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Westheimer, Joel – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1999
Challenges vague, underconceptualized notions of teacher professional community. Findings from an exploration of two California middle-school teacher communities suggest that current models obscure significant differences in beliefs and practices. One community stresses teachers' individual rights and responsibilities; the other is driven by a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Collegiality, Educational Practices, Goal Orientation
Janulaw, Al – CSTA Journal, 2000
In matrix teaching, teachers utilize elements of cooperative learning and project-based learning, but all students are held responsible for their own final products. A hypothetical story illustrates a worst-case scenario for cooperative learning, then the story is analyzed for its difficulties. Offers strategies for avoiding ineffectual group work…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Creative Teaching, Group Activities

Nguyen, Anne; Shin, Fay; Krashen, Stephen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2001
Elementary and middle school children in California who speak Vietnamese as a first language reported high levels of oral competence in Vietnamese and a desire to maintain Vietnamese language and culture. There was no evidence that the development of the first language was a barrier to second language acquisition. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Education, Immigrants, Language Acquisition
Tuinstra, Cheri; Hiatt-Michael, Diana – School Community Journal, 2004
This study examined the development and effects of school-wide student-led conferencing (SLC) at four middle schools across four states, namely California, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. All site administrators, 30 teachers, and 524 middle school students and their parents in 30 classrooms participated in this study. Methodology included student…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Parent Teacher Conferences, School Location, Student Participation
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 2002
This California state curriculum model for grade 9 about Cesar Chavez explains that grade 9 is an elective year for social studies courses and that one of the electives is a course about contemporary California. It suggests that students in schools offering this course could study the role of Chavez in 20th century California and his legacy. A…
Descriptors: Biographies, Change Agents, Citizen Participation, Community Leaders
Zachlod, Michelle, Ed. – 2001
California State Standard 7.6 is delineated in the following manner: "Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Europe." Seventh-grade students study the geography of Europe and the Eurasian land mass; describe the spread of Christianity north of the Alps and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Enrichment, European History, Geographic Regions

Garcia, Francisco – Clearing House, 2004
It is crucial for students to believe that their home and community languages and cultures are acknowledged and valued (Faltis and Hudelson 1998). Furthermore, it is of equal importance that system-created contradictions between institutional literacy (school-based) and family-based literacy be blurred or eliminated (McCaleb 1997). It is this…
Descriptors: Limited English Speaking, Middle Schools, Federal Legislation, Minority Groups
Jurow, A. Susan – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2004
Generalizing or making claims that extend beyond particular situations is a central mathematical practice and a focus of classroom mathematics instruction. This study examines how aspects of generality are produced through the situated activities of a group of middle school mathematics students working on an 8-week population-modeling project. The…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Population Growth, Mathematics Instruction, Generalization
Lear, Julia Graham – Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, 2007
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared his intention to open health centers in 500 elementary schools across the state, which would bring the total number of such school-based clinics to 646. This initiative builds on California's 30-year history of using the school setting to increase access to care for children, improve clinical outcomes,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, State Action, Child Health, Clinics
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009
This California edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the third annual look at state policies impacting the teaching profession. It is hoped that this report will help focus attention on areas where state policymakers can make changes that will have a positive impact on…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
EdSource, 2010
This appendix accompanies "Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better. A Large-Scale Study of Middle Grades Practices and Student Outcomes. Initial Research Report." This appendix focuses on the findings and domain comparisons of the study. This appendix contains the following: (1) Decision Rules; (2) Full Set of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Surveys, Middle Schools, Grade 6
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of School Improvement. – 1994
This guidebook contains training materials to be used by California elementary and middle-level schools in conducting the Program Quality Review (PQR). The PQR process of curriculum self-review enables the school community to focus, through extensive discussion, on how the school's curriculum and instruction can be improved so that all students…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education
Prescott, Stephanie, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This document is a response to teachers' requests for practical assistance in implementing California's history-social science framework. The document offers stimulating ideas to enrich the teaching of history and social science, enliven instruction for every student, focus on essential topics, and help make learning more memorable. Experiences…
Descriptors: Course Content, Geography Instruction, Grade 7, History Instruction
Jones, Charles A. – 1979
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a comprehensive pilot middle school guidance program. Staff members reviewed the literature on middle schools in general and guidance programs in specific, explored programs in operation throughout the state of California, and consulted with members from the State Department of…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Decision Making, Guidance Objectives, Guidance Programs
Nguyen, Tim – 2001
Banpo is a village that existed 6,000 years ago near Xi'an in the Shaanxi Province of China. Artifacts unearthed from the Banpo site are all that remains of this prehistoric clan-based community. Five excavations conducted from 1953 to 1957 revealed the remains of 45 houses, 200-odd storage pits, six kilns, 250 tombs, and more than 10,000 stone…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Ancient History, Archaeology, Cultural Activities