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Carefully planned campus visits encourage middle schoolers to feel college-bound
Campus visits are a common approach to preparing students for college. In many cases, students and their parents research potential colleges and then visit a select few to help make a final decision a..
Welcome to JSD – please make yourself uncomfortable
For those of us who work on JSD, each issue is a learning journey. We alk about the meaning of thevwe use, from whom we want to learn, which articles to feature. For some topics, we’re confid..
What teachers want
We are now well into the 21st century and as a nation are clamoring for change and opportunity. What does this mean for public school educators? As a group, are we moving rapidly into the future, or a..
A better way to measure
Just when educators are learning more about what constitutes effective professional development, a collaborative team of education researchers and practitioners have developed, tested, and implemented..
Abstracts
Building hope, giving affirmation: learning communities that address social justice issues bring equity to the classroom. ..
Building hope, giving affirmation
A school that ensures that all students — regardless of race, creed, color, socioeconomic status, gender, or disabilities — have access to and receive the highest-quality education has achiev..
Digging deeper
I’ve never heard an educator in a high poverty school or district dispute whether his or her school needs to improve. The discussion is always about how and how much. And in all sorts of communities..
Seaside culture shift
It is not the redesign of the central office that will result in change in how professional development is perceived and implemented in a school district. School districts move departments from one di..
