Breaking the Mold of Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for Student Engagement, Empowerment, and Motivation

Foreword
Kenneth C. Williams

Preface
Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld

Acknowledgments

Section I: Making Personal Connections and Engaging Students in Reflection

Using Urban Youth Culture to Activate the Racial Literacy of Black and Latino Male High School StudentsYolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Embracing Project-Based Learning with Emerging Technologies in theMultiage Classroom Shannon T. Page, Andrew P. Charland, April A. Scott, and Hiller A. Spires

Nurturing Curiosity by Teachers' Purposeful Self-Evaluation and Reflective PracticeAngela K. Salmon and Thomas G. Reio, Jr.

Partnerships for the Common Good: Democratic Citizenship Through Writing, New Media, and the Arts Susan N. Wood, Nancye E. McCrary, Kate Larken, and Sioux Finney

Section II: Student Engagement with Literacy

Empowering English Language Learners: Reluctant Readers Learn to Believe in ThemselvesAudrey Figueroa Murphy and Robin E. Finnan-Jones

Teacherless Discussion: Engaging Middle School Students Through Peer-to-Peer TalkPatricia M. Breslin and Rebecca Ambrose

Staying Afloat in Ninth-Grade English: Letting Students Trim the SailsBeverly S. Faircloth and Samuel D. Miller

The Power of Technology to Advance Literacy, Learning, and AgencyEvelyn M. Connolly

It's All About Me; I Mean You; I Mean Me: Strategies for Engaging Students in the Language Arts ClassroomMeg Goldner Rabinowitz

Everything Old is New Again: 21st Century College Students as Engaged ReadersHeather Rogers Haverback

Section III: Music, Movement, Arts, Drama, and Other Creative Engagements

Increasing Student Engagement Through the Implementation of Interactive Teaching StrategiesMara Sapon-Shevin

Competition and Considerations: The Use of Active Gaming in Physical Education ClassEve Bernstein, Anne Gibbone, and Ulana Lysniak

Low SES Primary School Students Engaging in an Afterschool Robotics ProgramVinesh Chandra, Annette Woods, and Amanda Levido

Stepping into Pictures and Music Scores: Imaginative Dramatic PlayJoanne Kilgour Dowdy and Mary T. Toepfer

Classrooms or Rock Stages? Learning Music Through CollaborationRut Martínez-Borda, Pilar Lacasa, María Ruth García-Pernía, and Sara Cortés-Gómez

Section IV: Connecting School Culture, Community, and Student Success
Growing Up Chinese AmericanJudy W. Yu
Raising Engagement and Enhancing Learning: School Community Partnerships that Work for Students at-PromiseDavid Zyngier
Montessori High Schools: Where Long-Standing Tradition Meets the Cutting EdgeWendy J. LaRue and Peter Hoffman-Kipp

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 Cammock
"I teach like you are all gifted": Leading Lowest Track Students to Become Confident Mathematics LearnersDella R. Leavitt and Erin N. Washington

Afterword
Laura J. Shea Doolan

Contributors