This comprehensive book offers a practical pathway for developing twenty-first-century skills while simultaneously strengthening content-area learning. "Digital Learning" contains a wealth of research-based practices to integrate the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for both…

What is Response to Intervention (RTI) and how can it benefit your school? Find out in "RTI Success", an all-in-one resource that provides information on this innovative model as well as step-by-step administrator guidelines and practical teacher tools for implementation. Despite ongoing federal initiatives meant to increase the profile…

A paradigm is presented for modeling the processes found in individual and group learning. Using combinations of dimensions of learner activities (by oneself or with peers) and orientation (toward the person or toward the group as the focus), four quadrants of activity-orientation learning space are derived. (SLD)

Information skills instruction is a fundamental and vital part of K-12 education in the 21st century. "The Handy 5", a proven effective model for planning, teaching, and assessing information skills instruction, was written to help library media specialists and teachers to collaborate more effectively in the teaching of information skills. This…

The manual was designed to provide an overview of the Developmental Physical Management program used at the University of Alabama in classes for infants and children with multiple disabilities. The multidisabled child may be affected by one or more of the following problems: slow development, lack of normal integration of basic reflexes, abnormal…

The Vermont Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities was developed in order to better provide Vermont students with essential skills and knowledge and to ensure that they leave school able to contribute positively to society. This 13-minute videotape examines how this framework is applied in early care and education settings. The video…

This series of 11 videotapes is intended to make the general public aware of what is happening in schools today and to encourage involvement and interest in the educational system. Topics of feature stories on each of the videos are as follows: (1) an African project in an Illinois school, a middle school in Madison, Wisconsin, the Indianapolis…

Provides a photographic essay describing the Los Angeles (California) Museum of Contemporary Art outreach education program. Describes three components of the program: (1) community outreach; (2) museum/artist studio visits; and (3) return visits. Outlines how participants engage in interactive discussions and art-making during the eight sessions…

Designed to generate excitement about starting school and to answer the many questions preschool children have about kindergarten, this 18-minute videotape gives preschool children a positive, realistic vision of kindergarten. The videotape, in both English and Spanish versions, is designed to be viewed in preschools or day cares, by parents with…