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O'Connor, Mary Lou Caron – Knowledge Quest, 2019
Nothing is more fulfilling than a school library full of students hungry to learn--especially when they have all the tools and resources they need and, more importantly, a school librarian ready to help them gain the knowledge and understanding they need to apply technology to become fully digitally literate citizens. Therefore, it was very…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Educational Resources, School Libraries, Elementary School Students
Freeland, Julia – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2014
In 2005, New Hampshire abolished the Carnegie unit--the core unit around which schools typically measure credit hours. In its place, the state mandated that all high schools measure credit according to students' mastery of material, rather than time spent in class. This policy shift created the first-ever state-wide effort to create a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Elementary Schools, High Schools, Charter Schools
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Shapiro, Shawna; Cox, Michelle; Shuck, Gail; Simnitt, Emily – Composition Studies, 2016
In this article, we build on conversations about linguistic diversity in writing studies, proposing a framework by which instructors and administrators can promote the empowerment of multilingual writers. Our framework, which we call "teaching for agency," recognizes the resources that linguistically diverse students bring to our writing…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning