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February 2012 | Volume 69 | Number 5
For Each to Excel
Feature Articles
Perspectives / The Teacher-Proof Myth
Marge Scherer
Listen here.
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Standards vs. Customization: Finding the Balance
Larry Cuban
As educators implement rival values, will they find the middle way?
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Teaching to What Students Have in Common
Daniel Willingham and David Daniel
Why effective teachers pay attention to the ways in which all students are the same.
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Preparing Students to Learn Without Us
Will Richardson
Technology leverages students' curiosity to learn whatever whenever.
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Teach Up for Excellence
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Edwin Lou Javius
Seven principles for creating classrooms that give students equal access to excellence.
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Helping Gifted Learners Soar
Susan Rakow
How to optimize the potential of those students who master material quickly.
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Clustered for Success
Dina Brulles and Susan Winebrenner
Cluster groups allow students to work with peers as well as contribute to the whole class.
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All Students Are Artists
Linda Nathan
Arts education provides a model for continual pursuit of improvement.
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Planning for Personalization
William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell
Here's how to shift from teaching facts to teaching concepts in a standards-based curriculum.
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Data, Our GPS
Rich Smith, Marcus Johnson and Karen D. Thompson
A district needed to find out where their students were before it could get somewhere.
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Invested in Inquiry
John H. Clarke
From firefighting to boat building to rock-band management, Pathway students choose projects that expand interests and sharpen skills.
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"Just How I Need to Learn It"
Cheryl Becker Dobbertin
Differentiating how students learn is easier when they know their learning targets.
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The Right Fit for Henry
J. Christine Gould, Linda K. Staff and Heather M. Theiss
Did Henry belong in the gifted class even if he had a learning disability?
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Special Topic / Senseless Extravagance, Shocking Gaps
Richard Weissbourd and Trevor Dodge
A race to opulence characterizes affluent schools even as other schools scramble to provide basic supplies.
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Columns
Double Take
Reviews, research, and relevant reads.
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Research Says / Make Standards Engaging
Bryan Goodwin
How to motivate students to reach for rigor.
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Art and Science of Teaching / Writing to Learn
Robert J. Marzano
Five phases of note taking can improve retention.
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Principal Connection / Lessons from Steve Jobs
Thomas R. Hoerr
Sometimes we observe what not to do.
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One to Grow On / For the Unlikely Ones
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Getting students with low prospects to high success.
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Departments
Tell Me About … / How You Get to Know Your Students
Read readers' stories here and online, and contribute your own response to an upcoming question.
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Educational Leadership Themes for 2012–2013
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Index to Advertisers
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ASCD Community in Action
News and resources from ASCD.
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Online Only
Math Groups That Make Sense
Sandra Dean and Michael Zimmerman
Guided choice groups provide the right level of challenge.
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What Neuroscience Says About Personalized Learning
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
What is well-established, what is probably so, and what is neuromyth.
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Setting the Stage for Differentiation
Cindy Massicotte
How to arrange the classroom and otherwise plan for differentiation.
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Making Standards Serve the Student
Jennifer Tuzzeo
How one district developed competency-based learning.
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Stepping into a Student's Shoes
Margery B. Ginsberg
A teacher finds out what a school day is like for an English language learner.
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Book Review / Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling by David F. Labaree
Naomi Thiers
A cheerful cynic comments on the U.S. public school system.
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EL Study Guide
Teresa K. Preston
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Inservice Guest Blogger: Larry Cuban
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Watch This Spot!
This month's video clip from the PD Online course Differentiated Instruction: An Introduction (2nd ed.) shows how a science teacher differentiates.
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