Reeves Article

High Performance in High Poverty Schools

Article on Effect of Charter Schools in NYC

http://www.nber.org/~schools/charterschoolseval/

Writing Awards and Competitions

Random House Creative Writing Competition for NYC Public High School Seniors

www.worldofexpression.org

Must-Have Books for Teaching

The First Days of School, by Harry Wong.

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8, by Joann Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher. Stenhouse Publishers, 2001.

Fiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Fiction Writing K-8, by Joann Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher. Stenhouse Publishers, 2001.

When Students Can’t Read, What Teachers Can Do, by Kylene Beers

History Alive! Engaging All Learners in the Diverse Classroom, Teachers' Curriculum Institute.

Response and Analysis, Second Edition: Teaching Literature in Secondary School, by Robert E. Probst.

I Read it But I Don’t Get It, by Chris Tovani

Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys: Reading in Literacy in the Lives of Young Men by Michael W Smith and Jeffrey D Wilhelm

Free Materials

Donors Choose

Films

Out of Africa
Gandhi
300

Field Trips

The Morgan Library
United Nations
NYPL Libary--main and local branch
School basement
United Nations
Tenement Museum