| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Beating the odds/ Jacqueline Ancess ; foreword by Linda Darling-Hammond. |
| Reminder of title: |
high schools as communities of commitment / |
| Author: |
Ancess, Jacqueline, |
| Published: |
New York :Teachers College Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xiv, 178 p. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
Title from e-book title screen (viewed on July 22, 2005). |
| Series: |
The series on school reform |
| [NT 15003449]: |
1. Schools as communities of commitment. The call for a different type of high school -- What makes schools communities of commitment? -- Critical characteristics of schools that are communities of commitment -- A vocational-technical high school can be academic -- A high school for new English language learners -- A real chance high school -- Organization, relationships, and teaching and learning in schools as communities of commitment -- 2. Organizing schools to be communities of commitment. Creating possibilities -- Images of schools organized for commitment -- Conclusion --3. Caring relationships : the main thing. A snapshot of a powerful relationship -- The nature of caring relationships in a school setting -- Leveraging relationships for social development and academic achievement -- Relationships as a source of social capital -- Conclusion -- |
| [NT 15003449]: |
4. Teaching and learning for making meaning. A classroom for public and personal discourse -- How making meaning finds its way onto the teaching and learning landscape -- Instructional infrastructure to support teaching and learning for making meaning -- Teacher learning -- Conclusion -- 5. Possibilities for schools as communities of commitment : what it takes. Internal conditions -- External conditions -- Scaling up -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Exhibit 1: Urban Academy schedule -- Exhibit 2: Hodgson Steering Committee goals -- Exhibit 3: International curriculum -- Exhibit 4: Urban Academy course catalog -- Exhibit 5: Hodgson best practices. |
| Subject: |
High schools - Case studies. - United States - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=136017An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1423715608 (electronic bk.) |