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Create a schoolwide foundation to ensure academic success for ALL students This useful guide supports the needs of culturally, linguistically, and academically diverse learners and demonstrates how a shared vision can increase student engagement and ensure that not-so-common learners benefit from academic rigor. Taking a system-wide approach, the authors offer educators a model arranged in six distinct yet complementary pathways to improve programs, policies, and practices for diverse learners. This innovative framework includes: Mapping and aligning an integrated curriculum–making the mainstream curricula accessible for all learners Collaborative planning and assessment–pooling intelligence so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts Teaching students explicit learning strategies–empowering students by increasing student-led learning Promoting disciplinary literacy–providing all students with access to pertinent academic language learning Featuring helpful tables that outline key concepts and real-life vignettes from schools that have successfully applied the principles, this book unlocks success for all students.
Student Engagement
Student Engagement
Clearly, if students are bored, they are also disengaged; for them, success in school is an uphill struggle. Likewise, teachers and administrators who feel overwhelmed, burdened with educational mandates, or whipsawed by a string of change initiatives that lacked the buy-in to succeed will also be prone to disengage.
Our students know what they want to talk about, and it can be frustrating and demoralizing not to have a safe space for these important conversations.
With evaluation and accountability being such central themes in school today, teachers and administrators often rely on controlled and scripted educational programs with the perceived benefit that all children will have access to the exact same instruction ...
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