Search Results. Mac Iver, Douglas; Mac Iver, Martha – Mid-Atlantic Equity Center, 2009 On June 15, 2009, Martha Abele Mac Iver and Douglas J. Mac Iver presented "Beyond the Indicators: An Integrated School-Level Approach to Dropout Prevention. " In this webinar (and accompanying paper), they explained how to create an integrated dropout prevention strategy and highlighted an innovated pilot program that yielded results within months.… Descriptors: Dropouts, Pilot Projects, Dropout Prevention, Educational Resources Mac Iver, Martha Abele; Mac Iver, Douglas J. – George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 2009 Despite decades of school improvement initiatives, many young people still do not cross the finish line of secondary education with the credential that signifies success--a high school diploma.
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Dropouts, Educational Change Background/Context: Efforts to improve student achievement should increase graduation rates. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. ‘write history’ and the artifacts that are produced as part of ordinary experience?” The goal of this extended exercise is to help students understand history as an evidentiary form of knowledge, not as clusters of fixed names and dates. One might wonder about the advisability of spending 5 days “defining history” in a curriculum with so much to cover. But it is precisely Sterling’s framework of subject-matter knowledge—her overarching understanding of the discipline as a whole—that permits students entry into the advanced world of historical sense-making. By the end of the course, students moved from being passive spectators of the past to enfranchised agents who could participate in the forms of thinking, reasoning, and engagement that are the hallmark of skilled historical cognition.
For example, early in the school year, Ms. Blended Learning in Plain English. Traduction. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition.