Clip charts have been a common classroom strategy for many years. Once considered an effective tool for displaying behavioral progress and adherence to classroom rules, they may not be as helpful as once thought. In this practice brief, we describe how such strategies are inconsistent with a PBIS [Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports]…

Contends that not all children benefit from established literacy activities in ways that teachers expect and that computer technologies are not routinely incorporated into classroom literacy activities. Reveals, through a case study, that young children of different ability levels have unique occasions for literacy learning when a Language…

Offers seven research-based guidelines to reduce the risk for at-risk learners and help schools implement early childhood programs with a literacy-enriched focus that fosters greater understanding of written language. (SR)

As schools shift to a performance-based model of language instruction, your world language programs will be challenged to keep up with new instructional activities and assessments. This new volume in our "Priorities in Practice" series can help. Explore the new directions schools and districts are taking in designing and implementing flexible…

Describes the content and instructional techniques used in a college course on program evaluation. Discusses the use of cooperative learning methods and fieldwork as instructional strategies. Maintains that student evaluations indicate the course achieved its objectives. (CFR)

Part I of this two-part document consists of a report on a study designed to measure the effects of a nonsexist classroom on the sex role attitudes of first graders. Part II is a teacher's guide to the nonsexist classroom program itself. The sex role attitudes of three groups of children--an experimental group from an open classroom, and two…