TOPIC: Classroom Focused Enabling

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Continuing Education Module

• Continuing Education Module: Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling
• Accompanying Readings and Tools: Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers To Learning: Classroom Focused Enabling

Articles and Books

• Early School Adjustment Problems: Some Perspectives and a Project Report
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Adelman, H. S., & Taylor, L. Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities: Moving Forward. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
• Opening the Gates: Learning Supports at Elizabeth Learning Center
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1999). Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences . Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15 (4), 255-276.
• Training Tutorial
• Involving Teachers in Collaborative Efforts to Better Address Barriers to Student Learning
• A School-Wide Component to Address Barriers To Learning

Newsletter Articles

• Opening the Classroom Door (Spring, '01)
• Featured Newsletter article (Winter, '02), Re-engaging Students in Learning at School.
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern (Spring '98)

Quickfind

• Classroom Management
• The Enabling Component: Addressing Barriers to Learning by Enabling Students to Succeed

Quick Training Aid

• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Resource Aid Packets

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What it Needs

Technical Assistance Sampler

• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Small Classes/Small Schools
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Prereferral Intervention Efforts
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Tutoring
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Alternative Schools
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Health/Mental Health Education

Tools for Practice

• Classroom-based Approaches to Enable and Re-engage Students in Classroom Learning: A Self-Study Survey
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide

• Active Learning. ERIC Digest
• Authentic Writing Assessment. Eric Digest
• Block Scheduling: The Key to Quality Learning Time. NAESP Principal Online. Burke, D. (1997)
• Responsive Classrooms: Teaching Children to Care
• Classroom strategies for helping at-risk students
• "Co-Teaching" (2001) Council for Exceptional Children Current Practice Alerts.
• Do Classroom Volunteers Benefit Schools? NAESP Principal Online, Brent, B. (2000).
• Educational Commission of the States (2000).Environment as and Integrating Context for Learning
• Looping: Adding Time, Strengthening Relationships. Eric Digest.
• Paraprofessionals in Educational Settings, Data Trends
• Teacher Collaboration in Urban Secondary Schools. ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) provides professional development in curriculum and supervision; initiates and support activities to provide educational equity for all students; and serves as a world-class leader in education information services.
• Lesson Plans Master Index. Provides information on Active Learning, cooperative Learning, Teaching Strategies, and Teaching in Block Time
• National Middle School Association
• Provides information on Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Strategies, and Teaching in Block Time.

• Authentic Classroom Management: Creating a Learning Community and Building Relfective Practice. Larrivee, B. (2008). Allyn & Bacon.
• Cooperative Learning and Strategies for Inclusion: Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom. Putnam, J.W. (1993). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes
• Cooperative Learning: Theory, research, and practice. Slaven, R.E. (1990). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• High Schools of the Millennium: Report of the WorkgroupAmerican Youth Policy Forum (August 2000).
• How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classroom. Tomlinson, C.A. (1995). Alexandria, VA: ASCD
• Improving schools from within: Teachers, parents, and principles can make a difference. Barth, R.S. (1990). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
• Inclusive and Heterogeneous Schooling: Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction. Falvey, M.A. (Ed.)(1995). Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes Publishing Co
• Making it Happen: Student Involvement in Education Planning, Decision Making, and Instructions. Wehrmeyer, M.L. & Sands, D.J. (1998). Paul Brookes Publishing Co.
• Making room for students: Sharing teacher authority in Room 104. Oyler, C. (1996). New York: Teachers College Record.
• Motivation independent reading and writing in the primary grades through social cooperative literacy expectations. Morrow, L.M. & Sharkey, E.A. (1993). Reading Teacher, 47, 162-165.
• Nurturing Independent Learners: Helping Students Take Cahrge of Their Learning. Meichembaum, D. & Biemiller, A. (1998). Boston, MA: Brookline Books.
• Preventing Early Reading Failure with One-to-One Tutoring. Wasik, B. & Slavin, R. (1993). Reading Research Quarterly, 28 (2): 178-200
• Reading engagement: Motivating readers through integrated instruction. Guthrie, J.T. & Wigfield, A. (Eds.) (1997). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
• Scaffolding Student Learning: Instructional Approaches and Issues. Hogan, K. & Pressley, M, Eds. (1997). Cambridge, Mass. : Brookline Books.
• Secondary Learning Centers: An Innovative Approach to Individualized Instruction. Bee, C.P. (1980). Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear Publishing Company.
• Section 504 in the classroom: How to design and implement accommodation plans. Miller, L., & Newbill, C. (1998). Austin, TX: pro-ed.
• The Complete Guide to Learning Centers. Petreshene, S.S. (1978). Palo Alto, CA: Pendragon House
• The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners. Tomlinson, C.A. (1995). Alexandria, VA: AASCD.
• The pre-referral intervention manual. McCarney, S.B., Wunderlich, K.C., & Bauer, A.M. (1993). Hawthorne Educational Services.
• Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century. Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development's Task Force on Education of young Adolescents (1989). Washington, DC: Author.
• When Students Choose Content: A Guide to Increasing Motivation, Autonomy, and Achievement. Passe, J. (1996). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.

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