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February 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 5
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Lesson 1 for classroom teachers: Acknowledge your students' "currencies."
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Carol Ann Tomlinson
Individual students can guide us on our journey to great teaching.
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Marilyn Burns
How interviews with students can reveal their strong or shaky grasp of math.
Patricia Gándara
A look at which programs and policies work best for our fastest-growing population.
Lee Ann Jung and Thomas R. Guskey
To encourage students with special learning needs, grades need to be both accurate and fair.
William Damon
Meeting students where they are may mean guiding them to be better people.
Jessica Towbin
What to do when the class acts out its anger and disengagement toward school.
Eric Sparks, Janet L. Johnson and Patrick Akos
Collecting data can help schools identify the students most in need of intervention.
Kathleen Cushman
How to encourage teens to practice, practice, practice.
Amy Baeder
Glimpses of students' lives unfold when teachers make visits to their homes.
Miriam Hirsch
How to give students permission to ponder.
Caltha Crowe
Knowing what triggers the outbursts of young children can help shape an effective response.
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Carl Glickman
The author remembers the teacher who refused to let him off the hook.
Robert J. Marzano
William M. Ferriter
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Joanne Rooney
Dana Aguilera
A student's request opens the door to a whole new program.
Sandra Ransel
Why an alternative school needs leeway to provide schooling in nontraditional ways.
Selma Wassermann
When teachers listen carefully, they make it safe for all to offer ideas.
Adrienne M. Floro
Offered an opportunity to study anything they wish, 5th graders revel in learning.
Naomi Thiers
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