Newsletters of Best Practices from the 2005 HSTW Staff Development Conference

These new online newsletters contain “best practices” from school leaders, teachers and other featured speakers from the 2005 HSTW Staff Development Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Each newsletter is based on a specific conference objective and contains helpful information from schools successfully implementing the High Schools That Work and Making Middle Grades Work Key Practices. You will also find the name of a person to contact and how to e-mail him or her if you want to learn more about a given school's practice. More newsletters will be added during the coming months.

The conference objectives are: 1) setting high expectations; 2) supporting teachers in raising student achievement; 3) providing high-quality career/technical education; 4) requiring a rigorous academic core and a concentration; 5) motivating diverse students to meet high standards; 6) providing extra help and ninth-grade transition strategies; 7) helping students make the transition from high school to college and a career; 8) developing a guidance system involving teachers as advisers; and 9) developing state, district and school policies and practices for implementation of HSTW and MMGW.

Click here for full descriptions of conference objectives and sub-objectives.

Helping Students Make Good Decisions and Act on Them: The Real Meaning of Guidance and Advisement

Schools' Actions Add Up to Success in Raising Students' Mathematics Achievement

Teachers Teaching Teachers: Creating a Community of Learners to Improve Instruction and Student Achievement

Ten Steps in Developing a Schedule for a Small Learning Community of Students

Using Modern Methods and Equipment to Show the Role of Science in Real Life

Wall-to-wall reading and writing at your high school: The way to increase student achievement in academic and career/technical courses

Rural Kentucky school 'hooks' students on learning and helps them graduate

Keeping students moving forward on the journey from middle grades into high school

Teaching Algebra I Conceptually: One High School's Success Story

High-quality Career/Technical Programs Give Students a Boost Toward a Good Job and Postsecondary Studies

Engaging Students by Using Engineering and Technology in Mathematics, Science and Career/Technical Classrooms

Getting High School Students Ready for College and a Rewarding Career

'Raising the Bar' in High School and Middle Grades Classrooms Helps All Students Soar to New Levels of Achievement

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