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/booth-swartz.asp?r=n96 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please send comments and questions to Chuck Lerch, Newslinks Editor, ator call (800) 988-9812. View archives of past issues here: http://www.stenhouse.com/nlindex.asp To subscribe to Stenhouse Newslinks, please send an e-mail with your request to
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