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• A Legacy Deferred
  Martin Luther King High School and the city schools that serve poor, minority kids need the government on all levels to commit resources for community development, so that schools aren't coping with social crises created by economic conditions beyond their reach.
• Adolescents and Inclusion: Transforming Secondary Schools
  Teachers and staff of an inclusive high school share their strategies for adapting curriculum, managing behavior, designing accommodations, and performing alternate assessments in this inspiring book.
• Assessment for Equity and Inclusion: Embracing All Our Children
  How students are assessed can determine not only the quality, type, and degree of education they receive, but has long-term consequences for their future. Assessment by standardized testing often labels poor and minority children in ways that exclude them from opportunities, while failing to measure their true potential.
• Caine Learning-Home of Brain/Mind Learning
  Caine Learning provides a good overview of how to reach "cognitive diverse_ classrooms and has a great list of online tools. We especially like the Capacities Wheel and the Guided Experience Model.
• Communication Strategies for Effective Collaboration
  As schools move to a more collaborative service delivery for students with exceptionalities, it is important for educators to communicate within school settings on a variety of topics related to meeting student needs. To meet the needs of all students and promote inclusion services, special and general educators must communicated with colleagues in school settings.
• David Gibson, Ed.D.
  Dr. David Gibson is the Director of Research and Development at the National Institute for Community Innovations as well as the Vermont Institutes.
• Doing Good: Best Practices List
  The top 105 Best Practices as chosen by the Technical Advisory Committee of the UN in Rotterdam, March 1996. The best practices are presented by category, and within each category, by region and by country in alphabetical order.
• National Center on Public Education and Social Policy
  The National Center on Public Education and Social Policy (NCPE) at the University of Rhode Island is dedicated to the continuous improvement of educational and community settings. The web site provides information for decision-making to promote the growth and healthy development of all children.
• Preparing Teachers for Urban Settings: Changing Teacher Education by Changing Ourselves
  This article describes the personal and professional changes experienced by a teacher education faculty who embarked on a joint project relating to urban education. The faculty members committed to write book chapters applying their areas of expertise to the challenge of preparing teachers for urban schools.
• Project Site Support
  Since 1999, Project SITE SUPPORT (PSS) has made unmatched contributions to the Baltimore City Public School System by providing hundreds of highly qualified teachers who have been specially trained to meet the diverse learning needs of students in this challenging urban environment.
• Quality of School Life (QSL) Introduction: Quality of the Educational Workplace
  Cheryl Kershaw and colleagues at the University of Tennessee developed a set of surveys on school life. The introductory brochure, attached as a "zipped set of images of the brochure deals with teacher's perceptions of the workplace.
• School-Community-University Partnerships: Effectively Integrating Community Building and Education Reform
  Paper presented to Conference on Connecting Community Building and Education Reform: Effective School, Community, University Partnerships. The autor explains why universities are an appropriate and central partner to help develop and sustain better schools and communities.
• The NEA Foundation
  Created by the National Education Association, The NEA Foundation empowers public education employees to innovate, take risks, and become agents for change to improve teaching and learning in our society.
• The path to teacher leadership in educational technology
  Contains a synopsis of the five stages in the learning/adoption trajectory toward teacher leadership in technology. The table matches effective strategies to promote growth from one stage to the next.
• The Pre-Teaching Academy at Walton High School/Lehman College
  Initiated at Walton High School in 1984 the Pre-Teaching Academy has provided an introduction to careers in teaching through college classes and classroom internships for over 700 Walton High School juniors and seniors, 25% of whom plan to pursue, are pursuing or are engaged in teaching careers. All of the students are members of minority groups and most come from low income families.
• Urban Districts Employing More Aggressive Hiring Tactics
  Urban districts have had to get smarter about the tactics they employ to recruit teachers.