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Improved Test Scores, Attitudes, and Behaviors in America's Schools : Supervisors' Success Stories.
Title:
Improved Test Scores, Attitudes, and Behaviors in America's Schools : Supervisors' Success Stories.
Author:
Dunn, Rita Stafford.
ISBN:
9780313002168
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (242 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Successful Supervisors: What Worked for Whom, Where, When, and Why -- Bart Kelliher, Dorothy Robertson, Richard Quinn, Gail Lewis, and the Buffalo City Schools: Supervisors Providing a Very Special Education for All Students -- Wanda Dean: The Journey of a Blue Ribbon School Supervisor from Oxford, Mississippi to Washington, DC -- OOOOOOOklahoma, Where Styles Come Sweeping Down the Plain: How Sue Ellen Read Is Helping the State ÎÎ Do Just Fine''! -- Penny Todd Claudis: Curriculum Supervisor and Learning- Styles Coordinator, Shreveport, Louisiana -- June Hodgin and the Saga of Alta Vista Elementary School, Abilene, Texas -- The Most Profound Gift a Teacher Can Share: Larry Howie and the Chico Unified School District, California -- Imogene Carroll Teaches Teachers to Teach Themselves: Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama -- Mary Laffey: Missouri's ÎÎPrincipal of the Year'' -- Ann Braio: Big-City Director of Special Education -- Tana Martin Finds That Learning Styles Add Up in El Campo, Texas -- Jan Meritt Sees Merit in Using Learning Styles with All Students in Klamath Falls, Oregon -- Mary Cecilia Giannitti: Guiding Angel of Hempstead's Sacred Heart -- Patricia Lemmon: A Delicious Kansas Lemmon- Aid! -- A 100 Percent Pass Rate on the Statewide Exam for Graduation: T. Y. Harp Made it Happen! -- Emmett Sawyer: Leveling the Playing Field at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri -- A Learning-Styles High School Grows in Brooklyn: Roger Callan Creates a Demonstration Model Through Faith -- Ilisa Sulner Sets the Stage for Special Education Successes in New York -- Where in the World Is Carolyn Brunner? Learning- Styles Training in International Schools -- Jack Gremli and Music Education: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer -- Denise Parker: Oakland's Reading Expert -- Bill Turns Over a New Leaf in Rural Cascade, Idaho.

Over the Rainbow with Dorothy Logan- Alexander in Brookhaven, Mississippi -- The Educational Spirit of St. Louis: Sr. Natalie Lafser Brings Learning Styles to the Archdiocese -- Heralding a Hudson Valley Highlight: Regina White, the First Internationally Awarded Pioneer in Learning- Styles Research -- Roland Andrews: From the 30th to the 83rd Percentile in Three Years with Poverty, Minority Children! -- MagneTech's Gwen Cox: The Believe- in- the- Teaching- Staff Lady -- With a Song in Her Heart: Dee Ainsworth of Manchester, Missouri -- Joan DellaValle: A New Yorker Brings Learning Styles to Her Long Island School -- Susan Wellman: Wisconsin Classroom Teacher Turned Staff Developer -- Sherrye Dotson: ÎÎLearning Styles Is Just the Way We Teach! ÌÌ -- Julia Kron: Empowering Teachers to Become Instructional Leaders in North Carolina -- Denise Stephenson: A Southern Lady Brings Learning Styles to Davidson County, North Carolina -- Alabama Mary and Learning Styles: ÎÎ This Ain't the Army, Mrs. White! ÌÌ -- International Learning Styles Network -- Supervisor's Success Story Survey and Implementation Chart -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Abstract:
A study of the practical experiences of more than 30 school supervisors throughout the USA. Representing a variety of urban and suburban locations, each one provides insights into how they obtained significantly higher standardised achievement test scores for his or her student populations.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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