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Achievement Gap

Anderson, Tiffany Chane'l. Closing The Achievement Gap: Reaching And Teaching High Poverty Learners: 101 Top Strategies To Help High Poverty Learners Succeed

Barr, Robert & Parrett, William. (2003) Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools: 50 Proven Strategies for Revitalizing At-Risk Students and Low-Performing Schools (Pearson Skylight)

Stigler, James W., and Hiebert, James. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

Weinstein, Rhonda. Reaching Higher.

Lee, Valerie & Burkham, David. Inequality at the Starting Gate.

Johnson, Ruth S. Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap.

Holdcomb, Edie L. Getting Excited About Data.

Christensen, Linda. Reading, Writing, and Rising Up. Click to download PDF of table of contents.

Additional resources from The Educational Trust

Additional resources from NPR, Justice Learning

Brain Based Learning (with thanks to Bonnie Benesh and Erik Jensen for contributions)

Jensen, Eric. (1998) Teaching with the Brain in Mind. ASCD.

Caine, Renate & Caine, Geoffrey. (1997) Education on the Edge of Possibility. ASCD.

Diamond, Marian Hopson, Janet. (1998) Magic Trees of the Mind. Penguin.

Marzano, Robert. (1992) A Different Kind of Classroom. ASCD.

Brooks & Brooks. (1992) A Case for the Constructivist Classroom. ASCD.

Sylwester, Robert (1995). A Celebration of Neurons. ASCD.

Torp, Linda & Sage, Sara. (1998) Problems as Possibilities. ASCD.

Brandt, Ron. (1998) Powerful Learning. ASCD.

Sousa, David A. The Leadership Brain.

PACE Brain Gym - Kinesiology Foundation

Jensen, Eric. Music with the Brain in Mind.

Jensen, Eric. Tools for Engagement.

Jensen, Eric. Brain-Based Learning.

Jensen, Eric. The New SuperTeaching.

Jensen, Eric. Introduction to Brain Compatible Learning.

Jensen, Eric. Brain-Compatible Strategies.

Jensen, Eric. Art with the Brain in Mind.

More Brain Resources by Topic | Websites

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Change

Bridges, William. (1980) Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books.

Bryk, Anthony S. & Schneider, Barbara. Trust in Schools: a Core Resource for School Reform.

Chenoweth, Thomas & Everhart, Robert. (2002) Navigating Comprehensive School Change: A Guide for the Perplexed. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education.

Coalition of Essential Schools, http://www.essentialschools.org

Fullan, Michael. (1999) Change Forces: The Sequel. Philadelphia, PA: Falmer Press

Fullan, Michael. (2001) Leading in a Culture of Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Fullan, Michael. (2001) The New Meaning of Educational Change. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Johnson, Spencer. (1998) Who Moved My Cheese? New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Regional Educational Laboratories: the nation's network of support for research-based school reform

Cultural Competency/Diversity

Jones, Toni & Fuller, Mary Lou. (2003) Teaching Hispanic Children. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Henze, Rosemary; Katz, Anne; Norte, Edmundo; Sather, Susan; Walker, Ernest. (2002) Leading for Diversity: How School Leaders Promote Positive Interethnic Relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Northwest Regional Laboratories - Equity Center, http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/

ODE Resources List for Cultural Competency

McREL, Mid-Continent Research on Education and Learning. Diversity Resources.

Kikanza Nuri Robins, Resources on Cultural Compentency and Proficiency

Lee, V.E., with Smith, J.B. (2001). Restructuring High Schools for Equity and Excellence: What Works. New York: Teachers College Press.

Randall B. Lindsey, The Culturally Proficient School: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders

Tatum, Beverly, Can We Talk About Race? and other conversations in an era of school resegregation

Tatum, Beverly, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and other conversations about race

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction: A Hotlist of Websites, Flemington-Raritan Regional School, Farmington, New Jersey

Hall, Tracy. Differentiated Instruction, CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) Universal Design for Learning

Hess, Mary Anne, Teaching in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, Wisconsin Education Association Council

How to Differentiate Instruction, teAchnology the Web Portal for Educators

McAleer, Fran, Differentiating Instruction - One Size Doesn't Fit All: Effective Strategies to Improve Student Performance, Learners Link

Tomlinson, Carol Ann, Differentiation in the Elementary Grades, ERIC Digest

Tomlinson, Carol Ann, Differentiating Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, professional inquiry kit, ASCD

Tomlinson, Carol Ann, Reconcilable Differences? Standards-Based Instruction and Differentiation, Educational Leadership, Sept. 200, Vol 58, no 1.

Technology Tips for Differentiated Instruction, WestEd Regional Technology in Education Consortium

 

Future Thinking [recommendations from Jennifer James]

Allman, William F. The Stone Age Present, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994.|

Campbell, Joseph. The Power of Myth, Doubleday, New York, 1988.

Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were, BasicBooks, New York, 1992.

DeBono, Edward. DeBono’s Thinking Course, Facts on File, New York, 1982.

Gardner, Howard. Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice, BasicBooks, New York, 1993.

Handy, Charles. The Age of Unreason, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989.

Jung, Carl G. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Rev. Ed. Recorded and edited by A. Jaffe, translated by R. Winston and C. Winston, Pantheon, New York, 1973.

Ornstein, Robert. The Evolution of Consciousness, Prentice Hall, 1991.

Tarnas, Richard. The Passion of the Western Mind, Ballantine Books, New York, 1993.

Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science, Berrett-Koehler Publications, Inc., San Francisco, 1994.

Wright, Robert. The Moral Animal, Pantheon Books, New York, 1994.

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Instructional Practices

Barth, R. (2001) Learning by Heart. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Danielson. Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching (1996)

Marzano, Robert. Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement (2004)

Marzano, Robert J. Classroom Instruction that Works.

