Perspectives on Rescuing Urban Literacy Education: Spies, Saboteurs, and Saints

by Cooter, Robert B.; Baskin, E. F.; Denson, Kathleen; Fullinwider, John

• ISBN13: 9780805842906
• ISBN10: 080584290X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Explores the variables involved in bringing about systematic change to improve literacy instruction in large urban school districts from the perspectives of various participants who are stakeholders in the process.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Preface and Introduction	xv
PART ONE PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SPIES	1	(56)
1 De Scholarum Natura	3	(10)
John Fullinwider
2 The Pillars of Urban Literacy Instruction: Prerequisites for Change	13	(12)
Robert B. Cooter, Jr.
3 Change Management Concepts and Models: Sponsorship, Early Adopters, and the Development of Urban Teachers	25	(16)
E.F. Baskin
4 Challenges to Change: Implementing Research-Based Reading Instruction in Urban Schools	41	(16)
Kathleen S. Cooter and Robert B. Cooter, Jr.
PART TWO OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF SABOTEURS	57	(96)
5 Accountability in Texas: Fair or Foul?	59	(24)
William J. Webster
6 Deep Training + Coaching: A Capacity-Building Model for Teacher Development	83	(12)
Robert B. Cooter, Jr.
7 An Alchemist's Tale (or ... The Marriage of Technology and Literacy in Trying Times)	95	(8)
Lee Allen
8 Changing Lives on the Boundaries	103	(14)
Jeanne Gerlach
9 Minimizing the Effects of Student Mobility Through Teacher and Administrator Training	117	(18)
Katy Denson
10 Model-Based Mathematical Languages as Technological Literacy: Some Reflections on an Urban School Challenge	135	(18)
William F. Tate
PART THREE SAINTS AND THEIR RESCUE EFFORTS	153	(94)
11 Logistics of Systemic Change: The Reading Academy	155	(10)
Georgia J. Thompson
12 Mentoring Teacher Change: Even Cinderella Had a Coach	165	(18)
Jane Moore
13 Coaching the Coaches: Challenges of Implementing the Lead Teacher Concept	183	(26)
Barbara Mathews
14 Teaching the Teacher: Reflections of a Reading Academy Laureate	209	(4)
Leigh Walker
15 Creating a Balanced Literacy Curriculum: One Elementary School Principal's Perspective	213	(14)
Judy Zimny
16 Marry Well ... Divorce Less: Helping Principals Choose Effective Literacy Programs	227	(8)
Kathleen S. Cooter
17 Addressing the Literacy Needs of African-American Students and Their Teachers	235	(12)
J. Helen Perkins
PART FOUR SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS	247	(8)
18 Reflections of a Reading Czar	249	(6)
Robert B. Cooter, Jr.
About the Authors	255	(6)
Glossary of Selected Terms	261	(8)
Author Index	269	(4)
Subject Index	273