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February 2005
A Sense of Place: Culturally Responsive Teaching

“This place-based curriculum honored who the children were as they worked to uncover—not with picks and protective eyewear, but with literacy and language—the place of their community in the space of our classroom."
   —Tammy A. Schwartz and Kevin A. Schneider





September 2008

Back to School for Teachers: Opportunities for Professional Learning

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CONTENTS
Feature
Where You From?
by Tammy A. Schwartz
 
"Where You From?" Using a Sense of Place to Celebrate Our Students and the Language Arts
by Tammy A. Schwartz and Kevin A. Schneider
 
Classroom Vignettes
Many Questions, Sometimes Answers--The Secret Confessions of an Urban Reflector
by Doreen Uhas Sauer
 
Multiple Perspectives: Teaching (and Learning!) in Urban and Rural Settings
by Lori Wilfong
 
Student Voices
Reflecting on Rural and Urban Schools
 
A Look at the OGT
Getting Them Ready for the Writing Test
by Carol Brown Dodson
 
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