Now Online: Greater Expectations

 

How can you help underserved students overcome obstacles such as poverty, poor reading and writing skills, peer pressure against academic success, and low expectations? Robin Turner, an English teacher in Anaheim, California, lays out practical, proven methods for preparing underrepresented students for college in his new book, Greater Expectations.

Starting with a foundation for a successful college-prep program in language arts, Robin tackles various modes of discourse-- literary analysis, autobiographical/biographical, persuasive research, and community-based writing--supporting his instructional strategies with how-to lesson plans and student samples.

Greater Expectations is grounded in Robin's experience with the Puente program, which serves over 43,000 underrepresented California students with accelerated reading and writing instruction, intensive counseling, and monitoring.