| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Authors | |
| Accept the Challenge to Teach All Students | |
| Confront the Challenges | |
| Our Schools Have Changed | |
| Who Are the At-Risk Students? | |
| Compelling Conclusions | |
| How Schools Fail Students and Manufacture Low Performance | |
| Destructive School Policies, Programs, and Practices | |
| The Myths That Perpetuate Ineffective Practices | |
| Establish the Commitment to Educate Children and Youth at Risk | |
| Take a Stand | |
| Lessons Learned | |
| Low-Performing Schools Can Improve | |
| 50 Proven Strategies for Schools and Classrooms | |
| Understand the At-Risk Student | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Recognize That Any Student May Become At Risk | |
| Predict Youth Behavior Based on Developmental Assets | |
| Appreciate the Resilient Student | |
| Address the Differences Between Boys and Girls | |
| Educate Poor and Culturally Diverse Students | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Connect Culturally for Effective Teaching and Learning | |
| Work With the Externally Centered Student | |
| Understand the Problems of Low-Income Students | |
| Eliminate Ineffective and Destructive Interventions | |
| Use Effective Programs for Teaching Low-Income Students | |
| Establish Priorities That Focus on Student Learning | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Develop a Comprehensive Plan | |
| Build a Profile by Collecting and Using Data | |
| Set Goals, Targets, and Timelines | |
| Create Time for Collaboration, Planning, and Development | |
| Facilitate Continuous Improvement: The Critical Importance of Results-Driven Leadership | |
| Collaborate With Parents and Families | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Encourage Parent and Family Engagement | |
| Build Effective Partnerships Among Families, Schools, and the Community | |
| Create Caring Classrooms, Schools, and Communities of Support | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Create a Community of Support | |
| Create a Common Vision | |
| Establish Alternative Schools | |
| Develop Small Schools and Schools-Within-Schools | |
| Provide Effective Transitions | |
| Create a Climate of Respect in Schools and Classrooms | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Recognize Early Warning Signs | |
| Bully-Proof Classrooms and Schools | |
| Create Reentry Opportunities for Expelled Students | |
| Expect High Academic Performance | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Motivate Students | |
| Teach to Multiple Intelligences | |
| Confront Tracking and Retention Practices | |
| Initiate Targeted Professional Development | |
| Create Career-Theme Schools and High School Academic Majors | |
| Help At-Risk Students Pass High-Stakes Tests | |
| Teach All Students to Read | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Guarantee That Every Child Learns to Read | |
| Implement Effective Literacy Practices and Programs K-12 | |
| Employ One-on-One Tutoring | |
| Start Early | |
| Redesign Grades K-3 | |
| Continuously Assess Reading Progress | |
| Select Results-Driven Instructional and Assessment Practices | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Personalize Instruction | |
| Recognize the Critical Importance of an Aligned Curriculum | |
| Select Research-Based Instructional Practices | |
| Use Homework Effectively | |
| Require Student Portfolios, Projects, and Performance Exhibitions | |
| Incorporate Technology Across the Curriculum | |
| Create Assessment-Literate Classrooms | |
| Support Social and Emotional Growth | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Create Student Mentoring Programs | |
| Establish Service Learning Programs | |
| Teach Peer Mediation | |
| Build Self-Esteem and Respect Through Student Leadership | |
| Use Community Resources and Services | |
| Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers | |
| Embrace the Community as a Classroom | |
| Develop Communitywide, Extended-Day Programs | |
| Become a Full-Service School | |
| Summon the Will to Leave No Child Behind | |
| The Inalienable Right to a Quality Education | |
| With Liberty and Justice for Some? | |
| The Emergent National Consensus: No Child Left Behind | |
| Breaking Free From Ignorance | |
| The Fifty Strategies | |
| 50 Strategies Suggested Reading | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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