LRN1.

Arts and Learning

An Integrated Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings

A Book by Merryl Goldberg

LRN2.

The Successful Learner Series

(1) The Curious Learner-Help Your Child Develop Academic and Creative Skills

(2) The Confident Learner-Help Your Child Succeed in School

(3) The Active Learner-Help Your Child Learn by Doing ©1996

This series will help you to help your child get the most out of his or her learning experiences.

LRN3.

Excellence in Teacher Education: Helping Teachers Develop Learner-Centered Schools

A Book by Linda Darling-Hammond & Others

©1992

This deals with three issues that will shape teacher education programs in the future:  Content, Context and Public Policy.

LRN4.

Learning Styles:  Putting Research and Common Sense into Practice

A Book by American Association of School Administrators

©1991

This will not tell you everything you need to know to fully implement a learning styles program.  It will provide educators and others who care about student learning with a timely update.  It is sure to raise the level of discussion about this important issue and could very well lead to improved student achievement.

LRN5.

Interactive Learning in the Higher Education Classroom

Cooperative, Collaborative, and Active Learning Strategies

A Book by Harvey C. Foyle

LRN6.

Learning About Learning

Video & Leader’s Guide

© 1992

This video program presents a few key insights on the learning process derived from recent cognitive research.  It is designed to give teachers and other educators an opportunity to hear these things directly from leading researchers themselves. 

LRN7.

Learning to Learn

If Your Child Has:  Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder, Language-Based

Learning Problems, Delayed Reading, Spelling, Writing, and Study Skills

A Book by Carolyn Olivier & Rosemary F. Bowler

©1996

The nature of learning and how we process information.  They give guidelines for creating an education program tailored to the individual’s needs and abilities, whether the student is eight or eighteen.

LRN8.

Research in the Middle Level Education Quarterly

Becoming Educative, Caring, Just, Better

A Book by Jeannie Oakes & David Hough

©1996

The first papers released in the study of the Turning Point.  Each paper analyses dats across the schools related to key themes in middle grades reform.

LRN9.

The Right to Learn

A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work

A Book by Linda Darling-Hammond

© 1997

The author describes learner-centered schools that work for students in all kinds of communities and outlines he policies and practices that are needed to create these schools on a system wide basis.

LRN10.

Dimensions of Learning

5 part Video Set, Teacher’s Manual, Trainer’s Manual & 2 books

#1 Introduction

#2 Attitudes and Perceptions

#3 Acquire and Integrate Knowledge

#4 Extend and Refine Knowledge

#5 Use Knowledge Meaningfully

#6 Habits of Mind

by ASCD

©1992

A comprehensive K-12 instructional framework that teachers can use to improve the way they plan instruction, design curriculum, and assess student performance.  Provides teachers with the tools for building a truly learning-centered approach to schooling.

LRN11.

Motivation & Learning

Practical Teaching Strategies & Tips for: Block Scheduling, Brain-Based Learning, Multiple Intelligences, Improved Student Motivation, Increases Achievement

A Book by Spence Rogers, Jim Ludington, Shari Graham

LRN12.

Teaching to Learning Styles--Leader’s Guide

A Book by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

©1992

This guide is designed for teachers, administrators, parents, students, school board members, corporate and community leaders, and all others who are interested in improving education.  This presents an overview of learning styles be addressed in schools.  It is not intended to be a how-to program. 

LRN13.

The Human Brain – An ASCD Professional Inquiry Kit

© n/a

Take your school study group through the steps of designing more brain-friendly classrooms through the learning activities in this multimedia kit: Brain anatomy basics.  How the brain adapts to its environment. The effects of sleep, nutrition, and emotion on learning.  Ways to get students' attention and improve their memory and understanding.

LRN14.

Promoting Learning Through Student Data – An ASCD Professional Inquiry Kit.

© 1999

Eight folders filled with information provide activities, research articles, and video clips that encourage your school study group to explore: Methods for identifying and analyzing problems.  Tools and techniques for collecting and interpreting test scores and other data.  Tips to help you design tasks that ensure students learn required knowledge and skills.  Strategies for recording, charting, and reporting student progress.

