Improved Test Scores, Attitudes, and Behaviors in America's Schools: Supervisors' Success Stories

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Education is a profession in which billions of federal dollars have been spent to reduce academic underachievement—particularly for minority children from poverty homes. Few funded programs have reduced failure on standardized achievement tests. Despite either repetition or innovation, most children who fail do not perform substantially better the next time around. On the other hand, practitioners who have used the Dunn and Dunn learning-styles approaches have reported statistically higher standardized achievement test scores among average, poorly achieving, and special education students.

This book is based on the practical, diverse experiences of more than thirty different supervisors throughout the United States. Representing a variety of urban and suburban locations with diverse student populations, each supervisor was able to obtain significantly higher standardized achievement test scores for his or her student populations.

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ISBN-13: 9780897896870
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/1999
Edition description: New Edition
Edition number: 1
Pages: 246
Lexile: 1290L (what's this?)
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Meet the Author

RITA DUNN is Professor, Division of Administrative and Instructional Leadership, and Director, Center for the Study of Learning and Teaching Styles, St. John's University, New York.

THOMAS C. DEBELLO is Principal at Setauket Elementary School, Setauket, New York and the author of many practitioner-oriented articles on successful school-based learning-style practices.

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	Introduction. Successful Supervisors: What Worked for Whom, Where, When, and Why
1	Bart Kelliher, Dorothy Robertson, Richard Quinn, Gail Lewis, and the Buffalo City Schools: Supervisors Providing a Very Special Education for All Students	1
2	Wanda Dean: The Journey of a Blue Ribbon School Supervisor from Oxford, Mississippi to Washington, DC	11
3	OOOOOOOklahoma, Where Styles Come Sweeping Down the Plain: How Sue Ellen Read Is Helping the State "Do Just Fine"!	21
4	Penny Todd Claudis: Curriculum Supervisor and Learning-Styles Coordinator, Shreveport, Louisiana	32
5	June Hodgin and the Saga of Alta Vista Elementary School, Abilene, Texas	37
6	The Most Profound Gift a Teacher Can Share: Larry Howie and the Chico Unified School District, California	42
7	Imogene Carroll Teaches Teachers to Teach Themselves: Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama	51
8	Mary Laffey: Missouri's "Principal of the Year"	56
9	Ann Braio: Big-City Director of Special Education	61
10	Tana Martin Finds That Learning Styles Add Up in El Campo, Texas	66
11	Jan Meritt Sees Merit in Using Learning Styles with All Students in Klamath Falls, Oregon	69
12	Mary Cecilia Giannitti: Guiding Angel of Hempstead's Sacred Heart	73
13	Patricia Lemmon: A Delicious Kansas Lemmon-Aid!	79
14	A 100 Percent Pass Rate on the Statewide Exam for Graduation: T. Y. Harp Made It Happen!	84
15	Emmett Sawyer: Leveling the Playing Field at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri	94
16	A Learning-Styles High School Grows in Brooklyn: Roger Callan Creates a Demonstration Model Through Faith	100
17	Ilisa Sulner Sets the Stage for Special Education Successes in New York	108
18	Where in the World Is Carolyn Brunner? Learning-Styles Training in International Schools	116
19	Jack Gremli and Music Education: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer	122
20	Denise Parker: Oakland's Reading Expert	130
21	Bill Turns Over a New Leaf in Rural Cascade, Idaho	134
22	Over the Rainbow with Dorothy Logan-Alexander in Brookhaven, Mississippi	138
23	The Educational Spirit of St. Louis: Sr. Natalie Lafser Brings Learning Styles to the Archdiocese	143
24	Heralding a Hudson Valley Highlight: Regina White, the First Internationally Awarded Pioneer in Learning-Styles Research	152
25	Roland Andrews: From the 30th to the 83rd Percentile in Three Years with Poverty, Minority Children!	161
26	MagneTech's Gwen Cox: The Believe-in-the-Teaching-Staff Lady	166
27	With a Song in Her Heart: Dee Ainsworth of Manchester, Missouri	170
28	Joan DellaValle: A New Yorker Brings Learning Styles to Her Long Island School	174
29	Susan Wellman: Wisconsin Classroom Teacher Turned Staff Developer	179
30	Sherrye Dotson: "Learning Styles Is Just the Way We Teach!"	182
31	Julia Kron: Empowering Teachers to Become Instructional Leaders in North Carolina	193
32	Denise Stephenson: A Southern Lady Brings Learning Styles to Davidson County, North Carolina	202
	Epilogue. Alabama Mary and Learning Styles: "This Ain't the Army, Mrs. White!"	207
App. A	International Learning Styles Network	215
App. B	Supervisor's Success Story Survey and Implementation Chart	217
	Index	221
	About the Editors and Contributors	225

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