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Search the ARCC's database of technical assistance products and services using the fields below. Sources for these products and services include the Comprehensive Center Network, which offers resources from the five content centers, other federally sponsored programs, and other organizations. The Comprehensive Centers are charged with identifying links to appropriate sources of information and assistance, including the U.S. Department of Education Web site and the NCLB-related resources located there.

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Policy Brief
Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and Be Able to Do
Format: Print
Focus Area: Reading and literacy
Provider: Jossey-Bass
Abstract: This book examines the core concepts and central pedagogies at the heart of teacher education programs by addressing the key foundational knowledge for teaching and discusses how to implement that knowledge in the classroom.
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Claims of Effectiveness: This book is based on an expert practioners' years of experience in this field.
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Turnaround Leadership
URL: HTTP://WWW.JOSSEYBASS.COM/WILEYCDA/WILEYTITLE/PRODUCTCD-0787969850....
Format: Print, URL
Focus Area: Leadership
Provider: Jossey-Bass
Abstract: In Turnaround Leadership, Michael Fullan, an internationally recognized leader on educational reform, expands the definition of organizational turnaround and shows how leaders can turn even the worst situation into an opportunity to shake up and rejuvenate their schools and school systems. He identifies the positive things turnaround schools do to get off the critical list, and explores what it takes to motivate large numbers of people to go beyond short-term solutions to achieve fundamental, sustainable reform. Ultimately, Turnaround Leadership focuses on the critical role of leadership, not the Lone Ranger leader who rides into town and saves a single school, but leaders whose very actions change the systems in which they work.
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Claims of Effectiveness: No claims of effectiveness are made.
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Research
A Good Teacher in Every Classroom : Preparing the Highly Qualified Teachers Our Children Deserve
Format: Print
Focus Area: Reading and literacy
Provider: Jossey-Bass
Abstract: This book examines core concepts and central pedagogies that should be at the heart of any teacher education program—and recommends the policy changes needed to ensure that all teachers gain access to this knowledge. This book is the result of a blue-ribbon commission sponsored by the National Academy of Education.
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Claims of Effectiveness: This book is based on an expert practioners' years of experience in this field.
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Tool
Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance
URL: HTTP://WWW.JOSSEYBASS.COM/WILEYCDA/WILEYTITLE/PRODUCTCD-0787908487....
Format: Print, URL
Focus Area: Assessment
Provider: Jossey-Bass
Abstract: In this book, Grant Wiggins outlines design standards for performance-based assessments that promise students of all ability levels clear and worthy performance targets, useful feedback, coaching, and the opportunity to progress towards excellence. Designed as a practical guide, the book furnishes the information needed to design performance-based assessments, craft performance tasks that meet rigorous educational standards, score assessments fairly, and structure student portfolios. It also shows how performance assessment can be used to improve curriculum and instruction, grading, and reporting, as well as teacher accountability.
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Knowledge to Support the Teaching of Reading: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World
Format: Print
Focus Area: Reading and literacy
Provider: Jossey-Bass
Abstract: Knowledge to Support the Teaching of Reading: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World. Catherine Snow (Editor), Peg Griffin (Editor), M. Susan Burns (Editor) ISBN: 0-7879-7465-X. Hardcover. Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley. October 2005
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