Overloaded and Underprepared : Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- About Challenge Success -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Our Philosophy -- Chapter One: From Vision to Action: An Overview of the School Change Process -- A Cheating Story -- How Does This Work? Principles for Change -- The Characteristics of Effective Challenge Success Teams -- What You'll Find in This Book -- Chapter Two: A Saner Schedule -- Student for a Day -- What Is a Block Schedule? -- A Later Start Time -- The Kids Need a Break: Moving Semester Exams -- An Ideal Schedule? -- Chapter Three: The Homework Dilemma -- A Brief History of Homework -- The Research on Homework -- Effective Homework -- Creating Policies for More Effective Homework -- Recommendations for Teachers -- Recommendations for Teachers to Suggest to Parents -- A Tool for Effective Homework -- A Scheduling Tool for Counselors and Families to Use -- Chapter Four: Engagement Matters: Backward Planning and Project-Based Learning -- What Do We Mean by Engagement? -- Backward Planning for Engaged Learning -- Project-Based Learning -- Project-Based Learning in Action -- Chapter Five: Authentic and Alternative Assessments -- Why Assess? -- Performance Assessments -- Implementing Alternative Assessments -- Assessing 21st Century Skills -- To Grade or Not to Grade? -- Chapter Six: The Advanced Placement Program-Benefits and Challenges -- What's a School to Do? -- Suggestions for Educators -- Chapter Seven: Creating a Climate of Care -- What Is a Climate of Care, and Why Does It Matter? -- Making It Happen: Structures That Support a Caring Climate -- Planning for a Climate of Care -- Chapter Eight: Educating the Whole School -- What Do We Want Everyone in the Community to Know? -- Spreading the Word about PDF.

It Takes a Village: Interactive Scenarios and Social Media -- Chapter Nine: Keeping Momentum for Positive School Change -- Dealing with Naysayers and Competing Demands -- The Bottom Line -- Appendix: Shadow Day, Fishbowls, and Dialogue Nights -- Shadow Day -- Fishbowl -- Dialogue Night -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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