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July 1, 2004

C O N T E N T S

1) Moving toward an arts-enriched curriculum
2) The end of a long loop
3) Going basal-free
4) Professional development in the high-stakes environment

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1) Moving toward an arts-enriched curriculum
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"In this book...I have not been very concerned to restrain my 
examples to 'pure' art experiences, whatever those are, but 
rather to give as many instances as possible of children 
elaborating upon the curriculum until they make it special and 
thereby their own. And when they do, they begin to love 
learning."
--from Chapter 1 of the new book, Lively Learning

Children learn eagerly and well in an arts-enriched learning 
environment. Visual arts, storytelling, singing, theater, and 
movement are naturally appealing to children, and incorporating 
these art forms into daily curriculum work sweetens the 
exploration of just about any subject.

Join longtime educator Linda Crawford as she guides teachers 
toward arts integration and illustrates its many benefits. Lively 
Learning: Using the Arts to Teach the K-8 Curriculum discusses 
the fundamental skills involved in drawing, music, movement, 
theater, and poetry writing, and ways to practice these skills 
with children in teaching reading, writing, social studies, 
science, and math.

Lively Learning: Using the Arts to Teach the K-8 Curriculum
Linda Crawford * 184 pp/paper * $19.95 * Available now!
Published by the Northeast Foundation for Children
http://www.stenhouse.com/8911.asp
(Read all of Chapter 1 by clicking on the chapter title link.)

Check out the latest issue of the Responsive Classroom newsletter 
for an article adapted from this book:
http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/newsletter/16_2NL_1.asp

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2) The end of a long loop
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Melissa Fleischer looped with her students for five years at 
Bailey's Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia. In a recent 
Washington Post article, she reflects on the experience as her 
students move to middle school:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47756-2004Jun16.html
(Free registration required.)

Melissa is featured in the new book Becoming One Community: 
Reading and Writing with English Language Learners. Follow this 
link to review the book in its entirety:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0368.asp

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3) Going basal-free
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In this short article from Principal magazine, one principal 
describes how she used faculty book clubs with monthly faculty 
meetings over the course of a year to help teachers make the 
transition from basal readers to a workshop approach:

http://www.naesp.org/ContentLoad.do?contentId=1252

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4) Professional development in the high-stakes environment
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The latest ASCD Research Brief describes a case study of the 
impact of high-stakes accountability systems on the quality of 
teacher professional development in six Southern states:

Teacher Professional Development in High-Stakes Accountability Systems

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