Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools : 50 Proven Strategies for Helping Underachieving Students and Improving Schools.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I - Accept the Challenge to Teach all Students -- Chapter 1 - Confront the Challenges -- Our Schools have Changed -- Who are the at-Risk Students? -- Compelling Conclusions -- Chapter 2 - How Schools Fail Students and Manufacture Low Performance -- Destructive School Policies, Programs, and Practices -- The Myths That Perpetuate Ineffective Practices -- Chapter 3 - Establish the Commitment to Educate Children and Youth at Risk -- Take a Stand -- Lessons Learned -- Low-Performing Schools can Improve -- Part II - 50 Proven Strategies for Schools and Classrooms -- Chapter 4 - Understand the at-Risk Student -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #1: Recognize That any Student May Become at Risk -- Strategy #2: Predict Youth Behavior Based on Developmental Assets -- Strategy #3: Appreciate the Resilient Student -- Strategy #4: Address the Differences between Boys and Girls -- Chapter 5 - Educate Poor and Culturally Diverse Students -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #5: Connect Culturally for Effective Teaching and Learning -- Strategy #6: Work with the Externally Centered Student -- Strategy #7: Understand the Problems of Low-Income Students -- Strategy #8: Eliminate Ineffective and Destructive Interventions -- Strategy #9: Use Effective Programs for Teaching Low-Income Students -- Chapter 6 - Establish Priorities That Focus on Student Learning -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #10: Develop a Comprehensive Plan -- Strategy #11: Build a Profile by Collecting and Using Data -- Strategy #12: Set Goals, Targets, and Timelines -- Strategy #13: Create Time for Collaboration, Planning, and Development.

Strategy #14: Facilitate Continuous Improvement: The Critical Importance of Results-Driven Leadership -- Chapter 7 - Collaborate with Parents and Families -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #15: Encourage Parent and Family Engagement -- Strategy #16: Build Effective Partnerships among Families, Schools, and the Community -- Chapter 8 - Create Caring Classrooms, Schools, and Communities of Support -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #17: Create a Community of Support -- Strategy #18: Create a Common Vision -- Strategy #19: Establish Alternative Schools -- Strategy #20: Develop Small Schools and Schools-Within-Schools -- Strategy #21: Provide Effective Transitions -- Chapter 9 - Create a Climate of Respect in Schools and Classrooms -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #22: Recognize Early Warning Signs -- Strategy #23: Bully-Proof Classrooms and Schools -- Strategy #24: Create Reentry Opportunities for Expelled Students -- Chapter 10 - Expect High Academic Performance -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #25: Motivate Students -- Strategy #26: Teach to Multiple Intelligences -- Strategy #27: Confront Tracking and Retention Practices -- Strategy #28: Initiate Targeted Professional Development -- Strategy #29: Create Career-Theme Schools and High School Academic Majors -- Strategy #30: Help at-Risk Students Pass High-Stakes Tests -- Chapter 11 - Teach all Students to Read -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #31: Guarantee That Every Child Learns to Read -- Strategy #32: Implement Effective Literacy Practices and Programs K-12 -- Strategy #33: Employ One-on-One Tutoring -- Strategy #34: Start Early -- Strategy #35: Redesign Grades K-3.

Strategy #36: Continuously Assess Reading Progress -- Chapter 12 - Select Results-Driven Instructional and Assessment Practices -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #37: Personalize Instruction -- Strategy #38: Recognize the Critical Importance of an Aligned Curriculum -- Strategy #39: Select Research-based Instructional Practices -- Strategy #40: Use Homework Effectively -- Strategy #41: Require Student Portfolios, Projects, and Performance Exhibitions -- Strategy #42: Incorporate Technology Across the Curriculum -- Strategy #43: Create Assessment-Literate Classrooms -- Chapter 13 - Support Social and Emotional Growth -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #44: Create Student Mentoring Programs -- Strategy #45: Establish Service Learning Programs -- Strategy #46: Teach Peer Mediation -- Strategy #47: Build Self-Esteem and Respect through Student Leadership -- Chapter 14 - Use Community Resources and Services -- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers -- Strategy #48: Embrace the Community as a Classroom -- Strategy #49: Develop Communitywide, Extended-Day Programs -- Strategy #50: Become a Full-Service School -- Part III - Summon the will to Leave No Child Behind -- Chapter 15 - The Inalienable Right to a Quality Education -- With Liberty and Justice for Some? -- The Emergent National Consensus: No Child Left Behind -- Breaking Free from Ignorance -- The Fifty Strategies -- 50 Strategies Suggested Reading -- References -- Index.

This field-tested resource outlines effective approaches for improving student learning, proficiency, and achievement at all levels through learning-focused priorities, results-driven practices, and high academic expectations.

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