Improving the odds
Subtitle: developing powerful teaching practice and a culture of learning in urban high schools
By: Thomas Del Prete ; foreword by Ann Lieberman
Series: The series on school reform; Series on school reform
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780807750308; 9780807750292
Description: "A counterpoint to the sweeping rhetoric of reform, this book offers a nuanced depiction of the challenges and possibilities at the school and class-room level. Through the experiences of urban high school teachers who partner with their local university, Del Prete provides unique insight into teaching and learning in the midst of reform."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Framing reform; title: Constancy and change in Main South High Schools; title: The teachers, shared concepts, and collaborative learning; title: Everyone has a seat at the table: Kate Shepard's mathematics learning community; title: Adelina Zaimi's dilemma: calculating the slope of learning; title: Jody Bird and the ecology of curriculum and teaching; title: Putting inquiry into practice: Chris Rea and investigating harmonic motion; title: Chad Malone and the muse of authenticity; title: Making more from less: ways of knowing history; title: Lessons from Main South.