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Polleck, Jody; Yarwood, Jordan – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Conducted in an urban alternative education program for adolescents ages 17-21, this study provides an overview of a professional development program that sought to support teachers in developing unit plans that incorporated backwards design principles and culturally relevant and sustaining instruction. The authors offer a qualitative thematic…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Urban Education, Faculty Development, Academic Achievement
Jackson, Yvette – Teachers College Press, 2011
In her new book, Yvette Jackson shows educators how to focus on students' strengths to inspire learning and high intellectual performance. Jackson asserts that the myth that the route to increasing achievement by focusing on weaknesses (promoted by policies such as NCLB) has blinded us to the strengths and intellectual potential of urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Attitudes, Intellectual Development, Misconceptions