The Power to Learn

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Providing personalized instruction to achieve student learning success has never been more crucial. In The Power to Learn: The Benefits and the Promise of Personalized Instruction, 3rd Edition, John M. Jenkins and James W. Keefe share educational research and instructional practices drawn from their combined experience of over 100 years of researching, developing, evaluating, implementing, and leading personalized programs. This is a must-read for educators who wish to develop personalized learning programs in their schools. Highly Recommended! -- Donald C. Clark, professor emeritus, educational leadership, University of Arizona I was pleased to learn that John 'Jack' Jenkins and James 'Jim' Keefe were writing a new edition of Personalized Instruction: The Key to Student Achievement that provides readers with additional insights on strategies that enhance interaction and thoughtfulness in the classroom. As always, they have their fingers on the pulse of issues of significance in instruction and for decades have provided educators with some of the best insights about how classroom instruction can and should support quality of learning for each child. As a longtime consumer of their work and high-impact instructional practices in the classroom, I am confident The Power to Learn: The Benefits and the Promise of Personalized Instruction, Third Edition will make a difference for countless educators and students. Together, their articulation and insights will expand a much-needed thread of educational practice. -- Jerry Valentine, professor emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia It is an honor to recommend another comprehensive educational study by Dr. James W. Keefe and Dr. John M. Jenkins. I write this from the memorable years when Dr. Keefe and I were high school teachers and administrators in the same timeframe and in the same system. His academic work will always be rooted in his extensive classroom years working with a varied student body. Anyone who opens this book will find the highest level of scholarship as well as practical knowledge of the field. I am proud to recommend this book as significant and meaningful in both the educational theory and practice of today's school environments. -- Bishop Sylvester D. Ryan, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Monterey, CA All learning is personal. Jenkins and Keefe have led schools committed to working with individual students to help them succeed with challenging academic content. The Power to Learn presents various strategies and tactics to accomplish this end. The authors have spent much of their careers diagnosing, designing, implementing, and evaluating ways to personalize instruction. I have used these concepts throughout my 42-year teaching career including in the classroom and as Director of Training for Information Mapping. -- Gerard Paradis, author, teacher, and administrator of law-related education for the State of Maryland Florida will implement a new student progress monitoring system that relies heavily on diagnosing, prescribing, and implementing instructional practices to help all students succeed with challenging academic content. The Power to Learn: The Benefits and the Promise of Personalized Instruction, 3rd Edition,is a resource that district personnel, principals, and teachers will welcome. I look forward to referring to it often as district level administrator in Bradford County, Florida. -- William McElroy, secondary schools coordinator, Bradford County School District, Starke, Florida