evaluation

A guide to using equity audits to benefit schools that provides practical strategies to develop fair programs, hire and retain good teachers, and improve the overall quality of education for students; and also discusses the No Child Left Behind Act.

Provides information on techniques to use in the science classroom to better encourage student's understanding of key concepts, and includes seventy-five "Science Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques," which covers focused learning, interest scales, synectics, and others.

Offers teachers resources, assessments, check lists, and activities designed to help them prepare students for kindergarten and determine which skill areas they need further help in.

A workshop for educators that examines how they can use student work as a vehicle to change or develop new teaching strategies to help all students learn.

Addresses the major issues surrounding content standards for kindergarten through twelfth grade curriculums; provides a model for their identification; and applies the model in order to identify standards and benchmarks in all subject areas.