Implementation of blended teaching (BT) practices is in- creasing rapidly in K-12 classrooms. This trend creates an urgent need for professional development to support BT. An understanding of how experienced teachers implement BT can inform teacher educators and professional development leaders as they develop training to support this practice. We…

The management of product development teams is a challenging task, especially when success hinges on the ability to guide technical and nontechnical personnel through an effective decision-making process. The "Tale of Two Rocks" exercise illustrates how differing motivations and beliefs about new technologies can affect the decisions…

Declining interest and low persistence is well documented among undergraduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in the United States. For geoscience, field trips are important attractors to students, however with high enrollment courses and increasing costs they are becoming rare. We propose in this concept paper that the…

In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…

In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…

This article reports the outcomes of the first 3 years of an ongoing participatory action research (PAR) project that brought together literacy and content-area teacher educators. The purpose of our collaboration was two-fold: (a) to develop shared understandings or theories related to literacy and the place of literacy instruction in content-area…

Increasingly, people are being asked to make decisions about water use in the semi-arid regions of the United States. "Good decisions" depend on an understanding of the linkages between sustainability of the resource, management, and economic development. This article reports on findings from a water quality survey conducted in Colorado,…

This third party evaluation report of the Alpine Career Orientation Project presents the results of tests designed to measure seventh, eighth, and ninth grade student learning outcomes and the results of an analysis of a random sampling of portfolios kept by students during the course of the project. The portfolios consisted of student records of…

The objective of this study was to evaluate grade 9-12 students' motivation while engaged in two different engineering design projects: marble-sorter and bridge designs. The motivation components measured in this study were focused on students' intrinsic (IGO) and extrinsic (EGO) goal orientations, task value (TV), self-efficacy for learning and…

This resource file contains information for Utah primary school teachers to help their students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. At the primary student level the emphasis is on home, school, and neighborhood. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology, sociology, geography,…

This resource file contains information for Utah elementary school teachers to help their level 1 students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. This particular student level emphasizes the home, school, and neighborhood. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology, sociology,…

This resource file contains information for Utah elementary school teachers to help their level 4 students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. This particular student level emphasizes living in groups in differing environments. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology,…

This resource file contains information for Utah secondary school teachers to help their level 9 students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. This particular student level emphasizes world geography and general social studies. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology,…

This resource file contains information for Utah elementary school teachers to help their level 2 students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. This particular student level emphasizes community relationships. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology, sociology, geography,…

This resource file contains information for Utah secondary school teachers to help their level 8 students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. This particular student level emphasizes U.S. history. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology, sociology, geography, history,…