{"product_id":"common-core-cpr-9781452291369","title":"Common Core CPR","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ideal?\u003c\/strong\u003e Newly minted high school graduates all across the nation, each one a complex text genius, a writer and analytic thinker beyond compare. All on to glorious colleges and careers, thanks to the Common Core.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe reality?\u003c\/strong\u003e The 1.3 million students who fail to graduate from high school each year and the hundreds of thousands more who either gave up or lost interest long ago . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reality is why\u003cem\u003e Common Core CPR\u003c\/em\u003e is needed. Urgently. Because if we continue to insist that \u003cem\u003eall\u003c\/em\u003e students meet expectations that are well beyond their abilities and mindsets, these kids will only decline faster. We must be brave enough--and trained enough--to cast aside what we know harms students and apply with renewed vigor the teaching methods we know work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReleah Lent and Barry Gilmore rise to the challenge, and there are no two authors better equipped to do so. They embrace what is best about the standards--their emphasis on active, authentic learning--and then explicitly show teachers how to connect these ideal outcomes to practical classroom strategies, detailing the day-to-day teaching that can coax reluctant learners into engagement and achievement. You'll learn how to: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsider choice and relevance in every assignment \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlan and spot opportunities for success \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eScaffold students' comprehension of complex fiction and nonfiction texts \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eModel close reading through thoughtful questioning \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTeach students to use evidence in reading, writing, speaking, and reflection \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e. . . And so much more\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e It's not the big sweeping formulas for achievement that will win the day; it's the incremental growth that teachers need to make happen: that \u003cem\u003eone\u003c\/em\u003e book, that \u003cem\u003eone\u003c\/em\u003e writing assignment, to help a student turn a corner. \"If we can get that one transformational moment to occur, and follow it up by designing more opportunities for success, \u003cem\u003ethat's\u003c\/em\u003e the ideal,\" say Lent and Gilmore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Releah Cossett Lent,Barry Gilmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Corwin Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 7.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781452291369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReLeah Cossett Lent \u003c\/b\u003ewas a teacher for more than twenty years before becoming a founding member of a statewide literacy project at the University of Central Florida. She is now a consultant, writing and speaking about adolescent literacy issues. Her three most recent books include \u003ci\u003eLiteracy for Real: Reading, Thinking and Learning in the Content Areas\u003c\/i\u003e (Teachers College Press), \u003ci\u003eEngaging Adolescent Learners: A Guide for Content-Area Teachers \u003c\/i\u003e(Heinemann) and \u003ci\u003eLiteracy Learning Communities: A Guide for Creating Sustainable Change in Secondary Schools\u003c\/i\u003e (Heinemann). ReLeah′s first two books, co-authored with Gloria Pipkin and published by Heinemann, \u003ci\u003eAt the Schoolhouse Gate: Lessons in Intellectual Freedom \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSilent No More: Stories of Courage in American Schools, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the American Library Association′s Intellectual Freedom Award and the NCTE\/Slate Intellectual Freedom Award. ReLeah was also the recipient of the PEN\/Newman′s Own First Amendment Award in 1999. Her latest project with Jimmy Santiago Baca is a new teaching resource for reaching at-risk adolescents, which includes a book and DVD titled \u003ci\u003eAdolescents on the Edge, Stories and Lessons to Transform Learning.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Gilmore, \u003c\/b\u003e a National Board Certified Teacher, has taught English and social studies for over fifteen years, including ten years of teaching at Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee, where he also serves as English department chair. In addition to his work at Lausanne, Gilmore serves on the faculty of Tennessee Governor′s School for International Studies each summer and regularly presents his teaching ideas to groups around the country. He is the author of six books for teachers and students, including \u003ci\u003ePlagiarism: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It \u003c\/i\u003e(Heinemann 2008). Gilmore is a past president of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English and has received numerous honors for his teaching, including awards from NCTE, TCTE, SMCTE, and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission. In 2005, the U.S. Department of Education named him an American Star of Teaching.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Corwin Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45345383776371,"sku":"9781452291369","price":69.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_c99ddce5-f496-4699-bcf5-58c934d2d217.jpg?v=1786451039","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/common-core-cpr-9781452291369","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}