Breaking the Mold of Education

Innovative and Successful Practices for Student Engagement, Empowerment, and Motivation

By (author) Audrey Cohan, Andrea Honigsfeld

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Publication date:

28 March 2013

Length of book:

180 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781475803501

Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21^st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21^st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and,Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21^st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.
The contributing authors represent diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, yet their chapters recognize similarities among students so that the innovations can be transferred to other contexts. Each chapter represents practical, research-based success stories as well as authentic accomplishments which motivate and engage all students.
The 20 chapters in this volume are organized into four sections: (a) making personal connections and engaging students in reflection; (b) engagement with literacy and language; (c) music, movement, arts, drama and other creative engagements; and (d) school culture, community, and student success. The compelling chapters shared in this volume—focused on innovation and transformation—will help thrust education and teacher action (rather than reaction) in a positive trajectory of change.

Foreword
Kenneth C. Williams

Preface
Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld

Acknowledgments

Section I: Making Personal Connections and Engaging Students in Reflection

Using Urban Youth Culture to Activate the Racial Literacy of Black and Latino Male High School Students

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Embracing Project-Based Learning with Emerging Technologies in theMultiage Classroom

Shannon T. Page, Andrew P. Charland, April A. Scott, and Hiller A. Spires

Nurturing Curiosity by Teachers’ Purposeful Self-Evaluation and Reflective Practice

Angela K. Salmon and Thomas G. Reio, Jr.

Partnerships for the Common Good: Democratic Citizenship Through Writing, New Media, and the Arts

Susan N. Wood, Nancye E. McCrary, Kate Larken, and Sioux Finney

Section II: Student Engagement with Literacy

Empowering English Language Learners: Reluctant Readers Learn to Believe in Themselves

Audrey Figueroa Murphy and Robin E. Finnan-Jones

Teacherless Discussion: Engaging Middle School Students Through Peer-to-Peer Talk

Patricia M. Breslin and Rebecca Ambrose

Staying Afloat in Ninth-Grade English: Letting Students Trim the Sails

Beverly S. Faircloth and Samuel D. Miller

The Power of Technology to Advance Literacy, Learning, and Agency

Evelyn M. Connolly

It’s All About Me; I Mean You; I Mean Me: Strategies for Engaging Students in the Language Arts Classroom

Meg Goldner Rabinowitz

Everything Old is New Again: 21st Century College Students as Engaged Readers

Heather Rogers Haverback

Section III: Music, Movement, Arts, Drama, and Other Creative Engagements

Increasing Student Engagement Through the Implementation of Interactive Teaching Strategies

Mara Sapon-Shevin

Competition and Considerations: The Use of Active Gaming in Physical Education Class

Eve Bernstein, Anne Gibbone, and Ulana Lysniak

Low SES Primary School Students Engaging in an Afterschool Robotics Program

Vinesh Chandra, Annette Woods, and Amanda Levido

Stepping into Pictures and Music Scores: Imaginative Dramatic Play

Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Mary T. Toepfer

Classrooms or Rock Stages? Learning Music Through Collaboration

Rut Martínez-Borda, Pilar Lacasa, María Ruth García-Pernía, and Sara Cortés-Gómez

Section IV: Connecting School Culture, Community, and Student Success

Growing Up Chinese American

Judy W. Yu

Raising Engagement and Enhancing Learning: School Community Partnerships that Work for Students at-Promise

David Zyngier

Montessori High Schools: Where Long-Standing Tradition Meets the Cutting Edge

Wendy J. LaRue and Peter Hoffman-Kipp

Ma te Mahi e Ako Ai (Learning by Doing in New Zealand Higher Education): The Influence of Service-Learning on Student Engagement

Lane Graves Perry, Billy O’Steen, and Peter Cammock

“I teach like you are all gifted”: Leading Lowest Track Students to Become Confident Mathematics Learners

Della R. Leavitt and Erin N. Washington

Afterword
Laura J. Shea Doolan

Contributors

Breaking the Mold of Education delivers on the promise of its title. More than a simple recounting of known best practices, it provides a vision of what education can and should be.