The Cabri programming language is a dynamic geometry software used all around the world by many of teachers, students, and researchers in mathematics. This paper presents examples of using Cabri and graphing calculators as a tool to practice mathematics and provides ways that mathematics could be approached, taught, and received in a way…

This book illustrates the benefits of using real-life vignettes to highlight situations that allow undergraduate teacher candidates to learn to engage with English language arts issues within specific and authentic concepts. Pedagogical narratives written by secondary teachers, followed by thoughtful responses to these narratives by experienced…

This document contains the 12 issues of the newsletter "The Link" published during 1999-2001. "The Link" disseminates resources, recent educational research findings, and other information of interest to practitioners in the four states served by AEL, Inc.: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Feature articles…

Mature and relatively less mature learning communities are examined in this paper to uncover the role shared values and vision have played in professional learning community development. It provides an overview of a 5-year, national study examining how professional learning communities within schools are created; a report of findings gathered from…

This study documents the type of support and professional growth science teachers gained as they implemented technologies from summer institutes. Teachers and staff maintained communication after the program through a telecommunications network. This study involved 91 high school science teachers from across the country who participated in an NSF…

The purpose of this study was to describe a group of graduate students who attended a self-education class and interpret their reactions using autobiographical case study methods and the researcher's subjective lens. The graduate course in self-education was designed to study self-education as a phenomenon of interest and to enable participants to…

This paper describes key issues in conducting impact evaluations of corporate eLearning and reports the results of a study that evaluated the impact (including return on investment) of an eLearning implementation by a large telecommunications company. The program was designed to "multi-skill" over 1,000 Customer Service Officers (CSOs)…

This study explored some of the complexities of diversity and multicultural education initiatives in a predominantly white arena. The specific focus is on the concept of silence as it relates to a multi-year diversity-across-the-curriculum faculty development initiative in the Educational Leadership graduate programs at the University of Maine.…

This book addresses the crucial and controversial questions that face today's reading scholars, educators, and professionals. Contributors to the book offer their insights and expertise on such issues as the phonics/whole language debate, the state of reading comprehension instruction, the validity of and need for standards and assessment,…

This study was undertaken to better understand the ways teachers utilize a reform elementary mathematics curriculum in the beginning stages of implementation and the factors that influence the implementation. The teacher's beliefs about mathematics teaching, his understanding of students' reasoning, and the ways he engaged with his students'…

This research presents a preliminary overview of the teaching practices of fourth grade teachers throughout the state of New Jersey. These teachers were all involved in professional development experiences designed to help them revise their approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics. In this aspect of the study, we observed at least…

The purpose of this study is to trace the learning, dispositions, and professional development of the first group of preservice secondary mathematics teachers as they make transitions from college freshmen to student teachers to first year teachers. Research questions are addressed as: (1) How participants' knowledge, beliefs, and goals are…

Just-In-Time Learning (JIT Learning) is a semester-long graduate course that teaches corporate trainers and instructional designers how to design performance improvement interventions. This course is part of a Master's program in Instructional Technology at San Francisco State University. The course has been offered three times and has been…

This report card contains information on the status of public education in Alaska. Data are organized around the four key elements of the Alaska Quality Schools Initiative: (1) high standards and assessments; (2) quality professional standards; (3) family, school, business, and community networks; and (4) school excellence standards. A statewide…

This theme issue provides a synopsis of the step-by-step recommendations generated by participants at a conference on the implementation of class size reduction. It also contains summaries of the commissioned papers on research and practical knowledge about class size reduction. Recommendations focused on the major topic areas of improving…