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Peralta, Claudia; Galaviz, Sonia – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2013
As educators committed to preparing teachers to teach effectively across differences and in ways that actively resist perpetuating injustices, we have found that designing opportunities that take teachers into the children's community is the best way to learn about the cultural wealth existing in homes and to understand the importance of including…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Family School Relationship, Graduate Students, Home Visits
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; McClay, Jill – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
This article reports comprehensive findings from a national study of the teaching and assessment of writing in classrooms across ten Canadian provinces and two of three territories. Through interviews with 216 grade 4-8 teachers and observations and interviews in 22 classrooms (1 to 3 classrooms in each province), we gathered information about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Haas, Rebecca; Reiley, Kimberly – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this action research project report was to increase the homework completion rate of middle school students through the use of interventions. The participants in this study came from one public middle school. The participants were thirty-four 6th grade students in language arts, respectively. The intervention took place from…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Parent Influence, Public Schools, Grade 6
Sides, Donna T. – 1994
A home writing program was developed and implemented using 22 second-grade target students to increase writing proficiency by soliciting parent involvement with home writing and to improve attitudes toward writing. Students attending a north central Florida school were supplied with a writing suitcase containing thematic story starter cards, a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Home Programs, Parent Participation, Primary Education
Boberg, Tim; Carpenter, Kerry; Haiges, Shelley; Lundsgaard, Barb – 1999
This action research project addressed the problem of missing assignments among fourth- and fifth-graders at a school in northern Illinois. In order to document the extent to which students lacked responsibility for turning in daily assignments, the teacher-researchers kept track of missing assignments for each student and grade book records for 6…
Descriptors: Action Research, Assignments, Change Strategies, Educational Technology
Egan, Catherine L.; And Others – 1996
A study examined a program for increasing reading ability to reduce the academic failure of identified at-risk students. Subjects were 14 second-grade and 18 sixth-grade students in a middle class suburb, southwest of a large metropolitan area. Evidence for the existence of this problem was gathered from teacher observations, assessments,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Grade 2, Grade 6, High Risk Students