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Teaching as Inquiry:
Asking Hard Questions to Improve Practice and Student Achievement
By Alexandra Weinbaum, David Allen, Tina Blythe, Katherine Simon, Steve Seidel, and Catherine Rubin.
Foreword by Ann Lieberman and Jacqueline Ancess
Press Release from
Teachers College Press
“This book captures the dignity of teaching at a time when that dignity needs rescuing.”
-From the Foreword by Ann Lieberman and Jacqueline Ancess
“Useful in both the university classroom and the schoolhouse.”
-Dennis Sparks, National Staff Development Council
“A must-read for school leaders interested in collaboration and reflective practice.”
-Sherry P. King, Superintendent of Schools, Mamaroneck, New York
This book offers an engaging and effective approach to improving teacher and student learning. Based on the experiences of three leading educational organizations, the authors provide invaluable, research-based guidelines for incorporating inquiry into teacher’s instructional practices and student work as part of the ongoing work of schools. Includes benchmarks for teachers and administrators to gauge their progress in initiating and deepening inquiry in their own schools.
Alexandra T. Weinbaum co-directs the Academy for Educational Development’s (AED’s) Center for School and Community Services. David Allen is a researcher at the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Tina Blythe teaches courses for faculty at the Boston Architectural Center and has been a researcher with Project Zero since 1988. Katherine G. Simon is co-Executive Director of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Steve Seidel is a lecturer on at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and director of Harvard Project Zero. Catherine S. Rubin is the president of EduChange, Inc. in New York City, which offers a variety of consultation services to schools and other educational organizations.
Practitioner Inquiry Series
April 2004/192pp./Paperback: $21.95, 0-8077-4457-3/Cloth: $48, 0-8077-4458-1
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