Stenhouse Newslinks
September 14, 2006
C O N T E N T S
1) Browse the entire text of five new books
2) PD Corner: Fostering effective teacher teams
3) The Alabama Reading Initiative: lessons for secondary reading
4) Author Conversations: David Booth and Larry Swartz, Part I
5) Remembering Juli Kendall
Note: If you'd rather not receive Newslinks in the future, just
forward this message to unsubscribe@stenhouse.com.
----------------------------------------------------------------
1) Browse the entire text of five new books
----------------------------------------------------------------
We've just posted the entire text of five new books from Pembroke
Publishers, distributed in the U.S. by Stenhouse. Follow the links
below to browse each one!
Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read
Adrienne Gear * 144 pp/paper * $18.00 * Available in print now
http://www.stenhouse.com/8203.asp?r=n96
Outlines a program for teaching the key strategies used by
proficient readers, with dozens of sequential lessons.
Real Life Literacy: Classroom Tools that Promote Real-World
Reading and Writing * Kathy Paterson
128 pp/paper * $18.00 * Available in print now
http://www.stenhouse.com/8204.asp?r=n96
Provides lessons for helping students learn essential tasks such
as writing messages, deciphering labels, completing forms,
understanding instructions, reading schedules, and more.
Powerful Presentations: Seven Steps to Successful Speaking
Graham Foster * 32 pp flipchart * $10.00 * Available in print now
http://www.stenhouse.com/8205.asp?r=n96
A handy flipchart for helping both educators and students become
more effective and confident speakers; includes planning and
assessment forms and rubrics.
Tutoring Adolescent Readers * Deborah Berrill, Laura Doucette, and
Dirk Verhulst
160 pp/paper * $18.50 * Available in print in early October
http://www.stenhouse.com/8208.asp?r=n96
Gives teachers everything they need to start and sustain a
volunteer tutoring program based on best practices in reading
instruction.
Evaluating Students: How Teachers Justify and Defend Their Marks
to Parents, Students, and Principals * Alex Shirran
128 pp/paper * $18.00 * Available in print later this month
http://www.stenhouse.com/8206.asp?r=n96
A useful handbook featuring case studies that illustrate how to
avoid evaluation pitfalls, and specific strategies for ensuring
valid, accurate, and defensible grades.
----------------------------------------------------------------
2) PD Corner: Fostering effective teacher teams
----------------------------------------------------------------
*September Quote of the Month*
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing
in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid
the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
--Dorothy Nevill
What makes effective teacher teams tick? Educational World
examines the characteristics of strong teacher teams in this
article, which includes contributions from a dozen principals from
across the country (the second link is a supplement to the main
article):
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin408.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin408b.shtml
In the summer issue of NSDC's JSD, Robert Garmston provides
insights into the power of paraphrasing and tips to perfect this
skill in his article, "Skillful Paraphrasing Allows Groups to
Examine What Is Being Said":
http://www.nsdc.org/library/publications/jsd/garmston273.pdf
(150KB PDF file)
Diane Sweeney shares a protocol and framework (adapted from
Colleen Buddy) for facilitating group discussions in this excerpt
from her book Learning Along the Way:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0343.asp?r=n96
(Scroll down to the "Excerpt: Facilitation Tools" link in the
Table of Contents.)
The Teacher Leader Network has collected a host of articles and
online resources for improving teacher collaboration. Scroll down
to the "Transform Your Group into a Team" link for an article from
NSDC's Tools for Schools newsletter that shares strategies for
developing team norms, reflects on the developmental stages of
teamwork, and provides resources for team development:
http://www.teacherleaders.org/Resources/profcomms.html
Chapter 1 of the book Team Teaching explores a variety of teaming
configurations at every grade level, and includes a section on
teams for special needs students:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0040.asp?r=n96
(Scroll down to the link to Chapter 1 in the Table of Contents.)
----------------------------------------------------------------
3) The Alabama Reading Initiative: lessons for secondary reading
----------------------------------------------------------------
"What's changed with me since being involved in ARI is it's made
me realize reading is not a separate subject. When I went to
school, it was an isolated subject. It's got me bringing reading
into my math class, making me realize reading is an integral part
of any subject."
--Alabama high school teacher
A recent report from the American Institutes of Research focuses
on the Alabama Reading Initiative and its impact on secondary
schools. Through interviews with teachers, administrators, and
others, the report draws four key lessons and makes
recommendations for other districts and states that might want to
start a similar secondary reading initiative--one that emphasizes
PD for all content area teachers and sets 100% literacy as a goal.
A summary of the report can be found here:
http://www.air.org/news/documents/Release200606alabama.htm
For the full report, follow this link:
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdari.htm
(large 3.9MB PDF file--may take a long time to download on slower
connections)
Stenhouse offers a wide range of PD books and videos for improving
secondary literacy and the teaching of reading in the content
areas. You can browse these resources here:
http://www.stenhouse.com/nl96titles.asp?r=n96
----------------------------------------------------------------
4) Author Conversations: David Booth and Larry Swartz, Part I
----------------------------------------------------------------
David Booth and Larry Swartz, coauthors of Literacy Techniques,
reflect on the many different literacies that kids encounter
today--and the challenge for teachers to bring the entire range of
literacies to students--in the first of a two-part audio podcast:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/mp3boothswartz1.htm
David Booth's new book Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore... will be
available in print later this month, and you can read the entire
text online now:
http://www.stenhouse.com/8202.asp?r=n96
----------------------------------------------------------------
5) Remembering Juli Kendall
----------------------------------------------------------------
Stenhouse author and literacy leader Juli Kendall died in late
August after a long battle with cancer. Juli was the coauthor
(with Outey Khuon) of Making Sense and Writing Sense, a founder of
the online community Literacy Workshop, and a frequent contributor
to MiddleWeb.
Read more about Juli's life and work:
http://www.stenhouse.com/juli.asp
----------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright (c) 2006 Stenhouse Publishers
Prices are subject to change without notice
