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Honigsfeld, Andrea; Cohan, Audrey – Journal of Staff Development, 2008
This article discusses the combination of two professional development strategies--lesson study and the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)--which gave teachers in Freeport Public Schools, a district on Long Island, New York, new tools for improving instruction for ELLs in mainstream classrooms. The unique combination of the two…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Professional Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Imbimbo, Josephine; Knopf, Naomi; Brady, Vivian Lee; Shimabukuro, Leanne – New Visions for Public Schools, 2009
The Center for School Success (CSS) at New Visions for Public Schools was founded in 1999 to document and disseminate innovative educational practices demonstrated by New Visions' schools that hold promise for increasing student achievement throughout New York City. Over the first year, CSS concentrated its initial documentation efforts on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Community Schools, Academic Achievement, Educational Practices
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Jaffe-Walter, Reva – Teachers College Record, 2008
Context: Networks are seen as important vehicles for educators' professional development because they provide opportunities for educators to develop their teaching and leadership capacities and establish forums for educator resistance. Networks that also function as intermediary organizations provide spaces in which educators and network leaders…
Descriptors: Case Studies, High Schools, Public Schools, Educational Policy
Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Kim, Youb, Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2007
This publication offers the 56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of three awardees, Michael C. McKenna, Douglas K. Hartman, and Michael Kamil. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) What's It All About? Literacy Research and Civic Responsibility (Victoria…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Literacy, Popular Culture