Marzano, Robert. What Works in Schools: Why Do Your Students Perform The Way They Do? (online survey)

Marzano, Robert. What Works in Schools Resources.

Pete, Brian M. Nine Best Practices.

Leadership

Barth, R. (2000). The Culture Builder. Educational Leadership 5 (8), 6-11.

Bryk & Schneider, "Relational Trust," Harvard University

Carr, Herman, Harris. Creating Dynamic Schools Through Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration (2005)

Danielson. Enhancing Student Achievement: A Framework for School Improvement (2002)

Deal, T., & Kennedy, A. (1998). Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Education Leadership Resource Library [from EDC, Education Development Center], a web-based tool at: http://cllc.edc.org/rl

It includes and welcomes articles, websites, reports, tools and other resources related to The Wallace Foundation LEAD goals:

1. Leadership skill development
2. Working conditions for leaders
3. Alignment of leadership policies and programs
4. Partnerships and newowrks for sustainability

Hargraves, Andy. The Seven Principles of Sustainable Leadership. (2004) ASCD

James, Jennifer. Thinking in the Future Tense: Leadership Skills for a New Age.

Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2002). The Leadership Challenge (3rd Ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Leithwood, Kenneth, Karen Seashore Louis, Stephen Anderson and Kyla Wahlstrom. (2004) How Leadership Influences Student Learning. Click to download executive summary in PDF form.

McREL, Mid-Continent Research on Education and Learning. Leadership Resources.

ODE Resources List

Robbins, Alvy. The New Principal's Fieldbook: Strategies for Success (2004)

Sergiovanni, T. (1999). The Lifeworld of Leadership: Creating Culture, Community, and Personal Meaning in our Schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

The Wallace Foundation Knowledge Center

Learning Communities

Gibbs, Jeanne. Tribes Book: Discovering Gifts in Middle School.

The Hope Foundation: the next step in engaging your entire learning community.

* Peterson, Ralph. (1992) Life in a Crowded Place: Making a Learning Community. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Tribes, http://www.tribes.com

Senge, P. (1994). The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Coubleday Publishers.

Senge, P. (2000). Schools that Learn: a Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares about Education. New York: Doubleday.

Walsh, J.A., & Settes, B.D. (2000). Inside School Improvement: Creating High-performing Learning Communities. Charleston, WV:AEL.

Literacy

Biancarosa, G., and Snow, C.E. (2004) Reading Next - A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High Scshool Literacy: A Report from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Washington DC: Alliance for Excellent Education
http://www.all4ed.org/adolescent_literacy/index.html

Christensen, Linda. Reading, Writing, and Rising Up. Click to download PDF of table of contents.

ODE Resource listing on Literacy

The Partnership for Reading: Adolescent Literacy, Research Informing Practice: A Series of Workshops.
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/adolescent/

Tankersley. Literacy Strategies for Grades 4-12: Reinforcing the Threads of Reading (2005)

Measuring Success

Andrews, J. H. 1996. “Planning Practice: Going by the Numbers.” Planning, September, 14-18.

Ball, D., & Cohen, D. (1999). Developing practice, developing practitioners: Toward a practice-based theory of professional education. In L. Darling-Hammond & G. Sykes (Eds.), Teaching as the learning profession: Handbook of policy and practice (pp. 3-32). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Bossel, H. 1999. Indicators for Sustainable Development: Theory, Method, Applications. Winnipeg, Manitoba: International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Bryk, A. S., Scnieder, B., Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2002.

Hart, M. 2003. “What is an Indicator of Sustainability?” Retrieve from www.sustainablemeasures.com/Indicators/WhatIs.html.

Holcomb, E. L., Getting Excited About Data, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA., 2004.

Kaplan, R. S., Norton, D. P., The Balanced Scorecard: Translating strategy into action, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1996.

Ladson-Billings, G. (2006). From the achievement gap to the education debt:
understanding achievement in U.S. schools. Educational Researcher, 35 (7), 3-12.

Little, J.W. (1993). Teachers’ professional development in a climate of educational reform. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 15(2), 129-151.

Morgan, M. W., The Path to Profitable Measures: Ten steps to feedback that fuels performance, ASQ Quality Press, Milwaukee, 2005.

Pfeffer, J., Sutton, R. I., Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2006.

Pfeffer, J., Sutton, R. I., The Knowing-Doing Gap, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2000. Elmore, R., & Burney, D. (1999). Investing in teacher learning: Staff development and instructional improvement. In L. Darling-Hammond & G. Sykes (Eds.), Teaching as the learning profession: Handbook of policy and practice (pp. 263-291). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Rossi, R. J., and Gilmartin, K. J. 1980. The Handbook of Social indicators: Sources, Characteristics, and Analysis. New York: Garland STPM Press.

Rothstein, R. (2004). Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute

Sergiovanni, T. J. (2000) Leadership for the Schoolhouse. How is it Different? Why is it Important? San Francisco: Jossey Bass

Smolko, R., The Community Indicators Handbook, Redefining Progress, Washington D.C., 2006.

Spillane, J. (2002). Local theories of teacher change: The pedagogy of district policies and programs. Teachers College Record, 104(3), 377-420.

Thompson, C., & Zeuli, J. (1999). The frame and the tapestry: Standards-based reform and professional development. In L. Darling-Hammond & G. Sykes (Eds.), Teaching as the learning profession: Handbook of policy and practice (pp. 341-375). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Walters, J. 1994. “The Benchmarking Craze.” Governing, April, 33-37.

Technology

Tapscott, Don. Growing Up Digital: the Rise of the Net Generation.

McREL, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning. Education Technology Resources.

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