Cultivating a Culture of Literacy

Features

Teaching Literacy Across the Curriculum
Jim Paterson
Literacy education can find its way into every part of the school.

Welcome to the Literacy Lab
Debbie Lowe
Keep students learning with fun and challenging literacy activities.

Do You Get It? Using Reading Strategy Awareness to Promote Understanding
Jeanette MacDonald
How do students know what they don't understand?

Paradigm Shift: Students as Multicultural Educators
Shirul Patel
Students helped this teacher learn to celebrate her heritage.

Using Art to Teach the Abstract
Sara Barton
Art analysis shouldn't be relegated to college classrooms.

Making Connections: The Home Front Fair
Lesley Roessing
Students learn how World War II affected their own community.

Hanging Out at the Algebrizzle Festivizzle
Joshua Singer
Students take center stage with self-penned algebra tunes.

Banishing Boredom in the Middle School Math Class
Jeanne White
Keep students engaged by teaching to their learning styles.

Making a Personal Connection with Young Adolescents
David Polochanin
This educator puts the "personal" into "personalization."

For Tara
Lisa Ericson
Teachers making a difference.

Departments

Editor's Note
Patricia George

Perspective
Sue Swaim
Will You Teach Me How?

News to Use
Information to promote effective middle level education.

Teams in Action
Ronda Franks
Community Connections: An Explorer Service-Learning Project

Hot Links
Brenda A. Dyck
Student Work: It's the Real Thing ... or Is It? Teaching in an Age of Plagiarism

Teaching in the Middle
Rick Wormeli
Spring Cleaning Our Teaching

The Mark of Leadership
Kyle Ramey
Fighting That Ole Dropout Rate

Research
What's happening in education research?

Reviews and Resources
Books and resources of interest to middle level educators

Megaphone
Amusing, interesting, and provocative comments from the field of education

Spotlight on Media Literacy
Regina Cabrera
What's on the Menu? Linking Media Literacy, Nutrition, and Consumerism