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1 online resource (178 pages) |
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Mission Possible; Contents; List of Video Clips; Introduction; Chapter 1 WHY? What's Wrong with American Schools?; Throwing Money at the Problem; Just How Low is the Bar?; Changing Kids' Lives; A Healthy Dose of Competition; Highly Trained, Excellent Teachers Make the Difference; Chapter 2 HOW? Making School a Magical Place; Would They Come If They Didn't Have To?; Going Beyond Z; Rigor and Preparation; Anatomy for First Graders; Letting Children do the Thinking Work; An English Literature Seminar for Five-Year-Olds; Discovering Meaning; Breakthroughs with the Adults; Partnership with Parents |
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Chapter 3 WHO? It's All About the Adults; A Tale of Two Classrooms; Scenario One: Fixing Kids; Scenario Two: Investing in the Adults; Cycle of Teacher Improvement; Step One: Speed Observations (Round One); Step Two: Study Groups; Step Three: Teachbacks; Step Four: Labsites; Step Five: Speed Observations (Round 2); Step Six: Individual Coaching; Leader Study Groups; T School; Reactions to T School; Getting the Main Idea at T School; Sample Schedule: A Typical Day at T School for Principals; Putting the Cycle of Teacher Improvement into Action Goals |
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Chapter 4 FAST: Putting Adults and Children on the Fast Track; How Long Should It Take?; Exhibit A: Speed Observations; Hustle in the Classroom; Moving Teachers and Students Fast; Shared Text on the Fast Track; Day One: Understanding the Meaning of the Text; Day Two: Focusing on How the Author Conveys Meaning; Day Three: Demonstrating Comprehension Through Writing; Fast Improvement for Humdrum Model Writing; Thorough and Efficient; Chapter 5 RIGOR: Raising the Bar for Everybody; Schooled not to be Rigorous; Choosing Rigorous Books; Rigorous Block Play; Leaders Raising the Bar |
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Chapter 6 READING: The Starting Point for All Else; Guided Reading: Getting First Graders to the Next Level; Concentrating on Intellectual Spark, Not Strategies; Posing Thought-Provoking Questions; Turning Kindergartners into Readers; Putting Oneself into Ruby Bridges's Shoes; Stories That Hit Close to home; Rising to the Reading Challenges; Getting the Most Out of Magnus Maximus; What Makes Magnus Maximus Happy?; The Tiger Rising Engages Fourth Graders' Imagination; Chapter 7 WRITING: Putting Ideas into the World with Elegance; Eva and the Writing Center at Penn |
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A Writing Lesson from the ICE Rink; A Lesson on Swimming and on Writing; Three Key Components of Writing Instruction; Writing Across the Curriculum; Jazzing up the Writing; Practice Makes Perfect; A Powerful Ending to a Personal Narrative; Chapter 8 CALL TO ACTION: How to Make Every School a Success Academy; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Index |
| Summary |
Strategies for making the schools we need that work for all kids. Eva Moskowitz (the founder and CEO of the Success Charter Network in Harlem) and Arin Lavinia offer practical, classroom-tested ideas for dramatically improving teaching and learning. Moskowitz and Lavinia reveal how a charter school in the middle of Harlem, enrolling neighborhood children selected at random, emerged as one of the top schools in New York City and State within three years. The results of the Harlem school were on a par with public schools for gifted students and elite private schools. Describes what can be accomplis |
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Print version record |
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Harlem Success Academy (New York, N.Y.)
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Harlem Success Academy (New York, N.Y.) fast |
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School improvement programs -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
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Academic achievement -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
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Charter schools -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
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Academic achievement
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Charter schools
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School improvement programs
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New York (State) -- New York
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lavinia, Arin
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| ISBN |
9781118226322 |
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1118226321 |
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