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Challenging the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership

Edited by Marge Scherer and the Educational Leadership Staff



  • Introduction: Rising to the Challenge

  • Part 1. Challenging Every Student


  • Learning from World-Class Schools— by Andreas Schleicher and Vivien Stewart

  • Creating Excellent and Equitable Schools— by Linda Darling-Hammond and Diane Friedlaender

  • Why We Run Our School Like a Gifted Program— by Linda Conlon

  • Part 2. Offering a Rigorous Curriculum


  • How Mathematics Counts— by Lynn Arthur Steen

  • Why Aren't More Minorities Taking Advanced Math?— by Erica N. Walker

  • What's Been Lost in the Bubbles— by Linda Nathan

  • Part 3. Developing Student Thinking


  • Linking to Prior Learning— by Yu Ren Dong

  • Stepping Beyond Wikipedia— by William Badke

  • The Importance of Deep Reading— by Maryanne Wolf and Mirit Barzillai

  • Thinking Is Literacy, Literacy Thinking— by Terry Roberts and Laura Billings

  • Little Philosophers— by Katie Goodman Le and Carol L. DeFilippo

  • Part 4. Meeting 21st Century Challenges


  • The Window into Green— by Mike Weilbacher

  • Becoming Citizens of the World— by Vivien Stewart

  • Stirring Up Justice— by Laurel Schmidt

  • Using Assessment to Spur Achievement


  • The Best Value in Formative Assessment— by Stephen Chappuis and Jan Chappuis

  • Data in the Driver's Seat— by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo

  • Formative Assessment That Empowers— by Susan Brookhart, Connie Moss and Beverly Long

  • Part 6. Preparing Students for College and the World of Work


  • What About Those Who Don't Go?— by Paul E. Barton

  • Bringing Industry to the Classroom— by Gary Hoachlander

  • Treat All Students Like the "Best" Students— by Gene Bottoms

  • Creating Global Classrooms— by Willona M. Sloan

  • Part 7. Getting Students to Embrace Challenge


  • When Students Choose the Challenge— by David Suarez

  • Paying for Performance: Giving Students Cash Incentives for Learning— by Jennifer Henderson

  • Inspiring Students to Strive for Excellence— by Merrill Harmin and Melanie Toth

  • Study Guide for Challenging the Whole Child— by Naomi Thiers and Teresa Preston

  • Excerpts for Challenging the Whole Child

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