{"product_id":"powerful-learning-isbn-9780470276679","title":"Powerful Learning","description":"In \u003ci\u003ePowerful Learning\u003c\/i\u003e, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both within the classroom walls and beyond. The book includes rich stories, as well as online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, that show how students who are taught well are able to think critically, employ flexible problem-solving, and apply learned skills and knowledge to new situations.  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFOREWORD v\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHORS ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION: TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR UNDERSTANDING 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Darling-Hammond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 HOW CAN WE TEACH FOR MEANINGFUL LEARNING? 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrigid Barron and Linda Darling-Hammond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 READING FOR UNDERSTANDING 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eP. David Pearson, Gina N. Cervetti, and Jennifer L. Tilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 MATHEMATICS FOR UNDERSTANDING 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan H. Schoenfeld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 TEACHING SCIENCE FOR UNDERSTANDING 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy D. Zimmerman and Elizabeth K. Stage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 CONCLUSION: CREATING SCHOOLS THAT DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Darling-Hammond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAPPENDIX 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSUBJECT INDEX 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNAME INDEX 267\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eLinda Darling-Hammond\u003c\/strong\u003e is Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she serves as co-director of the School Redesign Network and the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity.?Among her nearly 300 publications are the award-winning books: \u003cem\u003eThe Right to Learn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeaching as the Learning Profession\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePreparing Teachers for a Changing World\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrigid Barron\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eP. David Pearson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Dean of the Graduate School of Education and a Professor in the area of Language and Literacy?at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Schoenfeld\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Stage\u003c\/strong\u003e is the director of the Lawrence Hall of Science, the University of California, Berkeley's public science center. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy Zimmerman\u003c\/strong\u003e is an academic researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF)\u003c\/strong\u003e is a nonprofit foundation that gathers and disseminates?information on K-12 teaching and learning in the Digital Age. The foundation publishes stories of innovative teaching and learning through a variety of media — a magazine, e-newsletters, DVDs, books, and this Web site. They are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePOWERFUL LEARNING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePowerful Learning\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive and engaging record of the most effective K–12 teaching practices—including project-based learning, cooperative learning, performance-based assessment, as well as instructional strategies in literacy, mathematics, and science. The authors explore the ways in which these models generate meaningful student understanding through rich classroom stories and correlating online videos of innovative teaching (located at www.edutopia.org). This book offers insights into how educators can enable students to think critically, transfer skills and knowledge, and be flexible problem solvers…both inside and outside the classroom walls. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003ePOWERFUL LEARNING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePowerful Learning\u003c\/i\u003e is a great compendium of approaches to teaching that can generate real learning. It reviews the relevant research base, offers practical examples of the research in use, and focuses on long-term goals—and how various teaching and learning activities support these goals.\" \u003cb\u003e—CATHERINE SNOW, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This outstanding book is a 'must read'— the authors make so many crystal clear and helpful arguments for the need to teach for understanding.\" \u003cb\u003e—JOHN BRANSFORD, James W. 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