Instructional Design, 2008 Titles

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• Schoolwide action research for professional learning communities : improving student learning through the whole-faculty by Karl H. Clauset, Dale W. Lick, and Carlene U. Murphy (Corwin Press, 2008, 278 p., $_____, ISBN: 9781412952071)

  We have reviewed a number of books concerning action research in the past. There are many voices calling for the professional learning community of the school to focus its attention on school improvement based in research. These authors emphasize that research findings read about in educational research journals must be tested in the environmental context of the school community. In other words, what may work in one community school may not work in another because of a wide variety of factors that we all recognize: poverty, culture, diversity, school-wide program focus, etc. The authors then proceed to lay our a full structure of how action research can be carried out by study teams joined together as an entire faculty learning community. In an effort to make the library media center the hub of school improvement, here is another strategy to consider seriously. If yours is in a state of disrepair or needs a boost, here is a volume worth considering for its substantive ideas and planning forms. Recommended.

•  Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision, 2nd ed  by Gayle H. Gregory (Corwin Press, 2008, 150 pp., ISBN: 1412936527) This handbook is a companion volume to Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All written by the same author and published in 2007. The two books together provide a recommended and very practical plan for instituting differentiation in an entire school. The handbook provides many many handoust, planning sheets and flow charts for each stage of planning, developing, teaching, and assessing the work of both the adults and the students involved. A CD contains all the forms in the books so that they are reproducible.  Like many other professionals books in education, there is no reference to the one vast store of information, materials, and knowledgeable  partners who would and could be the key to differentiating for a

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