LRN15.

Professional Learning Communities:  Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement

A Book by Shirley M Hord

©1997

This paper will explore the concept and operationalization of professional learning communities:  What do professional learning communities look like and how do they function?  Why are such learning communities important for both staff and students?  How are learning communities introduced and developed in schools as a new organizational arrangement?

LRN16.

Schools That Learn

A book by Peter Senge

LRN17.

The Brain and Learning

A facilitator’s guide and 4-part video set

#1 New Knowledge and Understanding

#2 Classroom Applications

#3 Changing Schools to Reflect New Knowledge

#4 What Parents Need to Know

© n/a

This video series examines many of the new discoveries about the brain and consider how this information is affecting the concept of school and the understanding of the teaching profession.  This program presents information about how the brain works, and offers the best professional thinking in this field about what this means for teaching and learning.

LRN18

Evaluating School Programs:  An Educators Guide Second Edition

By James R. Sanders

©2000

Teachers and administrators in elementary and secondary school systems can have the most critical and current information on basic program evaluation from a source they’ve trusted for years.  Topics include:  Focusing the evaluation, Collecting information, Organizing and analyzing information, Reporting information and Administering the evaluation

LRN19

How to Make Presentations that Teach and Transform

By Robert J. Garmston and Bruce M. Wellman

© 1992

This practical guide covers the five stages of a presentation and offers tips for executing each one.  It covers stage fright; the use of macro maps, and tips for getting to know audiences and communicating with participants who have different backgrounds and learning styles. 

LRN20

Sharing Thinking Stratigies

By John Langrehr

© 1990

This book identifies some very important strategies for processing information in different ways.  These have been organized around a well known, and easy to remember framework.

LRN21

Teaching Students to Think:  Teachers Manual

By Dr. John Langrehr

© 1988

Any teacher intent on teaching students higher order thinking skills should read this book.  Teaching significant thinking skills in contexts in which students are thinking about relevant content in the school curriculum is of great importance in the field today.  (Dr. Robert Swartz)

LRN22

How the Special Needs Brain Learns

By David A. Sousa

© 2001

Addresses the core topics from his companion book for teachers managing students of different abilities in both inclusive and special education classrooms. In addition to real classroom footage demonstrating brain-based classroom strategies for special needs students, this video also features six distinct "stop tape for work activity" segments to enhance use for professional development training.

LRN23

How the Brain Learns

By David A. Sousa

© 2001

An updated Information Processing Model that reflects new terminology regarding the memory system Exciting new research on how the brain learns motor skills A whole new chapter on the implications of the arts in learning An expanded list of primary sources for those who wish to review the core research

LRN24

10 Traits Highly Effective Principals:  From Good to Great Performance

By Elaine K. McEwan

© 2003

This excellent, new resource provides principals, administrative teams, and educators with tremendous resources to hone these skills and traits. The book contains ideas, reflections, behaviors, habits, and stories from the trenches to guide and inspire as you seek to increase your own effectiveness.

LRN25

What Works in Schools:  Translating Research into Action

By Robert J. Marzano

© 2003

Marzano synthesizes that research to provide clear and unequalled insight into the nature of schooling.

LRN26

Standards and Mastery Learning:  Aligning Teaching and Assessment So All Children Can Learn

By J. Ronald Gentile and James P. Lalley

© 2003

Describes the concept of mastery learning in the classroom. Educators can instruct all students, regardless of their individual scholastic aptitudes, using the principles and philosophies of mastery learning. The key to this process is reinforcing and expanding initial learning through additional practice and higher-level exercises, enabling all students to reach high standards.

LRN27

Blueprint for Student Success:  A Guide to Research-Based Teaching Practices K-12

Susan J. Jones

© 2003

Presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve life long success. It uses the author’s expert knowledge covers a generous collection of teaching strategies, activities, and applications that add up to a blueprint for sound instructional delivery and student success.