{"title":"Support the Common Core with the right instructional materials","authors":"Rachel Leifer, D. Udall","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547857","url":null,"abstract":"Strong instructional materials are crucial to realizing the promise of the Common Core State Standards. Research suggests that the choice of instructional materials can have an impact as large as or larger than the impact of teacher quality. Unfortunately, many popular textbooks are not aligned to the new standards, leaving educators scrambling. However, tools exist to help educators spot quality and encourage publishers to provide it. States like Louisiana and New York have incorporated these tools into their efforts to develop and identify materials, with several lessons for educators and leaders looking to do the same.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124686509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PDK CONNECTION","authors":"G. Patterson","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547869","url":null,"abstract":"Election results for seats on the PDK International Board of Directors have made Angela Walmsely the new board member who will represent Region A. In region C incumbent José Vega won a re-election bid. PDK International magazines, Kappan, Educational Horizons, and Go Teach were honored with a variety of industry awards. PDK Emerging Leaders Isabel Morales and Jeremy Koselak answer the Question of the Month: Are international measures of student achievement leading education policy in the right direction?","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116526496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The true gift of education is more giving","authors":"J. Bathina","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547865","url":null,"abstract":"Educators visit India to spread expertise and learn a more important lesson in community. They hadn't anticipated the quiet successes in the schools and classrooms they visited, causing them nearly overnight to switch from being experts to novices. No matter the socioeconomic status of the school, most striking was the high value placed on education, not only as an end that would result in personal success, but as a means for uplifting society as a whole.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130957509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ED LAW","authors":"Edwin C. Darden","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547868","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1982 that the children of undocumented immigrants have a right to a free, public education. But those rights present schools and children with difficult obstacles. About 1.5 million undocumented children and youth live in the United States, a statistic that evokes both burdens and opportunities. Many immigrants had little education in their country of origin and might not be equipped to assist their children. Children face mobility issues of transferring in and out of school related to their parents' employment, language barriers are all around, and cultural and social adjustments to the American way of schooling and in the schoolhouse pose obstacles for the students as well. Further, sometimes parents get deported, leaving unaccompanied minors.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114288937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a billion leaders","authors":"Christopher Gergen, Lyndon Rego, Joel Wright","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547863","url":null,"abstract":"Intentionally developing the leadership capacity of all students is a necessary requirement for schools around the world. The Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C., has been at the center of this work and presents three schools as examples: Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, N.C., the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124481302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charlotte E. Jacobs, P. Kuriloff, Shannon H. Andrus, A. Cox
{"title":"Reaching girls","authors":"Charlotte E. Jacobs, P. Kuriloff, Shannon H. Andrus, A. Cox","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547866","url":null,"abstract":"If educators want to engage girls in learning, they must align teaching practices with girls' specific needs. In a study modeled after Reichert and Hawley's study of boys, the authors learned that lessons with hands-on learning, elements of creativity, multimodal projects, and class discussions all worked to stimulate girls' interest in the classroom; relationships, while central to both genders, seem to be particularly influential for girls and their educational engagement; and the relevance of the classroom material to girls' lives is key to sustaining girls' interest.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114182225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to write an opinion essay and why you should do it now","authors":"Marybeth Gasman","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547858","url":null,"abstract":"If educators want to expand their influence, they must learn how to write op-ed and opinion pieces for both the education and the mainstream media.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131527644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Closing the gap … between the university and schoolhouse","authors":"J. Schneider","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547859","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarship that moves from research into practice shares characteristics that make it visible to teachers, friendly to their worldview, practicable for realities of K-12 schools, and easily sharable. But that doesn't mean it's good or effective.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115273107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WASHINGTON VIEW","authors":"M. Ferguson","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547867","url":null,"abstract":"The annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools is coming out. It always gives us an important view of what Americans are thinking about their schools and education in general. There are important issues covered in the poll and we would do well to consider what the public is saying about our schools and we in Washington and across the country make and consider policy and initiatives for our future.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130829582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology alone won’t transform teacher to facilitator","authors":"Monica Martinez, D. McGrath","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547861","url":null,"abstract":"Technology alone won’t be enough to improve teaching and learning to where it needs to be for 21st century skills. Where it is being done successfully, teachers collectively share a vision of promoting deeper learning in all their students, and have collaboratively redesigned the role of the teacher to that of facilitator who uses technology as a tool in their educational aims. As facilitators, teachers become learning strategists as they constantly plan ways to enable students to master complex content knowledge and develop their critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128525466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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