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• A Cross-National Study of Teachers' Attributional Patterns
  This cross-national study examined patterns in teachers attributional responses to outcomes of students with and without learning disabilities. Teachers from elementary schools in California and Guatemala City participated in the study.
• Abuse and Neglect
  Through the use of this comprehensive book, you'll learn your specific role and responsibilities in the identification, prevention, and intervention of child maltreatment as mandated by law. Child maltreatment can occur in all socioeconomic levels and cultural backgrounds creating barriers for learning.
• 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.
• Anti-Bias and Conflict Resolution Curricula: Theory and Practice
  The ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education conducted a survey to identify anti-bias projects providing services nationally to schools and organizations, and those with programs easily replicable by local educators. The result is A Directory of Anti-Bias Education Resources and Services, comprised of profiles of 52 such projects.
• Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
  The 12 chapters of this book provide a rationale for an anti-bias curriculum, and discuss:(1) creating an anti-bias environment(2) working with 2-year-old children(3) learning about racial differences and similarities(4) learning about disabilities(5) learning about gender identity(6) learning about cultural differences and similarities(7) learning to resist stereotyping and discriminatory behavior(8) using activism with young children(9) using holiday activities in an anti-bias curriculum(10) working with parents.A self-education guide to starting an anti-bias curriculum is provided. Also provided are several lists of resources; a worksheet on stereotypes; a list of 10 quick ways to analyze children's books for sexism for racism; and a sample personal doll story.
• 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.
• Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow!
  The Cities project is an interactive programme brought to you by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus. Its six intense units of clear writing, exciting information and great images give you the best overview of urbanization-its history, its potential, its problems.
• 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.
• Cooperative Learning and Strategies for Inclusion: Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom
  This book supplies educators, classroom support personnel, and administrators with numerous tools for creating positive, inclusive classroom environments for students from preschool through high school.
• Gangs Research
  Several abstracts from journal articles on gangs.
• Great City Teacher Project (GCT)
  The Great City Teacher (GCT) project focuses on the critical and long-standing need for elementary school teachers of learning disabled students. Under the auspices of the Council of the Great City Schools, the project is being implemented in five urban school districts working in partnership with five urban universities.
• Hate Hurts: How children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
  Links to classroom materials and information on the Anti-Defammation League's work.
• How to Differentiate Instruction Reconcilable Differences?
  The article discusses differentiation as a philosophy and set of beliefs that acknowledges that students of the same age differ in their readiness to learn, their styles of learning, their experiences and their life circumstances. Differentiation is wary of approaches to teaching and learning that standardize.
• Implementing an Anti-Bias Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms. ERIC Digest
  Abstract: An antibias curriculum seeks to nurture children's potential by addressing issues of diversity and equity in the classroom. Goals of antibias curricula are to foster children's self-identity, interaction with people from diverse backgrounds, critical thinking about bias, and ability to stand up for themselves in the face of bias.
• Implementing distance learning in urban schools.
  This digest discusses how urban schools can implement effective distance learning programs through customized development of the three elements crucial to a successful distance education program: a sound instructional design; appropriate technology applications; and support for teachers, students, and collaborative partners (Steiner, 1999).
• 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.
• New Urban Teacher Collaborative
  Indiana University School of Education at IUPUI is working in conjunction with the Office of Professional Development of the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in an initiative known as the New Urban Teacher Collaborative (NUT-C). A Virtual Community Forum with sections for General Questions, Celebrations, Classroom Management/Behavior, Professional Readings, Elementary Curriculum, Middle and High School Curriculum and Technology supports beginning teachers during their first year in the schools.
• Peace Education
  In 1945, the United Nations was established to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", "to reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person [and] in the equal rights of men and women", "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained", and "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". Peace education has developed as a means to achieve these goals.
• Poverty Around the World
  This program will help us to explore some of the issues that people living in poverty face. Exploring the issues of poverty can help us to find solutions.
• 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.
• Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment
  Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment is the result of two conferences on racial harassment and numerous training of trainer administrator workshops. This guide addresses the more comprehensive issue of school-based harassment by capturing similarities in cause of, type of, and remedy for all forms of harassment.
• 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.
• Rights, rights, human rights.
  Rights, rights, human rights. The word gets around.
• 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.
• Service-Learning and Teacher Education
  Researchers and teachers note that service-learning often increases student self-esteem, promotes personal development, and enhances a sense of social responsibility and personal competence. This Digest provides a definition and examples of service-learning, examines rationales and approaches, reviews research, and discusses future challenges related to service-learning in teacher education.
• Social Learning Theory and the Influence of Male Role Models on African American Children in PROJECT 2000
  This study is an assessment of observational learning commonly known as social learning theory of a group of 55 African American students who are participants in a mentoring program known as PROJECT 2000. From first through sixth grades male role models, who were largely African American, were in the classroom as teacher assistants.
• Social Relationships and Peer Support: Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices
  Facilitating positive peer relationships and supportive ties between students is essential to creating a successful inclusive classroom. This user-friendly guide for teachers offers proven models on how to build these important relationships.
• Supporting Beginning Teachers
  Twenty to 30 percent of new teachers leave the field within 3 years, 9.3 percent do not even make it through their first year, and after 5 years 50 percent have left teaching. Unlike most other fields, in which new hires spend years training and building up to more challenging assignments, first-year teachers are generally expected to take on the same duties and responsibilities as people who have been teaching 20 years.
• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
  This book highlights several individuals and programs that have been responsible for improving the academic achievement of African-American students. The author reports on the positive results of culturally conscious education and highlights eight teachers who, though they differ in personal style and methods, share an approach to teaching that strengthens cultural identity.
• The National Institute for Urban School Improvement
  The National Institute for Urban School Improvement focuses on three strategies that are essential to the urban school reform agenda: (1) link existing education reform networks with special education networks; (2) build information systems that assist leadership teams in both focusing on goals for instructional, curricular, and cultural improvement and empowering action research agendas among school professionals; and (3) synthesizes existing research into accessible media, both print and electronic.
• 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 Souls of Black Folk
  First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned a Ph.D.
• The Urban Impact Project - Curriculum Redesign
  The Urban Impact Project's first goal is to restructure university coursework and university/school partnerships to better equip preservice teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed with urban student populations, utilizing technology enhancements where appropriate. The Curriculum Redesign teams strive to reach this goal in three areas: science, reading, and math education.
• Urban Specialist Certificate Program
  With funding from URBAN IMPACT, a U.S. Dept.
• Why Urban Parents Resist Involvement in their Children's Elementary Education
  Reseachers examined the perceptions of teachers and parents about family involvement in urban schools. The study generated from several others that have been conducted about teaching in high poverty, urban schools.