The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) was created to support teachers in implementing college and career readiness standards. Teachers work collaboratively with coaches to further develop their expertise and design standards-driven, literacy-rich writing assignments within their existing curriculum across all content areas. Findings from…

This paper describes a secondary social science methods course with a lab component that was planned collaboratively by representatives of Nebraska Wesleyan University (Lincoln, Nebraska) and a local high school. The lab component meant that a university instructor taught a high school social studies course for a semester. The advantages of the…

In an effort to research and document the history and contributions of African Americans in Osceola County, Florida, Valencia Community College implemented the African American History Project. The Project is a dual enrollment course allowing high school students to receive college and high school credits simultaneously. the approach of the…