Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools by Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, Arthur Hyde

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Synopsis

Recognizing that the themes of American education have changed dramatically, Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde reconvened, and their new edition provides fresh, inspiring examples of state-of-the-art teaching methods in action.

Biography

STEVEN ZEMELMAN has worked in many capacities to promote the sustainability of innovative schools in Chicago. For eight years he directed the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University and he is a founding director of the Illinois Writing Project. He has spearheaded the start of a number of innovative small high schools in the city. And he now helps guide the Chicago Schools Alliance, a network of diverse Chicago schools learning to work together in new ways to strengthen teaching and learning, build teacher leadership, and reduce the isolation that schools and teachers so often experience. Together, Zemelman and Harvey Daniels have coauthored five books and videos with Heinemann, including Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools , Third Edition (2005), Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading , Rethinking High School and its companion video (2001), and A Community of Wri

HARVEY DANIELS has been a city and suburban classroom teacher andsa college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. In language arts, Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups , and Minilessons for Literature Circles .sSmokey has recently coauthored two bestselling books on content-area literacy:s Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading , and the companion volume, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide . Hesis also coauthor of Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools .s Daniels works with elementary andsecondary teachers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, offering demonstration lessons, workshops, and consulting, with a special focus on creating, sustaining, and renewing student-centered inquiries and discussions of all kinds. Smok

ARTHUR HYDE is a professor of mathematics education at NationalLouis University. While a high school mathematics teacher in Philadelphia, he obtained doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted extensive professional development programs in Chicago and surrounding school districts.