This reflective essay discusses a course redesigned to enhance student belonging and the important role intentional use of technology plays in creating a belonging context. Before the redesign, some course elements aimed to create a belonging context by centering and valuing student choice, and through choice, respect of identity. However, there…

In this column, we focus on the planning aspects that are important for students to learn content well. We include a discussion of transfer goals, learning intentions, and success criteria.

This issue of "School Talk" brings together the ideas of purposefulness and intertextuality together in a teaching practice called intentional intertextual inquiry. "Making Inquiry Intentional and Intertextual" (Karen Smith, Sarah Diaz, and Silvia Edgerton) discusses the framework that combines inquiry-based learning and intertextuality within…

Discusses the operation of cultural therapy in the conduct of an ethnographic study of teacher supervision and curriculum implementation in a Brazilian urban school system. Cultural therapy was an important, although not explicitly labeled, aspect of the study. (SLD)