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Uphill Both Ways: Helping Students Who Struggle in School

by Crystal England
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Overview

England addresses the serious issue of labeling and reminds us that there is a whole child behind each struggling learner.

Synopsis

No matter what the educational approach, struggling students find learning an uphill climb. What's worse, they're stuck with labels-deficit, disability, at-risk-that are more often offensive than accurate. Crystal England addresses the serious issue of labeling and reminds us that there is a whole child behind each struggling learner.

England takes a close-up look at struggling students and what we can do to ensure that their educational needs are understood and met. She presents a wealth of information in an easy-to-read format, seasoned with case histories and insight. Beyond a sensitive portrait of struggling learners, England provides a helpful handbook replete with strategies for teaching them. Her topics include:

  • common characteristics of students who struggle in school
  • dealing with Attention Deficit Disorder, special education, and gifted students
  • practices that focus on multiple intelligences
  • infusing character education into the classroom
  • validating home-school connections
  • understanding the language development of hard-to-reach learners
  • modeling a celebration of diversity within the classroom.
Starting with recognizing and removing harmful practices, she shows how to develop the all-important three Rs: "Relationship, Relationship, and Relationship"-i.e., student-focused, teacher-focused, and academics-focused relationships. At the end she considers the multisystemic reforms that are needed if we are truly to leave no child behind.

About the Author, Crystal England

Currently an assistant principal at JS Morton East HS in Cicero, IL, Crystal M. England has been an administrator and a K-12 special education teacher for 17 years. In addition to being the secretary and publications editor for the Wisconsin Association for Middle-Level Education and the state coordinator for the National At-Risk Education Network, Crystal also gives keynote addresses as well as state and national presentations on character education, team building, and diversity.

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Book Details

Published
January 1, 2004
Publisher
Heinemann
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780325005553

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