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Newton, Debra Lee – 1992
This report of qualitative findings, gathered from four sources, presents guidelines to promote implementation of whole language. The report uses Donald Ely's (1990) conditions for change as a framework. These conditions are: dissatisfaction with the status quo, the existence of knowledge and skills, availability of time and resources,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Interviews

Hatch, J. Amos – Reading Improvement, 1993
Describes the ways key issues in whole-language implementation were handled in Tennessee's pilot program. Offers a framework for encouraging teachers to look closely at the advantages of whole language without squeezing them between a rock and a hard place. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Program Descriptions

Barclay, Kathy H.; Lane, Judith – Middle School Journal, 1993
Discusses collaboration between a teacher and an education professor in developing and implementing a new reading/language-arts program in a fifth-grade classroom. The move from a traditional basal reading and language-arts textbook approach to one using novels and process writing meant many changes for both teacher and students. An Author's…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Middle Schools, Program Development
Hudson, Shelly J. – 1998
The grassroots movement of whole language philosophies and their applications continue to be attempted by classroom teachers. However, even though educators have been provided with whole language theoretical foundations formulated through solid research conducted in the past 20 years, application into theory involves much more than traditional…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Church, Susan M. – 1996
Arguing that whole language must assume a more critical edge if it is to reach its potential as a force for positive change, this book calls on educators to take action to protect themselves against threats from within and outside the whole language movement. Noting that the most obvious challenges are from critics who offer simplistic solutions…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Learning Theories, Politics of Education
Calderon, Margarita – 1990
This paper describes cooperative learning strategies, their research base, and the rationale for their use as an instructional process for low English proficiency students (LEPS). The paper examines seven components of effective implementation of cooperative learning with language-minority students, and reports on preliminary work on a 5-year…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cognitive Development, Cooperative Learning, Educational Philosophy