. Organized around the principles of "best practice," Rethinking High School is packed with rich examples of wonderful learning, great teaching, substantive curriculum, democratic organization, and all the other ingredients of a really good school. - James Beane, Author of Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education 
 Today, as our nation's attention turns to the reform of secondary education, Rethinking High School offers a lively guide for that crucial journey of renewal. 
 In their previous book - Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools - Daniels and his colleagues drew on the national curriculum standards to define good teaching and learning. Then, the authors personally put those standards to work on the West side of Chicago, starting the city's first new public high school in thirty years. Now, in Rethinking High School, they take us along on that adventure, from the earliest planning meetings to the school's first graduation six years later. They tell exactly how Best Practice High School got started, what worked and what didn't, where they stumbled and soared, and what is still left to do. 
 But this is more than the story of one innovative school. Rethinking High School is designed to be a template for change. Organized around eleven fundamental choices that all secondary schools must make, the book serves as a checklist, an agenda, and a study guide for high school reform. Instead of dictating right answers, the authors pose key questions and recount a range of creative alternatives developed by schools around the country. By offering this rich array of stories and models, the book speaks directly to readers who wish to improve existing high schools, to break larger schools into smaller ones, or start new high schools from the ground up. 
 Rethinking High School - complete with a companion website - articulates a clear vision of successful secondary school reform. Acknowledging the monumental challenges of renewing high schools, it shows how ordinary but determined people, working together, can accomplish the extraordinary.

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership

Meier, Deborah

Grades 7-12 Finally, a book about content-area reading that’s just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. This book features: <ul>
<li> 23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more </li> <li> a tough analysis of today’s textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively </li> <li> a new “balanced diet” of reading, including 150 books of interest to teenagers </li> <li> instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area </li> <li> plans for setting up student book clubs and reading groups in any discipline </li> <li> group-building techniques that create a productive community of readers </li> <li> a do-it-yourself exploration of the ways smart readers think </li> <li> models for developing ambitious thematic units within your classroom or with colleagues </li> <li> special help and materials for students who struggle </li> <li> scientific proof that the book’s recommended activities do improve reading and learning. </li> </ul>

Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content - Area Reading

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Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Recognizing that the themes of American education have changed dramatically, Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde reconvened, and their new edition provides fresh, inspiring examples of state-of-the-art teaching methods in action.

Best Practice, Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools

Serves as a guide for teachers who want to realize the benefits of well-structured, student-led, cross-curricular projects.

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Best Practice, Fourth Edition (Print eBook Bundle): Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms

Save 15% when you buy 15 copies with the Subjects Matter, Second Edition book study bundle. "To help every kid fall in love with at least one field of knowledge, our students must encounter our fields' most galvanizing, tantalizing, and pivotal documents. This book is about making those encounters as compelling as we can make them." -Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Steven Zemelman We are specialists to the bone-in science, math, social studies, art, music, business, and foreign language. But now, the Common Core and state standards require us to help our students better understand the distinctive texts in our subject areas. "Nobody's making us into reading teachers," write Smokey Daniels and Steve Zemelman, "but we must become teachers of disciplinary thinking through our students' reading." If this shift sounds like a tough one, Subjects Matter, Second Edition is your solution. Smokey and Steve, two of America's most popular educators, share exactly what you need to help students read your nonfiction content closely and strategically: <ul>
<li>27 proven teaching strategies that help meet-and exceed-the standards</li> <li>how-to suggestions for engaging kids with content through wide, real-world reading</li> <li>a lively look at using "boring" textbooks</li> <li>motivating instruction that's powered by student collaboration</li> <li>specifics for helping struggling readers succeed.</li> </ul>
Subjects Matter, Second Edition enables deep, thoughtful learning for your students, while keeping the irreverent, inspiring heart that's made the first edition indispensable. You'll discover fresh and re-energized lessons, completely updated research, and vibrant vignettes from new colleagues and old friends who have as much passion for their subjects as you do. "We'll be using methods particular to our fields as well as engaging reading materials that help students understand and remember our content better," write Smokey and Steve. "We can realize that vision of the light going on in kids' heads and maybe fill them with enthusiasm about the amazing subject matter that we have to offer. Sound good? Let's get to work." Read a sample chapter from Subjects Matter, Second Edition.

Subjects Matter, Second Edition (Print eBook Bundle): Exceeding Standards Through Powerful Content-Area Reading

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