TakingFlighttoLiteracyandLeadership provides a powerful model of what wor...Taking Flight to Literacy and Leadership provides a powerful model of what works in schools. It shows superintendents principals and teachers how to integrate best practices in literacy adult learning and systems thinking using concrete examples from...more
TakingFlighttoLiteracyandLeadership provides a powerful model of what wor...Taking Flight to Literacy and Leadership provides a powerful model of what works in schools. It shows superintendents principals and teachers how to integrate best practices in literacy adult learning and systems thinking using concrete examples from...more
Design Literacies: Learningand Innovation in the Digital Age explores new way...Design Literacies: Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age explores new ways of meaning making by examining the practices stories and products of new and digital media producers with the goal of understanding the logic of marketplace production....more
Foreword Joan N. Burstyn. Chapter I: Beginning to Contextualize Eliza Wright O...Foreword Joan N. Burstyn. Chapter I: Beginning to Contextualize Eliza Wright Osborne in Her Literacy. Chapter II: Wherein the Problem is Set. Chapter III: Reading the Writing of The Particular: A Methodology. Chapter IV: On Their Own: Women Reading...more
Where the Agricultural Revolution harnessed domesticated animals for pastoral ...Where the Agricultural Revolution harnessed domesticated animals for pastoral farming and the Industrial Revolution leveraged machines for factory production so today the Computational Revolution is advancing computers to augment human intelligence.more
Helping coaches to define their roles this resource provides practical tools a...Helping coaches to define their roles this resource provides practical tools and guidance about decision-making design needs professional development for teachers collaborative relationships and helping teachers use data.more
What effects do space and time have on classroom management discipline and reg...What effects do space and time have on classroom management discipline and regulation? How do teachers practices create schooled and literate students? To explore these questions this book looks at early childhood classrooms charting the shifts and...more
This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses ...This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses to sustainable development from a distance education perspective. Discussing current trends and challenges in sustainable development education climate literacy and...more
Imaginative and attractive cutting edge in its conception this text explicates...Imaginative and attractive cutting edge in its conception this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. The act of framing - not frames in themselves - provides a creative and...more
The novice teacher andliteracy coach need to form a team to share their exper...The novice teacher and literacy coach need to form a team to share their expertise and continually evolve to have opportunity for guided reflection and self-assessment of practice. This book shares these professional experiences which delineates and...more
Modern societies demand high levels of literacy. The written word is pervasive...Modern societies demand high levels of literacy. The written word is pervasive; individuals with poor literacy skills are deeply disadvantaged; and governments are increasingly pre-occupied with the contribution that skills can make to economic growth....more
Making Meaning is a synthesis of theory research and practice that explicitly ...Making Meaning is a synthesis of theory research and practice that explicitly presents art as a meaning making process. This book provokes readers to examine their current understandings of language literacy and learning through the lens of the various...more
Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide....Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in...more
There are many approaches to researching the difficulties inlearning that stu...There are many approaches to researching the difficulties in learning that students experience in the key areas of literacy and numeracy. This book seeks to advance understanding of these difficulties and the interventions that have been used to...more
Designed to facilitate teachers efforts to meet the actual challenges and dile...Designed to facilitate teachers efforts to meet the actual challenges and dilemmas they face in their classrooms Becoming a Teacher Researcher in Literacy Teaching and Learning: provides background information and key concepts in teacher research...more