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Improving Standards-Based Learning
Contributor(s): Carr, Judy F. (Editor), Harris, Douglas E. (Editor)
ISBN: 1412965691     ISBN-13: 9781412965699
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $84.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2009
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Annotation: This comprehensive resource provides ready-to-use tools to lead educators though the design, implementation, and evaluation of a high-quality, standards-based curriculum that significantly and positively impacts student learning.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving
- Education | Curricula
- Education | Special Education - Gifted
Dewey: 371.207
LCCN: 2009003666
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 8.5" W x 11" (1.70 lbs) 200 pages
 
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This comprehensive resource provides ready-to-use tools to lead educators through the design, implementation, and evaluation of a high-quality, standards-based curriculum that significantly and positively impacts student learning.

Contributor Bio(s): Carr, Judy F.: - Judy F. Carr teaches half-time in the Educational Leadership Program at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. She is also codirector of the Center for Curriculum Renewal, a consultant, facilitator, professional development specialist, workshop presenter, and program evaluator with educators and policy makers in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. She is coauthor or coeditor of the following books: A Pig Don't Get Fatter the More You Weigh It: Balancing Classroom Assessment; Creating Dynamic Schools Through Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration; Succeeding with Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning; How to Use Standards in the Classroom; Integrated Studies in the Middle Grades: Dancing Through Walls; and Living and Learning in the Middle Grades: The Dance Continues: A Festschrift for Chris Stevenson.

Carr has expertise in K-12 curriculum, instruction, and assessment; standards-based education reform; design of professional development materials and processes; systems change implementation with leadership teams in school districts and state agencies; and middle grades education. She has been a middle school teacher and a K-12 curriculum director. She was the recipient of the second annual Vermont ASCD Curriculum Leadership Award.