Foreword Kenneth C. WilliamsPreface Audrey Cohan and Andrea HonigsfeldAcknowledgments Section I: Making Personal Connections and Engaging Students in Reflection 1.Using Urban Youth Culture to Activate the Racial Literacy of Black and Latino Male High School StudentsYolanda Sealey-Ruiz 2.Embracing Project-Based Learning with Emerging Technologies in the Multiage Classroom Shannon T. Page, Andrew P. Charland, April A. Scott, and Hiller A. Spires3.
Nurturing Curiosity by Teachers' Purposeful Self-Evaluation and Reflective PracticeAngela K. Salmon and Thomas G. Reio, Jr. 4.Partnerships for the Common Good: Democratic Citizenship Through Writing, New Media, and the Arts Susan N. Wood, Nancye E. McCrary, Kate Larken, and Sioux FinneySection II: Student Engagement with Literacy 5.Empowering English Language Learners: Reluctant Readers Learn to Believe in Themselves Audrey Figueroa Murphy and Robin E.
Finnan-Jones 6.Teacherless Discussion: Engaging Middle School Students Through Peer-to-Peer Talk Patricia M. Breslin and Rebecca Ambrose 7.Staying Afloat in Ninth-Grade English: Letting Students Trim the Sails Beverly S. Faircloth and Samuel D. Miller8.The Power of Technology to Advance Literacy, Learning, and Agency Evelyn M. Connolly9.
It's All About Me; I Mean You; I Mean Me: Strategies for Engaging Students in the Language Arts ClassroomMeg Goldner Rabinowitz10.Everything Old is New Again: 21st Century College Students as Engaged ReadersHeather Rogers HaverbackSection III: Music, Movement, Arts, Drama, and Other Creative Engagements 11.Increasing Student Engagement Through the Implementation of Interactive Teaching StrategiesMara Sapon-Shevin12.Competition and Considerations: The Use of Active Gaming in Physical Education ClassEve Bernstein, Anne Gibbone, and Ulana Lysniak13.Low SES Primary School Students Engaging in an Afterschool Robotics ProgramVinesh Chandra, Annette Woods, and Amanda Levido14.Stepping into Pictures and Music Scores: Imaginative Dramatic PlayJoanne Kilgour Dowdy and Mary T. Toepfer15.Classrooms or Rock Stages? Learning Music Through CollaborationRut Martínez-Borda, Pilar Lacasa, María Ruth García-Pernía, and Sara Cortés-GómezSection IV: Connecting School Culture, Community, and Student Success 16.
Growing Up Chinese AmericanJudy W. Yu17.Raising Engagement and Enhancing Learning: School Community Partnerships that Work for Students at-PromiseDavid Zyngier18.Montessori High Schools: Where Long-Standing Tradition Meets the Cutting EdgeWendy J. LaRue and Peter Hoffman-Kipp19.Ma te Mahi e Ako Ai (Learning by Doing in New Zealand Higher Education): The Influence of Service-Learning on Student EngagementLane Graves Perry, Billy O'Steen, and Peter Cammock20."I teach like you are all gifted": Leading Lowest Track Students to Become Confident Mathematics LearnersDella R. Leavitt and Erin N.
WashingtonAfterwordLaura J. Shea Doolan Contributors.