Readiness for Reform in Middle Schools Adopting PowerTeaching for Mathematics Instruction

Federal policy makers and school leaders increasingly recognize middle school math as a turning point in students’ academic success, especially in predicting high school graduation rates. New i3 scale-up grants allow large-scale implementation of proven reforms that increase student achievement. PowerTeaching (PT) is one such reform that centers on cooperative learning. A five year technologically-facilitated scale-up of PowerTeaching will bring the reform to 185 high-needs middle schools nationwide. In this pilot phase of the project, we will examine eight schools’ readiness for reform. Teacher questionnaires, interviews with school leaders, PT coaches and teachers, coaching feedback, and walk-through observation data will be used to determine school characteristics that impacted the initial implementation of the PT model and promote formative evaluation efforts

The Lantern Vol. 44, No. 2, Spring 1978

• Ode To the Death of a Patient • The Bloody Brand of Honor • Deserted Trail • The Apple Revisited • Consciousness in Awares • Middle Class • Clock • Snow • The Case • Your Eyes Speak Falsely • Finding a Place • Legacy of Ellis Island • John • Work • A Gift • When She is Gone • Qual. Lamenthttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1112/thumbnail.jp

The Power of Simple Hands-On Cyberforensics Exercises: A Guide for Faculty

Computer forensics is a hands-on discipline. Introductory skills, however, can be taught using simple exercises that require neither expensive laboratory facilities nor even face-to-face courses. This paper describes a simple floppy disk analysis project that allows an instructor to address issues ranging from the computer forensics process and basics of file systems to long file names, file signatures, and hashing. Projects are essential to teaching this discipline as they support active learning, constructivism, and active learning. These hands-on projects also offer an opportunity for courses to be taught online and for students to build their own toolkits using open source or commercial software

The Power of Simple Hands-On Cyberforensics Exercises: A Guide for Faculty

Computer forensics is a hands-on discipline. Introductory skills, however, can be taught using simple exercises that require neither expensive laboratory facilities nor even face-to-face courses. This paper describes a simple floppy disk analysis project that allows an instructor to address issues ranging from the computer forensics process and basics of file systems to long file names, file signatures, and hashing. Projects are essential to teaching this discipline as they support active learning, constructivism, and active learning. These hands-on projects also offer an opportunity for courses to be taught online and for students to build their own toolkits using open source or commercial software. --from the paper

A Guide to the microfiche edition of Civil war unit histories : regimental histories and personal narratives

Bib id: 654302 "Confederate States of America (338 fiches) -- South Carolina (123 fiches) -- Virginia (333 fiches) -- Kentucky (155 fiches) -- North Carolina (142 fiches) -- Tennessee (126 fiches) -- Georgia (150 fiches) -- Alabama (84 fiches) -- Louisiana (94 fiches) -- Mississippi (55 fiches) -- Missouri (113 fiches) -- Arkansas (13 fiches) -- Texas (92 fiches) -- Marylan (83 fiches) - Florida (16 fiches) -- Delaware (11 fiches) -- Washington, D.C. (12 fiches) --New Jersey (162 fiches) -- West Virginia (54 fiches) -- Pennsylvania (762 fiches) -- New York (1630 fiches) -- Connecticut (246 fiches -- Maine (248 fiches) -- Massachusetts (807 fiches) -- New Hampshire (251 fiches) -- Rhode Island (218 fiches) -- Vermont (129 fiches) -- Far west (89 fiches) -- Illinois (553 fiches) -- Indiana (372 fiches) -- Iowa (385 fiches) -- Kansas (62 fiches) -- Michigan (323 fiches) -- Minnesota (89 fiches) -- Ohio (670 fiches) -- Wisconsin (338 fiches)."; "Guide: pt. 1. Confederate States of America and border states -- pt. 2. The Union - New England -- pt. 3. The Union - Mid-Atlantic -- pt. 4. The Union - Midwest and west -- pt. 5. The Union - Higher and independent commands and naval forces.

Pretraining with Adolescents in Group Psychotherapy: A Special Case of Therapist Iatrogenic Effects

The effects of pretraining adolescents for group psychotherapy were investigated. Twenty-one adolescents from a residential treatment facility participated. Pretraining addressed the processes of risk taking, self-disclosure, and giving and receiving feedback through verbal, video, and/or experiential instruction and were compared with a control condition. Pretraining was not found to be beneficial when measured on satisfaction, therapeutic factors, and peer relation factors. However, a potential confounding variable was the exposure to a “psychonoxious” therapist who was found to have a significantly negative impact on group satisfaction ratings. The implications of group pretraining for adolescents are considered, as are the iatrogenic effects of therapists and the “therapeutic milieu.