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February 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 5

Meeting Students Where They Are

Feature Articles

Perspectives / What Your Master Teacher Knows

Marge Scherer

Listen online.

Start Where Your Students Are

Robyn R. Jackson

Lesson 1 for classroom teachers: Acknowledge your students' "currencies."

One Kid at a Time

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Individual students can guide us on our journey to great teaching.

Snapshots of Student Misunderstandings

Marilyn Burns

How interviews with students can reveal their strong or shaky grasp of math.

Special Topic / The Latino Education Crisis

Patricia Gándara

A look at which programs and policies work best for our fastest-growing population.

Grading Exceptional Learners

Lee Ann Jung and Thomas R. Guskey

To encourage students with special learning needs, grades need to be both accurate and fair.

The Bridge to Character

William Damon

Meeting students where they are may mean guiding them to be better people.

When Students Don't Play the Game

Jessica Towbin

What to do when the class acts out its anger and disengagement toward school.

Dropouts: Finding the Needles in the Haystack

Eric Sparks, Janet L. Johnson and Patrick Akos

Collecting data can help schools identify the students most in need of intervention.

"The Strive of It"

Kathleen Cushman

How to encourage teens to practice, practice, practice.

Stepping into Students' Worlds

Amy Baeder

Glimpses of students' lives unfold when teachers make visits to their homes.

"Keep a Question in Your Kup"

Miriam Hirsch

How to give students permission to ponder.

Teaching Children with Challenging Behavior

Caltha Crowe

Knowing what triggers the outbursts of young children can help shape an effective response.

What Helps Us Learn?

High school students tell us what they mean when they say "meet us where we are." Listen online.

The Teacher Who Made Me Speak

Carl Glickman

The author remembers the teacher who refused to let him off the hook.

Departments

The Art and Science of Teaching / Using Games to Enhance Student Achievement

Robert J. Marzano

Digitally Speaking / Why Teachers Should Try Twitter

William M. Ferriter

What Research Says About . . . / Differentiated Learning

Tracy A. Huebner

The Principal Connection / Meeting Teachers Where They Are

Joanne Rooney

Announcing EL's Themes for 2010–2011

ASCD Community in Action

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When Are You Coming to My House?

Dana Aguilera

A student's request opens the door to a whole new program.

Helping Dropouts Drop Back In

Sandra Ransel

Why an alternative school needs leeway to provide schooling in nontraditional ways.

Effective Classroom Discussions

Selma Wassermann

When teachers listen carefully, they make it safe for all to offer ideas.

From Apathy to Mastery

Adrienne M. Floro

Offered an opportunity to study anything they wish, 5th graders revel in learning.

EL Study Guide

Naomi Thiers

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