One or two-sentence snapshots help profile the Long Beach Unified School District.
Sidebars address professional development and explore why standards are important.
Examples of student work included. Excellent presentation of standards-based teaching. In a school system where each school sets its own discipline policies, differing philsophies about the best ways to assure good conduct can create tension between principals and teachers. Three Long Beach eighth graders use their school diaries to record a typical day in the life of a middle schooler. Photographs of students included.