Technology for Student Achievement

Features

Data to Action: Technology's Role in Accountability
Staci Kalmbacher
From hand-helds to Web-based portals, technology is enabling educators to spend more time with instruction and less time calculating student assessment results.

Laptops Engage Students, Open Doors to Learning
Beverly Bisbee
The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is changing the way the state's middle school students learn.

Technology Integration: Rethinking the Role of the Student
Brenda A. Dyck
Technology's integration into the classroom provides students with new exciting roles in the instructional process.

The Essential Rule: Do the Right Thing
Brad Corum
Students can avoid poor choices if we teach them to stop and ask themselves, "Is this the right thing to do?"

Including Travel in Your Academic Plans
David Thompson
Young adolescents gain a multitude of invaluable experiences when travel opportunities are linked to the classroom curriculum.

Spotlight on service learning
Patricia George
Service Learning: Putting Knowledge to Work

Lyn Fiscus
Service-Learning Resources

Danielle Moore
The Promise of Giving Back

Departments

Editor's Note
Patricia George

Perspective
Sue Swaim
Celebrate What's Right About Your School

News to Use
Information to promote effective middle level education.

Teams in Action
Marilyn S. Jenkins and Angela Tomlin-Hart
Flowers for Freedom Grow Teamwork

Hot Links
Brenda A. Dyck
Technology Integration: Giving Teachers the Tools of the Trade

Teaching in the Middle
Rick Wormeli
When Nothing Else Works

The Mark of Leadership
Marian White-Hood
Evolving Leadership: The Story of the Magic Thread

Reviews and Resources
Books and resources of interest to middle level educators.

Megaphone
Amusing, interesting, and provocative comments from the field of middle level education.